My name is Jess. I build and manage servers for both work and fun. I also occasionally make music.
“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.
Yeah, 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.
Yeah, 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.
I 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?
“Corporation Pivots to Follow the Money” I suppose.
I’m so tired of this bubble. The diminishing returns of more compute on AI started rearing its head in 2024. Can we start allocating tech to stuff that people actually want, again?
My family stayed at my house and “the TV wasn’t working,” because it doesn’t have network access and I use an Nvidia Shield instead, so they connected it to the Wi-Fi and ad overlays showed up in the menus! I’m still mad about it years later.
Luckily I dodged a bullet and it didn’t brick it or anything, and the ads went away when the internet access did. I just disconnected it from the network and manually banned the MAC address in case anyone else tries it again.
As soon as RAM isn’t more expensive than the TV.
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.