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Anon has a tech problem (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by Gullible to c/[email protected]
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>open thread about a problem I'm having
>first reply is by some obviously "respected" guy
>avatar is some incredibly choppy anime gif
>all caps red name, underlined
>VIP member - top contributor
>some other custom subtitle about the sites culture or some shit
>40k posts
>[SITENAME] clan
>Recent achievements: 1000 hours online, 10k posts, achieved years ago
>joined Dec 2005
>10000 Karma
>like 20 fucking red stars under his name
>From: the Underworld or some edgy shit
>MSN, Facebook, E-mail, Skype, AIM, literally everything
>personal website that has the same name as his nick, just a bunch of gifs
>signature is like 4 paragraphs, 2 quotes, like 20 fucking toolbars or irrelevant shit like nvidia user, coca cola drinker, air breather, cock sucker etc
>some edited anime image at the end of his signature with his nick stylized on it
>read his post
>"i dont know lol"

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This was already asked, please use the search function.

I'll go ahead and lock this thread.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the last post about it was 10 years ago, no information anywhere in sight about the actual problem, and DenverCoder9 just left the topic with a simple "oh I figured it out" WHAT DID YOU SEE?!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And hours before me, too!

Gonna be honest, I didn't even check the comments, I was browsing in the car before work.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

reeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FUCK the ARCH LINUX FORUM MAINTAINERS, IN PARTICULAR, for this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, you could've just done a Google search.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That description is just pure nostalgia, I miss old message boards.

[–] alignedchaos 21 points 1 year ago

Great news! You can have that experience today on Google’s or Microsoft’s community & product forums. It’s the default response!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I still encounter the same thing in some open-source discord servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're nostalgic to me too but I definitely don't miss them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They kind of were what the fediverse wants to be without the bonus featrues. There were thousands upon thousands of small decentralized communities with tightly knit communities. If a board simply sucked, you could go to another one. Of course they did not federate, you had to create different accounts for each of them and information was only passed on by users being in multiple ones. However, they had traction. Unlike with lemmy today, there were hundreds of active communities for every topic I ever wanted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A webring is as close as you could get to federating. No SSO, but you could use different sign-ins just like going from lemmy to kbin or so.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looking at you, Microsoft Windows support team. At least some random blog post from 10 years ago probably has the answer.

Unless the only comment is "Solved it, nevermind.", then you know you're screwed.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

XKCD for everything.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But have you tried restarting your computer and reinstalling all drivers?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

bruh give us an exact list of every program you have installed and hardware in your pc and log file from your last 20 used programs before we'll even read your question. no we don't know how any of that is relevant, but we can pretend to be smarter than you by asking for it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a legend.

[–] Gullible 63 points 1 year ago

I see you’ve read their sig.

I can be your angel or your devil mom how do I turn off dictation it just keeps wait is this

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I too could have 40k posts when I made those kinds of comments

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Understandable, have a nice day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Reincarnated into an Amazon review by email.

[–] mindbleach 3 points 1 year ago

No joke, that shit is why reddit caught on. 2000s flat-forum culture was a complete joke. Having replies show up beneath the relevant comment, in a nice collapsible tree, was a godsend. Having pointless bullshit sorted below interesting bullshit meant you didn't need to scroll through a thousand posts just to be disappointed.