Hate it when that happens

I have this exact problem.

Edit: nvm, found the solution

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.

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.

Kinda relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/979

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I find it more frustrating when someone has already had the issue and received an answer, but unfortunately the solution is a link to a Microsoft forum that no longer exists.

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

This is currently happening to me and I hate it.

Something between linux kernel 6.2 (working) and 6.7 (broken) and all I have at best is a generic warning message that yields just a few results and all are unrelated.

They had the answer on Yahoo! Answers. 😢

I never noticed the body pillow in the corner.

I have more than once found a post my exact problem with an exact solution and sources, only to go back and realize it was my own post from n years back

Anime source?

Edit: nvm, found it.

Actual edit: Apparently I'm slow with the joke. K-On! Manga about high school music club.

But have you tried askjeeves?

The worst is windows always giving "unknown error" with a code, and when you google the code you try stuff for like an hour just for every website you check to be useless, and at the end you just needed to put a password on the other computers file share, but why would it tell you that?

When you search*

Im finding this more prevalent now as ai can answer a lot of the questions hence other people are getting solutions without the need to ask. Then my ai has problems cos it googles the answer and has to make shit up and idk if its hallucinating or not.

Or when you're having a problem with a piece of accounting software that nobody has ever had, so you call in for phone support, and they've never had it, but they can reproduce it on their side, find a solution, and thank you very much for letting them know.

Just post that the answer is simple:

can (root; split) for - 1 =sam if (all "null") then (n = n+1)

Watch the rage answers roll in.

Somebody has to be the first one.

More like when you Google and half the solutions you find contradict themselves, with some of the responses to the solutions discussing the dangers.

Usually that's about when I strace the process before running it through gdb...

Or all the documentation/answers conflict with each other so now you have to play Russian Roulette with your project/system. Yes I am still salty about the hyprland nvidia page that kept me up between 2-6am EDT and confused for 13hrs. I trust the Arch and EndeavourOS wikis more for general OS stuff now tbh. For programming I like the specific documentation by the devs of their respective programming languages. If I need help: Google, Discord, Reddit, Forums or StackOverflow

For context go read: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/

Never mind figured out

Me when I was trying to figure out what the outputs in the Javascripts RSA key generation crypto api curruspond to so I can link it to a rust api to prevent Man in the middle attacks occurring on https traffic with false certificates installed (I figured out eventually)

Usually it means you're doing something terribly wrong.

User error