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Yes, teaching people to paste random CLI commands they don’t understand from random ass internet comments is in fact worse than no advice at all.

Just like telling someone how to fix their own home wiring is worse than no advice at all. It reinforces dangerous and bad practices that could lead to system damage or data loss. It takes one fucking typo in a CLI command, or a wrong root directory, to go from deleting one folder to wiping your entire system. People who don’t understand the commands they’re pasting, should avoid using the CLI as much as possible, completely if they can.

And resorting to insults like that is pathetic, child like behaviour, and the sign of an insecure and intellectually dishonest mind.

Upon which it instantly hardens, preventing you from shifting the parts back into alignment

Bad advice is worse than no advice.

And I help people with tech problems all the time, and I do them the common bloody courtesy of tailoring my advice to their level of tech literacy. If you’re too lazy to do that, then you shouldn’t be offering your help in the first place.

So when helping others, you prioritise how convenient it is for you to help them, rather than how effective that help will be for them ?

The whole point of the post is that because users like you only ever give answers in terms of CLI commands, novice users probably don’t even realise how many GUI options there are.

Obviously CLI is faster and more powerful, literally no one ever argued it wasn’t, but it’s also less intuitive and harder to understand than GUI interactions (there’s a reason why people on Windows tend to use the GUI options and not do everything with the CLI), and for novice users, that this meme is explicitly talking about, that ease of use and understanding is far, far more important than the benefits of CLI.

Because using a gui is easier for novices, doesn’t risk fucking up your entire system if you accidentally copy paste a troll answer from Reddit, and doesn’t require you to learn commands by heart if you want to use them repeatedly.

It’s also much easier to understand what you’re doing, if you’re doing it graphically, vs just copy pasting some cryptic command from the internet

Feels fairly obvious tbh…

Your attitude is EXACTLY what makes IT novices afraid of adopting Linux. Because they think, thanks to people like you, that using Linux requires you to be good at using the CLI. But hey, if you want to scare away new users, be my guest.

Keep reinforcing their incorrect assumptions about how hard and complicated Linux adoption is, and push them to stay on Windows. A+ job if that’s what you’re trying.

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Doesn’t matter, it’s 10 after the loop.

It’s almost certainly against cloudflares tos, and against the open source license terms for the website, so if cloudflare gets wind about you doing this, they can probably send you a cease and desist, and then cancel your contract with them.

If they’re really pissed, and you run a decently large site that regularly runs into errors, they might be able to successfully argue slander in court.

the rest of the “civilized” world was essentially keeping Germany permanently poor, living under such misery breeds a certain…psychotic world view.

Jup. There’s a very strong argument to be made that had the terms of the treaty of Versailles not been so unfair and hostile towards Germany, World War II would have never happened.

Rehabilitation and reconstruction is ALWAYS the best option for the winning side of a large war to extend to the losing side, regardless of who/how/why the war started. Heavily penalising and fucking over the loser for years and years after the war is just going to foster resentment and discontent amongst the population, and make them feel (arguably, with a degree of validity) that conquering th countries fucking them over is the only way their country will see prosperity again.

I mean the layout in terms of functions is generally standardised between PS and XBox style controllers (i.e. “back” is the right hand button, “confirm” is the lower one…) it’s just that the buttons have different symbols for those functions across PS and XBox style controllers.