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   Ouisie to Jim D   
   Re: Apple killed my computer ..... again   
   11 Feb 19 11:17:35   
   
   From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019020519054370271-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > I agree. Separate the computer company from the phone company from the   
   > itunes company.   
      
   And then slice those into tiny pieces...along with 'government' too ;)   
      
   > Just like buying anything else produced by our " throw away " culture.   
      
   I suggest we throw away such a culture instead!   
      
   > So do I.  When I'm at home working on music, I nearly always have a second   
   > large monitor attached.  Don't carry that sort of thing to my solo gigs.   
      
   I don't want to *have to* look at monitors in order to play a gig!   
      
   > Thunderbolt is the port Apple uses on their current MBPs.  No choice.  I   
   > can buy adaptors to drop back to USB.x.  And I will.  Not going to throw   
   > away my current usb stuff.   
      
   Proving that the same reason computers don't belong in cars is also the very   
   same reason they don't belong in Music either...THEY'RE NOT ***NEEDED***!!!   
      
   > my current laptops are aging, going to fail eventually.   
      
   This one here is going on three years old and has never gone anywhere, so   
   I'm counting on it to last.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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