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[–] 172 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Most people were conditioned by more "user-friendly" systems to ignore the content of error messages because only an expert can make sense of "Error: 0x8000000F Unknown Error". So they don't even try, and that's how they put themselves in a Yes, do as I say! situation.

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  • [–] 94 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It’s not even obscure, context dependent errors. I’ve had many professional system administrators not understand what “connection was closed by peer” meant.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    In the admins defense. "Closed by peer" can indicate everything from a safe closure to an unsafe closure to a server connection terminating which causes the peer to terminate.

    Like that's a fair point of confusion.

    What bugs me is when the error says something stupid specific and obvious such as JavaScript heap out of memory or dd: error writing *pathname*: No space left on device

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but they literally couldn’t tell me if it’s a problem with the network or something else. It’s like it’s in a totally different language

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't need to make sense of error messages. Which is good because I usually can't.

    I just need them copy/pasteable cuz that shit is going in Google and I'd rather not manually type it.

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