Troubleshooting

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a screen shot from the show twin peaks, it's the log lady in her home, sitting on the telephone, saying "this is the message from the log" and the caption for the meme is "first time asking for help with linux"
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You only get the phone call if you’re on ARM.

I don’t know enough about linux to get this lol

huh some how that clip got blocked in the few minutes you posted it haha, but I remember that part now, I really should rewatch it, I made this meme some time ago and never posted it. thanks!

This makes me want to rewatch it again too. Especially season 3!




Maybe Mike knows

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Don’t call us, we’ll call you



I was almost at the point earlier of asking someone if they could help with a wifi card issue, but so glad I don’t have to now. I always feel like I always bungle something up whenever I try to explain what my problem is and/or paste any logs or whatever is needed to help, so I relate to this meme.

Thank goodness for ethernet and my ability to realize I need to add that ethernet connection as a new internet connection. Now I can have internet access and be able to use it to research a card that not only fits, but also works with linux.

Haha good work! It’s good to have fall backs, I’m currently using my phone as a wifi hotspot connected to my computer via USB for an internet connection because I didn’t want a wifi motherboard and my old cheap mesh network set I thought was not secure enough to keep using



Come on, give ‘em some slack 🤣 aaaaaaah I needed this laugh. Thanks.

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So what we’re saying is that the Linux developer community is generally bad at writing log messages and error descriptions.

I mean, it could most definitely be better, but I really don’t think that it’s worse on Linux. Error handling is one of the hard problems in computer science in general.

And well, at least you do get easy access to logs and error messages on Linux, which makes it infinitely better in many ways, but is also at least partially why this post exists.
On Windows or such, you’d instead put a vague description into a search engine and hope someone had the same symptoms before…

The “fixes” on Windows are always

Step 1) Run antivirus

Step 2) sfc /scannow

Step 3) reinstall Windows

Hey, that’s not true!

Tap for spoiler

You also run “DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth” on step 2.




MSVC begs to differ


At least MSVC has a number for every diagnostic that you can search.




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