When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

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Who put the gun to your head and made you run the software though?

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The response to this here is absolutely wild. I guess I should expect my machine to get wiped any moment

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Whenever you choose to run a program that has full access to parts of your PC that may cause issues, you are the person who chose to do so.

Just run apps in a sandbox if you don’t want to risk having to reinstall your OS in a worst case scenario.

The developer owes you nothing.

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Legal obligations that I grasped at age 9 don’t really interest me to talk about. It’s pretty obvious I understand them. What I was trying to talk about was what reasonable people should do. But apparently that’s offensive to many ITT as most responses are condescending af

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