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0 pointsjackdoe19d ago0 comments

I will never know.

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Zopieux19d ago· 3 in thread

I realize you're being witty for comedic effect but aren't you genuinely curious whether this was something trivial or a complex systems interaction? The few times an LLM debugged something for me, it only took 10s to ask for a summary, and I learned something new and interesting every time, even useful at times.

I don't understand not wanting to understand.

jackdoeOP19d ago

I have seriously dealt with this for 30 years, from before cups existed, and as I said I have forgotten more about lpd and cups than most people know.

You have no idea how much I don't want to understand.

I am not being witty for comedic effect.

kami2319d ago

I have this same attitude. I've been a linux user for 24 some years I don't need to know why Linux broke, just fix x and move on.

I used to spend hours debugging video card issues and other modifications I've liked to make over the years and being able to describe my ideal system admin setup I could get onto what I actually wanted to do.

Heh, thinking about it now, I broke a MBR on a Windows install as a kid and if I would have had these tools I would have been able to fix it immediately, but back then it took me using enough Linux booted off live cds to learn debugging techniques to fix the MBR. And debugging is one of my best skills.

conductr18d ago

The last 20 years or so I have a strict “no printers in the house” rule. Annoys family but an occasional trip to the fedex store is well worth avoiding all the hassle that comes with printers.

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futhey19d ago

This is the AI we were promised

netdur19d ago

That is one of best answers

dspillett19d ago

This is one of the reasons why I'm avoiding it.

I see the people around me care that little, when I see them at all as I'm effectively on remote teams most of the time (and soon to be fully on remote teams almost all of the time if I don't leave) and I don't want to be that nor do I want to be the only one, or one of the few, who gives a crap.

I know that if I continue to avoid it I'll have a fine future in the hospitality industry, with dicking around with tech as at best a hobby, but I'm hating tech work because of the everyone-is-remote business anyway so that is likely be better for my mental health. Better off skint but alive… Good luck to the rest of you.

bluerooibos19d ago

"...and I do not care."

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