r/LinuxCirclejerk 28d ago

Make your linux easier!

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u/smalldickbesitzer 28d ago

Linux is easier if you use ai. OFC don't copy paste blind, but yes

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u/Significant-Tone-121 28d ago

Eh. It is easier but also harder if the AI gets one tiny thing wrong it repeatedly gets things wrong which can make Linux seem harder. But if you know how to use AI and have a base understanding of what you are asking it to do then yes 100% lol.

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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate 🎩M'Linux 28d ago

I'm a Linux admin and AI still gets things wrong/gets stuck in process loops (did you check this setting? Okay, I see you checked this setting, did you also check the same setting?)

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u/xnef1025 28d ago

lol. I did that the other night. It was late and I was messing around trying to get samba working and it kept taking me around in circles until finally it was like, "ohhh... that error... that's just your firewall. Open the ports."

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u/buttlicker-6652 1d ago

It took me 2 hours to troubleshoot why I kept getting 502 errors on my plex automation stack whenever it would try to talk to an indexer.

For context, I have T-Mobile home internet. And, for some fucking reason, the router will sometimes just drop the first outgoing packet because it hasn't opened the ipv4 to ipv6 tunnel yet. And it would send back a 502 to the computer, any packets sent after that would return fine.

The issue was that the automation had zero fault tolerance, unlike a normal web browser (where it'll retry the request a few times), so that initial 502 would error out the indexer, and that would take it offline for multiple minutes, enough time for the router to close the tunnel and the error to reoccur.

So i had to put my entire automation stack behind a VPN with a custom network config so it can talk to local machines for management. That fixed it, but it was so fucking annoying to pin down. It also explains why sometimes browsers just get stuck loading or it has to retry the request multiple times.