And how can this be improved ? Should “normies” be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?
- Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English45•5 months ago
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 ( @borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 13•5 months ago
Just fyi it’s psy ops, short for psychological operations.
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 41•5 months ago
This has to be a troll. They use Tails and do not know how to format an USB drive?
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 ( @RobotToaster@mander.xyz ) 7•5 months ago
Possibly they bought it from someone on ebay or something?
- ArcaneSlime ( @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•5 months ago
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 ( @thurstylark@lemm.ee ) English4•5 months ago
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 ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 5•5 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.
- nutomic ( @nutomic@lemmy.ml ) 30•5 months ago
It was always normalized, but recently there seems to be more backlash from maintainers.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English20•5 months ago
- SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) 29•5 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.
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) 23•5 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.
- Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) 18•5 months ago
Just ignore them?
- PonyOfWar ( @PonyOfWar@pawb.social ) 12•5 months ago
People feeling entitled on the internet were always a thing.
- pop ( @pop@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 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.”
- Evan ( @Cloak@lemmy.ml ) English12•5 months ago
Is that you Jia Tan?
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English11•5 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.
- PirateJesus ( @Glass0448@lemmy.today ) English7•5 months ago
Your complaints should be in the donation message.