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Icathian on Dec 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Help me ask why you didn't just

My go to for this is "My first thought would be to use sshd here. I assume you've tried that?"

ericmcer on Dec 3, 2019 | [–]

Yeh or “I’m guessing ‘obvious solution’ didn’t work?” Either way any phrasing that implies you view them as an intelligent person who may have slipped up vs you just assume they are dumb will work fine?

rsl7 on Dec 3, 2019 | [–]

this exactly.

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