Mom can we have Linux?

No

sudo Mom can we have Linux?

Nice. Imagine the lady in the post’s face when she learns that “oom badness” is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

What’s that from?

Idk, if you don’t get too flummoxed by “stranded preposition” and “relative locus,” the rest is pretty plain IMO.

Kernel Panic at the /dev/disk/0

Yeah lol I’m familiar with “kill child” in a process management context, but I’ve never seen the word “sacrifice” come up. Is that a thing?

unexpectedinterrobang

Lol you just saw “stranded preposition” and bailed, hey?

Hack with benefits!

Is it really less secure than a password? How so?

Lol yes, people would often rather avoid getting involved with a piece of software at all (and perhaps complain about it), instead of taking over the burden of developing and supporting it themselves. Kids these days, right?

Great, I knew you could understand if you wanted to (hence the “deliberate” part).

So… Yes. Exactly. The complaint is about poor choices in the implementation of the project’s community. Not everybody who would want to use the software (e.g. Typst, in this meme) knows how to code at all. Those people are reliant on the community for support, and may choose to avoid a project if the community isn’t good for them. That’s the premise of the meme, and orthogonal to any properties of the version control system.

Among those who can code, it’s still reasonable that someone might consider the community when evaluating the cost of integrating the project… Especially if they plan to be an end-user of the application.

It’s great if you grok the source of every project you use and accept the burden of maintaining them yourself in lieu of a good community. That’s really neat. But I don’t think it’s practical for everybody to do that for everything they might want to use… Yes, even though the Fork button is right there.

Haha that’s not the issue, but it’s pretty clear that you’re deliberately misunderstanding at this point.

Fork… what? The software project that you’re trying to get help with? The problem isn’t that you need to change the code, the problem is that you want to be able to leverage the community.

“Starts” lol. They are way ahead of you, my friend.

I recommend reading Discord’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy some time. It is… more eyebrow-raising than usual.

Well the specific context here is software projects using it as the platform for their community… So it’s kind of like going to a steakhouse and being given a fork and plunger to eat with. It makes sense to both complain about the steakhouse, and remark on the shortcomings of using a plunger for the purpose it was imposed on you for.

Now of course, it’s wrong to say that Discord or a plunger are bad tools per se-- They are both occasionally useful for when I need to deal with some problematic shit. They are unpleasant, but I just hold my nose and thoroughly wash my hands after.

Actually the plunger analogy tracks better than I expected.

Good bot!