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Nevermarktoday at 6:20 AM

Empty advice like "you should want what I want, because here is how it works for me", benefits from pushback.

Another common one: responding to a commenter's device or OS problem by suggesting a platform switch. Despite the massive number of unrelated tradeoffs such a decision would involve.

And of course, the pedantic "well, it always works for me" or "really, that should work", chime-in non-advice to just not have the problem in the first place. It is tautologically effective, but ...

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