I have this exact problem.
Edit: nvm, found the solution
You're just the worst, you know that?
Found the answer to this here
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This issue has been closed as off topic
Closed as a duplicate of another issue.
The other issue was closed as off topic.
"I'll upload a patch later this week" 12 years 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.
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.
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.
I play the numbers.... When this happens to me I assume I'm asking the wrong question
Sometimes asking the right question is the hard part
That's actually good advice
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
Don't worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.
What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?
Stfu! Don't give them ideas!
Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit
'Drink verification can'
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!
My favorite is when you Google a problem and many, many people have the same problem but the company has never provided a solution.
It's surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it's a great general purpose search engine.
If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won't be of help since it's not in their training dataset.
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.
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
Worse. "Hey I have your problem ... ... nevermind I figured it out"
True story. x3
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.
You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.
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.
What's worse is googling a specific thing and having the results be just chock full of generic copy pasted thing with similar name
Hah.. I used to search up an issue and see my own unanswered question on reddit as the first result. ಠ_ಠ
for me when that happens, it usually turns out to be a simple but stupid mistake on my end
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.
Or it's a bug that was reported 5 years ago with 165 votes and somehow still not fixed
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.
So so so much worse when the comment is deleted and OP replies "thanks!"
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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