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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/
I hate when apps say "3 years ago" or whatever and don't make it easy to see more specifically when. Just put it in an on-hover popup please. (Lemmy-UI does this just fine, but there are plenty of sites out there that don't.)
I was saying the same thing just the other day, although in my case it was for something that was ”2 days ago" - totally unhelpful if you need to know the time it was posted! Just put an absolute date and time (and a timezone stamp if necessary).
I would argue that even on-hover popups are insufficient, because they normally don't make it into screenshots and that's the use-case where you're most likely to really want to know the absolute timestamp.
I assume there's some evil enshittification reason that they do this, though I don't know what it is.
That's when they remove the age entirely, like on YouTube
5 years ago - None, you have a faulty device and the hardware manufacturers are aware of the problem and will never fix it unless you start a class-action lawsuit with low chance of success.
In this situation right now. Bought a last gen Fitbit smartwatch on discount and it has fucking idiotic software bug where if you have the device in Do Not Disturb when the automatic sleep mode schedule triggers, it softlocks itself and you can't manually disable either DND or sleep mode until the automatic sleep mode schedule expires. Unfixed since 2023.
The retailer denied my refund because I opened the package, so currently I'm waiting for the replacement device Google's rep insisted on sending my way. As soon as it's here I'm going to confirm that the bug still happens on it and RMA it again. What a waste of everyone's fucking time.
Never, ever, buy a device that doesn't have third-party Free Software firmware available.
And in the case you get the lawsuit rolling, your final compensation will be a whooping $24.
Imagine if you could still Google an error message and get relevant results. This comic is already like three years out of date.
How to fix error 404
We've all been there. Browsing the web or scrolling the reels when you see it. The dreaded 404 error. Luckily there are 10 easy steps you can take to diagnose the problem...
The urge to downvote is strong. i must remember it is satirical.
https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/19#issuecomment-4245265198
10 years, latest post last week. Where is this on the chart? Maybe there's a different chart just for Foss?
xkcd itself is 21 years old...
Worse than only finding old posts about the issue is when you find an old post, then notice that it's got your name as the author, and you realise you've been fighting the issue for so long you've forgotten where you posted about it.
And there's a comment below by you
"Fixed it"
And nothing else
Or when the person with the answer deleted their account and all messages with it, then all of the comments after say “That worked!”
I'm disappointed this does not have a 6 years - you find a post about the same problem, made by you, and edited with nvm, solved it. No solution in post.
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