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A GNU/Linux advocate should know GNU/Linux.

Do _you_ know GNU/Linux? Answer the following:

Unix/GNU is based in text files. The GNU Coreutils,
for example, provide many, many utilities for processing
text files.

But, in the beginning, all text files were ASCII.
The world has changed since then and text files can now
exist in many different encodings.

Can GNU Coreutils handle these various encodings?

If so, then how, given that text files contain no "magic"
that would indicate the type of encoding being used.

C'mon, advocates. Let's have some answers.
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Farley Flud wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

A GNU/Linux advocate should know GNU/Linux.

Do _you_ know GNU/Linux? Answer the following:

Unix/GNU is based in text files. The GNU Coreutils,
for example, provide many, many utilities for processing
text files.

But, in the beginning, all text files were ASCII.
The world has changed since then and text files can now
exist in many different encodings.

Can GNU Coreutils handle these various encodings?

If so, then how, given that text files contain no "magic"
that would indicate the type of encoding being used.

C'mon, advocates. Let's have some answers.

Do your own homework, boy.
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 06:56:32 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Do your own homework, boy.

Incorrect. Fail.

You are no longer to be considered a GNU/Linux advocate.

Be sure that the door is fully closed following your departure.
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Farley Flud wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 06:56:32 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Do your own homework, boy.

Incorrect. Fail.

You are no longer to be considered a GNU/Linux advocate.

Be sure that the door is fully closed following your departure.

Make me.
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

Haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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Farley Flud wrote:

But, in the beginning, all text files were ASCII.
The world has changed since then and text files can now
exist in many different encodings.

Can GNU Coreutils handle these various encodings?

I recently learned something new about text files in Windows.
Optionally, there can be byte-order marks at the beginning of the
file.

I wrote (with the help of chatGPT) a PowerShell script to test some of
our products. I sent it to a subcontractor and encouraged them to
translate the operator prompts into Spanish. When the script ran, the
Spanish characters b, o, 0, <, . did not display correctly. Garbage
was displayed instead.

The problem was solved by saving the script (.ps1 file) with UTF-8-BOM encoding.
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ground because there are far too many bugs in some or just doesn't
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On 7/1/2026 1:40 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

Haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Larry, in all fairness, I don't think Chris is obligated to respond to
your request. I'm not saying that your post had no merit, though,
because as obscure matters of the internals of GNU/Linux or Unix go,
it's something of a relevant thing, but I kind of side with Chris on not worrying about it, it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it. For the record, even though I'm using
Win11, I still look back fondly on using Linux during the times I did.
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On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:26:34 -0500, chrisv wrote:

I recently learned something new about text files in Windows.
Optionally, there can be byte-order marks at the beginning of the
file.

Yes, that's correct.

But, as you indicate, the BOM is entirely optional. There is
no standard text file format.

Also, the BOM only applies to Unicode files to distinguish between
the various Unicode encodings (and byte order).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark>

However, there are TONS of text files that are encoded in the various
ISO/IEC 8859 standards and none of these encodings has any markers.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859>

How does GNU Coreutils distinguish between all of these (if it does
so at all)?
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:42:15 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?
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On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly,
anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you
care about my sexuality, is the real question.
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Joel W. Crump
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On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly,
anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you care about my sexuality, is the real question.

You might want to research "The Gay Bowel Syndrome" .
--
pothead

rCLThe forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe,
for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because
his handle was made of wood, he was one of them".

---Author Unknown
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On 7/1/2026 6:04 PM, pothead wrote:

On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly,
anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you
care about my sexuality, is the real question.

You might want to research "The Gay Bowel Syndrome" .

You are aware that heterosexual cisgender couples do anal at about the
same rate?
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Joel W. Crump
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Joel W. Crump wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 7/1/2026 1:40 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

Haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Larry, in all fairness, I don't think Chris is obligated to respond to
your request. I'm not saying that your post had no merit, though,
because as obscure matters of the internals of GNU/Linux or Unix go,
it's something of a relevant thing, but I kind of side with Chris on not worrying about it, it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Actually Joel, if I encounter a difficulty with GNU coreutils,
then I will deal with the issue.

Not when some trolling dumbass wants me to "as a test".

For the record, even though I'm using
Win11, I still look back fondly on using Linux during the times I did.

