Of course, the criticism and personal remarks about me are all well intentioned and appropriate, right?

It's the strangest thing.
For those of you who are new to this stuff (my 1st personal computer: 1983) there used to be only 1 rule of conduct for a BBS:

"A comment may be made to initiate a new topic, or to reply to the content of a prior topic, but never, ever about the motive, competence, or personality of another speaker".

Not too much attention paid to it here, is there?