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I was recently asked why I'm "anti-FOSS". Confused, I asked
what the blue F*@(# they meant by that. Their answer:
because I run MacOS on Macs, I'm "obviously" anti-FOSS.

Umm... What?

My first instinct was to tell them they were full of dung.
But I went with a second option: ask them why using what I
like mattered to them in the long run. I don't affect them
by running MacOS, so why should they even point this out?

Their reason was that my using MacOS "lessens [my] rights,
and therefore hurts the community as a whole."

At *that* point, I told them they were full of dung, and
didn't look back.

Seriously... What is it with software
evangelists thinking it's any of their business what I run
on my personal machines? Why do they think they have any
right to attack me for something that doesn't involve them
in the slightest?

It's gotten *really* old. I had enough of it when I left 
the general Linux community and got myself banned from the
Ubuntu IRC for a while.

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I've been /trying/ to learn how to touch type better with
a copy of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing", but it's been far
more difficult than I thought it might be. With my usual
methods, I'm measuring about 40-50 WPM, but with the
typical touch typing methods, I only get about 12 WPM with
any accuracy at all.

I mostly need the skill so I don't need to look at the
keyboard while I'm typing, which will make things a lot
easier to work at night, since I don't have a usable
back-lit keyboard to type with. And since I mostly work at
night, I kinda need that ability to actually get things
done.

I mean, I could probably do it with a JIS keyboard, but
I don't have one on this MacBook, and getting a Japanese
topcase won't be easy. Not unless I forego some other
things for a little while.

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