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by handedness 99 days ago
He directly answered your question, gave you an alternative, which in your reply you didn't even acknowledge, but moved the goalposts.

People who spend huge quantities of time trolling somebody who makes an excellent mobile operating system are really quite something. I used to think he was overselling the quantity and quality of it, but this post's comments have really turned me around on that one. So: thanks for that.

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I'm not sure where you think goalposts were moved (especially since my initial response was "we've had this conversation"; it's not a new position when they keep reposting the same fallacies) or what makes you think I'm posting here just to annoy some people I've never even met and whose work is generally good. What in the world even is "high quality trolling"? But if you want to feel like you've found evidence for GrapheneOS' regular claims that everyone is always attacking them then I probably can't dissuade you of that no matter how much more time I waste reiterating the exact same, eh, goalpost¹ you called it I think

It does bother me that I spend time answering in a clear way, since apparently it wasn't clear previously so I spend more time, and then it gets dismissed as disingenuous flamebait, or whatever the definition of trolling is

¹ (Not sure, as a non-native speaker, but to me that word sounds like there might be a material objective beyond coming to a common understanding. I don't have such an ulterior objective. If I'm right about that connotation then please read "point" in place of this word)