Trusting advice on the internet...
Anyone that trusts what the internet says blindly is, frankly, asking for trouble.
Even technical advice for problem solving, although often helpful, is often resolving a problem that is only "similar" and therefore the solution may either be ineffective or add to the problems you have.
I rarely find advice that directly matches the situation I encounter, or relates to the same combination of software versions I am running.
Unless what you read is close to, aha, I would have thought of that eventually, you may want to get a second opinion...
Outside the techie world there is a great deal of "advice" which is positively malicious too, and plays the gullible to brick their devices, and remove their data...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
