Sometimes I don’t feel like trying to help on forum is a good idea. When seeing somebody angry because they didn’t get the replies they expected I doubt it makes sense continuing.
Why are people hesitant to answer on uninstall questions? I don’t know for other people, but for myself there are multiple reasons:
You can have a different point of view on that. You can disagree with everything I said in above points. That is fine! As long as you don't expect me to support your point of view and assist in something I don't want.
Usually I don’t even reply on “How to uninstall?”-topics anymore. But yesterday I made the mistake and tried to defend my approach of not supporting uninstallation because of some (in my opinion) unfair accusations towards the community (whoever and whatever that might be). Exaggerated:
Talented developers spent thousands of hours building exploits and lots and lots of free software expanding the possibilities of normally locked consoles. The end result expands the possibilities of limited consoles to those of a free computer and is almost as idiot-proof as the stock software. Expecting people remotely interested in this reading up things and thinking before proceeding is obviously already expecting too much. I'm not even talking about being grateful for all of this.
Why isn’t everybody at my service? The community is so arrogant and hostile!
Why are people hesitant to answer on uninstall questions? I don’t know for other people, but for myself there are multiple reasons:
- Any messing with firmware carries risks. Doing this for no benefit (downgrading possibilities) is taking risks for nothing
- Those who want to remove stuff often didn’t read before applying softmods. This becomes apparent because they show missing knowledge. I don’t want to be the one who gave advise, which doesn’t get read correctly, ending up being “guilty of having destroyed someone else’ console”
- Even if nothing goes wrong, removing full access is wrong in my opinion. Full access to our devices should be the normal case. Copyright as general killer argument against owning our stuff is wrong. I don’t want to assist in restoring a jail
- A modded console is more resistant against certain partial hardware failures (obvious example is failed optical drive). The console might be usable for longer
- Often the reason for “back to stock” is “I want to sell the console and not disclose previous modding to the buyer.” I don’t support that kind of dishonest behavior
Usually I don’t even reply on “How to uninstall?”-topics anymore. But yesterday I made the mistake and tried to defend my approach of not supporting uninstallation because of some (in my opinion) unfair accusations towards the community (whoever and whatever that might be). Exaggerated:
- Nothing is documented properly
- The free software crashes and sucks and makes the whole system unstable
- People aren’t at my service (Maybe like a paid help desk?)
Shut up, Sinchen!
Talented developers spent thousands of hours building exploits and lots and lots of free software expanding the possibilities of normally locked consoles. The end result expands the possibilities of limited consoles to those of a free computer and is almost as idiot-proof as the stock software. Expecting people remotely interested in this reading up things and thinking before proceeding is obviously already expecting too much. I'm not even talking about being grateful for all of this.
