• Nithanim@programming.dev
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    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.

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      Same, started having issue with a docking station on my laptop with 6.7. It’s so niche to my configuration that finding an answer has proven impossible. Now I need to reboot every time I plug in my dock or else I have no external monitors.

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        THAT is very shitty. My problem is that after using it for a bit apps start freezing for a split second all the time. Most notable is firefox. The frequency and duration of them increase steadily. Then opening a new program might freeze the system fully (or wait minutes/hours until it unfreezes). It has something to do with memory allocation “according to” dmesg.

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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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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      Ohh I had a similar experience with a quite big open source project (~10k stars on GitHub). Posted an issue, it’s obscure enough even the lead maintainer comes in to help and still got stuck unable to fix the issue.

  • eatham 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    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?

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    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.

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

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

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    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!

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    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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      That’s one area where LLMs can come in handy. If you describe something, they can usually come out with what you were thinking about in another, maybe more correct way, then you search what they gave you

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