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What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Except the code covers SUCH a vague issue that it's useless. Not very precise when any issue with the store gives you the same code. Maybe it couldn't find a DNS record for the online store. Maybe its local db is corrupt. Maybe it's been locked out administratively. Doesn't matter which root cause, same error code, so it's not a "precise" error code.

These may not be the case in this instance, but in many, many other instances, it sure has been