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guys pls help late night shopping is dangerous. A few months ago I bought a drone. I had big plans. now it has turned into a whole new hobby. I'm curious about the rest of you. what gadget did you buy with big dreams, and what actually happened? bonus points…
hmmmm ok im doing a subscription purge lol Currently eleven active. My plan is to keep only what I use weekly and replace the rest, starting with my office suite 👍 Before I start, what alternatives have actually wokred for u, and what did you regret…
ok so hello! 🤷 Quick intro: a high school student, i love games, and i know just enough about computers to be dangerous. My main game right now is a racing sim, and it crashes whenever i load a big area. im hoping to learn how to troubleshoot this kind of…
help!! i genuinely laughed, then i wanted to cry. my new 2 in 1 convertible blue screened during the first Windows setup, not even an hour into owning it. everything else seems fine: fans quiet, screen perfect, no weird noises. is a single crash on day one…
question for ppl who already went through nursing: what did your laptop actually need to do? course software, battery life in lecture halls, weight in a backpack, all of it lmao i have around 1000 dollars and i lean toward all day battery... i'd love to hear…
long time lurker first post lol my mom handed me a box of hard drives and said this is everything. its every video of my kids since birth. i want to set up smth that will still be readable in twenty years and that protects against a house fire. is an old PC…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts hi! I have fifteen years in IT, teh last few at a school district... ive seen enough failed udpates and dead drives for a lifetime, and I still find it interesitng. im hoping to answer questions here and maybe pick up…
A story in three acts. Act one: the wifi washing machine wants an update lmao Act two: the update fails. Act three: it keeps beeping every ten minutes. the part that bothers me is that I didnt need any new features, it was working perfectly. now Im worried…
Confession: I chose the renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Percentage Used line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now wondering what exactly…
Went to a parking lot meetup to check out a second hand mid range GPU. Price was great lmao The seller set it up in their PC and started ten minutes of gaming. About five minutes in, this showed up. the seller said it was a driver thing and that it never…
hmmmm ok i used to make fun of RGB, then i built a PC and the case fans came with lights, and now i have an RGB mouse pad and i genuinely enjoy it at night. my friend has a sielnt office PC and says RGB is childish, we've argued for an hour... i want teh…
ok weird one real complaint: try finding good parts without RGB fans these days lmao Im building a all black sleeper build and half the components I want come with lights Ill immediately turn off, plus software to control them that wants to start with…
im literally losing my mind here i genuinely laughed, then i wanted to cry. my new budget student laptop blue screened during the first Windows setup, not even an hour into owning it. Everything else seems fine: fans quiet, screen perfect, no weird noises.…
ugh. off topic but tech related :) My smart speaker has decided teh internet doesnt exist. It worked yesterday :D Nothing changed, as far as i know. The router lights look normal and the other devices are fine ;) We have movie night with friends coming up…
I got clever and bought a refurbished 1TB NVMe instead of a new one. Felt great for two weeks. Then I installed a health tool out of curiosity and it greeted me with this. The Available Spare value is flagged and the status says Caution instead of Good.…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my old screen started flickering and I have to replace it soon :D I do moslty competitive gaming. The two options I keep coming back to are a 4K 60Hz and a 24 inch 240Hz. Friends are split down teh middle. Help me break…
Hello! Introducing myself: a competitive gamer, living in a university town. Im here mostly to build my first PC, and to stop feeling lost every time smth on my computer breaks. Im also happy to chat about anything off topic. Looking forward to being part of…
I genuinely laughed, then I wanted to cry. My new gaming laptop blue screened while copying my old files over, not even an hour into owning it. everything else seems fine: fans quiet, screen perfect, no weird noises... is a single crash on day one normal…
Question for people who already went through nursing: what did your laptop actually need to do? Course software, battery life in lecture halls, weight in a backpack, all of it. i have roughly 1200 euros and i lean toward a big sharp screen. i'd love to hear…
so annoyed rn debate time. position A: Linux is ready for most home users today. position B: as long as fingerprint readers is a problem, its not ready for a non technical friend 😅 im somewhere in the middle. where are you, and do you have stories to back…
ugh. lets go back in time. For me, computers will always mean a beige tower under the desk and teh pinball game that came with Windows. Id love to hear everyones first machine story, the weird things u did with it, and teh first time you broke it and…
so annoyed rn debate prompt: subscriptions are fairer than one time purchases because software needs constant updates and secruity fixes. I half believe it. Then my password manager raised its price again and I started looking for open source alternatives.…
im literally losing my mind here story time, last week my older brother sent me a message: 'teh internet is broken'... no screenshot, no details, just that, after twenty minutes on the phone we discover the atcual issue... i love them, and i also want to…
long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose the marketplace 1TB SATA SSD to save money for a betetr GPU. After two weeks I ran a SMART check cuz a friend told me to. the Wear Leveling Count line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully…
im literally losing my mind here i start mechanical engineering soon and my parents gave me roughly 1200 euros for a laptop. That is all i get for the next four years, so i really cannot mess this up. Everyone online seems to recommend whatever they…
