Overselling myself?

[elfs]

Is it overselling myself to tell the customer service drone, "Look, when a guy who helped write the Linux kernel can't figure out what's wrong with his Linux-based Android phone, something is wrong with the phone?"

I mean, in the very long list of Linux contributors, my contribution is five lines of support code for the joystick driver, lines I know aren't in the Android phone (because there's no "Microsoft Sidewinder Flight Joystick gameport version without Force Feedback" for it) But that counts, doesn't it?

Comments

[solarbird]

Good; I rather imagine that you wouldn't pull the shit I'm talking about, either. But I have had to do that to get people - IT people, support people - to stop mansplaining things - incorrectly! - to me. And I know I'm not alone in that. So, I guess my point is, sometimes you might get that from people who are used to having to throw down that shit just in order to be actually heard and/or taken seriously.