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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

jwz & Igara Studio S.A. had the exact same issue with distros maintainers, that they were forced to disallow QA testing and logging for distro related situations that really isn’t their focus.

Distro makers need to dogfood their own packages, their own support system, and their testing, separate of the original software maker.

Analogy for commoners: This is like asking a bidet seat maker to fix your entire toilet/bathroom. Like no, get a plumber, workers, and a designer to make your dream toilet. Leave the seat maker alone.

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you still got to clean the toilet every week. Seat makers are not janitors.

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ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My take on a better analogy:

The bidet maker is pissed because people complain to him that their bidet is leaking or has cracks. He’s annoyed at a distribution/installation company because they fumbled, so he’ll handle installation himself but only to the houses he approves.

Oh, and the bidets are free and nobody gets paid a cent.

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- AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Sure I’ll accept this analogy irt stenzek’s justified reaction. But this part is particularly wrong:
  
  so he’ll handle installation himself but only to the houses he approves.
  
  He doesn’t 1) install, 2) approves any bowl, 3) or should he. He can refuse to make bidet seats any time, but prefers wașiki seats instead.
  
  bidets are free and nobody gets paid a cent.
  
  This is the damn crux🎯. GAMERS, PLEASE DONATE AS IF IT WAS REAL SOFTWARE YOU’RE BUYING. You don’t know how easily you can solve this by having paid workers fixing all this.
  
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  - ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    He doesn’t 1) install, 2) approves any bowl, 3) or should he. He can refuse to make bidet seats any time, but prefers wașiki seats instead.
    
    He directly provides releases for Windows x64/ARM64, Linux x86_64/ARM32/ARM64 (in AppImage format), and macOS. He also explicitly forbids modifications, and since he considers “pre-configured settings” to be modifications, and this is basically barring any other distribution.
    
    So while ultimately you’re right in that he doesn’t install it himself, he provides a super-simple “do it yourself” kit for people who live in apartments, while making anyone else who lives in a house have to assemble it from a million separate pieces themselves.
    
    Note that I’m sympathetic, and I don’t know what the solution here is, but hopefully everyone figures it out…
    
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    AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ok, then I’m wrong. The seat maker prefers wașiki, bidets, and flachspüler seats, but bidet users are at most risk of losing support, because Arch bidets stop doogfooding their bidet hinges correctly.
    
    Agreed on the last 2 paragraphs.
    
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