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StackOverflow has lost 77% of new questions compared to 2022. Lowest # since May 2009.
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My favorite ever SO experience was this time I found a dude who had had my exact problem four years earlier. The thread was the only google result for the error message I was getting that wasn't just random pasted log files, etc.
Two people who had no idea how to fix it gave him some useless suggestions, then crickets.
9 months later, he had come back and posted
I solved my problem!
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=5M
I wish I'd saved the link.
What a saint