On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 19:14:51 (+0000), Chris Green wrote: > nsrxnst <nsrx...@bruttocarattere.org> wrote: > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 70 lines --] > > > > 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.
