• EamonnMR@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don’t think we’re speaking the same language of computing and there’s not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.

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      2 months ago

      “Technical taste” is the wrong angle here, and I see this a lot in FOSS. No amount of “good” or “great” technicality makes up for the fact that his personal views are abhorrent.

      The first question we should ask is “are they a decent person” and the answer here is a hard no, so technical taste doesn’t even matter.

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        2 months ago

        I guess what I’m trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn’t be asking if he’s a decent person, just that I’m not super surprised to find out he’s gone mask off weirdo.

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      2 months ago

      Wait, daily driving FREEDOS!? I could see that happening in like 2007, but even after 2011???

      Don’t get me wrong, I have used FreeDOS on occasion to play old sierra games on a modern computer bare metal edition, but holy shit, I can’t imagine DAILY DRIVING IT!!