Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 8/17/2026 12:58 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2026-08-17, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 8/16/26 13:01, L Thorpe wrote:
>>> On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:44:53 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>>    I am not a Linux/Unix advocate. I am a contented user.
>>>
>>> You are receiving a supremely potent free and open (as in freedom)
>>> OS at no cost (as in free beer).
>>>
>>> Every GNU/Linux/FOSS user must in return give something back to the
>>> community.
>>>
>>> If you can't program or debug then you can at the very least advocate.
>>
>>     Kinda agreed ... but SOME don't Get It.
>>
>>     M$ is a DISASTER of an OS. Apple, well, it's
>>     JUST as greedy. It now plans to "lease" iPhones
>>     and such - you NEVER own one, can NEVER pay
>>     them off, NEVER quit. $$$ for Apple FOREVER now
>>     matter HOW shitty they get.
> 
> All Apple is doing is following Microsoft's lead,
> especially when it comes to software subscriptions.
> I find it ironic that these huge, right-wing companies
> are working to achieve Karl Marx's fondest dream:
> the elimination of private property.  (We could
> quibble about these companies being private themselves,
> or just acknowledge that they're more part of the
> government than private citizens.)
> 
> See my .sig.


When software is distributed online, it makes sense to see it as a 
service.  The price I paid for Win11 Pro is for a license to use it, the 
price I paid for 365 is for a year of MS letting me use what I want from 
their apps and OneDrive, it's a equitable way of always having the 
latest software.  Buying a boxed copy of MS Office, OTOH, would lock me 
in to one arbitrary release.


>>     Long long back, Bill Gates/M$ were sort of HEROES.
> 
> Gates was never a hero in my eyes.  Remember him
> whining after a computer club spread his BASIC
> interpreter around?  Or whining nearly every week
> when the DOJ foiled his various attempts at creating
> a monopoly?  He's nothing more than a mediocre
> programmer (see below) who had the gift of the gab.


Bill Gates isn't a hero for his business work, he's a hero for his 
charity work.  Microsoft is an inevitable thing to exist.  I for one 
don't really have beef with them, they're a little rough around the 
edges, but I think their work is more or less what is expected of them.


>>     DOS 1.x/2.x/3.x were GOOD for the period and M$
>>     wasn't all twisted about you copying their stuff
>>     or compilers and such.
> 
> No, but technically MS-DOS was a pile of crap.
> Consider the COPY command's refusal to copy an
> empty file (something which it did _not_ inherit
> from CP/M, whose PIP command worked correctly).
> Or its flakiness in advancing the date at midnight,
> or that ridiculous hex 1A "end of file" character
> which should have been eliminated the moment people
> realized that the MS-DOS file system was storing
> the file size to the byte, making the hex 1A
> useful for nothing but losing data in the event
> of, say a line hit.


We're still talking about DOS?


>>     And then it all went SO BAD ...
>>
>>     At some point soon I'm gonna need to buy a
>>     half-ass big-screen "phone". HATE 'em. Keep
>>     a little FLIP as my mobile now.
> 
> I'll give up my flip phone when they pry it from
> my cold dead fingers.  It sends and receives calls
> and texts (including pictures).  I neither need
> nor want anything more.  They're not hard to
> find, either.  I got my latest one for $100;
> its $50 predecessor was just too shitty, but
> as with anything else you get what you pay for..


What do you do if you need a computer when you're driving?  Do you even 
realize that you can get a map app on the smartphone?


>>                                     My carrier is
>>     not gonna support my great old landline much
>>     longer - they've already raised the PRICE
>>     insanely, hoping I'll quit. Clue, I'm NOT
>>     gonna buy the new crap-phone from THEM - but
>>     from another. Pref Android. Samsung phones
>>     are gonna be IT.
> 
> In our latest account update with the telco, they
> threw in a Google Pixel 9a for a dollar.  It sits
> on a shelf in its original box, a testament to my
> attempt to live as Google-free a life as possible.


The Pixel doesn't appeal to me, Samsung is the best smartphone maker, 
IMO.  Fuck Apple.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Zyprexa - It's not just for schizophrenics, anymore!