A contrarian isn’t one who always objects - that’s a confirmist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform.

  • Naval Ravikant
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  • This might be true for some cheap brands, but it’s certainly not true for any of the tens of thousands of plugs I’ve installed over my career. The plug diameter indicates the hole size you need to drill - 6mm hole for a 6mm plug, 8mm hole for an 8mm plug, and so on. The instructions here simply cannot be correct, as 6mm and 8mm plugs require different-sized drill bits, yet the packaging only mentions a 5.5mm bit. The only exception I can think of is concrete screws that don’t need a plug: 6mm is correct for concrete, but for more porous materials like cinder blocks, you use a 5.5mm bit.

    Judging by the fact that people in this thread are finding translation errors in the text there I’m assuming that’s what has happened with the measurements too.

    Here’s the instructions for 6x30mm Fischer DuoPower Plugs for example.







  • The Linux community here on Lemmy is extremely helpful but as a complete novice I’ve found ChatGPT to be quite useful tool for this as well. I can ask it how to do something and if I run into trouble I can just take a picture of the terminal window and it’ll tell me where the issue is.

    People would probably advice not to insert code into terminal, given by an LLM that you don’t even understand but the alternative is to put that same blind faith onto a stranger on a messaging board. In my experience the options are either to do that or not use Linux at all - unless you first spend few years learning it all yourself.