Not everyone has the luxury or capacity to research and learn.

bullshit excuses.

So if you have a health problem you self diagnose and give yourself treatment at the hospital?

I can diagnose, I’ve read medical textbooks and have researched. I have even performed minor surgery on myself to remove a cyst from my thigh about the size of a grape. I taught myself how to properly suture for that one. I don’t recommend it though. cyst’s can actually wrap around blood vessels which when burst or cut can make you bleed out quickly. having a cauterizing tool helps mitigate this. you can DIY with a scalpel and an induction source to heat the tip of the blade (ask me how I know), though most surgeons use electric ones these days that use plasma to burn the flesh away. you can actually buy them for pretty cheap these days.

I’m sure those docs get asked about the same problems all the time. And yet, they don’t turn you away because they have seen that problem too many times.

doctors take a Hippocratic Oath. Tech workers don’t, so your analogy falls flat.

Built my first pc around the same time, and I still researched and asked for clarifications when needed.

good for you. sounds like you had better opportunities than I did. How did you put it? “Not everyone has the same luxury to research and learn.” Sorry, paraphrasing.

I think you just have an issue accepting that others are not in the same situation or as capable as you. Some people have much less free time. Less tolerance for error.

how presumptuous. you don’t have the time or tolerance for making mistakes, so you’re going to waste the time and effort of a community and ask the same question repeatedly? compared with that perspective, I sound less like an asshole. and I am an asshole!

Let’s say your engine costs 25k to rebuild. You’d do that yourself?

of course I wouldn’t! $25k will buy a new car. I only spent $13k on my current car.

Sans the labour, 10k in parts. You’re okay with not having a vehicle for potentially months? You’re okay if you happen to misunderstand an instruction or forget something and spend all thy time getting it back together advancing the thing explode when you get it all together?

I see what you’re trying to do. the difference is, I would be paying a mechanic to fix my car. I’m not asking them how to fix it, or why it needs to be fixed. nobody is paying anyone on this community. maybe that’s the problem. maybe if we charged people to ask questions they might be more inclined to see if the question has been asked already…

You seem to think quite highly of yourself. Your comments just reek of narcissism.

funny! I’m super humble about myself IRL. I don’t talk about myself or my accomplishments at all, except when it comes to shining a light on lazy people who just want the answers spoon fed to them. y’all aren’t babies or children anymore. the internet exists and is a treasure trove of information. think critically, ask yourself more questions than others. reach out when you don’t understand something.

it’s not hard, but I guess it is when your expectation is that people should just help you because you want it.