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   From: nobody@haph.org   
      
   pothead  news:10lluuo$37bd7$5@pothead.dont-email.me   
   Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:15:52 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-31, Gremlin  wrote:   
   >> After the small amount of interaction I've been having with the   
   >> individual, I'm starting to understand why some of you refer to him as   
   >> Anal and suggest he be filtered. Evidently, he's quite a bit like Snit   
   >> in so far as trolling. I can't continue to justify wasting my time   
   >> responding to him when he's intentionally going out of his way to   
   >> ignore the evidence I've shared multiple times while accusing me of   
   >> telling stories and being dishonest.   
   >>   
   >> I haven't written any stories and haven't been dishonest in any   
   >> possible way. I wrote some specific things concerning some Apple   
   >> computers effectively turning into paperweights when and if the   
   >> internal soldered SSD that you cannot easily replace fails. I supported   
   >> what I wrote with various links to youtube vidoes that were created by   
   >> a respected individual in the pcb repair scene. He specializes in Apple   
   >> repairs - He knows what he's talking about. I've also shared google   
   >> search query and the results of them. And, a discussions.apple link   
   >> that also supports what I wrote.   
   >   
   > Alan is a snit clone although unlike snit, Alan does know Apple products   
   > very well. He will cherry pick, use semantics, ignore links and sidestep   
   > and so forth. And he projects, big time, just like snit.   
      
   I did notice those traits. What confirmed it for me was his subject change   
   and accusation that I 'ran away' - That's something snit would write. I   
   don't know what Alan does/doesn't know about Apple products, though. He   
   didn't know that when the internal SSD dies he can't use external media to   
   boot the machine and continue using it. That wouldn't be a big deal   
   normally in terms of someones knowledge level; but this isn't something   
   'new' with Apple. It was another design decision they made several years   
   ago.   
      
   If Alan was as knowledgeable with mac as you say, he would have known that   
   and not attempted to be cheeky with his 'i'll just use external media'   
   reply. He would have known that his mac doesn't support doing that if the   
   internal SSD is non functional. Apple decided to store some of the equ of   
   the BIOS/UEFI on the SSD nands instead of keeping them in their own chip   
   as was the past. hh claims this is for 'security'; but that's a weak   
   argument and is stretching a bit. Mating your touchpad and your display   
   panel, imo, wasn't done for security; it was done to ensure that you won't   
   easily be replacing a bad screen without them getting their cut.   
      
      
   > In case you haven't figured it out yet, hh is similar to both of them.   
   > The hh troll is a hyper focused type troll who will literally analyze   
   > the shape of the cornflakes in his morning cereal bowl and come up with   
   > some convoluted reason why they have certain shapes.   
   > And all the while ignoring the obvious and leaving his common sense at   
   > the door to the laboratory.   
      
    I noticed. I've encountered him before though. Some years back on   
   another newsgroup. David Brooks duped him into assisting his efforts to   
   try and stalk me. hh fell for it initially. I don't know if hh read other   
   posts or checked me out in greater detail; but he stopped providing David   
   assistance and I had nothing directly to do with that. I enjoyed the   
   comments he left concerning what David claims is where I live though; only   
   to find out that hh lives in stinkville NJ. ROFL!   
      
      
   > It's akin to being the weatherman on TV giving all kinds of scientific   
   > evidence as to why it's snowing outside without ever looking out the   
   > window because if he did he would see it was sunny outside with no   
   > snowstorm in sight. He's basically a solution in search of a problem.   
   >   
   > Also his replies turn into "War and Piece" length dissertations.   
      
   I noticed that too. :)   
      
   Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I suspected something was up. I won't   
   waste any additional time with them. I will let the posts along with this   
   one go out in the batch as intended. I suspected I was being jerked around   
   when they both started going off topic a bit; hh asking about other   
   soldered components, mentioning capacitors, etc. Then trying to spin what   
   I shared from google results onto PCs. Sure, in some cases, a dead SSD   
   could prevent a PC from booting; but you can clear the fault and regain   
   access to the PC. With the Apple, once the internal SSD goes you are   
   pretty well fucked. As I wrote originally and more than supported.   
      
   That's what I get for giving people the benefit of the doubt in a   
   newsgroup where I haven't interacted with enough people yet to get the lay   
   of the land. My bad.    
      
      
      
      
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   Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent   
   Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?   
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