• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • Grunt4019@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        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!

      • Manalith@midwest.social
        1·
        7 months ago

        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@ttrpg.network
          1·
          7 months ago

          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.

    • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 months ago

      thought about it, too!

      (and… not sure if it’s Jerboa, but the image appears emoji-sized to me. a bite-sized comic, hehe)

  • VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    More like when you Google and half the solutions you find contradict themselves, with some of the responses to the solutions discussing the dangers.

  • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    You describe your problem in the forum.

    Moderator: “use Google, there is an answer to your question”

    Google only gives you a link to your own thread in the forum.

  • Juergen@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    Or: Plenty of people have the problem, but nobody has figured it out.

    And: Stack Overflow agrees that this is a dumb thing to want to do, anyway.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.

  • Gunpachi@lemmings.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    Hah… I used to search up an issue and see my own unanswered question on reddit as the first result. ಠ_ಠ

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    1·
    7 months ago

    I find if I’m the only one on the internet having a problem unless it’s a very specific niche application I’m probably doing something fundamentally wrong in my approach and should try figure out how other people normally do it

    • Tebbie@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      It is usually this for me as well. I’m misunderstanding something or I completely looked over a basic thing.

    • InputZero@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 months ago

      Neiche application like old industrial equipment. Sure 90% of it is well documented and properly sourced. Still there’s always that one piece of equipment purchasing got because it was cheap with no documentation and just a safety placard from the 90s. Regardless it needs to be integrated and you bet your ass no one has ever searched that. Then you’re back to basics, sometimes even BASIC.

  • Nithanim@programming.dev
    1·
    7 months ago

    This is currently happening to me and I hate it.

    Something between linux kernel 6.2 (working) and 6.7 (broken) and all I have at best is a generic warning message that yields just a few results and all are unrelated.

  • HopingForBetter@lemmy.today
    1·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      OP: “Nevermind, I figured it out on my own. Thanks anyway.” and doesn’t share what they did drives me up the wall.