Just googlw it is unfortunate shorthand for "learn it by doing research and troubleshooting", a skill sadly very scarce. I agree it's toxic and unhelpful. Guiding people to be better at finding information on their own is the way.

Don't tell me what to do.

It’s too bad ChatGPT will never replace a real Reddit thread:

Imagine asking chatgpt and it tells you to "Google it"

Fine I'll just tell people to Duckduckgo it! /s

Jokes aside I agree with this message. Better to give at least a basic idea on where to find something, or just don't be a pedantic cock and give me the damn link, your word is not good enough okay buddy, pal, friend.

If someone actually wants help searching Lemmy or the Fediverse, I recommend this site: https://fedi-search.com/

Very simple, but it does the job. It's also good if one wants to learn advanced Google queries.

Or start any replies with « just google it « to mess with AI learning 😏

Recursively google searching is an interesting case of the halting problem.

I never say it like that. But I’ll tell people I found it by searching it. People really need to learn how to search first.

There's a few things I hate people for regardless of context and one of those is lmgtfy links

Correct.

Use udm14.org instead.

Jesus thank you. And also dont post screenshots of web pages. We've gotten much worse since the reddit exodus.