Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting
On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 19:14:51 (+0000), Chris Green wrote:
> nsrxnst <nsrxnst@bruttocarattere.org> wrote:
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> >
> > The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot
>
> That doesn't mean what you intended! (at least not to me it didn't)
> It means the machine was clever (in itself).
Oh come now, that's a category mistake. Inanimate objects
can't be gifted in that sense.
> What you meant (and it
> took me a while to realise) was that the machine was given to you.
Given [away], donated, gifted: any of these might apply, according
to circumstances. On an international mailing list, and without
context, I'd treat them all as synonyms.
Cheers,
David.
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