Yeah, that’s what I meant by “the manual”. Though I suppose the Linux community is the most likely to be flipping through a physical book to figure out their bash script.
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“RTFM” (or similar comments like “it’s in the docs”) are just mean and useless without a reference.
Like, okay, superior user in the internet: If it’s in the manual/docs, what page? Do you have a link? Could you quote the relevant section?
Often people ask because they couldn’t find the answer in the docs. Simply pointing them at the answer is infinitely better than “lol the answer is in there somewhere”
See also: “Let me Google that for you…” Like mf Google brought me to this thread!
I can’t count the number of times I swear I read every man page and I can’t figure out how to structure my arguments–especially when they are nested or conditional.
I especially wish more man pages had common examples. Sometimes an example can say more than a paragraph of explanation.
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Mastodon@lemmy.ml•A Redesign for ProfilesEnglish
1·22 days agoNice! These are all great changes… especially the new profile edit consolidation.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀English
61·23 days agoYeah, it’s frustrating on both ends.
Readers and viewers of art are increasingly skeptical because of all the intentionally deceptive content flooding the zone.
Meanwhile, the humans actually making new things get drowned out by the slop and accused of using AI when they finally do surface.
They created BS machines that made everyone more distrustful of real human experience.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀English
10·23 days agoYeah, it sucks because I kind of like emojis, but now I feel like I can’t use them because people will think my docs are AI generated.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀English
31·23 days agoI can already collect and organize bookmarks very easily in every browser. Other than a prettier UI, I’m not sure how this is functionally different. Am I missing something?
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Linux@programming.dev•Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V BoardEnglish
2·28 days ago2027 = The Year of the RISC-V Desktop?
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Linux@programming.dev•Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to LinuxEnglish
93·29 days agoI see a lot of people freaking out about this, but adding this as an optional field was the right call.
This way, distros can choose for themselves whether or not they want to use it during account creation.
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Linux@lemmy.world•Systemd preparing to comply with age verification lawsEnglish
19·1 month agoWhipper snappers… my birthday on Steam is Jan 1st, 1900.
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Linux@lemmy.world•Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law BacklashEnglish
1·1 month agoTo be clear, I still think the law is dumb and poorly thought-out, but not because it increases surveillance or compromises privacy. It’s just so ridiculously broad and completely ignores the fact that majority of internet queries are server-to-server and aren’t even seen by any user.
What I really don’t get is why there’s no specification of content sensitivity. Isn’t that the entire point of this? Like if the software never accesses any age-restricted data, then it should be categorically excluded from this requirement.
It really feels like the writers of this law never considered the fact that “software” means anything beyond apps from iOS or Android.
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Linux@lemmy.world•Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law BacklashEnglish
617·1 month agoYeah this is a way better alternative and no more invasive than a “I’m over 18” checkbox, it’s just done once on a OS user account rather than on every site.
I think all the age verification bullshit happening elsewhere is making people jump to angry conclusions rather than actually read the law.
EDIT: JFC the straw man arguments on this one are insane. I feel like people are intentionally misunderstanding how this functionality works because they’ve decided to be mad about it in advance.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Tastes like enshittification.English
2·2 months agoYeah, I only didn’t mention this because it’s theoretically possible for Tailscale to discontinue support for that and break compatibility in the clients if they decided they want you using their stuff.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Tastes like enshittification.English
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026)English
15·2 months agoIt’s no secret to regular readers of this newsletter that I’m still an
avidPlex user. Despite the numerous privacy concerns, price increases, and recent (confusing) primary domain redirect from plex.tv to watch.plex.tv, I still find the transition to Jellyfin a hard sell given its fragmentation and smattering of third-party clients that are all good* but not really great (oh, and hello to the Lemmy readers who always roast me for this take)*.Alright, I’ll spare you then. <3
This is a seriously cool plugin though, and I legitimately loved Plexamp. Plex’s decent really sucks for this community.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•The extremely mature and rational reason that I decided to try DebianEnglish
5·3 months agoWe are the swarm.
I honestly don’t know where people are getting these Wayland issues. I’m on EndeavorOS with an RTX 3080ti and multiple monitors and it has worked flawlessly for ~2 years now.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•[OC] But they were, all of them, deceivedEnglish
31·3 months agoThank you, kernel level anti-cheat, for breaking my toxic addiction to LoL.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Social gatherings have been... different since I switched.English
91·3 months agoMy displays are even more stable than Windows now. Wayland allows me to throw around applications to different workspaces and monitors that would have literally crashed if I ALT-TABed on Windows.


High Resolution Timers aren’t even the most controversial HRT.