Welcome to enshittified search, many have noticed it’s approach for years. Although this specific issue indicates you may be going about things ass backwards, if no-ones done it you’re either a pioneer who should be aware or you’re on hard mode coz you didn’t think it through or do your research.
It all boils down to content farms for advertising dollars and SEO borking search engines for profit, not going away soon. Two approaches to mitigate, git gud at prompting llms like GPT or find a better search solution. Apparently kagi gives some good results, or at least has a lot of stans. I stood up a personal SearxNG instance, so now I get results from multiple engines and have the ability to blacklist content farms, and a whole bunch of other things (personal bangs!), it’s significantly better, not 2010 better, but better. A local 8x7B mixtral helps quite a bit as well.
Second only to the hatred I feel for the cheeky fuck who says “why would you possibly want to do that that’s dumb” to someone looking to do something niche
To be fair, sometimes that answer can lead you to finding out that it was never supposed to be done that way and will never work
Literally my experience last night trying to change something with Firefox.
Don’t worry guys I fixed it
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Then you switch to ddg and the solution is the first result
oh how the tables have turned
"Hmmm, let’s do a search to see if anyone else has this problem. This post on Reddit looks promising. This person has the exact same problem as me.
“Wait, it is me.”
In a game I had this issue
In planetside 2 I play NSO (long live the sand drinkers all hail the clankers) and I was trying to figure out which weapons are good. And wouldn’t ya know the only piece of Information that wasn’t either just stats or people saying “play a different faction” was my post which was helpful but I wanted more info and compare answers and stuff
Kinda went on a bit of a rant there lol
I once wanted to make a Qt application with QML capability on an industrial Windows CE device.
I only found one forum entry, where a Russian and a Chinese guy were discussing the issue, and I joined in. Google translate was a life saver.
But figuring out, that this specific Qt build somehow expected a hardcoded folder structure (fucking 20 folders deep with specific naming) during compilation…to this day I thank those two guys, having the same problem in the whole world
Oh sometimes this happens with an error message, and I’ll find one post by one user. That single post has a single comment on it, by the same user, that reads, “Never mind. I fixed it.”
X Y problems are absolutely crud when you have to ask first the stupid version to be able to ask the actual question about X.
Quit multiple attempt at programming apps due to this
When you see yourself as an anime girl.
