Incredibly niche situations like that are the best tech help posts, because you could be a lifesaver to someone who finds themselves in that exact trouble again one day.
see, I’m not a tech or even a linux newbie, but I don’t often find myself in especially weird/niche situations. I also don’t like spending days/weeks trying to dig through decades of forum posts looking for the one other person ever to have a problem sort of similar to mine twelve years ago and then to try interpolating their solution from another distro to mine while being unaware of possibly hundreds of variables which might make a difference, leading me down a month-long road of trial-and-error until I come up with a maybe-solution that might work until I widdle it down to something that actually resembles what I want. I know that I don’t like this because I’ve spent decades wasting time going through this many times before. I suspect many people have.
no. I’ll ask claud to do all that process for me in 5 seconds and spit out a solution that works now, and I don’t feel bad for using Claude for that, especially if it actually teaches me all of the process while it’s at it.
Incredibly niche situations like that are the best tech help posts, because you could be a lifesaver to someone who finds themselves in that exact trouble again one day.
see, I’m not a tech or even a linux newbie, but I don’t often find myself in especially weird/niche situations. I also don’t like spending days/weeks trying to dig through decades of forum posts looking for the one other person ever to have a problem sort of similar to mine twelve years ago and then to try interpolating their solution from another distro to mine while being unaware of possibly hundreds of variables which might make a difference, leading me down a month-long road of trial-and-error until I come up with a maybe-solution that might work until I widdle it down to something that actually resembles what I want. I know that I don’t like this because I’ve spent decades wasting time going through this many times before. I suspect many people have.
no. I’ll ask claud to do all that process for me in 5 seconds and spit out a solution that works now, and I don’t feel bad for using Claude for that, especially if it actually teaches me all of the process while it’s at it.