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   Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 14:41:35 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   It's not very useful to tell someone you think the work they do is making the planet & society worse. But a lot of the time that's how I feel.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 14:41:33 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     For example: I meet someone & find out they're 'in IT'... turns out they train or support people using Windows/Apple products. I find it hard to disguise my lack of enthusiasm for their work. The way I see it, they're helping people develop a perceived dependence on & entitlement to proprietary software often accompanied by a disdain for things they don't understand. It's like teaching someone to drive a petrol car & implicitly denigrating use of public transportation.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 16:40:53 JST 翠星石

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     @lightweight That isn't a great comparison, as teaching someone to drive a petrol car is a generic skill that will allow them to drive a diesel or electric or any other car and that skill can also be applied to the driving of most vehicles with a few modifications.
     
     That alone doesn't implicitly doesn't denigrate public transport, considering that public transport is sadly not suitable for many tasks, one example would be transporting many objects or large ones like fridges or mattresses.
     
     Teaching microsoft and apple products is rather like teaching someone to drive two different coal-fired billycarts (one is covered by window glass, the other covered by shiny glass), with controls like pic related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Backhead_and_cab_of_former_South_Australian_Railways_T_class_locomotive_no_186,_19_May_2018_(DBinion).jpg - the skills are only applicable to other kinds of vehicles at a very rudimentary level.