Y'know maybe it's a lost art but I still find man to work just fine. Personally I don't trust an AI within a mile of my system. Sounds like a surefire way to break it worse. There is a reason I left Windows, after all

One of my dumbass friends kept telling me to use Claude

I messaged him asking about an issue I was having with my Linux machine.

He copy-pasted my question into Claude, and returned the output to me.

The first step in Claude’s “solution” was to input a terminal command that was clearly half Linux syntax and half Windows syntax (meaning this command would not work on either Linux or Windows).

That’s when I became certain that LLMs were tech for morons, and stopped using it.

AI is not good for teaching you anything. It might make you feel like you’re learning/knowledgeable, but you’re not, you’re just leaning on the LLM and hoping it doesn’t fuck up.

You are not learning to swim, you are wearing a poorly designed life preserver that doesn’t always float.

Edit to add: If you’re dissatisfied with the new slopified Google you should check out a real search engine instead of forfeiting your agency to the chatbot.

I use SearXNG, and I usually find the explanation for my error code in one of the first 3 links (and it’s fully written by a human). You can tune it to your liking, and it doesn’t steal you’re data. There’s no ads. It’s like a real search engine used to be when those existed.

I have my own self-hosted instance of it, so my queries never leave my house (unless i query from my phone, in which case the query goes back to my house and then stays there).

There are solutions to your issue that don’t involve conceding full control of human knowledge and the concept of truth to the billionaire’s slop bots.

Sounds like a skill issue to me. Look at what caused the error and learn from it, don’t put it in a slop grinder and get the ready solution. If you want hand holding you’ll be using a distro that will not cause you those issues, if you’re not, you have to accept that you gotta put work in

Are we so forgetful that we've forgotten a time when we could think and want to find or understand something without having a predictive text algorithm chew up the entire internet, combining the useful stuff with horse piss and dog shit, and then splitting it in our mouths?

People have learned and understood Linux better than either of us have been doing so since the 90's without outsourcing their troubleshooting and reading capabilities.