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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Can I get this picture without the caption and red circle?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Don't know where it's from, found it on reddit.

    Try searching for it through images.google.com or the text in the image.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Gotta say, arch wiki was great for learning this stuff

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Don't use sudo to run this command, but do so if it doesn't work. Using sudo may break your system.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    The sudo thing should really be explained like "if you want this implemented system wide, run it with sudo, if not, don't use it".

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Don't tighten it tight

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    English is slightly ambiguous here. As tighten has 2 meanings. Turning a screw clockwise is to tighten it, as opposed to loosen it anticlockwise. But it's quite loose. Finally, to make it tight and secure, you tighten it with one last turn.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Shouldn't "screw in the screw" be used instead of "tighten the screw" when you're just inserting it fully but not tightening it?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Makes sense. You should design furniture manuals for IKEA.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    I'm actually fairly good with writing tutorials... or so I've been told.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago
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    [–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    “Just follow the build instructions on GitHub”

    1000 error messages ensue.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

    Then do some digging and find that the GitHub instructions omitted some particular dependency, make a mental note to contribute a PR to the documentation later once you've got it working, get it working, promptly forget contributing that documentation, move distro later, try to reinstall the same program, make the same mistake, same discovery, learn nothing, repeat ad nauseam.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

    Last commit 8 years ago "Updated for Linux 4.5"

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    I'm trying to learn Houdini. I thought, "Oh, I'll just download a template and see how it should look."

    Even already-made templates are apparently out-of-my-depth.

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

    That’s your own darn fault. You were supposed to know the 0.0.1 version was GA instead of assuming 0.0.3-alpha was stable. You would have known if you read the 2000 line README. On the second dependency there is no README though, so just use the latest and hope it’s still compatible.

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