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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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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you have to admit this is one hell of an edge case. the vast majority don't have your sister's 'problem'

[–] cwagner@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think the majority of us also don’t want to play tech support.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You haven’t seen the FOSS community then

Also you will have to play tech support no matter what if you set them up

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Or you will need help and ask questions and people will assume you are "lazy asking" and be toxic just because you are a beginner and don't know stuff. Recently I've lost count on how many projects I joined some kind of communication space like Discord and left as soon as I saw how awful people can be when they want to gatekeep

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

I don't like helping non-tech people because they don't want to learn. They just want it fixed. I understand the mindset and I'm that same way on other things. But I don't want to be their "tech guy".

I do like helping in the FOSS community though because people generally do want to learn.

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the sword is double edged, the ones you neglect will come to you when it gets bad.

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

Which is why me and people like me don’t care much what our relatives use :D