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Re: Screenshot!

From Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.computer.workshop, uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: Screenshot!
Organization Southern Nevada Institute of Technology
References <n7e2roFlopsU1@mid.individual.net> <6a1694d9$0$27$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <n7nj6gF63u8U1@mid.individual.net> <XnsB45972804E54DHT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>
Date 2026-05-27 15:37 +0000
Message-ID <6a170fa8$1$43783$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> (permalink)

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On May 27, 2026 at 8:15:21 AM MST, "Gremlin" wrote
<XnsB45972804E54DHT1@cF04o3ON7k2lx05.lLC.9r5>:

> "David B." <"David B."@invalid.org> news:n7nj6gF63u8U1@mid.individual.net
> Wed, 27 May 2026 07:01:36 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:
> 
>> On 27/05/2026 07:53, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>> David B. <"David B."@invalid.org> wrote:
>>>> On 27/05/2026 00:22, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>> On May 26, 2026 at 3:27:06 PM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>> <n7ml1qF1qbmU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 26/05/2026 23:08, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>>>> On May 26, 2026 at 3:01:33 PM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>>>> <n7mjhtF1ib4U1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 26/05/2026 20:55, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On May 26, 2026 at 12:09:09 PM MST, ""David B."" wrote
>>>>>>>>> <n7m9emF1coU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>>>> [....]
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I've put my money where my mouth is and have purchased
>>>>>>>>>> EtreCheck.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> You, though, are afraid to run it on your computer(s)!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> That is a fiction you made up. I do not currently have it. I do
>>>>>>>>> not care about it. I am not concerned about it. There are many,
>>>>>>>>> many software packages I do not run -- not based on fear.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You HAVE run it!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As we have discussed multiple times.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Indeed.
>>>>>>>> Are there copies of past reports lingering in your
>>>>>>>> Library?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Do you know WHERE to look?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> HAVE you looked?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Please advise.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I believe I deleted them since the last time we discussed this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Were you not surprised to find them there?!!!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did not know they were there but it was not really surprising or
>>>>> concerning in any way.
>>>> 
>>>> *I'm shocked*!
>>>> 
>>>> It is absolutely fascinating to watch you hand-wave away a complete
>>>> lack of basic macOS file-system awareness as "not surprising or
>>>> concerning."
>>>> 
>>>> For someone who frequently pontificates on these groups about how
>>>> things "should" work on the Mac platform, admitting that you blindly
>>>> run software without having the foggiest notion of what it leaves
>>>> behind in your ~/Library/Application Support/ or ~/Library/Caches/
>>>> directories is quite the self-own.
>>>> 
>>>> If you "did not know they were there" until it was pointed out to you,
>>>> it proves you weren't looking, didn't know where to look, and lacked
>>>> the curiosity to check.
>>>> 
>>>> For an ordinary end-user? Perfectly fine. For someone masquerading as
>>>> a technical authority on a computer workshop group? It’s a bit of an
>>>> embarrassment, Brock.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Your AI had a stroke. 🤣
>> 
>> 
>> Translation: "I have absolutely no technical defense for getting caught
>> completely clueless about my own Mac's file system, so I'll try a weak
>> deflection instead."
>> 
>> Notice how you completely failed to address the actual point, Brock? You
>> admitted you didn't know those files were lingering in your Library. You
>> admitted you didn't look. And in your other concurrent post, you
>> explicitly argued that apps leaving background junk behind should have
>> uninstallers.
>> 
>> The prose isn't having a stroke—it's just exposing your massive
>> logical hypocrisy, and it clearly hit a nerve.
>> 
>> To borrow a phrase from your own signature: You cannot use reason to
>> show the message to be wrong, so you try to feel somehow superior by
>> attacking the messenger.
>> 
>> Care to try again and actually talk about the macOS file system this
>> time, or are you completely out of your depth?
> 
> I must admit how comical this is. You are in no position to question anyone
> else concerning Mac or anything else. Snit actually does know more about the
> machine sitting in front of him than you ever will. What's especially funny
> about that is the fact he doesn't actually know very much. It's interesting
> how you gave snit a free pass every single other time he's stepped on his
> clit, but now you feel it necessary to try and ride him because you didn't
> like his responses. What's coming next, David? Are you going to create a gsv
> for him as well? He's an idiot for ever trusting you. He was warned. Now
> he's starting to experience what you're really like. h0h0h0.

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* Gremlin got all excited he used a mouse-less computer as if that
  was impressive.
 
  <XnsABEF47D94EFACHT1@rSNu6VvwL.gxU66>:
    -----
    My first computer didn't even know what a fucking mouse
    was. You really are playing games with the wrong one.
    -----

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-- 
It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.

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