Things have gotten messier with virtualization, containerisation, hypervisors etc. The internet loves to produce pedants to argue the post should go into the fi

Things have gotten messier with virtualization, containerisation, hypervisors etc. The internet loves to produce pedants to argue the post should go into the finer points of these even when it's not relevant to the message. And so people like the author have a defensive reflex to throw in some language to bounce the pedants away.