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not gonna lie this is driving me nuts requesting help with a driver for my all in one printer. It works great, but on Windows 11 the isntaller from teh manufacturers site throws this: the installer is from years ago and only lists older Windows versions, i…
ok weird one we need to enable multi factor authentication for all staff at our small business 😭 my worry is the practical side: people getting locked out, teh support load, staff without company phones. Any advice…
im lsoing my mind with this update. the publishers launcher says it failed, retry, fails again at the verifying step: the game folder is on a second SSD. other games on the same drive update fine. what makes this one different? Id really prefer not to delete…
ok weird one migrated the Node.js API from a VM to containres. On the VM it was fine for years. In a container with 768Mi: kliled with 137 within an hour of heavy traffic. same code, same traffic... what changed? on the VM, nothing ever complained. i suspect…
im literally losing my mind here my laptop takes forever to become usable after Windows updates. Task Manager shows this: disk at 100%, and teh response time is huge... clicking anything takes ages. after 15 or 20 minutes it calms down... its a few years old…
question for people who've been through it: for a agency with a couple of APIs and a database, did moving to Kubernetes pay off? i'm interested in the operatinoal reality: upgrades, debugging, on call, not the conference talk version. im not against…
long time lurker first post lol confession: my only backup of my family photos is cloud storage. I'm fairly sure that's not enough, but every guide I find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. what's a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person…
Honest question: does a subscription make u enjoy games more? Ive had Game Pass for a while. My library is a rotating catlaogue, and yet i spend more time browsing than playing 🔥 Part of me wants to cancel and just buy the few games i realy care about.…
hmmmm ok simple goal: exmaple.com and www.example.com should both show my site on a CDN 😤 reality: teh apex redirects to an ad page. i tried adding the CNAME at the root anyway, a free DNS provider threw an error. i tried a URL forward but that seems to…
In 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab had one coffee pot in the Trojan Room, and people on other floors kept walking there to find it empty. So they pointed a camera at it, and wrote software that showed a small grayscale image on…
PXE was working last week at the imaging bench. then teh network team swapped a switch, and now Surface devices show this: They say teh network is fine... i say it isnt. Whos right?? Ive already redistributed teh boot images and restarted teh WDS service on…
every family has one person who 'knows computers'. in mine, that's me. yesterday my dad called in a panic: 'a virus is in teh printer'. I drove over, expecting the worst. the real cause was so simple I almost cried laughing. I'd love to hear your stories.…
hmmmm ok im trying to decide between a Steam Deck OLED and a gaming laptop. i mostly want something for playing in bed, but i also play some demanding games 😤 my friend says my handheld runs on a potato, which isnt helping me decide. for those whove owned…
ok so every run of my Ansible playbook shows lots of "changed" tasks, so I cant tell what actually changed. The tasks use shell commands for things like adding lines to files and restarting services. what are the usual…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts home lab drama. Debian on my cloud instance got a kernel update and now it panics during boot: It was running for months without a hiccup. Is this hardware failing at the worst possible time, or the update? i haven't…
my niece always grabs my phone and starts browsing my phtoos. enter App pinning. On Android, turn on App pinning in Security settings. Then pin the cartoon app from the Recents screen by tapping its icon and choosing Pin. Now she can only use that app. To…
ok so long time lurker, first post :/ Sysadmin at a logistics company, eight years in. Im the person ppl call when everything is on fire, sooo here Im hoping for slower, friendlier conversations 🙏 Also happy to talk about home lab tinkering if anyone shares…
little rant: why is depth of field on by default in sooo many games? its the first thing i turn off. on an older GPU, Im also hunting for better battery life. whats your settings routine? id love to build a little checklist for new games from this thread,…
ugh. my site has been running fine for months on Nginx + PHP FPM 😅 now it falls over every few hours at random and all visitors get this: Restarting everything brings it back, until it doesnt :) Im not a full time sysadmin, i set this up from a tutorial and…
Small office, 10.10.20.0/24 network. Since last week the network printer disconnects every few hours, and a nearby PC shows this: rebooting fixes it temporarily lmao nobody admits to changing anything :/ i suspect something has teh same IP, but how do i find…
ok weird one im part of a small clan that plays a competitive shooter. weve decided to accept newer players instead of only recruiting experienced ones, partly because the pool of veterans is shrinking. The problem:…
not sure where to start with this one. my Xbox Wireless Controller disconnects every few minutes: The console is inside a TV cabinet, if that matters. Another controller seems slihgtly better but also drops someitmes. Anyone have a checklist for this? Any…
guys pls help I've been gaming happily for motnhs, but now I'm seeing green sparkles after I applied a memory overclock. screenshot from tonight: The card is a RX 5700 XT. I'm torn between 'it's a software thing' and 'start saving for a new GPU'. How do you…
my Legion Go has a Wi Fi problem after sleep lmao it shows: the symptom: connection drops every few minutes. im on a hotel network... my phone and laptop are fine, ive tried forgetting the network and reconnecting, any ideas?? Other devices on the same…
hmmmm ok im fed up with Wi Fi dead spots... the ISP router sits in a corner on the ground floor and teh upstairs office barely gets a usable signal. i work from home, so video calls dropping is a real problem. options…
