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Episode: 1033
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Title: HPR1033: Go RTFM
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1033/hpr1033.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 17:42:21
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Hello all my name is apparently shale and I had a thought occurred to me today and this
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will be my first hpr episode because when I did one with the 1000 and 24th episode
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it did not count so this is a response to 5150 and so I'm doing one. I wanted to talk
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about as you read from the title go rtfm and if anybody who does not know rtfm means
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go read means read the fucking manner and I love new users and I understand they need
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help. I really do. I was a new user so was most of us who consider of our self at least
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a steady user if not in advance to at least someone who can help another person who's just
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starting and I come to think about it I get frustrated with users in my work profession
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I'm going to be it but the more I think about I can never get upset with them anymore.
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They're never going to learn they don't want to learn teaching them is no point. There's
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two other users who frustrate me the most. The ones who know what they're doing but don't
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learn I have not met in the Linux world but at jobs I have seen them. Those are the ones
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I can't be frustrated with the most either even though it's annoying I know that they're
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not going to change. The most annoying users are the ones who say they want to learn but
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instead they always ask for help. Now help there's no shame in asking for help. The problem
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with this is I've noticed some users who will ask for help they'll get it but they won't
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learn they'll ask questions they'll keep asking questions. I started in Linux and I had
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someone help me but he didn't help me all the time and he didn't go tell me to RTFM but he
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knew I wanted to learn it so there's no reason for him to say it. I looked it up if I had a
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problem running at the time was a bunch of 9.10 I would go to a form and I would Google it I would
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see the problem and yes I did what some say don't do but no one warned me at the time
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paste random code in and get it to work and I've had people tell me it's like what does this
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mean like why don't you just give me this straight up fact that fixes it and you don't tell
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me what it means although I understand the frustration with this this is the perfect time
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for you to learn what it is at the time it was at get update or upgrade and I would just
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piece by piece take it apart and learn what the packages were maybe I didn't read the manual
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might not the full manual but I read enough to know what it did and what effect it had on the
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system but there have been times where I've asked for help and admittedly I should have just read
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the manual at first and that would have saved them time and me time I just think we don't need to
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pee in people's way and these users are so I want to say I'm a little nervous I'm sorry I don't
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know why I had to break that in but it just it calms me down but now but those types of users
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are just they're not good because the old adage is give a man a fish who live for a day
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teach a man to fish he will live for a lifetime and it's so true for anything and I want those
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users to actually learn to fish with the basis of what the people help them but slowly go out
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from there if they're running a mint system go learn what it took to make a mint system like
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not hardcore coding but where did mint come from it's a derivative of Ubuntu where did Ubuntu
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come from it's a derivative of the day mean where did they be in come from where did they being
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get its name where did me get its name what are the reasons behind it I'm a very curious mind
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learning look it up it helps you for the users who are listening who don't want to hear RTFM
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or our kind of those people who need to branch out they're still asking for more help than
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they should they should already be branching out be curious it helps you if you read period it's
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not bad for you it improves you and I just want to say to all of y'all listening that I'm not
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going to be afraid anymore to say RTFM but I will never mean it in a bad way it's a way
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for the users growth and nothing more if I see that the question they asked is something they
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should have already looked into the begin with after talking with them for a while I will go ahead
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and tell them read the manual so I want to say to everybody have a good day and RTFM this is a paranoid
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shell you can get me at a paranoid shell at gmail.com for any questions and have a good day
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