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It’s a chance for them to lock you (normies) into their platform forever. They’re not going to give that up.

If the thread has been dead a few weeks, they could edit their post. Or if it pulls a objects, those objects could change.

I dip them in my coffee

This is what happens when the marketing department runs the engineering department

sudo apt install cool-package
438 dependencies will need to download 1.4 gb ^C ^C ^C ^C ^C

Great, now I will need one of these for my computer

You can’t just bring in every stray you find on the street