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What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 251 points 9 months ago (20 children)

And of course that error code just means "there was an issue with the store" WOW THANKS SO MUCH DETAIL TO GO OFF OF

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  • [–] 111 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.

    ... You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn't mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody's had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.

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  • [–] 94 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hello I'm a 12 year Microsoft MVP and Certified independent advisor here to help.

    Please type "CMD" into the start menu then type "ckdsk /f /r"

    If this solved your issue please click on "Accept as solution"!

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    "Solved it, I will DM you the solution."

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    This is the only part I despise of forum culture like MDL or the likes.

    If you have a solution, or even better: if you have written software or a guide for this, please just publish it online.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What I hate is when I find a solution for some old post but it's locked because "you should just make a new question" well FUCK YOU BECAUSE SEARCH ENGINES GO THERE AND I HAVE THE ANSWER AND I WANT TO HELP PEOPLE! BUT FUCK ME I GUESS 😭

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It feels like a bunch of moderation decisions are made by people just trying to satisfy some arbitrary OCD-like requirements. Like "you can't reply to an old conversation" or "you can't talk about a problem someone has already talked about". That stuff is worse than the people who reply useless shit like RTFM (aka "I go to helo forums not to provide help but to gloat about the things I know that you don't and act like every single comment is addressed to me personally and needs my input") because at least those useless comments don't kill the rest of the conversation.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, a lot of upholding the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law as well as following rules without really critically evaluating why they're rules in the first place. (Example: Answering an old thread should be fine, but folks just view it as bad and lock them.)

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I have copied down and manually typed out numbers like that many times when using windows. I'm not sure it ever once helped me in the slightest.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Tends to be as helpful as those windows saying "We are looking for a solution to your problem online"

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Haha yes those dialogs never helped me either.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think the windows connection help wizard might have actually fixed a connection issue I had once. Out of more chances than I probably should have given it, considering how often it did dick all, despite my phone's connection being fine.

    I think there's a rare race condition or something in the windows network stack because I've had four different machines suddenly lose the ability to connect to working networks, where sometimes toggling airplane mode would fix it, sometimes even that wouldn't do anything and it needed a restart. It happened more often with wireless connections, but I've seen it affect wired ones, too.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    "Question: I am getting error with code 0xblahblahblah. How to fix?"

    "Deleted response"

    Reply 1: "Youre a life saver mate, thank you."

    Reply 2: "I would kiss you if you were here"

    Reply 3: "Absolute legend, this fix is so obvious, thank you for pointing it out!"

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Except the code covers SUCH a vague issue that it's useless. Not very precise when any issue with the store gives you the same code. Maybe it couldn't find a DNS record for the online store. Maybe its local db is corrupt. Maybe it's been locked out administratively. Doesn't matter which root cause, same error code, so it's not a "precise" error code.

    These may not be the case in this instance, but in many, many other instances, it sure has been

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