Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid by wolfgke on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:26PM (#24324295)

> Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion.

I disagree: For example accepting or rejecting a golden cage is a deep decision about one's moral values - thus near to a religion.

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Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid by hrktb on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:36PM (#24324375)

This was the impression we had 20 years ago looking at RMS talking.

It felt like a cult, we felt he asked to us make completely unpractical sacrifices purely in the name of an ideology, the Free.

In hindsight he might have been right, but there clearly was a communication problem, and our kneejerk reaction was to take distance from anything that looked like a cult.

That’s still how people react when they’re just told Apple is evil and they should give up their iPhone for some open source hardware phone or they’re sheeples.

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Re:Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid by nurettin on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:32PM (#24324336)

So picking up trash is a religion. Lax definition is as bad as no definition.

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