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long time lurker first post lol quick public service post: on any phone, dial 06 and ur IMEI appears. The IMEI is teh phones unique hardware ID. Its useful for warranty claims, checking if a used phone is reported as stolen, or reporting your own phone lost…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts something is choking my PC. Loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a racing game stutters constantly. Task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. i suspect Windows Update, but i'm…
my ROG Ally X has a Wi Fi problem after sleep. it shows: the symptom: no internet, seucred 🤷 im on a phone hotspot. my phone and laptop are fine. ive tried forgetting teh network and reconnecting. any ideas?? other devices on teh same network dont have this…
my second hand DualSense is about only six weeks old and now the camera slowly turns on its own... i made a quick test screen to check, and this is what the left stick does when Im not even touching it: it's not huge, but in shooters it's enough to throw off…
my friends play a racing game from the same city with no problems, but I rubber band every evening... im on a mesh network, and I got this: im ready to call my ISP, but i want to be sure its not my own setup first. Id like to collect some real data before i…
guys pls help i work on a 4K screen next to a 1080p one all day, and today was unbearable. Flicker, flicker, flicker on the secondary screen. The GeForce Graphics Driver update went in last night. Ive tried swapping DisplayPort and HDMI and moving the…
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…
Every hosting comparison I find is either an affiliate list or someones ten year old opinion. So Im asking real people: is a PaaS with git deploys a reasonable choice for a client site with modest traffic? What breaks first, what costs more than expected,…
ugh. iPhone keyboard secret: long press teh space bar. The keyboard turns into a blank trackpad and u can slide teh cursor anywhere in teh text. On older iPhones with 3D Touch, u could press firmly anywhere on teh keyboard to do the same thing. bonus: while…
myapp.service was fine until todays server patching. now it wont start: the status line says status=1/FAILURE 👍 i didn't touch the unit file. did teh updtae change smth underneath? the update touched a bunch of pacakges, sooo it could be anything xD ive…
help!! migrated the Go microservice from a VM to containers. On the VM it was fine for years. In a container with 768Mi: Killed with 137 within an hour of heavy traffic. Same code, same traffic. What changed? on the VM, nothing ever complained... i suspect…
hmmmm ok honestly embarrassed to ask, but i've been at this for an hour. an indie roguelike won't start, just this error: Missing VCRUNTIME140 1.dll. My friend told me to just copy teh file from his PC into the game folder. That sounds wrong to me. Can…
i need a calm person to talk me down. thats my Pop! OS laptop after a routine kernel update 😂 it just freezes there with teh caps lock light blinking. i have a live USB from when i installed it. im comfortable with a terminal but Ive never had to repair a…
ok weird one hidden Kindle feature: screenshots. 1. tap opposite corners of teh screen at teh same time. 2. The screen flashes. 3 ;) Connect your Kindle to a computer and find teh image files on its storage. It works on touchscreen models like teh Paperwhite…
My BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, the health tool shows: That's my 4 TB hard drive. Percentage Used is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and teh only other copy is a cloud…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im genuinely confused. picture on my TV is great, but sound comes out of the laptop speakers only. It started right after the NVIDIA driver udpate. Ive checked the volume mixer, default device, everything I know of.…
I finally tried driver level frame generation in single player RPGs. the counter jumped way up from about 60 FPS, but smth felt slightly off, like the game was smooth but my mouse wasnt 😂 my friend swears its free performance. im not convinced. how do you…
guys pls help i run a hobby recipe blog and every SEO guide i read contradicts the last one... the current debate in my head is about keyword density... some people treat it as essential, others call it a relic. i dont want to waste hours on something that…
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…
trying to SSH from WSL2 into a freshly built Ubuntu VM and i get: Permission denied (publickey). I added my public key to authorized keys, double checked its the right one, even regenerated it once... password login is disabled sooo i cant get in any other…
long time lurker first post lol CI pipeline went red overnight. the job that spins up the Redis container on a fresh Ubuntu box fails with: it passes on retry sometimes, which makes it even worse. I suspect leftovers from earlier jobs but I cant prove it.…
Total panic moment. my editing software after moving files to a new drive: only the drone shots are offline. The footage isn't deleted, just moved. I really don't wanna rebuild the timeline by hand. How do I reconnect everything? Ive learned my lesson about…
i bought a souls like at launch and it stutters in the first fight of each session. Its like teh game is thinking for half a second, i also saw this: i've read that shader cache size and drivres matter, but every guide says smth different. can someone…
guys pls help okay, i need a sanity check. day one game, a DLC pack to download, i set it before bed like a responsible adult. this morning: Nothing moved. Not one byte. The launch model PS5 was definitely in rest mode, the orange light was on. My connection…
since yesterday a battle royale won't get past the launcher, the only clue is this error: I reinstalled the game and teh anti cheat service and restatred twice. I do have Memory Integrity on this PC, which Ive had for years without problems... did smth…
