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by altmanaltman 25 days ago
The very basic thing about software engineering is to know what the f you're using to build your project. You don't need to be an expert but if you're blindly installing whatever you want on your machine from a "checklist of things to install" without absolutely having no idea what the things being installed are, it is 100% on you. You don't need to be an "expert" to understand this, you need to be "somewhat competent," and that is a very low baseline tbh.