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articles for windows problems: here's a virus, it'll fix everything. enjoy!
articles for mac problems: this software fixes your exact issue in 2 clicks but it costs $50 and will never be integrated into MacOS officially
articles for linux issues: you have to sift through forums still styled like it's 2005 but someone will post 3 lines of terminal commands that will either fix your issue or brick your system
nothing beats linux roulette
I remember once finding a blog post that solved my problem perfectly, then ran a fork bomb right when the problem was solved and crashed my system.
2005 was the peak of web design.
Oh man that version of last.fm, absolutely glorious
Also 2007 Facebook you could customize your profile however, move shit around, add 3rd party widgets even
Good times
It really felt like the Internet belonged to the users. The difference was the freedom to make it yours.
I would now like Lemmy to support MySpace style profiles for it’s users
In 2005 there were <1B users, today there are >5B. Most of those first billion were online because they WANTED to be online, they built personal websites, ran message boards and operated projects like Albinoblacksheep because they wanted to interact with other like minded nerds. Now most users are online because they have a phone, and phones are so limiting that all they can really do is scroll through feeds and 'share' links (try editing HTML on your phone some time).
Don't forget that at the end of the linux process you physically feel your brain growing new synapses, and from that moment on you want to cry when people struggle with the same issue because it's so obvious
nothing gives me a feeling of power like fixing a problem on linux without having to immediately trawl through the arch wiki
I usually feel my brain loosing cells after a 6hr session of debugging a typo I made in a UUID.
The reason for this is because it pushes them higher on Google search.
Now the same page gets visited by people with that problem, people who want to know what a graphics driver is, people who are looking at the definition of computer, ...
It is literally a job to find ways to get higher in search by writing those types of unnecessary long posts.