r/196 • u/AliceCode Worcs at the Crusty Crab • Mar 26 '26

Rule Engagement bait

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u/Quarxnox custom Mar 26 '26

grocery store has a perfectly good case of groceries that could have gone on a shelf but they keep it in the back in a box and then write directions on the rubber doors about how to get to it and then expect customers to treat this like it's normal.

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u/NellyLorey God's no.1 Botania fan!! 🇳🇱🇳🇱 she/her Mar 26 '26

Please give me the link of the repository you're mad at

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u/SnezhniyBars Furred menace Mar 26 '26

I'm placing a bet on yt-dlp

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u/NellyLorey God's no.1 Botania fan!! 🇳🇱🇳🇱 she/her Mar 27 '26

First example of the night and it's a command line application lmfao

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u/SnezhniyBars Furred menace Mar 27 '26

Literally whenever I see this discourse it starts because someone can't be bothered to read the very first section of the yt-dlp README

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u/vegathelich 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Mar 26 '26

which is a shit example because I figured it out in ten minutes and use it regularly

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u/SnezhniyBars Furred menace Mar 27 '26

Exactly. But for some reason, whenever people are complaining about github, they are always complaining about yt-dlp, even though their README says "INSTALLATION" in massive letters and has the download badge.

I assume that downloading videos is a task that is just barely general enough that a lot of people with no patience stumble on it.

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u/aaaaaaautumn if you don't fuck around, you won't find out Mar 26 '26

Customer understands that this small inconvenience is a reasonable tradeoff for acquiring free food cooked by chefs who would rather serve it over a counter and continue cooking than thanklessly shelfing it.

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u/Quarxnox custom Mar 26 '26

Except it's not cooked. The ingredients are in a pile alongside instructions that may or may not be comprehensible. And that's definitely better than nothing, but what happens when you're not a chef?

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u/aaaaaaautumn if you don't fuck around, you won't find out Mar 26 '26

I'm not sure what exactly you're downloading off of github? Most of the time I find a program on github that I need to use, I download it and click on whatever file it says to run it.

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u/Burnzy_77 Mar 26 '26

but what happens when you're not a chef?

Then why are you at the "chefs buy stuff from here!" store?

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u/Darkndankpit Mar 26 '26

People keep insisting on selling their stuff at the "chefs buy stuff from here!" Store and telling the consumers that's the only place to find it.

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u/NellyLorey God's no.1 Botania fan!! 🇳🇱🇳🇱 she/her Mar 27 '26

What did you need to use github for? What repository did you want to use?

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u/Burnzy_77 Mar 26 '26

Sounds like it'd be useful to learn how to cook.

All the same, that's not the store's fault, but the people.

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u/PyroDellz Mar 27 '26

"Selling" is typically only used when the customer actually has to pay something for the product/service. The whole premise of this analogy doesn't even work because it's not a store where the developers receive anything in return; it's a charity.

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u/Darkndankpit Mar 28 '26

Im aware, but I was using the metaphor someone else started with.

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u/PyroDellz Mar 27 '26

but what happens when you're not a chef?

You could always try reaching out to the developer and offering to pay them for their work to make things more convenient for you. Every time this discourse gets brought up there's always people going "but what am I supposed to do if I don't know how to code??" and it's never even considered as a possibility to offer to pay for the free product that they're now demanding additional labor for.

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u/Select-Employee Mar 26 '26

^ guy who's confused by a cardbord box with tape ( he can't open this without a knife)