Then there’s those incredibly annoying instances where you find a post by someone having the exact issue you are, and they reply to their own post with “Found a solution - issue is resolved”, but don’t note what the solution was. Those people are infuriating.
I once found such a post that was a few years old. It was sent by myself. I thought the problem felt familiar, but past me did not help future me.
Maybe worse, a single reply… “use the search, dickhead!”
I feel kind of seen. 90% of my problems on Linux falls into the 2 year to 13 year category. Occasionally I find a convoluted fix that worked on Ubuntu 14 and by all rights shouldn’t fix the problem that by all rights shouldn’t even be happening on Ubuntu 24 but still inexplicably works so long as you remove 3 repositories from your system and haven’t gotten up to piss in the last 3 hours.
Good ol’ XKCD. There’s one for every situation. It’s becoming a bit like the Simpsons.
First time I don’t feel related to a xkcd comic. I often find solutions in posts that are 5 to 15 years old. Actually, I used to find recent stuff more often a few years ago, but finding recent posts for solutions to problems have been rarer and rarer, at least for the stuff I search for
I work with Microsoft products. This checks out.
