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Don't be that guy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Alternatively, you could pay money for a solution from a reputable company with support.

and run the possibly even greater risk that it'll fuck something up, since you probably can't even look at their source

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

??? You quoted my comment with 'reputable' in it. You put a level of trust in anything you use. Reputable companies are unlikely to fuck your shit up with bad software. It happens - not trying to say it doesn't - but again, you have to trust somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If that's what you get from a paid product, why would you assume it's better for a free product?

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