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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I never thought I’d be this upset to a point I’d be writing an article about something this sensitive with a clickbait-y title. It’s simultaneously demotivating, unproductive, and infuriating. I’m here writing this post fully knowing that I could have been working on accessibility in GNOME, but really, I’m so tired of having my mood ruined because of privileged people spending at most 5 minutes to write erroneous posts and then pretending to be oblivious when confronted while it takes us 5 months of unpaid work to get a quarter of recognition, let alone acknowledgment, without accounting for the time “wasted” addressing these accusations.

I beg you, please keep writing banger posts like fireborn’s I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back series and their interluding post. We need more people with disabilities to keep reminding developers that you exist and your conditions and disabilities are a spectrum and not absolute.

TheEvilSkeleton is a pretty big GNOME developer whom I'm pretty sure I've bumped into before.

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[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The measurement of success isn't the hours put into it. I will continue to bash Gnome because no matter how much hours the devs put and no matter how much they believe they know better, their products sucks all kinds of balls, and that kind of it. I don't have any underlying agenda or double meaning behind it. The product is shit. You made a lot of effort and put a lot of labour in it. This, unfortunately, means you put a lot of labour into shit.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Congrats, you know how to dislike something and blame others for your dislike! You're on your way to True Narcissism! 💫

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Remember kids, if someone doesn't like the shit you like, it's actually because they're narcissistic actually.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

it's not the dislike, it's that you frame it as though your distaste were the truth, as opposed to framing it as an opinion.

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