 I was directed to this video a couple of years ago actually and there were these two guys in it and they were talking about it was about technology but this is actually a principle that applies outside of technology. They were talking about Linux and they were talking about, oh man, you know, I'm an Ubuntu user and I just get so upset when I see someone who uses Arch Linux or Gintu or one of these complicated distributions thinking that they're better than me or like, you know, making fun of my dumb questions or something else like that. I wish they could be more accepting of me or blah, blah, blah. Okay, I want to talk about this concept. This is concept, I guess you could call it the arrogance of the novice, okay? And I think it, I don't know, it's very dangerous not just for people out there but also for the individual. Like if you have this, you got to tone it down. That's one of the most important things you can do. And what I mean by this is, well, let me put it in my perspective, okay? So last week I did a video on creating your own email server, okay? And I didn't just do that, I made a little script that made the process pretty easy. I put out a lot of, read me on it and I adjusted that read me to account for potential problems, including problems that people running the script had run into. You know, maybe your VPS provider blocks port 25 and you can't send mail or something like that. So, you know, I put a lot of effort into making this an easy process for people. And of course, you know, what I do on YouTube is basically put up tutorials all the time about how to make process, you know, things easy for people. So it upsets me significantly when people will say, oh well, you're just doing this or you're just doing that because you want to flex on us, because you want to look smarter than us, or because blah, blah, blah. And it's like, if that were actually the case, I wouldn't be telling you how to do this. Or if that were the case, you know, I wouldn't, if I wanted you to have a bad time or I wanted you to feel stupid. I would not painstakingly write documentation for you. I would not write up readme's for you. I would not do all this kind of stuff. And when you're dealing with people who are using like, who obviously Arch Linux, you know, they wrote the Arch Wiki. Gen 2 is pretty much the same thing. They have so much documentation to make things easier for people who frankly know less than them. They are trying, they're doing the best that if they were actually an elitist, elitist quote unquote distribution, undeservedly, they would try to make things hard. But there's this extreme arrogance of some people, novices, where they go into a field. They ignore the documentation. They ignore the readme's. They ignore all the directions that we give to them. We not just give to them, but we have work to give to them. And then they're like, oh, I don't understand this. Blah, blah, blah. You're making things hard. Here's the thing. Like most of these, there are, there is a such thing as a dumb question, a really, really stupid question. I'll guarantee you 60, 70, 80% of the questions I get are questions about technology or questions like this. Oh, I got this error message. What happened? And the error message says, you know, this package is not found. Install this package, which somehow people, I don't know, don't want to, can't understand. But if you state the same thing, oh, you got to install this package. Oh, thanks. Thanks for explaining this. I tried so hard. I went to the ArchWiki forums and they just laughed at me. I don't know why this is like the thing that's so infuriating. Like you make things easy for people and like you still, you have to spell it out like every step of the way for them to do some things. Now this of course is not everyone. It's not all novices. But again, there's this extremely arrogant subset of people who are novices who think that they need to be catered to if even if they display absolutely no desire to actually learn about something or do something right. You know, technology is this weird domain where, you know, if you were a plumber or something like that and you went, you know, let's say every job you did ended up with extreme leakage. Okay. Or you had all these problems and you ask people who are, you know, more informed about plumbing. How do I fix this? And you know, probably they would laugh at you because you probably did something obviously wrong. But it would be so arrogant if you just dismissed their answers because, oh, they're just trying to make me feel bad about myself or something stupid like that. So this is the thing that I guess annoys me because the like for whatever reason we give the moral high ground, especially in Linux, the people who not just are ignorant. There's nothing wrong, you know, everyone when they start out as ignorant, but people who are who like identify with ignorance. They like think it's like, you know, they think that being a noob is like, even if they're, you know, totally ignorant after using Linux for 15 years, they can't do basic things. They think that that's like a badge of honor, like, oh, I just do things the simple way. And that's like, oh, you got to cater to me. And even if you do cater to me by writing manuals and documentations and writing scripts to help me do stuff. You're still an elitist. You're just trying to make things hard for me. And you just want to hear, here's my favorite comment. Okay. The people say people who I don't know on the Internet, they'll be like, you just think you're better than me. I'm sorry, dude, I don't even know you. But if you say that, you probably think I am better than you. So I don't know, maybe I am at something. Okay. It's just like, dude, this is not about your ego. The first thing you got to discard whenever you're learning about something is your ego. And if I had never done this, I wouldn't have gotten close to where I am now. I mean, just if you look, if you look at my early channel, the way I did things, even if they were smart looking, was really stupid. There are a lot of, like I've even done videos analyzing scripts I wrote a couple of years ago and telling you how bad they were. Like I did this video, something like Don't Be a Bash Brainlet, where I compared this old version of a script. It was so stupid. I was looping through a file. And then every instance of that loop, I was outputting to some other file. It was so dumb. Like I could have just used AUK, you know? It was absolutely, it took like four seconds to run. Whereas if you write it correctly, it's like less than a fraction of a second. But the arrogance of novices is often like, oh, what? You're telling me how to optimize something? This is how, this works for me, dude. I don't want to, I don't want to watch it. When I watch this Linux tutorial channel, I better not learn anything about Linux because that'll make me feel bad about myself. It's like, dude, what am I supposed to do legitimately? So anyway, if you have this mindset, you've got to be willing to, like if you're trying to learn something, the step number one is getting, first off, realizing that there is, there is a such thing as an elite. Like there are some people who know more about something. And when you're around them, you should always be humble. Like if I, you know, I'm not a Gen2 user, okay? You know, I'm thinking about maybe I'll use Gen2 at some point in time. But if I ever went to their forums and asked about, okay, I've got to figure out what flags I need to compile with, what's best here, what's that. You know, if they told me something that I don't know, or even if they made fun of me, like if I get bullied on the internet for something, first off, you've got to realize usually that's not actual bullying. It's just a way of them expressing, this is something that should be obvious, okay? You should know what this is. You're not going to get bullied for an actually good question. But you know, bullying people on the internet is a good way of communicating to them. Dude, you should have just looked, this is a very basic question. It's in the read me, you should have just, you know, be careful next time. And if you respond to that in the proper way, in a way that discards your own ego, you say, okay, yeah, maybe I messed up there. I should have just like read the read me or something like that. And I wouldn't have to deal with this. But I don't know, like people just have, you know, the biggest problem nowadays is people identify with their intellectual deficiencies. It's like a bad, again, it's a badge of honor to them. So anyway, that's that I suppose is it. Just be humble on the internet, be humble when you know stuff, but also even more importantly, be humble if you know that you don't know things or even if you don't know that you don't know them. Because I don't know, it's just so annoying, especially when you go through all this effort making things easy for people and they still don't want to hear it, you know, whatever. All right, so that's about it. See you guys next time.