There is no hard takeoff

Re:There is no hard takeoff by hiAndrewQuinn on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:17AM (#37087829)

I have a morbid fondness for the fella, because he reminds me of how I sounded a few years back when I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out where all this stuff was going to go, while also being too drunk and too lonely to get any serious research done. I don't think I'd enjoy meeting him in person much, though. I get annoyed by loud personalities like that.

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Re:There is no hard takeoff by KnobbleMcKnees on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:39AM (#37088032)

I was a huge fan of him in the 2010s when he was fighting the good fight for right to repair / sideload / do whatever. He was a bit of an idol while I spent my own time hacking Xbox hard drives and building tooling to write xfat headers and such.

It just seems he hasn't grown a jot since then. I've been guilty of writing stuff like this even in recent years, but I've grown enough to check myself and hold a higher bar for the quality of my writing. Assuming he did read this back to himself, the fact that he saw it as publishable is a bit sad.

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Re:There is no hard takeoff by tysam_and on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:24AM (#37087888)

> morbid fondness

Suolely scoops up and ushers into my inner cloak pocket -- "This will make a fine addition to my collection...."

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