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And how can this be improved ? Should "normies" be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 111 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you are dissatisfied with the free thing I gave you, then I am happy to send you a refund of your purchase price. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

That's my preferred strategy.

UPDATE: Before any angry cards and letters, let me clarify. When I reply this way, I learn a lot about the person I'm talking to, including whether they are prepared to have a reasonable conversation about this complex matter. The response I'm hoping for is "Well played.", because that tells me that they recognize how ridiculous we are both being. I can work with them.

If they are merely having a tough time and needed to vent, then they'll notice that and we can move forward.

If they are truly that entitled, then I don't mind what happens next, because they would probably never have accepted any help I could offer them, anyway.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You should charge a restocking fee.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Careful! I'm not trying to be Ticketmaster!

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 60 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not only is it normalized, but it's being weaponized. See, for example, the recent XZ backdoor which was equal parts hacking and a psi-op against the maintainer.

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago

Just fyi it’s psy ops, short for psychological operations.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 55 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This has to be a troll. They use Tails and do not know how to format an USB drive?

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

Fair point. An they managed to get their email delivered on that newsletter announce mailing list (Which I expected to be moderated). Not sure how that could happen.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

Possibly they bought it from someone on ebay or something?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I've had tails "kill" a few USB drives. By that I mean windows wouldn't recognize the drive with explorer and I had to use diskpart to reformat it, and the drive was fine. I assume this user doesn't know that, but I think back then I just googled "windows won't see usb" and got the answer so they should get good.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Windows refuses to recognize anything except the first partition on any storage device that it classifies as "removable", so this tracks. Just zero the partition table, and Windows will offer to format it like it wants on next plug.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 6 months ago

That's not true. I have a 2-partition SSD that boots an on OS on one partition and has storage on the other, works fine in Windows.

The problem is that Windows' Disk Management utility doesn't zero unknown partition tables.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 34 points 6 months ago

I don't think I'd ever complain directly to the maintainer. I often do find instructions that are essentially The Rest of the Fucking Owl but you go to the community for help and then give up when 90% of them act like you are an idiot for even asking.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was always normalized, but recently there seems to be more backlash from maintainers.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am indeed seeing this with increasing frequency. Just take a look at threads about the Lemmy devs for examples. An increasing number of people seem to feel entitled to be treated not just like customers but as also as stakeholders/PMs for software that was gifted to the community.

As for how to try to change this direction, I think ELI5 on what FLOSS is and how it is governed, as well as how to be a good member of the community, whether as a contributor or otherwise, is probably the way to go.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Who is this little shit who can't Google how to format a USB drive securely? If dd isn't enough, there's plenty of methods documented online.

Fuck such people. Off to the maintainers blacklist they should go

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago

Just ignore them?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 13 points 6 months ago

Dealing with unhinged people has been around since as long as the internet. There was a period of time before the general population got online when it was mostly academics and military people, the level of discourse was higher. But useNet still had the crazies.

I think the federated systems and GitHub allow people to participate more, so the barrier to entry is lower, so we get to see more of this emotional labor then we used to historically.

[–] Cloak@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Is that you Jia Tan?

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People feeling entitled on the internet were always a thing.

[–] pop@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

"I paid for my internet connection, so everything I find on it should be free and come with support and modifications I request."

[–] Glass0448@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Your complaints should be in the donation message.

There are excessively clear instructions for tails on how to do exactly what they are asking. You can't help people like that.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I think the proper response is to simply ignore someone that ignorant