• makeshift0546@lemmy.today
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    22 hours ago

    I’d love for a law that made it illegal to use “X users” and require absolute numbers.

    Is all rage bait. 500 real users on a forum isn’t a useful cohort.

    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      They mentioned 2000 stars on the Github repo, which could be 1:1 or 1:1000 that have used it. What do you expect them to do, walk around and put a gun to the head of every mac user and ask them if they used it?

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      21 hours ago

      How is this rage bait? It is simply properly used English language…??

      Edit: To the lurking downvoters: Since when people started interpreting “mac users” to mean (according to the context here) semi-all? A qualifier of “some” i guess is what you would like, but it’s not incorrect.

      It’s proper to just say “mac users”, or for example “fishermen use worms as bait”. Or maybe you’ll like this example more: “linux users write open-source firmware for wifi routers”