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fdgram4866yThe problem is that a large amount of people are constantly referring to computers as "PC, Mac, and Linux" (including those that should know better e.g. John Carmack).
I've instead started saying "PC, Mac, and Windows", because Mac and Windows computers are owned by Apple and Microsoft respectively, they are just nice enough to let you rent them; hence not "personal". -
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Guess what... Most of them are general purpose machines that should also be called PCs -
If you wanna boil everything down to their original meaning then pepperoni is a vegetable not a sausage.
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@rEaL-jAsE According to Wikipedia, pepperoni is a cured dry sausage.
Where I live, frutti di mare is sometimes misleadingly truncated to frutti.
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You're fucking using a PC.
If you're using an apple product that is a computer (it fucking computes things) and you can use it on your own then it is a personal computer. That's what PC means for the love of #keepDevrantReligionFree
I just saw someone saying that they use neither: Mac nor PC
Upon asking for clarification they said that they are using arch.
Are you fucking kidding me? Do you want to be as "cool" as Apple and refuse to use a name that's used for those kind of devices just to not belong in the same group as others?
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