• @wakko@lemmy.world
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    6710 days ago

    Oh look. Yet another post demanding things from a volunteer-based community without actually volunteering their own time to work on solving the problem they’re insisting needs solving.

    I’m sure these demands will totally make a difference in ways that putting their time into actually writing code wouldn’t.

      • @wakko@lemmy.world
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        109 days ago

        ROFL. Kiddo, I’ve been contributing to OSS for over two decades. The day I start caring about what non-contributors think is the day I stop writing code. Either show up with patches or STFU.

          • thedruid
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            149 days ago

            You’re both being silly. Ones a gatekeeper, ones a name caller

            Want to know what’s wrong with Linux? The community.

            • @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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              28 days ago

              Yeah, you don’t pay for software, you pay for support that won’t insult you. Seeking support for FOSS stuff is like running a gauntlet of people who insist you’re too stupid to use it.

              If we want normies to use FOSS, the community needs to stop saying normies don’t deserve FOSS.

            • @Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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              18 days ago

              Definitely silly but im tired of trying to explain something especially when they act like that and I know they arent going to listen. They can simply get name called. People dont like that but its simply not my obligation.

            • @wakko@lemmy.world
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              08 days ago

              Nobody is gatekeeping. One of us is asserting that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

              The features being requested do not come for free. Someone has to sink the time into doing the work.

              So, in an argument between people doing the work and people insisting someone else do the work for them, but it must be to the specifications of the armchair quarterbacks… well… I’ve got bad news about the things the non-paying non-coders want.

              You can either pay money or pay time, but nobody cares about the freeloaders demanding things without offering any kind of compensation.

              • thedruid
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                08 days ago

                " the day I start caring about what non-contributers think …"

                Be sure not to wear your actual gate keeping opinion on Your sleeve if you want to deny them .

                • @wakko@lemmy.world
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                  28 days ago

                  It’s always interesting to see how people react to being told to put in their own effort instead of demanding the effort of others.

                  You have access to the code bases. You have access to the contributing rules. You can submit your patches to the same repos everyone else puts their code in. What exactly is being denied to you?

                  • thedruid
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                    28 days ago

                    Honestly kid. I’m done with this. You know the answer to that. I’m done with this. You’re all just too exhausting.

                    And again that is a Linux issue. Because no one wants to be thought of as insufferable as it appears Linux contributes are.

                    If one doesn’t want valid critique, one should take their software private and leave everyone alone.

                    Otherwise anyone can make all the critiques they want. Don’t like it? Don’t do things in public. Make the software privately and alone

        • thedruid
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          28 days ago

          Don’t sit there being obtuse. One of the benefits of foss is that actual users help test the software and bring feedback to make it better

          You just want to be thought of as special

          Developers of software are a dime a dozen and becoming an outdated profession. Keep the smugness out of this otherwise. Good day