This is for all you good, kind hearted, willing volunteers who answer & respond to questions from the less knowledgeable folks so desperate for help with their tecky acquisitions:
You don't have to use your time or share your knowledge, but you do.
You don't need to be harassed if a poster disagrees with your diagnosis or suggestion for their problem or become the subject/object of a troll's mission to exact hate just because they have so much hate in themselves.
You don't have to search the web upside down, inside out for information to help people you don't even know, will never meet, or converse with again. But you do all these things because, for some reason, it's in you to offer that part of yourselves to supply the support needed by those who request it out of need.
There are 1000s of you nourishers on all manners of website forums & you probably don't think you matter at all in your intentions of good deeds, but you do matter, greatly.
I'm sorry for the loss of your friend & while I never met or knew him, I witnessed his words upon this screen. There's an old eulogy that I feel is descriptive of his passing, and while abrupt in it's delivery, it's meant in sincerity:
"Here's to ya & towards ya, if I hadn'ta seed ya, I wouldn'ta knowed ya."