The first step to solving any problem that takes cooperation to solve is raising awareness. A single report from a person here and there is not that.

I think you’re more hung up up on analyzing the psychology of those trying to raise that awareness. You may not be reading them accurately, but even if you are I don’t see that mattering very much. It’s not your call what is mentally healthy for everyone else.

Aw poor little baby mad about Linux made a he-man Linux haters club. Sad no one will join it 😭

If literally everyone did what you recommend, that would be a feasible approach. But for various reasons that’s obviously not gonna happen. What does happen when people try that is the troll continues to shit up the community for everyone else and a few people reporting them once sometimes does next to nothing. Hence you get someone like linkerbaan or universalmonk shitting in the pool for months without consequence. If you don’t block them, you can continue to report them and/or call them out, which leads to shit actually happening.

Why don’t you post some of your weird Linux trolling outside your sad little echo chamber?

Lol you will get roasted even worse than here, is the answer. Some people have the saddest lives.

Fuck that approach. It just shields trolls and other bad actors from consequence

No

I have been using lemmy.world for over a year. I have no clue what you’re referring to, in all honesty.

Well yeah, it always depends. But in a scenario like the one described here where you’re repeatedly breaking and upgrading a tool, that sounds like a good example of that approach being more expensive 🤷‍♂️

I read that as they were saying what they wished would be how the system worked. Not how it currently does

I mean we pretty much can be certain that we’re all being surveilled to some extent all the time.

I hadn’t heard about that. Only problem with that is once you buy several cheap tools you could’ve bought the most expensive option once.

It’s a reasonable thing to think that a paranoid drug addict would be saying shit like that for the attention alone. Kinda interesting that this could be controversial imo

He was a mentally ill drug addicted criminal. Kinda obvious that’s not a reliable source of info no matter the topic.

If you saw the documentary you’d see he did a lot of weird things to get attention and everyone who worked with him or knew him seemed to agree with that assessment

And I’m saying that him acting like a lunatic and literally lying dozens of times publicly destroyed his credibility, not “the media”. The documentary does a great job of treating him fairly but most things he said ended up being baseless or false.

I find this to be true with things like store brand foods but I’ve found the majority of the time if you buy something you need durability out of, you will regret buying the cheap shit

I watched a documentary about the guy which turned out to be mostly about the bizarre lies he told. He was a fucking nutcase, devoid of reasons of ever consider believing his horseshit. And he liked fucking underage women so much he fled countries that didn’t let him do that. Insane scumbags don’t make my sympathy list but apparently you’re looking for opps to defend them so congrats

I did not. I like it :)

Yes of course it matters. If he wasn’t lying and acting like an insane criminal for a decade or so, people would be inclined to believe him.

The guy acted like people with your same thought process could magically absolve him of his crimes and lies because he made a wild claim that he would be killed. He hadn’t said a goddamned thing for years pertaining to himself that was true. He was a lunatic and a murderer (rapist too iirc?). It makes all the sense in the world he would be lying about expecting to be killed too

Probably because he was absolutely bananas

(Excuse the lil’ cat hair there, or don’t)

Resisting the urge to blow it away even though it’s a photo 😁

Interesting. In my experience WD has been shitty and SanDisk has been decent.