also, and this /is/ somewhat offtopic, microsoft strangling the 4gb celeron with unrelenting garbage is only one side of the problem. This one falls to a debian installer, but the others don't. The shitshow that is the modern web, oligarchisation of the services, everything-is-now-an-app, or fucking facebook, aren't as easily tackled.
All of them are being fought against, but to address each front the article would be even longer.
again, maybe it should have been.
i'd say @cwood meant that the typical buyer of the $239 shitbox will not understand a word you're saying.
i read the article more as a "this is NOT IN FACT fine" than a "this is what we should do", and also as an appeal to tech-savvy ppl, to think of those who aren't.
this message would've been somewhat diluted if he ended it with "actually, here's how one can sidestep all this shit"
i guess @pluralistic would've ended on that?
again, conjecture and all, could be wrong.
