▲ 1135 ▼ What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS (sh.itjust.works) submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by grandma@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 206 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 61 points 6 months ago (2 children) "Get help with this" The real joke. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] b_van_b@programming.dev 21 points 6 months ago (1 child) I had a similar error with a different application. Clicking "Get help with this" just opened the Documents folder in Explorer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago Did it help? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) I'd guess the dialog was written by an AI that was never told to go implement the help function, but I know that the automated help or button to find help online rarely worked before AIs were capable of doing much of anything with code. Though odds are the broken non-AI help buttons were replaced with broken AI help buttons that were trained using the original broken code. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago It's always a link to a microsoft support page that lists one question some guy had three years ago with 5000 "I also have this problem" checkmarks and a single answer from an unpaid MS mod that basically tells you to restart your computer and then marks the question answered and permanently closed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] b_van_b@programming.dev 21 points 6 months ago (1 child) I had a similar error with a different application. Clicking "Get help with this" just opened the Documents folder in Explorer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago Did it help? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) I'd guess the dialog was written by an AI that was never told to go implement the help function, but I know that the automated help or button to find help online rarely worked before AIs were capable of doing much of anything with code. Though odds are the broken non-AI help buttons were replaced with broken AI help buttons that were trained using the original broken code. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago It's always a link to a microsoft support page that lists one question some guy had three years ago with 5000 "I also have this problem" checkmarks and a single answer from an unpaid MS mod that basically tells you to restart your computer and then marks the question answered and permanently closed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago It's always a link to a microsoft support page that lists one question some guy had three years ago with 5000 "I also have this problem" checkmarks and a single answer from an unpaid MS mod that basically tells you to restart your computer and then marks the question answered and permanently closed. permalink fedilink source parent
