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title: RTFM
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date: 2024-12-17
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permalink: daily/2024/12/17/rtfm
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tags:
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- software-development
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cta: ~
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Read The Friendly Manual
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---
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I've recently been helping my son to learn to code in Python.
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I've also bought a portable scanner so I can scan documents and add them to Paperless which is [running on my homelab][0].
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I've been explaining to my son why he needs to read the error messages to understand why something isn't working, such as a syntax error or an undefined variable.
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After plugging in my scanner and wondering why it wasn't showing in the gscan2pdf application, I found a switch to toggle an auto start setting.
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If auto start is enabled, the scanner only works with its own software.
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Once I disabled it, the scanner appeared.
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## Here's the thing
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Both of these situations were solved by doing the same thing.
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RTFM.
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Reading The "Friendly" Manual.
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[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/12/01/homelabbing-with-nixos
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