Yep. Definitely ASD. Concrete thinking. Hyperfixation. Inability to pick up on social cues, online or not.

Thanks for confirming it for me, bud.

You’re missing the point: macOS is free. Just because you have to buy hardware to run it on doesn’t make it any different than any other free operating system like Linux. There’s plenty of hardware that doesn’t support Linux , too, so your argument, especially falls apart there.

There’s a massive difference: Linux doesn’t require you to buy specific hardware from a specific vendor to legally run it. macOS does.
With Linux, if your hardware isn’t supported, it’s a technical limitation. With macOS, it’s an intentional restriction enforced by Apple through both legal terms (EULA) and hardware locks.

That's the difference between open and closed systems. Linux lets you try on anything—even if it might not fit perfectly. Apple forces you to buy their clothes before you're allowed in the store.

Difference my guy.

I'm just wanting to see how far I can push his buttons

well what has it been doing for the first 6 years

The first link is evidence that video codecs cost money and, as per that source:

Most video codecs such as H.264, H265/HEVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4… requires the manufacturer to pay a license fee. The fees are then added to the final product, but the actual codec fees are usually unknown to the end user.

This was in response to the earlier discussion about third party libraries costing money.

OK, I guess some third-party libraries do cost money, which is to be expected. That doesn’t change the fact that macOS is free.

Sure it does. You have to have a compatible processor, compatible, memory, etc. to run Linux. Just because one has some stricter hardware requirements than another doesn’t mean it’s not just as free as the other operating system.

Regardless, none of this has anything to do with the fact that macOS is free.

Right, because I’m to blame because no one can prove that macOS costs money.

Being certain of a fact is not evidence of whatever bigoted thing you’re accusing me of.

Why are you even hung up on this point when it wasn't even the context of my original statement.

My god you are fitting the stereotype.

I still use wine for most of my games on the desktop.

The last version of MacOS I used was $130
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger

It's clear you're acting in bad faith at this point - you've completely skipped over anything else I said in my original comment.

And in my original comment, I said they hadn’t charged for it in about 15 years. And it’s been almost exactly 15 years.

Right, I’m the one “fixated” on this, but all of the people like you dog pile on me, and trying to insist a fact isn’t true aren’t “fixated”.

Seems like projection to me. And deflection from the fact that you can’t prove your point.

Me: points out of fact

You: you’re acting in bad faith!

It still doesn’t make any sense to me. Do you think I’m acting in bad faith because I acknowledge a fact, and you won’t? Or is it because I keep poking holes in your logic?

Sounds like hurt feelings to me

Just because they stopped selling it doesn't mean it's free. The only legal way to aquire MacOS is to buy an Apple product, or somehow get an upgrade from one of those old paid versions (which since this happens through the App Store now, you still need an Apple product).

Windows is also not free even though you can download the iso. There's license terms

Building momentum for the year of the Linux.

You know, the one we've been reading about for 20 years.

Get it to run Office and you've a game changer.

Yes, yes I know Libre/Open Office but try telling Shelly in Accounting who still struggles with Excel after 36 years of experience.

You misinterpreted what I said in that initial comment, asked if I was hallucinating, and when I clarified this misinterpretation, you proceeded to skip over anything I had said beyond the first link.

You are not giving any valid counter arguments to what I said in my original comment (in fact detracting from the original point of this whole thread by speculating you hurt my feelings?), this is why I believe you are acting in bad faith.