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Solid advice (lemmy.world)
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[–] onlinepersona 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "RTFM" linux users.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And then the man page is just a verbose unformatted paragraph written in 2007 by some guy on a lethal dose of ritalin

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

"The source code is the real manual" 🧘

The source code: 🍝

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a lethal dose of ritalin

How much is that though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not enough to cure him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Varies from person to person.

A few hundred 10mg pills for lunch will probably cause irreversible heart damage at the very least.

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

I've always found it's easier to use Stack Overflow or Google than a man page.