I prefer Windows with Git Bash and MSYS2 installed.
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On 7/1/2026 6:25 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Joel W. Crump wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 7/1/2026 1:40 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

Haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Larry, in all fairness, I don't think Chris is obligated to respond to
your request. I'm not saying that your post had no merit, though,
because as obscure matters of the internals of GNU/Linux or Unix go,
it's something of a relevant thing, but I kind of side with Chris on not
worrying about it, it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Actually Joel, if I encounter a difficulty with GNU coreutils,
then I will deal with the issue.

Of course, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Not when some trolling dumbass wants me to "as a test".

For the record, even though I'm using
Win11, I still look back fondly on using Linux during the times I did.

I prefer Windows with Git Bash and MSYS2 installed.

The geek in me prefers Linux. The guy wanting to simply use the machine prefers Windows.
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On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 6:04 PM, pothead wrote:

On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly,
anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you >>> care about my sexuality, is the real question.

You might want to research "The Gay Bowel Syndrome" .

You are aware that heterosexual cisgender couples do anal at about the
same rate?

Not quite.

https://share.google/aimode/bHwYLqOD8gpeGVHMp

https://share.google/aimode/iahA2UUclzqjfAgKe
--
pothead

rCLThe forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe,
for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because
his handle was made of wood, he was one of them".

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On 7/1/2026 7:17 PM, pothead wrote:

On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 6:04 PM, pothead wrote:

On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly, >>>> anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you >>>> care about my sexuality, is the real question.

You might want to research "The Gay Bowel Syndrome" .

You are aware that heterosexual cisgender couples do anal at about the
same rate?

Not quite.

https://share.google/aimode/bHwYLqOD8gpeGVHMp

https://share.google/aimode/iahA2UUclzqjfAgKe

Ah, right, they do it less frequently, but it's still just as common in
having been done. Point being that it's just a natural thing for both
men and women to like having something rammed up the ass.
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 18:25:46 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Actually Joel, if I encounter a difficulty with GNU coreutils,
then I will deal with the issue.

Not when some trolling dumbass wants me to "as a test".

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Shoot! I thought that the quiz would be VERY EASY for most
but I suppose that the advocates don't know much about that
which they advocate. So how can they advocate?

Shame, shame, shame.

Yes, the question is not only VERY EASY but also VERY
FUNDAMENTAL.
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On Jul 1, 2026 at 3:12:01rC>PM MST, ""Joel W. Crump"" wrote <11243bh$26bfs$1@dont-email.me>:

On 7/1/2026 6:04 PM, pothead wrote:

On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly,
anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you >>> care about my sexuality, is the real question.

You might want to research "The Gay Bowel Syndrome" .

You are aware that heterosexual cisgender couples do anal at about the
same rate?

Some evidence suggest white supremacists such as Pothead engage in anal sex more than the general population, though there is no good reliable proof one way or the other.
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On Jul 1, 2026 at 3:04:20rC>PM MST, "pothead" wrote <11242t4$263o5$1@pothead.dont-email.me>:

On 2026-07-01, Joel W. Crump <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/1/2026 5:19 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Hey! How many times did you shit the bed, you disgusting,
despicable sodomite?

Hey! I asked how many times did you shit the bed?

Note that the question is not "did you shit the bed?"
but "how many times did you shit the bed?"

Where's the answer? I say, where's the answer?

I haven't gotten fucked in a long time, but to answer more abstractly,
anal intercourse doesn't necessarily cause shitting the bed. Why do you
care about my sexuality, is the real question.

You might want to research "The Gay Bowel Syndrome" .

You might want to stop being a white supremacist.

Oh.

You don't.
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On 7/1/2026 8:10 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 18:25:46 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Actually Joel, if I encounter a difficulty with GNU coreutils,
then I will deal with the issue.

Not when some trolling dumbass wants me to "as a test".

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Shoot! I thought that the quiz would be VERY EASY for most
but I suppose that the advocates don't know much about that
which they advocate. So how can they advocate?

Shame, shame, shame.

Yes, the question is not only VERY EASY but also VERY
FUNDAMENTAL.

Who died and made you God?
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On 7/1/2026 8:11 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:

You are aware that heterosexual cisgender couples do anal at about the
same rate?

Some evidence suggest white supremacists such as Pothead engage in anal sex more than the general population, though there is no good reliable proof one way or the other.

