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    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 162 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Don't be elitist. You were a noob once, and someone helped you along the way.

    The more people who leave corporate platforms, the better. Punch up, not down.

    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    someone helped you

    New to the FOSS community, eh? πŸ˜‰

    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    Been here since Fedora Core 5.

    The FOSS community is awesome, if you hang out on the right IRCs.

    [–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

    The people who voulenteer in the irc chats of the Linux mint help I talked with were so chill and helpful

    [–] chainysawrs@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

    Sometimes you just need to be told to β€œread the manual”

    [–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    The meme is poking fun at elitism.

    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

    Ah, ok. I'm a bit neurodivergent, so I sometimes miss the tone of memes.

    Last sentence shows you're the real hero.

    [–] chunes@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    If by "someone" you mean man.

    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I can name 2 women right off the top of my head who helped me greatly early in my venture into FOSS.

    One is an Ubuntu MOTU on the forums, and the other helps organize the Ohio Linuxfest.

    [–] chunes@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
    [–] Geodad@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

    That bit of context was missing from your comment. It probably would have savwd you a few downvotes if you had included it to begin with.

    You already had a few when I saw the comment.

    Yeah, the man pages, various forums and LUGs.