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When Windows users find the Threadiverse (media.piefed.world)

submitted 6 days ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/lemmyshitpost/p/1201393/when-windows-users-find-the-threadiverse

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Inevitably?

My friend, the MAJORITY of the comments will be unhelpful Linux snarks.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This wouldn’t be a problem if you used Linux.

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Instead you would have a different problem.

And someone would definitely comment that you wouldn't have that problem on their distro.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And even if you did... You can fix it yourself. And submit the fix for others.

Ignoring that 99.999% of people have no idea how to even begin to write code and believe the terminal to be "hacker mode".

[–] vandsjov@feddit.dk 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And then you have to figure out how to use git. I want to help OSS projects with translations and often run into having to submit translations through git or some other user hostile interface, using some obscure file format that I also break in the process…

Some projects do use some nice web gui and I help there, but I have enough other things going on in my life that I skip the hard to help projects.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

From what I've seen in relation to translation stuff, good projects looking for community help like that will go two ways.

They have translation files in a standard filetype that a translator can work from and just submit via an email to the devs. They will then convert that as necessary to whatever system or syntax their specific project uses.
They will have a translation guide that explains the specific syntax their system uses, with examples, so they can just drop the file in when it is submitted. Also usually submissions via email or something simple anyone can do easily. The file format itself will usually be editable in a standard text editor so any computer can open it without needing any special software.

Requiring a volunteer translator to submit something like that through git is ridiculous. It's exactly the thing a software engineer would so no issue with. The same thought process that says a direct API is all the end users need, a GUI is a waste of time and dev effort. The entire reason front end UX teams are so important.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 points 6 days ago

Sounds pretty inevitable to me.