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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    but at the end it is possible to solve any and all problems linux, and troubleshooting difficult cryptic errors successfully makes you feel like a very smart god

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Until you forget what you've done and face the same issue again.

    Eh, not a god. But the solution is somewhere there...

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

    Omnipotent, just not omniscient.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Sometimes it takes way too long though. I had a display issue that made many of my tiny Linux boxes stop working and it took me almost a month to figure out the issue. I had to revert to an older kernal to fix them all. They just randomly stopped working one day lol. Makes me not want to accept updates so that's not great

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    always take a backup with timeahift before updating

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    For a given definition of 'any'. For a while, the solution to my problem would have been to contribute code to PulseAudio and/or ALSA, which was (and still is) beyond what I could reasonably do.