3. People stopped consuming New Coke

As long as people do nothing other than complain and continue to use the product they have no reason to change.

Yes, but if I am tinkering with someone else’s system I don’t know if they did that.

When looking at a file knowing immediately what physical drive it is on.

They say it is their job to help the adtech industry, by finding a compromise between my interests and Facebook & co’s interest

Well my interest is the complete collapse of Facebook & co, so it’s going to be hard to find a compromise there.

If I watch something funny I’ll quote it with my friends, but I wouldn’t share a clip of me and my friends if I wanted to share the joke with someone. I’d share a clip of the actual joke.

It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.

Stealing in the sense that it’s the exact same joke.

It’s like a YouTuber creating a ‘reaction’ video that adds nothing but their face in the corner of the screen. Adding a link to the original video doesn’t suddenly make it reasonable.

Two muffins are baking in an oven. One muffin turns to the other and says “sure is hot in here isn’t it?”
To which the other muffin replies “Holy crap! A talking muffin!”

Changing the muffins to cookies would not make it a different joke.

I don’t know if I’d call it a paraphrase when it’s using 90% the exact same words.

without it’s original meaning being altered.

I think you mean “without its original meaningfully being altered.”

Yes, my comment wasn’t about online casinos but about the people who think they have a right to tell others how to live their lives.

Who’s “they the people”? I don’t know much about the gambling industry the internet but if it’s anything like any other industry place then it’s not a centralized monolith but many independent business people.

Good to know. Thank you.

Can Mint read files from a Windows partition or is it a different filesystem?

I’m waiting until there’s a good sale on Hard drives to set up a dual-boot.

“okay… What happens if I do this?”

but because “I didn’t teach it to everyone yet” we couldn’t use loops.

That is aggravating. “I didn’t teach the class the proper way to do this task, so you have to use the tedious way.” What is the logic behind that other than wasting everyone’s time?