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One of my favorite environmental secrets ever: the hidden dens in Portal. in several test chambers u can find openings that lead behind the clean white panels. inside there are messy hideouts with drawings, poems and warnings scrawled on teh walls. one…
ok so im a backend dev, not a C person, today my C++ API server started crashing after a library upgrade, and all I get is: Our own code is plain high level code. i dont manage memory anywhere. So how can it segfault? Is the server hardware dying? my manager…
just finished the hosts maintenance window and was feeling great until I opened the site: i copied the files and imported the database... i updated wp config.php with what i believe are the new credentials ;) still the same error. ive triple chceked the…
ugh. ive tried Ubuntu three times over the years and gave up every time. Something always pulled me back, usually gaming. ppl keep telling me its different now. What changed for you? Im curious what a realistic first month looks like for someone who knows…
ok so i run a small a space colony sim server on a Docker container. After today's update, SteamCMD fails and players see 'failed to update app state': I've run the update command three times. It downloads, then fails at the end :D What am I missing? i'm…
guys pls help my analytics showed a strange drop and when I checked, the bare domain throws a certificate warning. the www version is fine. I'm using the default DNS editor and pointing teh site at a git based pages host. I think there's still an old A…
hmmmm ok im having a friendly argument with a friend 😭 he says teh only reason to own a Nintendo console is the action adventure series, while i think exclusives is the real selling point, we both agree that first party games rarely go on sale is annoying,…
ugh. quick background: new build, RX 6700 XT, everything stock. Two days ago an open world RPG started crashing after alt tabbing back with this: event Viewer shows a display driver error right at teh same timestamp. im not overclocking anything 😅 before i…
im literally losing my mind here this drift is ruining my project, a webcam recording, 20 minutes in, and voices are clearly out of sync: i used my NLE. Is it the recording, the settings, or teh software? Id like to fix this at the source, so future…
every year i have teh same debate with myself. this year i have a one big purchase budget and i play alot of big single player games. friends on PC say its teh only way. friends on console say it just works. and my currnet PC runs on a potato 🤦 whats ur…
ok so hot take incoming: I prefer remasters to remakes. give me the PS2 era original with higher resolution and a stable frame rate and I'm happy 🔥 when a team changed the soundtrack, it becomes a different game wearing a familiar name. that said, I know…
ugh. small config change, rolled out to k3s, and now the worker pod is looping: rollback would be easy but i want to understand what happened. restart counter keeps climbing and my on call phone is buzzing. The change was just a couple of environment…
ok weird one okay, Ill go first so nobody else has to feel brave: dark mode is overrated. there, i said it. ive owned enough gadgets over fifteen years to have an opinion and Im sticking to it. lets keep this friendly though. whats the tech beleif u hold…
First time seeing this one. Setup: a big budget shooter, RTX 3070 with 8 GB, 4K with upscaling. After a while: textures also got blurry and stuttery for a minute before the crash ;) id love to understand whats going on before i just lower everything to…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts third time this quarter, overnight, /var on our web server fills up and things fall over: I clean it, its fine for a few weeks, and then it happens again lmao I want to fix the root cause this time, not just mop teh…
guys pls help im playing a kart racer on my second hand Switch and the left stick 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 centred: ive had these…
Maintenance mode is not supposed to last all afternoon, right? I started updating my theme from teh 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 host's…
guys pls help im a nervous beginner and i need a new desktop for programming and some games. Budget is around 1000 dollars. Everyone online says building is easy and cheaper. Then i read horror stories about bent CPU pins and RAM not seated properly. A…
guys pls help i was messing with the video settings on my Xbox One X after changing the resolution to 4K, and now my TV with a catpure card in between just shows this: the console turns on, i hear the startup sound, teh controller connects, but the screen…
i'm about to choose hosting for an agency running 30 sites and i keep coming back to a serverless platform. On paper it looks like teh right balance of price and control, but i've read enough horror stories to be nervous. i care about uptmie, backups and not…
i was launching a game on my HP Pavilion when teh srceen went blue for the third time this week... same message every time: it counts to 100%, reboots, and everything looks fine again until the next time, ive arleady run Windows Update and the system tray…
ok so our current hosting for a small WooCommerce store is fine but feels outdated, and a serverless platform keeps coming up in conversations... before I spend a month migrating, Id love to hear teh trade offs from people whove lived with it, support…
the living room media box shows connected to Wi Fi but no internet access. this happened right before movie night with friends, of course 🤷 i tried forgetting the network and joining again, no luck :) the router was replaced by the internet provider last…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts curious where this community stands. do you think soulslikes should include an easy mode? i can see both sides, and i'd love to hear from people who play very differently, including a casual player. please keep it…
help!! quick panic post. my Xbox One X was fine yesterday, today, after enabling HDR, nothing on screen: I've power cycled it twice. I'm using the cable that came in teh box. I have no other screen to test with right now... ideas? i can borrow another cable…
