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Legally Zoé@boxy I like that the reply to "I'm not a computer nerd" starts with "if you have git"
Magic 8-ball, do they have git?
Answer: Not Bloody Likely
vyivel@boxy that is definitely an issue
Dushman
Malle Yeno🦝(🌕 edition!!)@boxy to be fair, if the first answer is "if you have git", then that signals to me that they aren't using Releases in GitHub to put out archived builds. Assuming it's a product meant for end users, why is version control software a prerequisite?
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Barktic Fox 
@boxy literally the quick-start guide to every single “easy to use” web development tool these days. God, just give me DHTML and server-side includes back at this rate.
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an interesting bean 
@boxy if you don’t have git, you should definitely run
Not a Spring Onion
cheetah_spottycat@boxy Just join the discord server, answer the captcha bot, do the role self-assignment, send a DM to a moderator, and then look for the link that was posted in the "misc" board some time in mid-2018, that post is still being updated.
jstm@sos:~$ 
@boxy that's a good one
oceaniceternity@boxy five weeks and ten wiki pages later, another computer nerd was born.
Ⓐvebury Rosetta 
🍉🏴🚩@boxy We have releases pages for this exact reason!
Tetra@boxy Idk what’s causing it but Akkoma’s media proxy does not like this image
Avery@boxy why would they not simply point this tolly500 fellow to the download button that gh has specifically for downloading things without installing git. what is happening in their brain.
Luna Lactea@shitpostalotl @boxy The project probably does not have any releases.
@jackemled @boxy there is a button to download all the files as a zip it's an option presented as an alternative to cloning the repo and also would do exactly what the guy wants
@shitpostalotl @boxy You also still have to find a way to build that into a usable application. This is probably what they're having a problem with, they can't do that because they don't know how to & they don't even know what to look up to figure that out because they're inexperienced with computer stuff.
@shitpostalotl @boxy I'm not here to argue, so I'm not going to continue after this. The subject line says "im not a computer nerd", anyone who isn't a computer nerd would call an application package "the files". Not everyone knows terminology, not everyone knows computer stuff. Not every user knows how to run git or build an app from source files.
I remember being that user. Every time I make a project, regardless of if it's just a tiny macro, I build an executable just incase I need to share it or just incase I hit my head & go back to being that user. I want that user to be able to plug & play my software without having to download five command line tools & learn to use them first.
Jorkin MahJongus@boxy how do I get git
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