More realistically, you find tons of forum posts asking for help with a similar issue but all the answers are “Just Google it”
Or the even better- “dont worry guys, i solved it [your exact problem in the same situation]!” With no info on how….
…and that user was you, five years ago…
Or Stack Overflow’s infamous “This is a repeated question” and locked thread while linking to something that isn’t related at all.
all the answers are “Just Google it”
Me: You dense motherfuckers, that’s why I’m here!
half of them have great answers that are utterly useless for your specific situation, and the other half straight up have no answers and you will now join them in purgatory.
Even worse, you see a post on reddit or stackoverflow with the same issue and its just labeled as duplicate with no links.
The post on reddit is marked “solved”, but the solver deleted their account and scrubbed all their comments.
Would it help to know that there is probably a huge amount of relevant info out there that google just isn’t going to fucking show you?
Thats what I wanted to say, but I’d have said it less gracefully.
We need an internet “defragger” that tightens up all the long dead and incomplete threads of problems that were never really solved. While leaving the ones that have at least some workable ideas. I’ve often found solutions not in the answers, but in the various commentaries that offer incomplete alternatives to consider.
For StackOverflow, at least, I feel like this is a problem solvable by moderators. Some kind of “admin/mod” approved answer might help side-step the lack of “selected answer” status from the issue’s poster.
No, no, you’re not alone, there’s another one. They posted the same question years ago, and a few days later, without anyone else having replied, they replied “Nevermind, I found a solution.” to their own post, without any further elaboration.
Bonus points if they did post a link to the solution, but it’s dead, and can’t be found on the Wayback Machine.
Or, or, they never solved it, you solved it, but the thread is locked because people’s view on necroing is not compatible with the way search engines work. So you can’t help anyone else.
Worse, it’s just one person who had the same issue, the topic is marked as ‘solved’ with not further information on how.
Where were you xXxdankmf420xXx? What have you seen?
Pfffft, I can beat that; I once googled a solution to a problem only to discover a thread I’d made years ago where I’d been looking for a solution to the same problem with only one reply.
It was me; it was my reply. I posted ‘nvm solved it’.
I’ve been here. You know you’re in trouble when Google reports 4 irrelevant results, and nothing else. That or the occasional zero result response, which feels like winning the worst kind of prize.
When it comes to IT stuff, this usually means I’ve chosen the most hare-brained, back-asswards way to do something. Backing up, reassessing, and figuring out how everyone else is solving the problem gets me un-stuck. YMMV.
Lately, as much as it pains me to admit it, LLMs can do a decent job of advising how to solve the problem at hand. Unsurprisingly, they usually go after whatever is in their training set and offer whatever people on StackOverflow are doing anyway.
just ask the Debian mailing list. or the libera channel for emacs
So Xorg uses 100% CPU on one core on a machine with two Nvidia GPUs on driver 535 in Debian when loading a document the second time in OnlyOffice.
Any ideas?
Had a bizarre problem with two rarely used, rather unknown, pieces of software interacting. Thought there was no way in hell I’d find aid, but googled it anyway. First hit was the exact description of my issue on Spiceworks.
Had a look, there’s the answer! And who was the mad genius who came back to the forum and posted the answer? It was me. I went back and posted the answer when I had figured it out three years previously.
recently ran into this. when you install bazzite it’ll ask which drives you wanna use. if you select multiple, it partitions them into one BIG drive. this causes myriad problems ranging from the system freaking about the immutible root partition being too full, to literally everything (including shutdown commands) ceasing function. once they’re partitioned into one drive, you can’t change it from inside bazzite, and if you try to reinstall it’ll force you to select both drives.
the only way to fix this without formatting the drives individually is to use the “test media then install” option when starting the install. this option is the default choice, but adds significant time to the process. if it’s the second or third time they’ve done it, the average user will choose to skip it.
second time i’ve had this exact problem, but the first was long enough ago that i couldn’t remember any solutions. just got vague and infuriating deja vu everytime i repeated a step. 😐
I don’t think this is a bazzite only thing. IIRC if you software raid 0 the partitions you need a software raid 1 boot partition (an identical boot partition on both/all drives) for everything to work properly.
