@jalefkowit I hope she doesn't mind the ping, but @mcc has technical knowledge in varying fields and often uses quirky language in her toots (in the best possible way), and at least part of this response was likely also an attempt to be quirky.
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@jalefkowit I hope she doesn't mind the ping, but @mcc has technical knowledge in varying fields and often uses quirky language in her toots (in the best possible way), and at least part of this response was likely also an attempt to be quirky. If it was funny or not is up to interpretation, but I don't think it's fair to pick on someone who was trying to have a bit of fun while sharing their related experience.
And before I get attacked, I don't use Linux desktop. -
@shroudedscribe @jalefkowit in this case my complaint about linux audio was a sincere, frustrated comment and i think the quoted was a sincere non-jokey attempt to help.
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1. this is in *essence* the kind of debugging advice i'd want had i asked for help, even though "qjackctl" sounds like a fake thing
2. but in this particular case i didn't ask for help, this just… happened -
@mcc @shroudedscribe I took it as a sincere attempt to help too. It just struck me as an illustration of the kind of hoops Linux users are expected to jump through.
I thought by removing the poster's username I could make the general point without picking on them personally, but in retrospect that was a mistake. Even if no one else knew who wrote the post the person who wrote it would, and I'm sure they felt bad seeing it held up like that.
I deleted the post and apologized to them here:
Jason Lefkowitz (@[email protected])
I owe @[email protected] an apology. They were the author of the post I screenshotted earlier today about getting advice on Linux. I didn't mean to pick on them personally, I was trying to make a more general point. So I obscured their username to keep people from brigading them. I thought that would be enough to keep it from being personal, but it wasn't. The post blew up, and eventually of course they saw it. Which must have felt miserable, even if they weren't directly identified. That wasn't my intent, but intent doesn't really matter. What matters is results, and I made someone's day worse today. That sucks. I'm sorry.
vmst·io (vmst.io)
An apology is never enough by itself, of course, but hopefully it's something.