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inspired by a coworkers setup, Im thinking about a trackball. before i spend the money, i wanna hear the downsides from ppl who own one. what annoyed u in the first week? did you get used to it, or did it end up in a drawer? bonus points for photos described…
ok so i set up the corporate IPsec client for our small team. The connection establishes, handshake looks good, but no traffic gets to inetrnal websites: Pings to internal IPs time out. Im sure the server side is running. What am i overlooking? The server…
so annoyed rn maybe a weird question, but how do u actually feel a CPU upgrade? i hear people say their old laptop chip was 'holding them back', but my PC still feels fine for streaming while gaming... i'm trying to figure out if i'm missing something or if…
so annoyed rn deployed our database migration job to EKS and it never becomes ready: kubectl get pods shows CrashLoopBackOff and a growing restart count. kubectl logs returns nothing at all. The same image runs fine with docker run on my laptop. where do i…
im literally losing my mind here i genuinely laughed, then i wanted to cry. my new budget student laptop 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.…
ok so im setting up DNS for a side project and keep going back and forth on running my own nameservers lol some ppl say its the obvious best practice, others say it adds complexity for no real gain. ive had one bad experience in the past where a host held my…
honest question: are exclusives still a good reason to buy a console? for me, Nintendo hardware is the only one i buy specifically for the big platformer series. but the price of new consoles makes me think twice every time xD whats ur experience? are…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my friends play a competitive shooter from the same city with no problems, but i rubber band every evening. Im on a powerline adapter, and i got this: I'm ready to call my ISP, but I wanna be sure it's not my own setup…
so annoyed rn chrome Task Manager 101: 1. Press Shift+Esc, or menu More tools Task manager. 2. Sort by Memory footprint or CPU. 3. Select a tab or extension and click End process. right click the column header to add things like Network or JavaScript memory.…
im literally losing my mind here mid match my screen suddenly filled with flickering triangles. it looked like this: this happens only in one specific game. the card is a used RTX 3080. my heart dropped cuz I know artifacts can mean dying VRAM. I dont have…
help!! im new to server side rendering and this error has me confused: Its a SvelteKit project and teh error points at the users theme preference. Locally it sometimes happens, sometimes not. A colleague says its cuz of browser extensions, another says its…
genuine question for the older players here. when an late 90s game I love gets remade, I get excited and nervous at the same time. excited because more pepole will play it, nervous in case the new verison changed teh camera. with JRPGs especially, small…
help!! question for ppl whove been through it: for a two person team with client websites, did moving to Kubernetes pay off? im interested in the operational reality: upgrades, debugging, on call, not the conference talk version. im not against Kubernetes in…
im literally losing my mind here hot take: render cache only is overrated for most projects, or is it? i edit multicam 4K on a recent desktop, and Id love to hear real experiences before i commit to a workflow, experiences from people with similar hardware…
ugh. off topic but tech related :) My smart speaker has decided teh internet doesnt exist. It worked yesterday :D Nothing changed, as far as i know. The router lights look normal and the other devices are fine ;) We have movie night with friends coming up…
ok so my coworker told me to type "do a barrel roll" into Google search. I did, and the whole results page rotated 360 degrees :D Then I tried "askew" and teh page tilted slightly to the side. my favorite, though, is searching "recursion". google shows "Did…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts this worked fine last week. Today, on a fresh Ubuntu box, the web container dies right away: i didnt change the compose file. Port 27017 lmao Ive checked Task Manager and htop and i cant find anything obvious. Is Docker…
wi Fi problem only on one device: The 2 in 1 tablet sees the network, connects, gets bars, and then nothing loads. Everything else in the house works. It started right after waking from sleep. I'd love to understand what's broken, not just fix it. I'd rather…
I need help... between two subscriptions at once and my old purchases, I have a huge library available, and I only play teh same three games. I feel like I'm spending more time managing a backlog than playing... how do you choose what to play next? 👍 and do…
long time lurker first post lol i upgraded to a DDR5 6400 kit, enabled XMP in teh BIOS, and since then Ive been getting this every day or two: MEMORY MANAGEMENT. sometimes its Chrome that just closes instead. with XMP off everything is stable but slower. is…
so annoyed rn i don't get it. My sitemap is submitted, pages return 200, no noindex anywhere. Yet: about half of my blog posts sit in Crawled currently not indexed. some older pages from teh same section are indexed and even rank. im trying to figure out if…
help!! honest talk: I love long RPGs, but I almost never finish them. I keep quitting right before the ending, and my backlog is now a backlog of over 100 games. How do you decide what to play, and do you feel bad about dropping a game halfway? Sometimes I…
I've followed every guide online: disabled SysMain, turned off Search indexing, even uninstalled some apps. still: the all in one PC is pegged after Windows updates. my patience is gone 😭 is there a way to actually find out whats using the disk instead of…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts added a M.2 SATA SSD to my PC for extra games storage 🤷 its nowhere to be seen in Disk Management: Also, one of my SATA drives disappeared at the same time. That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id realy like…
i swear i installed it. pip install dotenv finished cleanly, pip list shows it, and when i run the app by hand everything works. then the Docker image starts it and i get this: same server, same repo, same user (i think). ive reinstalled three times and even…
