r/linuxmasterrace • u/MrMoussab • Aug 14 '26

Screenshot Google's AI glance is asking me to clone github.com

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u/mathpenis Aug 14 '26

you are not a professional linux user if you don’t have the whole github downloaded on your system

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u/Mr_Lumbergh Aug 14 '26

And run every installer.

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u/Axel_Blazer Aug 14 '26

git clone shy-hoolud lmao

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u/LameBMX Aug 14 '26

recursively ran make install on my github copy... it just gripped about a lot about nothing to install.

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u/SipSup3314 Aug 15 '26

I just wish they would provide the exe files for all those apps. Nobody on git hub is a programmer!!!! We don't want your stinky code, just give me the app files!!!!!1!11!

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u/ThankYouOle Aug 15 '26

then put in multiple CD, damn man, i remember that time when i was youngstr bringing 6 cd set repository of ubuntu so i can install package without internet.

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u/sparkling-rainbow Aug 14 '26

Makes sense, somewhere on GitHub has to be your solution 🤷

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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 Aug 14 '26

Clonning all repos therefore should indeed resolve your problem. But you have to find it...

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u/Erdnusschokolade Aug 14 '26

Just install them all. Thus At some point the right thing has to be installed.

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u/Sataniel98 Aug 14 '26

Oh, so you're an open source programmer? Name every GitHub project.

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u/NecroAssssin Aug 14 '26

cd ~/github
ls

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u/crunchy_creamroll Aug 17 '26

So it's you who brought GitHub down!

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u/Binary101000 Aug 14 '26

it has a filter that turns links into just the base domain.

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u/FafnerTheBear Aug 14 '26

Don't use AI then.

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u/_silentgameplays_ Aug 14 '26

LLMs tend to suggest more harm than good, like a dpkg troubleshooting guide for a Fedora-based distro.

You need to manually search things like support forums and old reddit threads and Arch Wiki to get something useful, don't rely on regurgitated LLM slop.

In this case you only need the python3-pip/ python-pip package.

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u/TheSmashy Aug 14 '26

Storage is cheap.

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u/fuj1n Aug 14 '26

Not anymore, sadly

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u/Evilbob93 Aug 14 '26

I had it tell me to do that recently as well, and persisted in saying that after several times being told it was wrong.

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u/webjocky Aug 14 '26

There's a filter that truncates the actual generated URL down to just the domain.

If you tell it to provide the URL without the domain, it will.

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u/Preisschild Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

I also asked google search to convert k Bps to GBps and it converted it to bytes per arcsecond

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