no one who has the education to do careful engineering is being discouraged
They are, because they think this stuff is just as good --- and it clogs the search results for those who do want to dig deeper. I often have to add "-Arduino -Maker" and a bunch of other filters to my search results to find the actually useful stuff.
This stuff IS good! It inspires people to task themselves with projects they don’t yet know how to do, and blog about what error codes they received and what they did to fix it.
Besides, how can you look down on them when you’re googling for answers instead of, you know, RTFM / getting your engineering degree?
and blog about what error codes they received and what they did to fix it
That is often more than useless to everyone not exactly in that one person's situation.
Besides, how can you look down on them when you’re googling for answers instead of, you know, RTFM / getting your engineering degree?
When trying to find TFM is itself a problem... I'm definitely not one to want to be "censoring misinformation" unlike a lot of others, but the blind leading the blind is certainly happening a lot and it doesn't help anyone.
They are, because they think this stuff is just as good --- and it clogs the search results for those who do want to dig deeper. I often have to add "-Arduino -Maker" and a bunch of other filters to my search results to find the actually useful stuff.