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.

  • @TrickDacy
    1•4 months ago

    The response to this here is absolutely wild. I guess I should expect my machine to get wiped any moment

    • redfellow
      4•4 months ago

      Whenever you choose to run a program that has full access to parts of your PC that may cause issues, you are the person who chose to do so.

      Just run apps in a sandbox if you don’t want to risk having to reinstall your OS in a worst case scenario.

      The developer owes you nothing.

      • @TrickDacy
        -3•4 months ago

        Legal obligations that I grasped at age 9 don’t really interest me to talk about. It’s pretty obvious I understand them. What I was trying to talk about was what reasonable people should do. But apparently that’s offensive to many ITT as most responses are condescending af

        • redfellow
          1•4 months ago

          We might be condescending due to braindead users like this:

          You’re not entitled to a working computer once you execute a free program?

          Despite grasping legal obligations at the age of 9, taking responsibility for your own actions seems to still be a struggle. Good luck.

          • @WombleEnglish
            2•4 months ago

            You’re right to an extent, but there is nuance. No end user goes through the Debian repositories and checking the source code for each package by hand. You would be well within your rights to be annoyed if a rm -rf / got added into a script in the repos somehow. A level of trust somewhere is unavoidable for things to work smoothly.

            Of course the difference in level of responsibility between core repos and random code pulled of github is vast.

          • @TrickDacy
            -3•4 months ago

            The extent to which you’re attempting to sound intelligent would be saddening if you weren’t being so rude. I won’t be replying to you in the future.