“Read the wiki” but the part of the relevant wiki page for the subject was removed years ago and the edit history was purged after the server ran out of disk space.
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ye olde version of looking up a weird specific software problem and the guy answered his own post with just ‘nvm fixed it!’
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 months ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Return to thread and complain that people are clueless and directing you to a useless resource. Mod locks thread and threatens you with a ban.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ugh, yes. I try to always remember to update with what I did to fix it. Although if I’m honest, what probably happens 95% of the time is I just forget about the post entirely.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 months ago
‘Eh, I’ll copy these writings later’
Diotrophes of Miletus, probably.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 months ago
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 2 months ago
p_consti@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But that is at least solvable with the internet archive (most of the time)
Karjalan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Too many damn times…
I was promised an immortal repository of knowledge in my youth. Now most of my bookmarks are dead links and finding answers is just like your example half the time.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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