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TechConnectify@mas.to - Oh my gosh I just figured it out.

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people who are talking about a problem with whatever commercial software they use and suggest Your Favorite Alternatives™ is exactly like saying "why don't you just buy a house?" to someone complaining about their landlord.

TechConnectify@mas.to - Actually, to borrow from @DoubleA, it's worse than that.

It's like talking to someone who is in a crappy apartment as though they have the agency and skills to stake out a plot of land and build their own home.

You have to be at peace with the fact that some people just want to exist and not worry about so many things. And they still have a right to complain about their situation.

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[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When I say "don't think of a panda", what do you think of? Pretty much the same thing with saying "don't recommend me FOSS options" lol

[–] Pizzasgood@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No. Thinking about the panda is involuntary in that scenario. Typing up and submitting an explicitly unwanted response is not involuntary. It's a thing a person chooses to do expressly against the wishes of the person making the request.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Ya, implying recommending FOSS options is an involuntary action was tongue-in-cheek.

[–] derbis@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm on lemmy. Obviously, I think about Marxism-Leninism.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Not Motorhead?

https://charlies-names.com/en/lemmy/

nickname of Motörhead’s singer Ian Fraser Kilmister. The name originated from his often said sentence “can you lem’me five?” or “lemme a fiver?”