This morning I went through the 97 videos that were on my trail cam since the last time I checked it. When I deleted a video that wasn't very interesting, my computer (which runs the KDE desktop on openSUSE Linux) popped up this error:
Basically it said that the file couldn't be moved to the trash for some reason; it had to be permanently deleted instead. I was annoyed by this because it had never happened before. I had recently updated a bunch of packages for my operating system, so something must have changed.
I wasn't sure where to start debugging, so I decided to try ChatGPT. I described my problem and it suggested it was permissions-related. It led me through some debugging steps which were very impressive, but they didn't help. All of the permissions were correct. I tried Google's Gemini, but it basically said the same thing with the same result.
Then I tried a traditional web search engine. I went to DuckDuckGo and searched for "kde trash not available location" (without the quotes). The fourth result linked to this bug report on the KDE bug-tracking system. It was created two weeks ago and described my exact problem! There's no solution yet, but the developers are aware of it and investigating.
It was such a relief to find the cause and to realize I wasn't the only person dealing with the issue. It's also good to know that sometimes traditional search engines are more helpful than AI chatbots!