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xkcd #3245: Results Age

Title text:

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And there's a comment below by you

"Fixed it"

And nothing else

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or when the person with the answer deleted their account and all messages with it, then all of the comments after say “That worked!”

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

let's learn from this and remember to cite the actual things we did to fix stuff, in our own messages Also relatedly, and because i just had to deal with this: USE GIT, FUCKING USE GIT FOR ANY SORT OF CONFIGURATIONS, YOU WILL SAVE YOURSELF SO MUCH PAIN