It's really crazy just how bad the internet has gotten at tech support in like the last decade. It's definitely also a result of every tech standard becoming more and more feature creeped and then slowly becoming incompatible, but just ten years ago if you had a problem you would definitely find at least a handful of people with similar problems.
Also google deliberately degrading their search quality to make people spend more time searching for things, so you get a ton of unrelated garbage and have to try to determine which ones are even the same problem you have.
It's really crazy just how bad the internet has gotten at tech support in like the last decade. It's definitely also a result of every tech standard becoming more and more feature creeped and then slowly becoming incompatible, but just ten years ago if you had a problem you would definitely find at least a handful of people with similar problems.
Also google deliberately degrading their search quality to make people spend more time searching for things, so you get a ton of unrelated garbage and have to try to determine which ones are even the same problem you have.
The last message in threads for issues I was facing yesterday:
"There haven't been any new comments in the last 2 weeks. Locked."
it's not that the info isn't out there, it's that search has been so optimzed for profits, that you can't find shit anymore.
I miss the google from 20 years ago.