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by PhantomGremlin 1592 days ago
the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots

Even the title of this article reflects that mindset

There's cultural history about that very phrase. There was a series of books written with that exact title. They were intended to "provide a basic understanding of a complex and popular topics. The term 'idiot' is used as hyperbole". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Idiot%27s_Guides

Edit: I want to add that apparently the author put a lot of effort into writing a fairly comprehensive document. It will probably be quite helpful for someone attempting that install.

The document shouldn't be dismissed just because of the title.

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Indeed, and it seems to be a nice write-up, not dismissing that. Kudos to the author.