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    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

    people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation

    Modern day internet techies will snear at you for using AI assist tools when setting up an environment. But by god, do these agents not save me endless hours of trying to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls of system configuration.

    RTFM only works when the documentation is high quality and easy to follow. Better yet, if you know the manual so well, just link me to the damned chapter I'm supposed to focus in on. I'm trying to set up an *arr stack, not become a sysadmin team lead at a Fortune 500 company.

    Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

    In fairness, a lot of those config files were relatively easy to write. I'll take that over hunting through forty different nearly-identical screens in a custom configured BIOS.

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

    You can search the ancient scrolls for an eternity or consult the all knowing shoggoth that may melt your brain or lie.

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Listen, I'm not saying Ya hai kadishtu ep r'luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh, s'uhn-ngh athg li'hee orr'e syha'h. But I get it.

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    K'yarnak li llll kadishtu, ngnah ah'lw'nafh Iiahe azathoth?

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

    More and more people in hooded robes with star-symbols on their foreheads are saying it.

    [–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago

    I've been using a local Qwen3.8 model as a NixOS sysadmin lately for a non-critical VPS. So far, it has been working surprisingly well! I guess it's easier for AI agents to gather context when the whole system and apps are defined in code, and immutable when applied.