I cannot imagine the mindset of someone who gets demanding with something they're not paying for. On the rare occasions that I file a bug report I ask nicely for a fix and am happy if the maintainer can get around to it.
Posts by Handlebars
151 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2013
Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze
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I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke
Saturday 8th June 2024 19:56 GMT
who did the bad install
I'm trying to understand how someone who cares about the difference between one monitor and another is also unable to grasp the need to connect both ends of a cable.
All I can think of is they wanted to waste some time, or maybe feel important because someone else had to do the fix.
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Re: Computers say Yes,..... Resistance is Futile and Puerile and Self-Destructive
The last several FOIAs that crossed my desk were companies trying to get a public entity to do their market analysis for them. I just pointed them to the .gov site where they can get the data and analyse it themselves