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I have been trying Linux for a year now. I know my way around the system, but I still feel like I rely way too much on AI when I don't know what to do

​There is a growing fear inside me that I will never truly know how to do stuff without asking AI, and that makes me feel like a fraud

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[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Find is easy. Off the dome: The search dir comes first which is whack. Then you want single dashes for the long options. Type is like f,d, or l? depth is what it says on the tin. Then regexes for the pattern and you're good?

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My eyes blurred reading this comment and I continue to not know find. And I will never know find till my last breath. You cant make me know it

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Growth comrade.

A fascist hacked out an awk script to parse files today, did you?

[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah? Well while you were out partying with find and awk I studied the xrandr, i was moulded by iptables, born with ffmpeg. I am the one true knower of the xorg codebase