<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Oh man, now I off to a big trip down that Iron Sky rabbit hole.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">No worries, rabid fear of Kool-Aid, Jonestown and all that, I am Guyanese by birth...<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">At my age, I am so immune to being influenced, I am most boring.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I do like to step into cult-like scenes and pretend I am one of the tribe, I play for a while and then go home to reality, haha.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">7 years ago, I bought a Mac 11" thing, turned it on(after a head-scratching few moments figgering where that power switch was located).</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I have this self-imposed rule, I need to be able to make use a tool after 20 minutes of mucking around without the benefit of a romp through a manual. My 20-minute trip expired, I was frustrated by the experience, the laptop flew across the hallway into another office, that office-dweller cautiously picked it up(surprisingly, it still worked) and her 7yo son used it quite successfully for 6 years. There are at least 2 lessons in that experience:-) I am thinking of revisiting the Mac space(cheaply) as I think my anger management sessions have paid off(!) and wanted something that a cut above a reference Intel platform(is the Mac a cut above?) for messing with FreeBSD(Xfce DE or mebbe Mate) and Debian with KDE. I just want a non-Wintel thing, but perhaps Chamunks is most wise in his assertion -- a Mac is best used with a Mac OS, use any decent Wintel hardware to mess around with my target OSes.</div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 3:25 PM Jason Eckert <<a href="mailto:jason.eckert@gmail.com">jason.eckert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">> I know nothing about Macs really, but sometimes, I feel a tug suggesting I<br>> should get one so that I can feel like I belong to that most rarefied of<br>> coteries, a Mac user(part-time).<br><br>>Someone we know wrote a book about this feeling of being part of a group.<br>><a href="https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac/raw/master/Escaping%20the%20Cult%20of%20Mac%20(Jason%20Eckert).pdf" target="_blank">https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac/raw/master/Escaping%20the%20Cult%20of%20Mac%20(Jason%20Eckert).pdf</a><br><br><div>LOL - yes, probably a good thing to read my satirical guide first ;-)<br></div><div>Also, you should watch the 5 minute clip about "the Jobsists" from the movie "Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race" - it's hilarious! </div><div>It's from 12:27 to 17:42 (approx).</div><div>Plus, if you ever attend a Mac user's group, just make sure you don't drink the Kool-Aid (trust me on this one).</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jason. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:37 PM <<a href="mailto:tomg@sentex.ca" target="_blank">tomg@sentex.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> I know nothing about Macs really, but sometimes, I feel a tug suggesting I<br>
> should get one so that I can feel like I belong to that most rarefied of<br>
> coteries, a Mac user(part-time).<br>
<br>
That tug is Apple's huge marketing money.<br>
<br>
Someone we know wrote a book about this feeling of being part of a group.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac/raw/master/Escaping%20the%20Cult%20of%20Mac%20(Jason%20Eckert).pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac/raw/master/Escaping%20the%20Cult%20of%20Mac%20(Jason%20Eckert).pdf</a><br>
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Belongingness is one of the most basic of human needs. And pride, of having<br>
something others don't, or of being something others aren't, is the most basic<br>
human vice. The satisfaction of being above the rabble.<br>
<br>
I have an Imac, and I've used Mac OS X. I put Linux on it, which I <br>
was thinking<br>
of telling the group about in another e-mail, which I think you might find<br>
interesting.<br>
<br>
In my not remotely humble opinion neither of these computers are worth your<br>
money. My Imac was free, in exchange for a lot of hard computer work for my<br>
mother, and it's still only useful if I put Linux on it.<br>
<br>
Nothing wrong with collecting computers! Wait until they're a fraction of the<br>
price.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
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