On Sat, 2025-11-29 at 00:07 -0500, bruce wrote: > and thus we have "knowledge"!! > > unless you're really your "own" expert, how do you know to trust > anyone on the 'net, or in person for the most part!! > > it's a tough task to handle!
I think the problem is lack of critical thought. I'm always sceptical of what people tell me. I know some of them are idiots. I seek ways to verify what I've heard, and disprove crap. Plenty of people are not sceptical. Or sceptical of expert knowledge and stupid followers of charismatic speakers & conspiracy theories. And grasp at the first thing *they* can believe, even when its nonsense. Some people are just not capable of rational thought. And thus we have the citizens of the United ...... It doesn't help that many of us have had teachers who just ruled with an iron rod of "I am right, and don't you dare question me" (even when they're wrong). It's that kind of thing that undermined faith in educational systems, discouraged actually doing any kind of research, or critiquing things simply presented to you. (* Research does not mean listening to idiots.) And you have leaders with a similar attitude of they'll do what they like and attack unlike minds on personal levels, rather than intelligently deal with the issues. Leading to the ludicrous thing we first heard of several years ago: "alternative facts" It's a bit like balanced reporting. It doesn't mean giving equal time to both sides (the sensible and stupid), it means looking at the notions and the questions, and usually reaching a conclusion rather than leaving it completely open-ended. But going back to the original post... beware of solutions on forums. I remember when Ubuntu came out, windows refugees flocked to it. You could see their forums had the blind leading the blind with silly solutions to things. Ubuntu forums were often referred to by search engine results, even for unrelated distros. And I can see that getting worse, these days, with many search results promoting forums above distro documentation or individual websites. They seem to value massed activity is a (much too) significant ranking. There's some vain hope that mistakes get corrected on such things, but that's not always the case, or might be five pages away from the bit that you read. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
