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True Filing bug reports is a exercise in getting abused. I installed a clean install on a Raspberry PI, installed emcas (which I have used for about thirty ye

by worik 5y ago

True Filing bug reports is a exercise in getting abused. I installed a clean install on a Raspberry PI, installed emcas (which I have used for about thirty years), and found a utility did not work (I will conceal the guilty - it is a common story) I filed a bug report, and was abused because I was using a emacs distribution that was three years old - how could I possibly think that any problems I saw be anything but my fault , and didn't I have better things to do than waste their time with my idiot ramblings. What sort of silly child acts like that? What a crock! Some parts of the Free Software community are much better. (Rust, for example, nothing but respect for my idiot ramblings). But some parts are still full of the "bigger dick" egomaniacs....

ncmncm 5y ago
Who "acts like that"? Maybe somebody unpaid and abused over a bug maybe already fixed, years ago. What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you. If you just want somebody whose job is to listen to you complain, there are companies that will sell you a contract for that.
- BizarroLand 5y ago
  Sorry your life sucks so much that you have to be an ass on the internet to strangers to feel better about yourself. I hope things get better for you one day.
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- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  > Who "acts like that"? Large enough portions of the FOSS community that plenty of us can relate. > What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you. Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you.
  - neoromantique 5y ago
    >Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you. Doing a quick search to see if the bug you are reporting has been reported before is a requirement on pretty much every single one of them though
    - AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
      Still not an excuse for being a dick to the person reporting it. This is one of my pet peeves with the FOSS community: they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software, but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.
      - neoromantique 5y ago
        >they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software They are. >but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives. Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser to access an open source web server through a lot of piping that is modern networking, with open source parts inside and out.
        AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
        > Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser You mean this browser run by and for a gigantic multinational advertising corporation who's de-facto monopoly on the browser market is a subject of frequent griping?
      - ncmncm 5y ago
        You seem to be who wants to be taken seriously, but peeve as you might, you offer no plausible reason why anyone should. No one has any slight reason to care whether you take them seriously. I strongly doubt anyone on God's green Earth does care.

by worik 5y ago

ncmncm 5y ago

Who "acts like that"? Maybe somebody unpaid and abused over a bug maybe already fixed, years ago. What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you. If you just want somebody whose job is to listen to you complain, there are companies that will sell you a contract for that.

BizarroLand 5y ago
Sorry your life sucks so much that you have to be an ass on the internet to strangers to feel better about yourself. I hope things get better for you one day.
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
> Who "acts like that"? Large enough portions of the FOSS community that plenty of us can relate. > What "silly child" abuses unpaid maintainers? Oh, right, you. Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you.
- neoromantique 5y ago
  >Filing a bug report is not abuse, it's literally why there are bug trackers. Take a good long look at what you're doing here and ask why it might be that people hate dealing with people like you. Doing a quick search to see if the bug you are reporting has been reported before is a requirement on pretty much every single one of them though
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
    Still not an excuse for being a dick to the person reporting it. This is one of my pet peeves with the FOSS community: they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software, but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.
    - neoromantique 5y ago
      >they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software They are. >but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives. Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser to access an open source web server through a lot of piping that is modern networking, with open source parts inside and out.
      - AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
        > Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser You mean this browser run by and for a gigantic multinational advertising corporation who's de-facto monopoly on the browser market is a subject of frequent griping?
    - ncmncm 5y ago
      You seem to be who wants to be taken seriously, but peeve as you might, you offer no plausible reason why anyone should. No one has any slight reason to care whether you take them seriously. I strongly doubt anyone on God's green Earth does care.