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Hello Linux community.

I'd like to take a moment to explain what I hope will be a simple concept (so really it's more of a reminder) that everyone should say least know and understand.

Not everyone (myself included) learns best by RTFM. Some of us need a guiding hand or to watch a video instead. It's not that we're lazy or don't like reading, it's just that it doesn't work efficiently enough.

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[–] blakemavrix@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've found LLM's to be useful as well. I wouldn't have Jellyfin running on my home server now if it wasn't for an LLM, and it was the first service I learned how to run. But an LLM has also sent me into a loop of testing out the same few prompts over and over again and expecting different results.