I'm Guilty as Charged
I'm Guilty as Charged
Clarification: Just making fun of people(including myself) who watch shitty videos instead of official documentation.
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"How do I do X in linux?"
"Yeah so basically you just need to run this command and it should work on Ubuntu 12.10 (Last edited: Nov 2012)"
"Hey guys the way to do X changed in Ubuntu 16.04, see this updated link (Posted: Jan 2017)"
"Actually Ubuntu 18.04 is now using Y so you have to follow this new guide (Last edited: Jul 2019)"
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Crossed-out outdated guideFor Ubuntu 22, please reference this Canonical guide here. All other distros can simply use Z (Last edited: Aug, 2022)"
"404 not found (Canonical)"
"How do I do X in Debian?"
"You can run Z to do X (Posted: Oct 2013)"
"Thanks for this, it worked! (Posted: Sep 2023)"
"How do I do X in Fedora?"
"Ah just follow this wiki (Posted: Feb 2014)"
"(Wiki last update: Mar 2023)"
"How do I do X In Arch?"
"RTFM lmao: link to arch wiki (Posted: May 2017)"
"(Wiki last update: 3 minutes ago)"
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Did you know you can filter search results by time? When it comes to computer questions in particular, I always ask for results from within the past year.
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Zero results found
Hmmmm
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Then it's time to expand the date range and/or try other search engines. Sometimes you're just fucked and you have to make a post.
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"How to do X on Y?" "Why would you ever want to do X? Do Z instead!"
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