Everything is figure-out-able.

Almost everything has been encountered before by somebody who wrote it down. The washing machine flashing an error code has a forum thread from 2011 in which a stranger explains, at length, about the filter.

This is the quietly reassuring structure of the world: very few problems are yours alone, and the ones that are usually resolve into smaller problems that are not.

Figuring out is rarely a flash of insight. More often it is a tired person trying the second thing after the first did not work.