It's kind of like how people say they don't masturbate. Maybe some
really don't, OK, but most people do, and it's kind of lame to act like there's something bad about it. Same with anal, it's not for everyone obviously, but it's not evil, it's not crazy, it's just sex.
--
Joel W. Crump
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On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:26:34 -0500, chrisv wrote:

I wrote (with the help of chatGPT) a PowerShell script to test some of
our products. I sent it to a subcontractor and encouraged them to
translate the operator prompts into Spanish. When the script ran, the Spanish characters |i, |-, |!, ||, || did not display correctly. Garbage was displayed instead.

The problem was solved by saving the script (.ps1 file) with UTF-8-BOM encoding.

I hit a weird effect yesterday. I'm sure it's something I did but I don't
know what. I don't know if it was Fedora or SUSE but I use Konsole on
both. Anyway, I did the usual 'sudo dnf (or zypper) update'. When I typed
the 'e' I got a dropdown list with about 5 different types of 'e'.

I opened a new tab and went on about my business with the plain old 'e'.

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On 2 Jul 2026 02:04:03 GMT, rbowman wrote:

I hit a weird effect yesterday. I'm sure it's something I did but I don't know what. I don't know if it was Fedora or SUSE but I use Konsole on
both. Anyway, I did the usual 'sudo dnf (or zypper) update'. When I typed the 'e' I got a dropdown list with about 5 different types of 'e'.

The source of the trouble can be succinctly stated: you are an asshole.

1) You are an asshole for using KDE

2) You are an asshole in general

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:32:10 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

Can GNU Coreutils handle these various encodings?

If so, then how, given that text files contain no "magic"
that would indicate the type of encoding being used.

Well, well, well, well.

No one has submitted an answer to this very easy and very
fundamental question?

Shame, shame, shame, shame.

That's what distros do to people. Distros do everything
for the user (except wipe their ass) and as a consequence
the average GNU/Linux user doesn't know what the fuck
is going on.

Shame, shame, shame, shame.
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On 7/1/2026 10:24 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On 2 Jul 2026 02:04:03 GMT, rbowman wrote:

I hit a weird effect yesterday. I'm sure it's something I did but I don't
know what. I don't know if it was Fedora or SUSE but I use Konsole on
both. Anyway, I did the usual 'sudo dnf (or zypper) update'. When I typed
the 'e' I got a dropdown list with about 5 different types of 'e'.

The source of the trouble can be succinctly stated: you are an asshole.

1) You are an asshole for using KDE

2) You are an asshole in general

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Why are you judging others' setups? We could easily turn that around on
you, with your oddball system, if it works for you OK, it's not the
norm, it never will be, it's absurd to harp on it.
--
Joel W. Crump
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On 7/1/2026 10:30 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:32:10 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

Can GNU Coreutils handle these various encodings?

If so, then how, given that text files contain no "magic"
that would indicate the type of encoding being used.

Well, well, well, well.

No one has submitted an answer to this very easy and very
fundamental question?

Shame, shame, shame, shame.

That's what distros do to people. Distros do everything
for the user (except wipe their ass) and as a consequence
the average GNU/Linux user doesn't know what the fuck
is going on.

Shame, shame, shame, shame.

Is this a classroom, Larry? Are you teaching us, formally,
professionally? No, it's an advocacy newsgroup. I don't need to feed
into your obscure test to advocate Linux.
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Joel W. Crump
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On Jul 1, 2026 at 5:30:56rC>PM MST, ""Joel W. Crump"" wrote <1124bg0$28atq$2@dont-email.me>:

On 7/1/2026 8:11 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:

You are aware that heterosexual cisgender couples do anal at about the
same rate?

Some evidence suggest white supremacists such as Pothead engage in anal sex >> more than the general population, though there is no good reliable proof one >> way or the other.

It's kind of like how people say they don't masturbate. Maybe some
really don't, OK, but most people do, and it's kind of lame to act like there's something bad about it.

Right.

Same with anal, it's not for everyone
obviously, but it's not evil, it's not crazy, it's just sex.

Exactly. If it is between two consenting adults not harming each other do what you want.
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 22:34:01 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

Why are you judging others' setups? We could easily turn that around on
you, with your oddball system, if it works for you OK, it's not the
norm,
it never will be, it's absurd to harp on it.

