No need to apologize in your edit. In fact, I learnt a few things from your very measured reply.

Just move along as you can't please everyone.

I feel obligated to point out that the comment you replied to never said anything about brightness control being built into any OS. They only found it humorous that someone would pay extra for it (presumably because it's free). Then... you went ahead and supported their argument by pointing out that it is indeed free; while also chastising them.

I guess my point is that your reply didn't really contribute anything to the conversation other than hurling an insult at the commenter for their past comments. Maybe they really just wanted to make a joke? On some level it would be silly to pay for something that's free, right?

Given that you're the original author, could it be that you may have replied as a defense mechanism? At least to some degree? If so, is that proper?

Honestly, I don't have a "dog in this fight". I just thought it was an interesting situation.

Yep, in the end my comment turned into an insult, towards a person that all they do on this website is to insult through comments like the one above.

Sometimes I like doing that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll regret it later, right now I’m still angry from it.

Lol, yeah... back in the day a snide remark like that would have ruffled my feathers too.

Lots of people told me "you get more flies with honey" but it can take a while for that to become a reflex. I'll probably never really get to the point where I can wear the hat of a highly polished, glib salesperson. But we perservere :-)

Retail sales is a tough game! What more is there to say?

You are my spirit animal