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   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Jan 22, 2026 at 12:30:16 AM MST, ""David B."" wrote   
   :   
      
   > On 22/01/2026 04:33, Gremlin wrote:   
   >> "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.   
   >>   
      
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