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+title: RTFM
+date: 2024-12-17
+permalink: daily/2024/12/17/rtfm
+tags:
+  - software-development
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  Read The Friendly Manual
+---
+
+I've recently been helping my son to learn to code in Python.
+
+I've also bought a portable scanner so I can scan documents and add them to Paperless which is [running on my homelab][0].
+
+I've been explaining to my son why he needs to read the error messages to understand why something isn't working, such as a syntax error or an undefined variable.
+
+After plugging in my scanner and wondering why it wasn't showing in the gscan2pdf application, I found a switch to toggle an auto start setting.
+
+If auto start is enabled, the scanner only works with its own software.
+
+Once I disabled it, the scanner appeared.
+
+## Here's the thing
+
+Both of these situations were solved by doing the same thing.
+
+RTFM.
+
+Reading The "Friendly" Manual.
+
+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/12/01/homelabbing-with-nixos