The language one uses when writing, while not perfectly accurate, is a good indicator of how one carries themselves in real conversation with strangers. Repeated usage of phrases like "Google Spy Device" isn't indicative of someone who's assertive or "resolute", it's indicative of someone who is being emotional. If you're a regular here and part of the author's target audience, you know how awful Google is with regards to the user privacy sphere. You don't want to hear someone whinge about it every some-odd lines of a tutorial.
Or "Google Spy Device" is simply an amateur attempt at reframing a paradigm. Those fall flat most of the time, but trying them out is still necessary to separate one's own and hopefully everyone's perspective from default Google.
I personally appreciated "A Chromebook is an inexpensive data milking device and you are the cow". Rather than throwing everything at the wall and hoping something would stick, OP would have certainly benefited from some editing. But the bulk still shouldn't have been hard to read past.
There is editorializing in every communique. IMHO the protests here say more about being acclimated to a culture of milquetoast-positivity corporatespeak than anything else.
> Or "Google Spy Device" is simply an amateur attempt at reframing a paradigm.
That would require effort on the author's part. This is the equivalent of that guy who goes "gNu pLus LiNuX ;D" whenever someone simply says/mentions Linux as part of a larger conversation topic because they have nothing to contribute.
> But the bulk still shouldn't have been hard to read past.
It is difficult because the author has two simultaneous discussions going on: their actual work with the Chromebook and their banal google privacy comments which are intertwined with the actual interesting content.
> IMHO the protests here say more about being acclimated to a culture of milquetoast-positivity corporatespeak than anything else.
I clicked the link to read an article on getting ChromeOS off of a Chromebook. I didn't click the link to have to scrape aside the same wannabe revolutionary feel-good drivel that's been propagated on every common and tech-focused news site just to get at the content. If anything, the author writing the equivalent of "ha ha doodoo head google sheeple FITE DA POWA" and the volume of people defending it speaks volumes about what constitutes privacy advocacy in HackerNews comments.
