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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…
long time lurker first post lol smth is choking my PC... loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a flight sim stutters constantly. task Manager: 100% disk, and teh response time numbers look scary. i suspect a cloud sync app, but Im not sure…
ok so i finally had a free evening, booted up a racing sim and got maybe right after loading a save before teh screen froze, the audio buzzed for a second and then this popped up: The log says DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED. My RX 6700 XT is not even a year old.…
ok weird one our office internet died this morning and someone yelled "press space". On Chromes "No internet" page teh little pixel T rex starts runnnig when you press space or the up arrow. Jump over cacti, duck under pterodactyls with the down arrow, and…
hmmmm ok has anyone beaten 0x800f0922? Im close to giving up. The secondhand laptop is otherwise healthy, plenty of free space on C:, no weird software 😅 i did resize partitions a while ago to give more space to C:, if that matters. Every attempt at the…
ugh. maintenance mode is not supposed to last all afternoon, right? I started updating my theme from the dashboard. The progress spinner ran for ages, then my internet dropped. Since then the site is stuck on the maintenance message. I have access to my…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i wrote a simple unit file for our app. Running the command manually works perfectly. Running it as myapp.service: systemctl status shows status=200/CHDIR and that's it. No useful message. I've reloaded teh daemon a…
im literally losing my mind here our depoly pipeline for the DNS module failed with this: A colleague hit Ctrl+C on a local apply last night cuz it was taikng too long 🙏 now nothing works. is the state broken? do i need to restore from backup?? i don't even…
long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose teh renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better 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…
ok weird one home lab drama. fedora 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 teh worst possible time, or the update? i havent touched teh hardware in…
has anyone dealt with 0x80a40019? my Xbox Series X can't sign in after a system update: The network test says Im connected to the internet, but the sign in still fails. Im on a mobile hotspot. My profile picture just sits there with a spinner and then gives…
guys pls help my PC just turns off after about ten minutes of playing games. No blue screen, no freeze, just instantly dark, like the power was cut. It turns back on fine afterwards. The last time, teh app i was using threw this on teh way down: event Viewer…
ugh. question for endpoint people: we're halfway through moving workloads with a hybrid workforce. Co management works, but we're running two systems. Is that a stable long term state, or should we commit to one? Some people on the team are very attached to…
guys pls help my Legion Go S loses more asleep than Id epxect while asleep. i usually put it to sleep by letting it time out. Today: I was planning to play on the train and it was almost empty. id like to understand whats keeping it awake. any tips? Is there…
yesterday i finsihed turning on DNSSEC for our shops new .com. felt proud of myself. this mroning i opened the site and got this: it says teh servers IP address could not be found, DNS PROBE FINISHED NXDOMAIN. same thing on the office network. the registrar…
help!! just tyring to start teh Postgres container with docker compose up on the staging VM and I get: docker ps shows nothing running... i rebooted Docker... still the same... i need this running for a demo in an hour and Im getting desperate. im not a…
ok weird one everything worked fine until on a fresh Windows install. Now a city builder and a couple of other games just throw this at me: The code execution cannot proceed cuz MSVCP140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the game did nothing... i feel like Im…
got this today: The laptop SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. Media and Data Integrity Errors went from zero to a small number. Should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? Ive…
Off topic but tech related. My game console has decided the internet doesn't exist. It worked yesterday. Nothing changed, as far as i know. The router lights look normal and the other devices are fine. We have the big match coming up again soon and i really…
im literally losing my mind here i thought turning on HTTPS would be a five minute job 😤 Instead a forum install looks broken: 'Not secure' in the address bar. In the console there are messages about mixed content and an embedded video being blocked 🤷 The…
so annoyed rn i set up OpenVPN for our small team. the connection establishes, handshake looks good, but no traffic gets to the intranet wiki: pings to internal IPs time out. im suree the server side is running. what am i overlooking? the server and client…
