Fixing Got Permission Denied While Trying to Connect to the Docker Daemon Socket

I'm working on my ubuntu machine and trying to set up a few docker containers. Anytime I tried running any docker command, I got the error saying got permission denied while trying to connect to the docker daemon socket. I started by just adding sudo in front of any docker command, but the extra typing got annoying really fast.

I fixed this error by changing my permissions on the docker daemon socket. sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock seemed to do the trick.