• li10
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    1 month ago

    The results aren’t easy when they’re useless tho.

    Particularly an issue when you’re googling an obscure software issue, you just get spammed with the same copy/paste “troubleshooting” steps. Which usually boil down to “reinstall this completely unrelated driver”.

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      One of the biggest advantages of using Linux over windows is the lack of those endless seo sites while troubleshooting.

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        oh, they’re there and they’re just as useless. I’m the kind of person who refuses to remember things so I have been using google search to take me to the particular website which contains that one liner which I know fixes my issue. For the past 4 years or so, I started actually remembering a lot of things because it’s impossible to get to those pages through all the spam.

        A search for a specific question used to take me to a stack overflow page with that specific wording to which the answer was the specific command and a description of what it does. Now not only does google ignore half the search terms, but the first 5 results are crap websites with a long description which seems to be close to what i’m looking for only to prove to be useless 3 minutes in.

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          I was once searching Native-American in quotes and was getting Indian Ocean as a result.

          Edit: I was searching for statistics on electrification of the reservations during the 1960’s. It may have been “Indian” with

          -ocean

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      …along with everything else. After all, if you reinstall everything from scratch the problem will maybe go away or you get too tired to go on

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      Particularly an issue when you’re googling an obscure software issue, you just get spammed with the same copy/paste “troubleshooting” steps. Which usually boil down to “reinstall this completely unrelated driver”.

      Just reading this caused a small spike of ice cold fury within my soul