[FFmpeg-user] A comment about this community (was: RE: sudo: ffmpeg: command not found)

[Marc Erickson]

Hey, Jim! (Waves from my downtown apartment's window at Jim)

On Sun., Nov. 1, 2020, 11:51 a.m. Jim DeLaHunt, <list+ffmpeg-user at jdlh.com>
wrote:

> On 2020-11-01 07:07, Marc Erickson wrote:
> > https://youtu.be/Q_7tuL0kbCE?t=77
> >
> > People are stupid.  Each person is stupid in their own way.  I'm
> somewhat stupid about Linux and I'm very stupid about how to make money in
> the stock market.  Other people might be smart about the stock market and
> Linux - and be stupid about music and Windows, two subjects that I know a
> lot about.
> >
> > If people get cursed for their stupidity, that usually doesn't encourage
> them to educate themselves about the matter they're stupid about.  Toxic
> replies can make people abandon the Linux community completely.  That's
> what I did the last time I was subjected to similar behaviour.
> >
> > The world needs more kindness and love, not toxicity.  It gets enough
> toxicity from us when we're short of sleep, in a bad mood, under stress,
> etc.  Please be kinder to each other.
>
> Marc:
>
> Thank you for this reminder.
>
> You asked a reasonable question. You should not have been greeted by the
> rudeness which some on this list showed to you. I'm sorry that happened
> to you.  The good-ish news is, you weren't singled out. Various people
> on this list are rude enough that lots of people get subjected to it.
>
> In the video you linked to, @JayTheLinuxGuy makes a very good
> suggestion. On a support channel, the people with knowledge should
> either provide support, or choose not to reply. But they should not
> inject rudeness.
>
> Best regards,
>      —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada
>
> >
> > All the best,
> > Marc Erickson
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-user [mailto:ffmpeg-user-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of
> Matt Zagrabelny via ffmpeg-user
> > Sent: October 29, 2020 1:02 PM
> > To: FFmpeg user questions <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org>
> > Cc: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe at d.umn.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] sudo: ffmpeg: command not found
> >
> > Reindl,
> >
> > I'm subscribed to mailing lists that you regularly post to (ffmpeg-user
> & systemd-devel).
> >
> > The manner (negative and condescending) in which you communicate isn't
> helpful to those you reply to and it isn't helpful to those who read your
> emails.
> >
> > Please reconsider how you interact with the rest of the communities you
> are a part of.
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
> > -m
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:52 PM Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Am 29.10.20 um 20:24 schrieb Carl Zwanzig:
> >>> On 10/29/2020 12:02 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >>>> * everybody is born to read "ERROR" at the end of configure
> >>> Un, no they're not, nor to understand what it means and *whether*
> >>> it's relevant.
> >> what exactly is hard to understand in teh word "error"?
> >>
> >>>> * everybody is born to realize that "Try again from the top, git
> >>>> clone a fresh working copy" is idiotic -
> >>> No they're not, and yet we're always telling people to pull the
> >>> latest and try that....Hmm, pick one.
> >> yeah, another idiotic bullshit here, not read and not understand but
> >> shout "pull the latest" while a trained monkey could realize that
> >> "--enable-gnutls" and "gnutls not found" belong together
> >>
> >> the only sane advive would have been "remobe any --enable you don't
> >> understand and in doubt replace it with --disable/--without"
> >>
> >> if you are missing something later you can always enable whatever but
> >> starting with "--enable everything" is dumb, no matter what
> >>
> >>>> * the error message was even clear
> >>> If you actually understand it.
> >> understand the word "error" is a good begin
> >>
> >>>> * using "sudo" in front of everything is idiotic and not relevant
> >>>> to ffmpeg,
> >>> Idiotic? maybe not. Unwise and unnecessary, probably.
> >> it's idiotic type "sudo" and if it#s only because you have more to
> >> type
> >>
> >>> Face it, Reindl, no one is as smart as you or has as much insight or
> >>> experience as you do and they never will. You can either be a help
> >>> people learn or you can be an ass. All of your emails suggest the
> latter.
> >>>
> >>> Heck, _you_ might even learn something in the process
> >> i learned that this world is lost
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