Your disagreement is not with me but the one asserting that we are the product anytime sometime is free.

The Internet hard at work. Text is a difficult medium.<3

I thought Debian was a community. How are you installing a community on computers?

I was told if something is free then you are the product. Please try to keep up.

It’s okay if you don’t follow my point, you can ask.

Well, I was just corrected by someone taking time out of their day to tell me it’s a community, not an OS.

I’ve installed Debian before, so I thought perhaps I was mistaken.

Context is really critical here.

Oh. So the assertion that was made about if something is free then you are the product - I guess that’s not always true, eh?

Interesting. I can use a community for my OS? So every time I hear someone say “install debian”, they’re telling me to install a community?

Either way, it’s free, so I’m still the product.

Fascists thank you kindly for your support.

Incredibly overdue.

Sir Terry Pratchett wrote of it very well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.

Debian is free for any use for an unlimited number of machines without corporate tracking which packages you install.

So I guess with Debian, you are the product.

Yeah, but his other arm is fine, so… it’s definitely a choice in this case. lol

Shitty article from a shitty source. In fairness, about a shitty President.

So because one side plays loose with truth, you accept false reporting from supposed journalists?

That’s certainly a choice.

Sorry about the loss of your arm. :(

I had intended on moving up to Seattle when I was able, but we ended up in Virginia, and… I’m definitely happy here. Nowhere is perfect, but it’s pretty damn nice.

Although winter this year was relentless. heh. If this had been my first year up here, I would have regretted it. lol

There is some good information in here, but it’s also mixed in with some bad.

I don’t have the energy to go through it all. But for just one tiny example: Parmesan cheese and cellulose. First of all, bad information says “cellulose is what you find in wood. You’re eating wood!” Yes, cellulose is in wood. It’s also in VEGETABLES. If you eat vegetables, you’re eating cellulose. Furthermore, it’s a small percentage of the grated parmesan cheese, and it’s there to prevent the cheese from caking and clumping. This video claims [approximate quote] “There’s hardly any cheese in parmesan cheese” which is a bullshit claim. It’s usually like 95% cheese, if not more.

Just one example.

And yes, there is some good information in here.

But also, regarding being able to pronounce ingredients: Look up what makes up an apple. It’s chemicals you can’t pronounce. And yet apples are most certainly healthy.

This video is really not a great source of information. Marginal at best. I think they were trying, and there is some good info in there. But it’s mixed in with some pretty marginal info.

Hello from Newport News. You can’t be too far away since that’s clearly the estuary. :)

Oracle? Delphi? CLEARLY posted to the wrong community! ;-)

TITANic idea!