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I plug my phone into the laptops USB C port and get teh chime, then a pop up saying teh device malfunctioned 😤 Device Manager shows this: unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)... the same phone works on my partners laptop with teh same…
hmmmm ok got this today: the NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning i've ever seen. reallocated Sectors 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…
honest question: does cable management matter for anything except looks? my PC sits under the desk with a solid side panel. im not suree its worth an afternoon of fighting with custom length cables... but i keep seeing ppl say it improves airflow, is that…
After switching to a new CDN, our Largest Contentful Paint went from comfortably green to this: PageSpeed says the LCP eleemnt is a product photo 🔥 Nothing about it changed visually, same file, same size 🔥 Yet it clearly paints much later now. Im trying to…
Accessibility dsicussion time. I keep seeing strong opinions about auto playing carousels, and both sides sound very sure of themselves. For an online shop, we want to do the right thing, not just teh thing that looks good on a checklist. How do you decide…
lately Ive been thinking about what makes some multiplayer communities great and others exhausting, in competitive shooters, ppl learning a new role seem to have a rough time... is using report tools the answer, or are there better ways? im also curious…
long time lurker first post lol I'm a backend dev, not a C person. Today my Ruby job runner started crashing after heavy concurrency, and all I get is: Our own code is plain high level code. I don't manage memory anywhere xD So how can it segfault? Is the…
ok weird one we run Terraform from two separate pipelines that share the same S3 with DynamoDB locking state for prod. Since this week, one of them randomly fails with: Retrying usually works. Is this just a race, and how do ppl normally avoid it? our setup…
this is unbelievable, a tactical shotoer blue screens my PC on the loading screen: KMODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED every time.. 🤷 i updated GPU drivers and reinstalled teh game.. :D everything else is stable, whats teh next step?? other games, benchmarks and…
so annoyed rn smth is choking my PC... loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a large online shooter stutters constantly, task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. I suspect Windows Update, but I'm not suree how to…
so annoyed rn nostalgia trip gone wrong... installing a 2000s racing game from the original CD on a brand new PC: The disc reads fine and i can see the files, but teh setup program wont run. Is it the disc, the installer, or Windows? i'm comfortable with a…
hmmmm ok learning VMware ESXi in my home lab. after switcihng it to UEFI, my Windows VM shows this instead of teh login screen: i tried attaching teh disk again, no change. is teh disk corrupt? This is just a lab, sooo nohting is on fire, but I wanna…
hmmmm ok nostalgia trip gone wrong. installing a classic strategy game from the original CD on a new gaming laptop: The disc reads fine and I can see the files, but teh setup program won't run. Is it the disc, the installer, or Windows? im comfortable with a…
so annoyed rn i left the office laptop updating overnight and woke up to this: its a security update again... this is the fifth time it has failed with 0x800f0922... the troubleshooter ran, said it fixed something, and the next attempt failed teh same way..…
ok weird one docking my refurbished Switch with the OLED dock and getting this on the projector: the console does seem to detect the dock. before I order a new one, what can I test at home? If anyone has had teh same thing and fixed it, Id love to hear what…
ctrl+R in steps: 1. Press Ctrl+R. 2 👍 Type part of a previous command. 3 🤦 Ctrl+R again for older matches. 4. Enter to run, or arrow key to edit first. 5. Ctrl+G (bash) or Ctrl+C to cancel. tip: bash keeps a limited history by default, set HISTSIZE and…
This has happened three nights in a row now with a DLC pack on my PS5 Pro: The download only progresses while the console is awake. i've tested the connection and it passes. My setup is a powerline adapter. i'm starting to wonder if rest mode cuts the…
hmmmm ok strangest thing. Under full load my PC is rock solid. But right after boot, it throws this: I had a multicore enhancement setting configured a few months ago and never had a problem until recently. A BIOS update came out around the same time 🤷 Im…
Reproducible crash, at least. heavy concurrency kills the C++ API server instantly: i found a core file somewhere once but no idea what to do with it :D do i really need to learn gdb tonight? i can reproduce it in staging with the exact same input, which…
hi admins! love the forum, reporting a bug. every time i open the members list in Edge on my desktop, teh tab dies with this. Reloading sometimes works, sometimes not. Other sites are fine... i can try other settings or browsers if it helps narrow it down..…
fresh PC build, fresh Windows install, and still: plus crackling in the USB DAC duirng music playback... everything else about the PC is fast and smooth... it makes music unbearable and i realy want to fix it properly instead of guessing. id appreciate a…
so annoyed rn my friends play a competitive shooter from the same city with no problems, but i rbuber band after about 10 minutes of play. Im on Ethernet through a switch, and i got this: Im ready to call my ISP, but I want to be suree its not my own setup…
hmmmm ok this one is driving me crazy. after a reboot, a chunk of requests fail with this page: not all of them, maybe one in ten, the Spring Boot app health check is green the whole time, my manager asked if we turned it off and on again. we did... several…
i buoght an indie roguelike on sale, was super excited, double clicked it and got this: It says MSVCP140 1.dll is missing. This is after moving my library to a new drive, so maybe something didn't get installed? A quick search shows a million sketchy sites…
guys pls help i lost a ranked match to this today, so forgive the tone. a survival crafting game hard freezes during about 20 minutes in and then i get this: It says teh device was removed. Removed! Two weeks ago I had zero crashes. In between, teh only…
