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Steam Controller and Puck CAD files now available!
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They release CAD files for DIYing "sweaters", tell you you can do with it whatever you want, and then tell you they "strongly recommend" hiring someone else to do it for you in the next sentence, and you don't think that's mixed messaging?
Would you say the same if Framework told you they "highly recommend" hiring a professional to swap your SSD?
"Your house and electrical wiring is yours, and you have the right to do with it what you want. That said, we highly recommend you leave it to professionals."
This is not mixed messaging, this is just advice. Mixed messaging would be something along the lines of: "Your house and electrical wiring is yours, and you have the right to do with it what you want. That said, you are not allowed to do what you want." Mixed messaging colloquially means contradictory statements.
Your house is not delivered with documentation for the wiring. Further, fucking up the wiring in your house can literally kill you, so no, this is not an apt analogy.
No, that's a contradiction. "Mixed" is exactly what it sounds like. The messaging is unclear.
My house did. With diagrams and photos. Very useful.
You're grossly overestimating the competency of the general public
The competency of the general public is not relevant.
You are entitled to your own opinions but we advise you leave it to the professionals.
I didn't expect changing an SSD to be such a technical task for you.... I mourn your lego-less youth.
I have no idea where you got the idea that that would be "such a technical task" for me. Nor why you think I had a "lego-less youth". I'm >35 y/o and have been repairing computers since I was 15.
Then the warning obviously isn't directed at you, chill out. It's for everyone who does need to be told that tinkering with the electronics in the controller can break it if they don't know what they're doing.
"Welcome to your new linux system. You can delete or modify anything you want in the root directory, but we recommend leaving that to someone who knows what they're doing."
It's not a mixed message.
Once again, I didn't think it was.
Anyone dumb enough to need to be told this would pay it no heed.
No Linux distributor in their right mind would tell you anything like that. They would tell you to learn.
It very much is.
Then why are you so butthurt about it?
What did I say that you interpreted as being "butthurt"? Why are you fabricating lies about my technical proficiency, my age, and my emotional state?
I never said anything about your age or your technical proficiency, so you're the one fabricating lies if you really wanna suggest that.
As for your emotional state, I asked why you're being butthurt because you're being butthurt.
Thank you for refusing to answer my question and confirming you were making shit up for no reason.
It's okay, keep acting like a petulant child. There there.