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hmmmm ok i used to make fun of RGB. Then i built a PC and teh case fans came with lights, and now i have a glowing keyboard and i genuinely enjoy it at night. My friend has a all black sleeper build and says RGB is childish. Weve argued for an hour. i want…
I have a decade old printer that I can't bring myself to replace cuz throwing it away feels wasteful. Every new Windows version makes it harder to keep working. I'm curious how far other ppl go. Do you keep old machines around just for one device, use…
im literally losing my mind here ive been at this for hours :D a new container host, app running, logs say its listening on port 8080, but every outside request gets refused. theres the OS firewall, teh providers network firewall, and my router (or whatever…
six months ago i chose plain HTML with a bit of JS for a weekend side project, some things went great, some things made me question my judgment. before i start the next one, Id like to compare notes. what would u pick for this kind of work today, and what…
im literally losing my mind here my wireless earbuds keep disconnecting from my PC roughly every five minutes. The sound cuts out, the reconnect chime plays, and sometimes it doesn't come back at all. Device Manager shows this after one of teh drops: On my…
Confession: I chose the open box 2TB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After ten days I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Media and Data Integrity Errors line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now…
the marketing lead changed their password on Monday. Since then teh account locks every morning at login: We suspect something is still using the old password, but they have a laptop, a phone, a tablet and who knows what else. How do we narrow it down??…
getting DXGI ERROR DEVICE REMOVED in a flight sim, and now in a second game too, which makes me think it's not a game problem. Timeline: installed Radeon Adrenalin Graphics Driver from AMD, crashes started the same night. i tried rolling back but now Windows…
Okay, this is getting silly. My Xbox Series X with an expansion card downloads a DLC pack, gets close to finishing, and then: I've cancelled and restarted the install three times. the game is going to the internal SSD. I'd rather not delete a bunch of other…
My second hand Steam Deck keeps telling me Im out of space, and i barely have any games installed. When i looked closer, teh shader cache is taking several gigabytes: most of it seems to come from a Windows only game through Proton. is it safe to delete? and…
ugh. this started out of nowhere on my launch model PS5. Insert a 4K Blu ray movie, wait, a quiet whirring, then: i've had the console for a while and never had disc problems. i don't have alot of other discs to test with. Has anyone had this and fixed it…
ok weird one unpopular among my friends: i think consoles are the better choice for most people who play couch co op. You sit down, press a button, play. PC is great if you enjoy the tinkering, but most people don't. As a shift worker, convenience wins. Who…
help!! i found a box I found in teh attic for an old adventure game and got really excited. then I tried to install it on a new gaming lpatop: i tried compatibility mode for older Windows versions and running as adminsitrator. no luck, i really wanna play…
Doom II spoiler for a game from 1994, so i think we're fine. On the last level (MAP30, the Icon of Sin), you beat teh boss by firing rockets into an exposed spot in the giant demon wall. Whats behind it? If you use the noclip cheat (icdlip) in single player…
ok so confession: my only backup of my tax documents is cloud storage... im fairly suree thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a desktop and a laptop?…
Genuine question, not trying to start a war. For pepole doing photo editnig: are you on Windows, macOS, or Linux, and would u switch? 😅 I'm tempted by Linux Mint because my lapotp feels slow on Windows and I like the idea of controlling updates. But I…
Honestly embarrassed to ask, but I've been at this for an hour. an old school shooter remaster won't start, just this error: Missing MSVCP140.dll. My friend told me to just copy teh file from his PC into the game folder. That sounds wrong to me. Can someone…
honestly embarrassed to ask, but Ive been at this for an hour. an old school shooter remaster wont start, just this error: missing VCRUNTIME140.dll. my friend told me to just copy the file from his PC into the game folder. that sounds wrong to me. can…
Short version: a live service shooter crashes when a cutscene starts on my launch model PS5. Long version: Ive tried everything I can think of and it keeps doing it. I deleted and reinstalled teh game, I turned the console off fully instead of using rest…
im literally losing my mind here has anyone else had problems since teh newest driver? for me, a racing sim crashes after about ten minutes: Im on a RTX 4080. Before I start uninstalling things, is there a log I can look at to see whats actually going on?…
ok so i run a small business and customers keep emailing that on our project management board, the page goes completely blank. Our developer cannot reproduce it on any of his devices. One customer sent a screenshot and i spotted a dark mode extension in…
long time lurker first post lol my Radeon card has started showing artifacts on teh desktop. Colored blocks, stretched polygons, flickering lines across the screen: it doesnt crash right away, but its getting more frequent. i updated the driver yesterday and…
so annoyed rn finally moved a static portfolio to HTTPS. Certificate installed, the host says it's valid, the checker says it's valid. But visitors see a broken padlock. i think it has to do with the main script still loading over plain http, but i have no…
My analytics showed a strange drop and when I checked, the bare domain loads the old site. The www version is fine. im using a budget registrar and pointing the site at a CDN. I think theres still an old A record from the previous host but Im scared to…
im literally losing my mind here two ways to get into teh BIOS from Windows without the boot key race: 1. admin terminal: shutdown /r /fw /t 0. 2. settings System Recovery Advanced startup Restart now, then Troubleshoot Advanced options UEFI Firmware…
