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> that’s the first problem you should fix.

But you see how this is a battle against stupid people? I also had checkboxes before for other issues, people still blindly check them.

There is no winning. If people insist that they’re right and that I’m rude for closing the 25th issue that, ahem, reading 5 words would have avoided, I just block them and move forward.

> seeing every little comment as a personal attack

I’m patient when people open duplicate issues because they couldn’t find them, but this is different.

Imagine you’re talking to someone in person and you tell them “please don’t eat the cake” straight to their face, 4 times on the way to the kitchen. Then 5 minutes later they yell at me asking why the cake tastes like cardboard and glue.

Is that not completely disrespectful? I very much doubt you’ll think of them highly after that accident, unless they’re 5 year olds.

> in which way you see the people in this issue being assholes, particularly before the maintainer arrived and closed the issue without even beginning to understand the request?

I was talking about my own experience. As for him, it’s clear that he did understand the issue and he did not agree that it should be part of the player, for several reasons he then went on to explain.

I also get why one would want a player to also be able to cast videos, but then his suggestion to just use libmpv in a caster app made complete sense.



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