I have never considered myself to be tech-savvy. However, there is a running gag in my immediate family where I claim to be terrible with computers (eg. “I dont think i could find that, my google-fu is weak”) which my family responds to by reminding me of that one time I did that one cool thing (eg. reminding me about I nearly got suspended because I showed my Health teacher how you could bypass our school’s firewall and buy drugs on a school computer.)

This imposter syndrome continued for a while after switching to Linux, but after having to do a shit ton of troubleshooting I’ve stopped feeling completely clueless. I still have no clue what I’m doing, but it’s honestly really motivating to know that neither does anyone else—outside of the periodic Github technomancer. Linux proved to me that I am good enough, that I can carry my own weight and solve my own problems, and that any failures I suffer are not just fine, they are expected!

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    reminding me about I nearly got suspended because I showed my Health teacher how you could bypass our school’s firewall and buy drugs on a school computer

    It’s such a rejected behavior to even consider suspending you for this.

    Anyway, yeah, I agree. I think if one has interest in the inner workings of a computer system, just trying to make Linux do whatever you want it to do is a good way to experience that. You will, over time, without knowing, accumulate so much information just by troubleshooting things that don’t work for one reason or another

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      It’s such a rejected behavior to even consider suspending you for this.

      They did take the smooth-brain interpretation of “He figured this out because he was buying drugs on the school computer” instead of considering that if that was my motivation, I would no longer be able to buy drugs on the school computer after telling them

      It was a very enlightening experience for me LOL

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        Assuming that suspension hasn’t inconvenienced you, I would say that was a valubale lesson. Authority cannot be trusted.

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        I would commend any student that would be able to figure this out in my hypothetical school