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   From: nobody@haph.org   
      
   "David B."  news:mtcdj9F1852U1@mid.individual.net   
   Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:35:53 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:   
      
   > On 21/01/2026 13:49, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> I imagine that this situation is similar to the one in Egypt in 1968   
   >> where 250,000 people saw the Virgin Mary walking on the roof of a   
   >> church for around three years yet decided to remain muhammedans. It   
   >> takes a lot of faith to remain an ignorant muhammedan, and I guess it   
   >> takes the same to remain an Apple zealot.   
   >   
   > For your interest, I am successfully running Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon   
   > 64-bit on a 2008 24 inch iMac and the same on my 2017 27 inch Intel   
   > iMac. On the latter I’m running Mint from the Internal 2TB spinning   
   > hard drive and running macOS Ventura on an external 1TB SSD.   
      
   Speaking for myself, I have no interest in this. I didn't the first, 2nd,   
   3rd times you mentioned it. It has absolutely nothing to do with the   
   conversation several of us were having about them and it's not a very   
   complicated process to succesfully do.   
      
   > Few problems have been experienced – just a wired mouse needed at   
   > times and a connecting wire from my wireless keyboard to my computer at   
   > the outset. Otherwise, all works as one might hope!   
      
   That machine didn't store critical firmware on the internal drive. Had it   
   done so, you wouldn't be able to use external media. You are still taking   
   a performance hit using external bus interface vs the internal one   
   specifically designed for the laptop. Imho, it would be worth replacing   
   the dead internal. I realize you aren't a tech by any stretch but I don't   
   see any specific reason that you couldn't replace the drive yourself. It   
   might take you a bit of time, but I think even you could do it. I wouldn't   
   trust nor advise Snit on doing the same after interacting with him over   
   his computer - based on the lack of technical skill on his part. He   
   greatly over sells his actual abilities as he makes unfounded assumptions   
   concerning anothers abilities.   
      
   I also don't appreciate you fully supporting his efforts to do that but,   
   as I wrote before, I understand why you take it upon yourself to do so.   
   You will not convince me that you are someone who's worth my trust or my   
   respect though. Not when you knowingly support so many of his posts where   
   he writes statements about me that you know for a fact aren't true! as   
   well as statements about others which also isn't true. It would be   
   different if Apd and FTR backed up his interpretation of my statements   
   concerning coding in general and the floodbot - not only didn't they do   
   so, they both replied to him and tried several times to explain why and   
   how he was wrong with his interpretation of what he thought I was writing   
   about. Yet, you, an individual who isn't tech savvy and who doesn't know   
   any better goes and supports his efforts to besmirch and be little. He's   
   only a victim in his own mind. He has spent decades trolling people -   
   various methods in which he's been doing that have all been documented   
   too. Socking up and flat out lying about other posters that he takes an   
   issue with. Usually the issue he's taking is the person doesn't let him   
   slide over the bullshit he types.   
      
   While I appreciate your efforts to try and involve yourself in this   
   conversation, it's not really necessary for you to do so. Nor is it going   
   to fix anything between us. Nor is it going to make me feel in any way   
   sorry for Snit. It just reinforced my less than decent opinion of the two   
   of you.   
      
   Side note, you suggested in alt.computer.workshop that I best watch myself   
   here, less someone come and put me in my place. That hasn't happened a   
   single time since I started posting on a semi routine basis here. I get a   
   long fine with the majority and I don't know any of them specifically. I   
   do know technology and the general majority here understand that. Alan   
   tried to put me in my place with this subject, but, he wasn't writing from   
   knowledge he had any 1st hand experience of. He also tried to ignore the   
   videos, so I followed up with damning text replies instead.   
      
   He didn't know a lot of the information I've shared in the last few days   
   about the gear he uses. I'm not a mac person and I knew what was up with   
   them. Part of the way in which I earn a living is knowing how to repair   
   various types of electronics at the component level. I've been doing this   
   for a very long time. I have a lot of 1st hand experience doing it and   
   know about many of the gotchas and pitfall situations one can run into.   
   I've helped you remotely diagnose and fix the problem you were having.   
   I've done this on occasions where nobody else offered you any useful   
   advice whatsoever, too. You have verified my recommendations are solid and   
   got you where you wanted to be.   
      
   The thanks I get for taking the time to help you out though has always   
   turned out being an attack of some kind towards me. It's the primary   
   reason I decided to stop offering you technical advice to help you out. I   
   won't mislead you with bad advice. Instead, I just don't provide you any   
   assistance anymore. I've had sometime to see what others offer you when   
   you ask for help and it doesn't look like the level of help offered was   
   anything even remotely close or as useful as the advice I've provided you   
   several times over the years you have interacted with me.   
      
   I think by now that you realize you cost yourself a proven asset but   
   you're too proud and too invested in supporting snits lies about me that   
   you'd rather take advice which may or may not help over getting on adult   
   civil terms with me.   
      
   You shouldn't have decided to be an exceptional asshole just because you   
   don't approve of the way in which I treat Snit. I treat him as I do   
   because he lies about me. Even you can spot them, you choose to ignore   
   them. You willingly pick and choose what you follow from the so called   
   good book. I know there's something in there about bearing false witness   
   towards another person. Yet, you not only do it yourself, you turn a   
   complete blind eye to it when you see another doing it.   
      
   I don't see any real reason to continue responding to you at this point in   
   time. I don't need you. It's you who benefitted multiple times from my   
   knowledge. It's effectively been a one way road. So I'm not losing   
   anything by taking a sideline approach and watching you post about an   
   issue and others begin spit balling trying to help you. If the others   
   provide you the sort of advice Mike E did over the laptop you posted a   
   picture of asking for help with - you're in awful hands and won't be   
   getting a lot of your gear properly maintained or brought back online in   
   the event they fail for various reasons. Things I've already proven I can   
   help you with.   
      
      
   --   
   Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?   
      
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