Oh hunny.

I’m sure there’s lots of things that don’t make sense to you.

Would you like me to simplify it for you, to make it easier for you understand, as it seems you’re one of the people who can’t control their drug use and may have actually fried their (already tiny to begin with) brain?

So you would do if for free?

Because you said you do that for a living. Meaning people pay you for the time you work on these things.

Have you any idea how costly that time is to your employer? That’s rhetorical, ofc you don’t.

Would you do go to work if it didn’t cover your rent?

You have admitted it does take some work. It doesn’t just happen, right.

So what is it you’re trying to say?

If he had your skills, he’d work for free? You would do the amount of work required, for free?

You’re just an arrogant dick who didn’t read the thread and said stupid shit. Simple as that.

Oh no, you’re just not reading the thread properly and going along with that other fool.

How about you actually read the thread instead of leaving snarky comments.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Oh they were, yes, you’re 100% correct.

This thread is about how people aren’t willing to cover the costs when labour is included.

Then you comment with “if he had more technical acumen, he wouldn’t need to do [the labour that people are unwilling to pay for]”.

If he doesn’t know how and doesn’t have the means to do something he shouldn’t be doing it. End of story.

He does know how. He’s saying he doesn’t have the means, because either he has to spend his time working full time, leaving no time for the labour people are unwilling to pay for, or people pay for the labour they’re unwilling to pay for, giving him the means, in which he will be able to do it, because he already has the knowledge.

Kinda how if someone gave me a huge plot of land, a quarry, and a billion dollars, I’d have no you’ve building a castle. But since I only know how to build one and don’t have the land, resource or time to labour a few hundred years building a castle bymeself, I’m not able to build a castle, but it’s not because I don’t know how to.

Maybe some reading comprehension or writing practice would do you good?

You’re saying he doesn’t need to do any work, that all thr work will just do itself, as long as he knows how it’s supposed to be done.

You don’t think maintaining a Mastodon instance takes any active input from the person maintaining the instance? Just knowing how to do it is enough to set up all the hardware and software required?

Sounds rather magical to me. Please explain

Haven’t had shrooms probably about since you were in diapers.

And I don’t drink liquor.

But hey, thanks for the input.

So youre saying if he just knew how to do it, he wouldn’t actually need to do it?

I know how to build a medieval castle with a moat and I’d have the technical acumen to build large sustainable hydroponic gardens there as well.

So why is it that I don’t have a castle, when I know how to build one?

Technical acumen?

You do realise things don’t happen just because you know how to do them? You still actually have to do them.

“Oh c’mon man, it’s your hobby, right You’d do it anyway?”

Also, it wasn’t exactly just leftists, but also my leftist friends who were always asking for “friend prices” when I drove them around when I drove a taxi. Like… you guys are getting special service, and I’m your friend, you get to skip the hour of waiting and fighting other drunks in the taxi queue.

It also would’ve been different if there was the chances of favours in return.

So like people who could actually help with the labour or in something other way put in work, maybe they’d be okay with just covering the hosting costs, but modding a community isn’t exactly the same work as maintaining the soft- and hardware. Alone, I presume.

And also is the “hosting costs” just like the costs of the services for the hosting, or does it incorporate all the cost for electricity to run the equipment as well?

Is it lack of empathy or greed? I never really could figure that out. Feels like a bit of both.

I have like a huge pile of letters from some twat lawyers sending threatening letters about copyright.

The sad thing is most people I asked say “I would pay”. This was like more than 10 years ago when I first got some of them.

The Pirate Party in Finland tried informing people of them being just threats, but Finns are really complicit people and afraid of breaking any rules, so I’m sure these twat lawyers made thousand, tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands. With Finland’s tiny 5m population.

https://holda.fi/kiristyskirje/

Basically what happens is some company in Germany which owns the rights to some B-class show or just a porn film even, then they upload it to an open torrent site. Wait for people to download it (remember the didn’t give permission to download it), look at the IP’s, then send the respective country in EU a request for the ISP to get that IP owner’s information and then hire a local lawyer to send them a threatening letter; “you’ve illegally downloaded a porn movie, pay us 800€ or we’ll take you to court and you’ll have to pay tens of thousands.”

And if that goes to someone married or someone who downloaded fetish porn or something, they’ll be even more likely to pay.

I never replied or did jack shit. Nothing has happened.

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Like, say, if esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie was on social media, it’d be utterly brilliant to choose to be on Lemmy, as no-one would believe it even if she went by her real name.

Personally I would find that highly amusing, a testament to having the soul of a true thespian.

One of the mods over there is a Russian who refuses to answer whether he’s pro-Russian or not, says Russian propaganda doesn’t exist, pretends to be American while intensely engaging in American threads, denies Uighur genocide, etc etc etc.

https://lemmy.world/u/davel@lemmy.ml

https://lemmygrad.ml/u/davel

He has some older account where there was Russian being used but I think he may have deleted it or I just can’t be arsed to look enough rn.

Anyway, one of the clearest pro-Russian trolls I’ve seen. Lemmy.ml is full of them, I don’t know why lemmy.world federates with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September#/media/File:Internet_is_Full_-_Go_Away_t-shirt.jpg

Oh, that’s a throwback. The internet and “nerd culture” used to be somewhat more exclusionary now that I reminisce a bit.