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[-] tomiant@piefed.social 60 points 2 months ago

"Get help with this"

The real joke.

[-] b_van_b@programming.dev 21 points 2 months ago

I had a similar error with a different application. Clicking "Get help with this" just opened the Documents folder in Explorer.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'd guess the dialog was written by an AI that was never told to go implement the help function, but I know that the automated help or button to find help online rarely worked before AIs were capable of doing much of anything with code. Though odds are the broken non-AI help buttons were replaced with broken AI help buttons that were trained using the original broken code.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

It's always a link to a microsoft support page that lists one question some guy had three years ago with 5000 "I also have this problem" checkmarks and a single answer from an unpaid MS mod that basically tells you to restart your computer and then marks the question answered and permanently closed.

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