Why do you reply to that asshole?
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On 7/2/2026 1:38 AM, rbowman wrote:

Why are you judging others' setups? We could easily turn that around on
you, with your oddball system, if it works for you OK, it's not the
norm,
it never will be, it's absurd to harp on it.

Why do you reply to that asshole?

I don't always do so.
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Joel W. Crump
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On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:32:10 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

Can GNU Coreutils handle these various encodings?

If so, then how, given that text files contain no "magic"
that would indicate the type of encoding being used.

I'll give all yous "advocates" a hint.

Suppose someone posts his FOSS program to GitLab so that anyone
anywhere in the world can download it.

How does the FOSS program know to output the Euro sign for
currency when it is run in Germany or the Dollar sign when
it is run in the USA?

It would be damned stupid to always ask the user "Hey,
where am I?" on startup. So what does the FOSS programmer
do?
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Joel W. Crump wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 7/1/2026 6:25 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Joel W. Crump wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 7/1/2026 1:40 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

Haaaaaaaa, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Larry, in all fairness, I don't think Chris is obligated to respond to
your request. I'm not saying that your post had no merit, though,
because as obscure matters of the internals of GNU/Linux or Unix go,
it's something of a relevant thing, but I kind of side with Chris on not >>> worrying about it, it's OK to just use Linux as a casual user, and
advocate based on liking it.

Actually Joel, if I encounter a difficulty with GNU coreutils,
then I will deal with the issue.

Of course, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Not when some trolling dumbass wants me to "as a test".

For the record, even though I'm using
Win11, I still look back fondly on using Linux during the times I did.

I prefer Windows with Git Bash and MSYS2 installed.

The geek in me prefers Linux. The guy wanting to simply use the machine prefers Windows.

The geek in me prefers Linux. This guy wanting to simply use the machine
also prefers Linux.

I have to confess to having a good feeling every time I boot into
Linux.
--
Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina.
[An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion]
-- Russian proverb
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On 7/2/2026 12:20 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

The geek in me prefers Linux. The guy wanting to simply use the machine
prefers Windows.

The geek in me prefers Linux. This guy wanting to simply use the machine also prefers Linux.

I have to confess to having a good feeling every time I boot into
Linux.

If I had any self-respect, I'd see it your way, to be honest. M$ can be
a bastard. But I put up with it.
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Joel W. Crump
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 12:28:41 -0400, Joel W. Crump wrote:

On 7/2/2026 12:20 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

The geek in me prefers Linux. The guy wanting to simply use the
machine prefers Windows.

The geek in me prefers Linux. This guy wanting to simply use the
machine also prefers Linux.

I have to confess to having a good feeling every time I boot into
Linux.

If I had any self-respect, I'd see it your way, to be honest. M$ can be
a bastard. But I put up with it.

I suppose I should update the Win 11 laptop one of these days. Now, where
the hell did I put the wall wart?

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Joel W. Crump wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 7/2/2026 12:20 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

The geek in me prefers Linux. The guy wanting to simply use the machine >>> prefers Windows.

The geek in me prefers Linux. This guy wanting to simply use the machine
also prefers Linux.

I have to confess to having a good feeling every time I boot into
Linux.

If I had any self-respect, I'd see it your way, to be honest. M$ can be
a bastard. But I put up with it.

Since I'm retired and no longer subject to the corporate installs,
I don't have to worry about Microsoft software in my day-to-day
use of Linux.

I do boot to Windows now and then to build my cross-platform code.
It's a good way to flesh out portability issues.
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FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN: #5

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Le 01-07-2026, Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> a |-crit-a:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

You brag too much. No one is afraid of you. Even a five year old child
would be able to fight you back.
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Si vous avez du temps |a perdre :
https://scarpet42.gitlab.io
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Le 02-07-2026, Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> a |-crit-a:

1) You are an asshole for using KDE

You see? Unlike your claims, you don't want freedom and you don't like
choice.
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On 7/3/2026 1:12 PM, St|-phane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 01-07-2026, Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> a |-crit-a:

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:23:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Make me.

There are a lot of suicidal people on this group.

You brag too much. No one is afraid of you. Even a five year old child
would be able to fight you back.

I actually am afraid of him. He's a killer, potentially.
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Joel W. Crump
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