conciselyverbose

Probably a bucket hat to keep the sun out of my face while reading in the backyard.

And if they want to make a lot of babies?

The issue seems to be how the money is designated, not the amount of money. Even if you have a million bucks budgeted for typewriters for one facility, it's not automatically fungible.

I'm not saying there are no enthusiast spaces. I'm just explaining some of the tradeoffs that come with too low of a barrier entry when forming a community.

You want to be welcoming and accessible, not intimidating, etc, and I'm not saying any of that is bad. But you lose some of the magic where the whole community is relatively enthusiastic and has a shared vision for what it is when it's easy for anyone to join and pull their own way.

The point isn't "it's their fault". But it changes the dynamic.

An enthusiast community can, for good and bad, largely self regulate. It's easier to keep corporate interests either out, or engaging on your terms.

Once the community grows to include a high enough proportion of casual participants, that ability goes away, because manipulations that don't work on inquisitive expert audiences do work on less informed ones, and less willing to question. It's harder to establish who actually knows what they're talking about by reputation, it's harder to weed out the trolls from the naive, and it's just generally harder to keep the focus of the community where you want it to be.

Corporations are one of the groups of bad actors manipulating that difference in dynamics, but the dynamics are different because of the large influx of people who don't understand as much and aren't trying to.

At most I could see it being a kind of novelty for stuff like movie theaters to add to the immersion. And the obvious ads bullshit.

Is it really unreasonable to explain that nothing you do on a work computer is private, though?

Obviously you don't want to do any of that. But if you have a reasonable set up, you can when you need to, and telling people not to do shit they shouldn't on company hardware is a good thing.

No, I'm not. People don't turn down free stuff with no strings attached. It doesn't happen.

Because it's free. I guarantee you 90% of people will take free shit if offered free shit.

Including it for free completely undermines the whole reason for removing the cable.

Then everyone will claim one and you'll increase waste.

The whole reason they're removing the cable is because of pressure from governments not to waste materials including it.

Because there's very little overlap between people who need them and people who know that it's an option.

The people claiming them would primarily be people like me who do know how it works, know that I probably won't use it, but am going to take it anyways, because it's free and because it is within the realm of possibility that I need another cable as a temporary replacement until I get another one.

That's ugly as hell too.