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Don't be that guy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by hperrin@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
 

When you're talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don't like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

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[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The nightmare just crawls out to our reality when paid software is less developed on and more buggy than free Open Source software.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That’s because the people making it are doing it for a job rather than for the love of it. (Except me. Surely I don’t do that.)

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you know that "payed" is a naval term. See Grammarly on Payed for more information

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that since it's an actual word the spell checker might not be of any use to see that it might not be the word you're actually wanting to use. And with the amount of people using "payed" instead of "paid" the dictionaries will probably include "payed" as an alternative way to conjugate "to pay" in the currency sense.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Uh. The spell checker doesnt work on my phone either way. I got lazy to fix anything on my GrapheneOS