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Re:Keep Android Open by greycol on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:06PM (#45764692)
Thanks and of course, it's used to highlight how ridiculous you are being in considering an app, that doesn't function as an app, an app.

The tesla car is a vehicle traveling through space, technically a spacecraft it's just literally not what anyone thinks of when they mean spacecraft.

The prisoner reference is an allusion to the usual philosophical debate on how small man made borders need to be to be considered a prison, here's a nice blog post on some parallel thought's about it[1]. The main point being most people don't believe the borders of a country a prison or if they were stuck in a state, or smaller country, a district, a building, a room. If it's only a building then what of prison camps? refugee camps? A city with its' one road washed out? Australia's a fine island to be stuck on but marooned on a desert island and suddenly people are saying they're trapped.

You are literally saying a 7 day limit on a piece of software working still makes it count as what people consider an app and have been arguing that people are wrong for calling apple out on not letting you install your own apps for free. You're as technically correct as saying you can use a tesla car as a spacecraft.

[1] https://philosophersmag.com/philosophical-conversations-in-p...

Re:Keep Android Open by jb1991 on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:22AM (#45769529)
> highlanders are considered immortal even though chopping off their heads kills them.

It’s not worth further of my time to debate with this level of irrationality.

Re:Keep Android Open by greycol on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:57PM (#45883253)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/

I can see why you have come to very fragile conclusions if your default is to assume what others say is irrational rather than researching or simply asking when you don't understand it (googling what you quoted verbatim even gives the context).