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    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    The way these tools are designed, typically unless something goes wrong you need to understand basically none of it. And if something goes wrong, the resulting error messages normally at least give you something to search for in order to understand more

    [–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yesterday I installed a program to run windows games. The installation through the terminal spat out ten different types of “Error reading the jupitos bus” type messages that I simply could not parse, but they sounded grim and serious.

    But it ran just fine afterwards so those messages couldn’t have been that important?

    [–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

    Error severity depends on whether you've mounted the bus. You wouldn't want to go to Jupiter by accident

    [–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

    in wine there are many partially implemented/stubs, which generate warning messages but usually work fine

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    the resulting error messages normally at least give you something to search for

    lp0 on fire

    And:

    #include <errno.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main (void) {
        errno=ENOANO;
        perror("");
        return 0;
    }
    

    Yields:

    $ ./a.out 
    No anode
    $