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don't do ai and code kids (quokk.au)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I legitimately did this unprompted the first time I installed Linux on a computer when I was in my late teens.

I fully believed that /bin/ was actually just a bin. I didn't know it stood for binary or whatever