“You shouldn’t do [y] either, you idiot, you absolute fucking buffoon. You should instead do [z, which costs a fortune and/or requires you to restructure your entire life]”
A lot of the time, the fundamental issue is the lack of information provided by the poster. I’ve seen so many threads where the provided information just isn’t enough, and they don’t react to any of the questions at all.
“Why are you trying to do [x]? Have you tried doing [y] instead?”
“You shouldn’t do [y] either, you idiot, you absolute fucking buffoon. You should instead do [z, which costs a fortune and/or requires you to restructure your entire life]”
Thread closed [x] already answered please go to link: completly unrelated topic actually about [a]
And the link points to a solution from 2006 using a method that’s been outdated and unsupported for a decade.
somebody replies to it “Here’s everything going wrong with [x]”
But it will be slighly more efficient
“Just install Linux”
“But why do you want that?” should be an automatic time-out on most Q&A sites. Especially anything technical.
I don’t need to convince you to make my decisions.
A lot of the time, the fundamental issue is the lack of information provided by the poster. I’ve seen so many threads where the provided information just isn’t enough, and they don’t react to any of the questions at all.