• Shayeta@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      I do not want to live in such a world. Helping others, especially when it is at little to no cost to you should be common sense to everyone.

      I will strive towards making the world such a place, and I implore everyone, including you, to make the world a better place for everyone - including you.

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        23 hours ago

        Helping others learn when they are not willing to google, read, visit a library, etc, is called enabling, not helping. Helping those that try and get stuck is helping.

        Learn the difference.

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      2 days ago

      Ah, the RTFM argument. So you didn’t go to school, did you? You picked up a book and just started educating yourself?

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        22 hours ago

        I did and after entering the field I had chosen after graduation, I quickly left. It wasn’t for me. What paid for school, however, was fixing computers, electronic word processors, and building and selling PC’s. Bought an Apollo system to learn Domain Aegis UNIX on and checked out every book on UNIX I could get my hands on. When Linux arrived, I got in at Linux 0.99pl13. I got a job and paid to continue my education. So yeah. When I started there wasn’t a community of enablers.

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          18 hours ago

          Save it for the publishers dawg just stop being so hostile and negative about something that’s genuinely a good thing.

          • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            16 hours ago

            Gamer’s coming to Linux and messing up all the forums and chats with their pleas to make their Windows games work is NOT a good thing.

            • It promotes non open source software.
            • They complain about their games, when the problem is the software wasn’t written for Linux. Complain to the makers and the makers of Wine and Proton. ANY issues are not Linux issues. Linux is perfect.
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      2 days ago

      If what you’ve chosen to learn could help someone right in front of you, and they’re asking for help, you do not feel compelled to help them? I doubt that.

      • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 hours ago

        Depends on the topic. If enlightening them means I am enabling them to harm themselves, then no. Helping people waste time gaming and draw even more Steam users and their Windows crapware games towards tainting the purity of Linux is harming them and Linux, so no. No helping that.

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          11 hours ago

          There are big issues with the modern video games industry. Like a lot of software they deny user’s computing freedoms, and as such facilitate designs to repeatedly make money using psychology tricks. However, to reject video games as a waste of time goes to show how one can not know what they’re missing.

          Video games are a peak of higher-functioning life: play. A structured form of play which can go beyond physical games. Life is poorer without the immergent stories of a fantasy world (Dwarf Fortress) or competing in a consequence-free violence of street-fighting (Street Fighter).