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Brkdncr ,

Hate it when I search an issue and the only other person with the same problem is me 5 years ago and I didn’t figure it out then either.

Omgboom ,

This issue has been closed as off topic

zurohki ,

Closed as a duplicate of another issue.

The other issue was closed as off topic.

eatham ,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

They were both closed as duplicate

NaibofTabr ,

I think it’s worse when they say they found a solution and include a link which is now dead.

With Google dropping its archive I feel like dead links are going to be more and more common.

Manalith ,

I hate the ones that are just “open a case” and then they close the thread without saying what the fix ended up being, looking at you Veeam forums.

Shyfer , (edited )

So many of my searches lead to Microsoft forums where my exact issue is posted, MS asks for more information, then some auto-mod closes the issue because there wasn’t any further follow up and they can’t replicate it.

eerongal ,
@eerongal@ttrpg.network avatar

And it always marks the damn “thank you for contacting Microsoft” post as “the answer”

Shyfer ,

Every. Damn. Time.

rainynight65 ,

The worst is when they say they’ve found a solution, without adding any information or elaborating further. Makes me want to flip my desk.

Grunt4019 ,

Even worse in my opinion is when you find someone who had the same problem as you and the only person who replies says “use google.” It’s like that’s how I got to this page!

DeathbringerThoctar ,

Relevant XKCD

IrishBearHawk ,

Is it the denvercoder one?

checks

That's it.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

aww you beat me to it.

Naz ,

The answer was to disable FreeSync. FreeSync was causing the stuttering with SAM turned on.

Lith ,
@Lith@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“I’ll upload a patch later this week” 12 years ago

ooterness ,

Don’t worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.

Dagnet ,

I love it when the reason I’m the only one with the problem is that I didn’t notice something extremely obvious that solves that problem. I’m an idiot and shouldn’t be trusted with anything ever.

rockSlayer ,

Someone has to bite the bullet and ask the obvious questions. Everybody starts somewhere and learns at their own pace, so there’s probably dozens more with the same problem but too afraid to ask.

jjagaimo , (edited )

I have more than once found a post my exact problem with an exact solution and sources, only to go back and realize it was my own post from n years back

HopingForBetter ,

Just post that the answer is simple:

can (root; split) for - 1 =sam if (all “null”) then (n = n+1)

Watch the rage answers roll in.

wer2 ,

I have this exact problem.

Edit: nvm, found the solution

pythonoob ,

You’re just the worst, you know that?

fluxion ,

Found the answer to this here

Passerby6497 ,

404

  • 80% of Microsoft support page links
lud ,

404 - Page not found

MSDN TechNet has been retired and this article no longer exists. The following links have related information:

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The moment I find something even remotely useful for a problem I faced and solved, I am saving it on the Internet Archive.
And I try to not be DenverCoder9

Passerby6497 ,

Thank you for your service o7

I rely on Internet archive a hell of a lot

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Trying my best.
If you want to help save anything, maybe participate with the rest of us: warrior.archiveteam.org
If you have a spare PC/docker container you only require an internet connection and electricity. And it may save some picture or reddit post/guide/advice for the folks in the future. :)

red ,

Source https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/93827343-e351-4a75-adcf-fe35fc0ee0a1.webp

locuester ,

Closed as a duplicate

Baku ,

You forgot the snark!

Closed as duplicate. Learn how searching works you stupid, foolish clodpoll.

arudesalad ,

I am so tempted to buy the domain just to make it redirect to a rick roll

Omega_Haxors , (edited )

Worse. “Hey I have your problem … … nevermind I figured it out”

True story. x3

Sombyr ,

The most cathartic moment of my entire life was when I encountered that exact thing in a thread from over a decade ago expecting that to be it and lost all hope, only to find somebody replied calling them out and telling them to share their solution or future googlers were gonna be very upset. They posted their solution and it did, indeed, work.
Don’t even remember what the issue was, but the wave of relief was amazing enough that I still remember the feeling to this day.

redcalcium ,

What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?

dumbass ,
@dumbass@lemy.lol avatar

Stfu! Don’t give them ideas!

fluxion ,

Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit

Passerby6497 ,

‘Drink verification can’

capital ,

I have a strong suspicion that’s already happening.

ryannathans ,

User error

FreshLight ,

You are not the only one, trust me. Google just went to shit in the last years, so it’s harder to find what you are looking for.

dan1101 ,

Yes that is what I thought too. Google is still good for looking up movies and games and such, but for tech stuff and shopping it has noticably declined.

Toldry ,
@Toldry@lemmy.world avatar

Kagi is a payed search engine service that has worked well for me so far

capital ,

I’m currently trying out the first 300 free searches with Kagi. It’s only been a day but it’s already looking like I’m going to subscribe.

Remember when you got good at Google and you started to notice that you could find what you needed better than most other people? It’s a bit like that and it’s refreshing.

FreshLight ,

How does it compare to other meta search engines that are free?

capital ,

You’ve just made me realize I haven’t really evaluated any others.

IIRC Startpage is one of them? I might have used that once a long while ago but I can’t say I’ve given the others a fair shake yet.

FreshLight ,

I like SearXNG

capital ,

For testing, do you just use one of the listed public instances? I guess ultimately it would be best to self-host.

FreshLight ,

Yes and yes!

DudeDudenson ,

What’s worse is googling a specific thing and having the results be just chock full of generic copy pasted thing with similar name

livingcoder ,

It’s surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it’s a great general purpose search engine.

paraphrand ,

This is why Satya Nadella said he could make Google dance.

sheogorath ,

If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won’t be of help since it’s not in their training dataset.

locuester ,

Yeah and it won’t tell you that it hasn’t seen this pattern before. It will just make things up out of the blue which seem like they might be correct.

Stay away from ChatGPT for bleeding edge things.

livingcoder ,

It’s still useful when it’s wrong because it can give you the jist of what should be done. If it uses a library or function that doesn’t exist, you’ll still be informed as to what it was intending for the process at that point. I’ve often gone and just replaced the made-up code with custom code that does the same thing.

dantheclamman ,
@dantheclamman@lemmy.world avatar

It is nice to generate generalizable code examples, to give me clues how stuff works. I find that my work (marine biogeochemistry) is obscure enough that there’s a certain level where I am still on my own. Which is a good sign for my future employability!

tunetardis ,

True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…

Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It’s obnoxious.

theherk ,

This happens to me more than I care to admit. I told a coworker about a Gitlab CI issue that I’d seen a few years back and hadn’t had any action. I looked up the link to share it. Me; I opened it. Brain failing me, I had forgotten it was my issue.

Nougat ,

Or when you're having a problem with a piece of accounting software that nobody has ever had, so you call in for phone support, and they've never had it, but they can reproduce it on their side, find a solution, and thank you very much for letting them know.

sheogorath ,

Ohh I had a similar experience with a quite big open source project (~10k stars on GitHub). Posted an issue, it’s obscure enough even the lead maintainer comes in to help and still got stuck unable to fix the issue.

eatham ,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

The worst is windows always giving “unknown error” with a code, and when you google the code you try stuff for like an hour just for every website you check to be useless, and at the end you just needed to put a password on the other computers file share, but why would it tell you that?

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