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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Just be careful to think twice before doing what it says. (That goes for any advice from the internet too!)

    Like all the old stories of people’s GPS steering them into a lake. Let the GPS help you, but still, like, actually look at the road!

    ETA: It’s probably quite reliable at explaining what terminal commands do, since it’s drawing from many manuals. But sometimes it might completely make up the answer, in a way that’s almost right but terribly wrong. You think the command does one thing, so you use it ‘appropriately’, but really it does something else so your carefully thought out use goes completely wrong.







  • Like many have said, can you build it yourself?

    Flatpaks have their uses, and for many people they’re a great system that solves a situation well enough and with great convenience. For other situations, flatpaks are an ugly hack. I think we just have to accept that devs will not always package or tailor their software for all situations (electron apps, anyone?!), but at least in the FOSS world you can usually compile yourself if you need to.