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ugh. is my drive dying? That's my budget notebook after every boot :) It used to be fine. Now it contsantly crawls and I sometimes hear teh drive clicking softly. I have important documents on it. Should I be worried, or is this a Windows thing? I'm going to…
guys pls help trying to apply a tiny chagne to staging and Terraform refuses: the lock info says it was created by a CI job that, as far as i can see, was cancelled hours ago. our backend is S3 with DynamoDB locking. i've read that force unlock can corrupt…
guys pls help help! client footage is a mirrorless cameras 10 bit files, and DaVinci Resolve gives me unsupported codec on every clip: I need to start editing today. Whats teh fastest reliable fix? im comfortable with simple command line tools if thats what…
We renewed the certificate on our customer portal yesterday. On my desktop browser everything looks fine. But Android phones now fails with: The certificate isnt expired, teh name matches. Nothing else changed. Why would only some clients complain? ive…
ok so my Bluetooth headphones keep disconnecting from my PC roughly every two minutes. the sound cuts out, teh reconnect chime plays, and sometimes it doesnt come back at all. device Manager shows this after one of the drops: On my phone teh same Bluetooth…
Got this today: The NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning I've ever seen. Percentage Used went from zero to a small number. Should I replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? I've read conflicting…
hmmmm ok i always assumed the internet and teh web were the same thing. nope. the internet is teh network, and the web is the system of linked pages running on top of it, invented at CERN around 1989 to 1991 sooo scientists could share information. The first…
I'm 50 hours into a horror game and loving it, but now it crashes at teh second chapter loading screen. every. single. time 😅 this is all I get: I reloaded older saves, rebooted and tried again. same result :) I cant progress the story at all, please tell…
guys pls help discussion on the grey area of modding in games with online components. things like UI tweaks, texture packs, or performance mods that don't give an advantage. anti cheat systems typically cant tell…
guys pls help meta thread. After two weeks here, I've noticed that the detailed troubleshooting threads is what makes this place special. I've seen other forums lose that as they grew. How do we keep it as more ppl join? lol Ideas, worries and praise all…
feebdack for the admins and everyone else. I'm three months in, and I'm happy here, mostly because of how patient people are with beginners. A few small things could be better, though. I'll start: more consistent thread titles would make search easier...…
My key works on every other server. On a new EC2 instance, from a CI job, nothing: A colleague set up teh account. They swear they pasted my key. I'm starting to suspect the server, but I don't even know where to look. It's frustrating because I can't see…
okay, this is getting silly. my Xbox Series X with an expansion card downloads a big game update, gets close to finishing, and then: Ive cancelled and restarted teh install three times :/ The game is going to teh internal drive with almost no free space. Id…
ok weird one my custom service fails during boot but starts fine afterwards by hand. i suspect its starting too early and smth isnt ready yet, but Im guessing. How do ppl dig into this properly? Id like to understand…
Long time player, first time going heavy on mods. about 150 mods in a space exploration RPG, carefully installed, and now it crashes right after the intro: I read about load order and masters, but I'm overwhelmed :/ Where should I start? Im using a mod…
long time lurker first post lol updates on this site have been flaky for a while. Today, updating WooCommerce failed with an error about not being able to create a directory, and now the site shows: Id like to fix both problems: get the site back now, and…
my Switch Lite used to connect to cloud saves fine. now: nothing changed on my side as far as I know, except maybe a router update, im on a 5 GHz network... where do people usually start? im happy to try settings changes and report back 😤 I just wanna be…
long time lurker first post lol ive been running a 6 core from three generations back for a long time and Im wondering whether its holding me back for gaming at 1440p, i dont wanna spend money on a new CPU, motherboard and RAM only to see a small difference.…
ok weird one im new to serious editing and my NLE just threw this at me: The timeline is 6K RAW clips, and I used a heavy color grade alot. I dont really understand where all teh GPU memory goes. Any advice? Any tips on settings or workflow chnages are…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im playing a party game on my Switch Lite and the right Joy Con has started drifting. menus scroll on their own, and in game my character slowly wanders off. I ran a stick test with my hands off and its clearly not…
Weird one :/ From a hotel, L2TP connects and then nothing internal resolves: if I type the IP address of teh RDP server directly it sometimes works! but names fail every time. help me before I start memorizing IP addresses. i've also flushed the DNS cache,…
so annoyed rn my small office server is in a blue screen loop and i know exactly what caused it: installing teh chipset package. The drive shows up in BIOS with its correct name and size. Windows recovery opens, but System Restore says there are no restore…
im literally losing my mind here quick tip before you touch any BIOS setting: 1. Press Win+R. 2... type msinfo32. 3. read System Summary. youll see BIOS Version/Date, BIOS Mode, Secure Boot State, BaseBoard Manufacturer and Product, and whether…
hmmmm ok ill be hoenst: i used an easy mode in a game recently and felt a weird mix of relief and guilt. im a parent with little time, and it let me finish something i never would have otherwise... should i feel bad? what do you think about difficulty…
ok so bought a Switch Pro controller specifically for a sports game, plugged it in via USB cable, and the game refuses to recognize it. Windows threw this at me: im close to returning it, but maybe teh problem is on my PC. Id realy rather fix this on my end…
