I have only been reading a little at the start of this thread.
Am I the only one who here the line "Divide and Conquer" in the discussion between Chris and fchmmr? The two best/only freedom respecting laptop providers out there?
STOP WITH THE F-ING WHINING! Scream your hatred in a pillow or something like that to get it out of your system instead of holding it in yourself and again and again get in to these blaming threads to try to get people on your side.
In this extremely f-uped up world that is just getting more crazy every day (Now almost every second more crazy things happend) with TTP, TTIP, internet censorship, cashless, google filtering, spying, hatred filled people, corruption is extreme, world economy falls apart, europe crumbling (soon riots on streets), politicians almost only lying and a lot more.
Think Penguin is a good alternative for modern laptops and more in the store and Minifree a good alternative to fix old laptop. Their is good and bad things with both alternatives. Same as "open source" thinking. Open source is good to attract people closer to freedom but if people in the "open source" camp dont wake up from the "open source deception" they will walk in to a dead end. Trisquel, Think Penguin and Minifree has the same goal but different roads. They are not lost as "open source" followers. Free software users are much more aware of freedom and know what it is about.
If you want to make the world a better place, start with yourself. If you get pissed at someone example they push a button on you is often because they hit a soft spot and the anger that comes is the defense of that emotional scar. Most people use the "blame game" to defend their scars they carry. Many get a active life with work, training because if they stop the pain will come. Some people try to eat to drink their pain away. Others gets passive. Some people have problem with their social life and runs away from it and only live in front of computers (my area).
Yes Im getting a bit deep. This was written fast but I just get pissed when people start to argue when what all parts in the arguing want the same thing but it get destroyed because of this internal arguing. This has happened a lot of times before in many areas and still continue.
Their are forces out there that dont want humanity to strive for harmony, freedom, responsibility, respecting each other. These forces love to infiltrate "their threats" and destroy them within. Free software is one of "their threats".
People who are not in balance with themselves is much easier to manipulate and today so many people is so unbalanced. Just look how people act today and the total crap mass media today produce as entertainment. Todays society is fast developing/declining towards the movie Idiocracy.
Peace out
