• TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee
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          6 days ago

          This is learned helplessness. Especially for someone who took the time to go waste time on Lemmy in stead of Reddit, you could have learned it in the time it took to complain about it taking effort.

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            5 days ago

            This is learned not-wasting-my-timeness. And no, I couldn’t. I have tried, several times. I don’t waste my time anymore.

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              5 days ago

              Have some faith in yourself. You’re not an idiot. Find a friend to show you or smth. I’m not a terminal advocate, I avoid it as much as possible, but in a thread about corporations and scammers relying on user ignorance, this behavior is defeatist.

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                5 days ago

                I’m not an idiot. As I’ve already said, I just don’t have the time. LOL @ the idea of any of my friends even knowing what a command line is, much less knowing how to use it any better than I do. You people live in this bubble where you think everyone on the planet is a software engineer. This is not reality.

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            5 days ago

            No, but they are repeatedly insisting that I use certain other tools that require specialty knowledge that I don’t possess.

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              5 days ago

              No one has suggested tools that require specialty knowledge.

              You just haven’t tried and keep placing arbitrary obstacles in front of yourself.

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                5 days ago

                No one has suggested tools that require specialty knowledge.

                Yes, they are.

                You just haven’t tried

                Please just read the comments before you start replying.

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                  5 days ago

                  I read through your comments. I’ve also used ffmpeg.

                  You say you don’t have time but it takes less time than you’ve spent arguing.

                  This isn’t other people’s problem, this is your learned helplessness as much as you refuse to admit it.