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[-] wer2@lemm.ee 168 points 7 months ago

I have this exact problem.

Edit: nvm, found the solution

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 68 points 7 months ago

You're just the worst, you know that?

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago
[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

404

  • 80% of Microsoft support page links
[-] lud@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

404 - Page not found

MSDN TechNet has been retired and this article no longer exists. The following links have related information:

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[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago
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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 86 points 7 months ago

Hate it when I search an issue and the only other person with the same problem is me 5 years ago and I didn’t figure it out then either.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it's worse when they say they found a solution and include a link which is now dead.

With Google dropping its archive I feel like dead links are going to be more and more common.

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 30 points 7 months ago

I hate the ones that are just "open a case" and then they close the thread without saying what the fix ended up being, looking at you Veeam forums.

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So many of my searches lead to Microsoft forums where my exact issue is posted, MS asks for more information, then some auto-mod closes the issue because there wasn't any further follow up and they can't replicate it.

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[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 14 points 7 months ago

The worst is when they say they've found a solution, without adding any information or elaborating further. Makes me want to flip my desk.

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[-] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago
[-] IrishBearHawk@kbin.social 20 points 7 months ago

Is it the denvercoder one?

checks

That's it.

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 21 points 7 months ago

This issue has been closed as off topic

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 17 points 7 months ago

Closed as a duplicate of another issue.

The other issue was closed as off topic.

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[-] Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago

"I'll upload a patch later this week" 12 years ago

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[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 55 points 7 months ago

You are not the only one, trust me. Google just went to shit in the last years, so it's harder to find what you are looking for.

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 48 points 7 months ago

True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…

Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It's obnoxious.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

This happens to me more than I care to admit. I told a coworker about a Gitlab CI issue that I’d seen a few years back and hadn’t had any action. I looked up the link to share it. Me; I opened it. Brain failing me, I had forgotten it was my issue.

[-] exanime@lemmy.today 38 points 7 months ago

I play the numbers.... When this happens to me I assume I'm asking the wrong question

[-] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Sometimes asking the right question is the hard part

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

That's actually good advice

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 29 points 7 months ago

I find if I'm the only one on the internet having a problem unless it's a very specific niche application I'm probably doing something fundamentally wrong in my approach and should try figure out how other people normally do it

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[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Don't worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 26 points 7 months ago

What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?

[-] dumbass@lemy.lol 17 points 7 months ago

Stfu! Don't give them ideas!

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

'Drink verification can'

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[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 7 months ago

Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!

[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

Or you can ask on SO. Then close it with "nvm, fixed".

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.

[-] livingcoder@programming.dev 19 points 7 months ago

It's surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it's a great general purpose search engine.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won't be of help since it's not in their training dataset.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah and it won’t tell you that it hasn’t seen this pattern before. It will just make things up out of the blue which seem like they might be correct.

Stay away from ChatGPT for bleeding edge things.

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[-] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Or the only person who phrases your issue this way) so many times I’ve found out that I just state my problem in an unusual way

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[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Worse. "Hey I have your problem ... ... nevermind I figured it out"

True story. x3

[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

The most cathartic moment of my entire life was when I encountered that exact thing in a thread from over a decade ago expecting that to be it and lost all hope, only to find somebody replied calling them out and telling them to share their solution or future googlers were gonna be very upset. They posted their solution and it did, indeed, work.
Don't even remember what the issue was, but the wave of relief was amazing enough that I still remember the feeling to this day.

[-] LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.

[-] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You describe your problem in the forum.

Moderator: "use Google, there is an answer to your question"

Google only gives you a link to your own thread in the forum.

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 13 points 7 months ago

What's worse is googling a specific thing and having the results be just chock full of generic copy pasted thing with similar name

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 7 months ago

Any one else getting this crash? Edit: Don't worry guys I fixed it

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[-] gunpachi@lemmings.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hah.. I used to search up an issue and see my own unanswered question on reddit as the first result. ಠ_ಠ

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

for me when that happens, it usually turns out to be a simple but stupid mistake on my end

[-] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago

Or: Plenty of people have the problem, but nobody has figured it out.

And: Stack Overflow agrees that this is a dumb thing to want to do, anyway.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

Or it's a bug that was reported 5 years ago with 165 votes and somehow still not fixed

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[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I love it when the reason I'm the only one with the problem is that I didn't notice something extremely obvious that solves that problem. I'm an idiot and shouldn't be trusted with anything ever.

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[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

So so so much worse when the comment is deleted and OP replies "thanks!"

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

OP: "Nevermind, I figured it out on my own. Thanks anyway." and doesn't share what they did drives me up the wall.

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