#purists — Public Fediverse posts

So, the #purists #claim "it's not the same without a real disk drive - the sound and the haptics ..." when it comes to #FloppyDisks and #DiskDrives and they're probably right.

But did you ever notice that this purism seems to be fixed on rotating disk media only.

I mean, no one ever says "it's not the same without loading from tape - the sound, the haptics, the endless waiting ..." or "it's not the same without 9 pin #DotMatrix #Printers - the noise, the paper jams ..."

think about it ... 🤔​

So, the #purists #claim "it's not the same without a real disk drive - the sound and the haptics ..." when it comes to #FloppyDisks and #DiskDrives and they're probably right.

But did you ever notice that this purism seems to be fixed on rotating disk media only.

I mean, no one ever says "it's not the same without loading from tape - the sound, the haptics, the endless waiting ..." or "it's not the same without 9 pin #DotMatrix #Printers - the noise, the paper jams ..."

think about it ... 🤔​

So, the #purists #claim "it's not the same without a real disk drive - the sound and the haptics ..." when it comes to #FloppyDisks and #DiskDrives and they're probably right.

But did you ever notice that this purism seems to be fixed on rotating disk media only.

I mean, no one ever says "it's not the same without loading from tape - the sound, the haptics, the endless waiting ..." or "it's not the same without 9 pin #DotMatrix #Printers - the noise, the paper jams ..."

think about it ... 🤔​

So, the #purists #claim "it's not the same without a real disk drive - the sound and the haptics ..." when it comes to #FloppyDisks and #DiskDrives and they're probably right.

But did you ever notice that this purism seems to be fixed on rotating disk media only.

I mean, no one ever says "it's not the same without loading from tape - the sound, the haptics, the endless waiting ..." or "it's not the same without 9 pin #DotMatrix #Printers - the noise, the paper jams ..."

think about it ... 🤔​

So, the #purists #claim "it's not the same without a real disk drive - the sound and the haptics ..." when it comes to #FloppyDisks and #DiskDrives and they're probably right.

But did you ever notice that this purism seems to be fixed on rotating disk media only.

I mean, no one ever says "it's not the same without loading from tape - the sound, the haptics, the endless waiting ..." or "it's not the same without 9 pin #DotMatrix #Printers - the noise, the paper jams ..."

think about it ... 🤔​

The #paralysis underscored dilemma facing #House #Republicans: No matter the concessions made to far right, they simply will not relent and join their colleagues even if it is for the greater good of their party, and perhaps the nation.
They consider themselves #conservative #purists who cannot be placated unless all their demands are met — and maybe not even then.
Their agenda is mostly to defund, #disrupt and dismantle #government, not to participate in it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/us/house-speaker-mccarthy-election.html

In a parallel universe where Ubuntu hadn't provided the "install alongside Windows" option (which it did about 10 years ago), I'd be writing enterprise Java on a Windows 10 machine, blissfully unaware of the existence of free software and believing that privacy is dead if Mark Zuckerberg says so.

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Dear #purists and #absolutists,

It's great to be clean and pure yourself, but sometimes you have step into the mud to pull out others who are stuck in it.

#windows #ubuntu #privacy #freesoftware