#stack exchange

i got my computer used off ebay. system76 galpro for 200 bucks, came with 2 chargers and guy was super helpful, booted up popos, works like a dream now and my only complaint is battery life, but i think that's an issue with the age of the thing. probably i'll just have to replace said battery.

anyway, when i first turned it on, i didn't know shit about booting up a new system and the seller couldn't remember his password so after hours and hours of searching how to get into it, how to reset it, maybe doing something physical with the machine, i decided to post on i believe stack exchange. i didnt think i would get an answer because of how specific the problem was, but some mod just locked my post because it "wasn't specific enough", whatever that means. dude was kind of a jerk about it too, i posted my question as clearly as i could without having interacted with linux before at all and dude said something like "you can't just say 'I need help!' without giving context" like my guy. i did give context. i told you everything i knew and you gave me a vague ass answer and locked the post.

People complain that Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange closes questions for no reason. I have had a small number of questions closed before, but it's always been for a reason in hindsight that I thought was good.

Until this time where my question on the Open Source site got closed, in part because I researched my question before asking.

One of the other reasons was because the person recommending my question get closed couldn't find the answer after searching for it. Hmmm bro maybe if you don't close the question someone else who does know the answer can enlighten both of us. So sorry you're an ignorant piece of shit, but it happens to the best of us.

The main reason they gave for my question being closed was that it was asking for software recommendations. Except that I explained 3 times that I wasn't doing that. There is an objective answer to my question. I legit cited their own docs 3 times to explain that my question was 100% on-topic.

I think the difference might be that I look like a new user on Open Source SE and they're hostile to new users. I posted my question the same day I got my account. I've been on SO for over a decade. I was able to start gaining karma way back when privileged users were less hostile to newbies.

Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, describes himself as an “academic jack-of-all-trades,” and on arXiv.org, a gathering place for pre-prints of academic papers, his contributions include work on risk estimates, supersized machines, neck tie-knots, the Fermi paradox, and the energy required to run a brain as compared to the energy required to run artificial intelligence.

His latest work is a disturbing thought experiment that ensures that anyone who reads it will never look at a blueberry pie the same way again.

Sandberg is a user of Physics Stack Exchange, where anyone can ask a physics-related question and hope for an answer. One user, Billy-bodega, asked the following:

Supposing that the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries, what would happen from the perspective of a person on the surface?