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I have an Oceanic computer, and I did not find the manual friendly at all.
BUT had I not started there, I would not have known that. Had I not started there, there would have been no focus to the questions I brought back to my LDS. I would have wasted their time and mine. Had I not started there but instead relied solely on other sources, I would not now be able to have a quick glance at the manual to refresh myself.
My LDS will not be in my kit when I go on a dive. Dive Nav will not be in my kit when I go on a dive. The manual will.
No one is suggesting or has suggested that a manual is the be all and end all. But it does have its purpose.
For the instructors here, when you have a student sign up for a course and they show up having done zero preparation, no reading, no idea what is going on, how do you feel about that? How do you feel about how much time they waste for you and the rest of the class? What if they show up for the second class or the third still not having done any reading or other prep? How well will your patience hold up?
At some point you have to take some responsibility for doing some work on your own.
Ask your questions - I certainly do - just understand that there are different levels of tolerance for questions depending on how much the asker is taking ownership versus how much spoon feeding they are looking for. It isn't the repetition, it isn't the "level" of the question, it is the context.
For those who have great patience, kudos to you. But the rest of us aren't wrong either.
You're not wrong ... but nobody's forcing you to respond to a question you think shouldn't have been asked either.
I've never understood why anyone feels they have a right to a snarky answer to someone else's question ... if it isn't something that strikes your fancy, we're all better off if you just move on to someone else's thread.
Nobody has to "take responsibility" by your standards ... you have a right to live your life and make your decisions according to them ... but not to impose them on others.
Rather than saying "Do a search" ... save yourself some effort and move on to a different topic. Snarky answers are neither appreciated nor helpful to anyone ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
PS - that's a rhetorical "you" ... not you, personally ...
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