• @[email protected]
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    334 months ago

    One of the biggest advantages of using Linux over windows is the lack of those endless seo sites while troubleshooting.

    • @RidcullyTheBrown
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      504 months ago

      oh, they’re there and they’re just as useless. I’m the kind of person who refuses to remember things so I have been using google search to take me to the particular website which contains that one liner which I know fixes my issue. For the past 4 years or so, I started actually remembering a lot of things because it’s impossible to get to those pages through all the spam.

      A search for a specific question used to take me to a stack overflow page with that specific wording to which the answer was the specific command and a description of what it does. Now not only does google ignore half the search terms, but the first 5 results are crap websites with a long description which seems to be close to what i’m looking for only to prove to be useless 3 minutes in.

      • @Anti_Iridium
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        4 months ago

        I was once searching Native-American in quotes and was getting Indian Ocean as a result.

        Edit: I was searching for statistics on electrification of the reservations during the 1960’s. It may have been “Indian” with

        -ocean

        • @ripcord
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          54 months ago

          Gotta turn on “verbatim mode”