And somehow every single time the problem was so easy to solve, but apparently crying about it is the better solution.

    • @[email protected]
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      The good old ways. I miss them.

      Nowadays, it’s more “User Manual? You mean the Manufacturer’s Opinion?”

    • Endymion_Mallorn
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      TFM isn’t worth the R. It doesn’t describe failure states or bugs in a way that a normal user understands or can work with. Either it works perfectly, or there’s basically no way to figure out exactly what went wrong and how.

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      RTFM in this case means: Read the fucking man-page

      • /home/pineapplelover
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        Sometimes I get confused with man pages and have to go on other sites with different explanations and examples. Maybe that’s just me

        • @[email protected]
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          No, that’s the state of documentation on Linux.

          In OpenBSD, bad or lacking documentation is treated as a release-critical bug in the package.

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          The man pages would be so much less dry if they just put a few examples at the top. But nope. So I continue to curl cht.sh/tar until the heat death of the universe

          Edit: autocorrect