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not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my site has been running fine for months on Nginx in front of a Node app... now it falls over only during traffic spikes and all visitors get this: restarting everything brings it back, until it doesn't. i'm not a full…
im literally losing my mind here planning to redo the network at a retail store. im thinking: one VLAN for staff PCs, one for guests, one for printers. is that sensible, or over engineered for this size? curious what others actually run. im also not suree…
ok so ive now crashed at the second chapter loading screen in a JRPG eleven times in a row... the error: i really dont wanna lose 50 hours of progress. What can i try before reinstalling everything? i checked the games forums but found only a couple of…
im literally losing my mind here quick question before I buy a new external hard drive: That's what i see whenever i connect it through teh laptop's USB C port, i rebooted, uninstalled the device in Device Manager, and tried again. Same thing. Is there…
ive been tasked with restoring from backup for an old server, now running on Hyper V. everything looked fine until I powered it on: the virtual disk is attached and teh right size, the original machine booted fine yesterday... where did my OS go? I can see…
long time lurker first post lol i've been running a first gen Ryzen for a long time and i'm wondering whether it's holding me back for code compiling. i don't want to spend money on a new CPU, motherboard and RAM only to see a small difference. how did you…
pressed the power button for the first time with my heart pounding. result: The VGA light is on and nothing else happens. I used the RAM slots that looked logical to me, teh first two. Was that a mistake?? Ive built it inside teh case already, so Id love to…
ok weird one hot take: forced updates have done more for my blood pressure than for my securtiy... case in point, during a livestream, this appeared on my gaming PC. it kept retrying on every reboot. I know the arguments about botnets and unpatched machines,…
Requesting help with a driver for my old laser printer. It works great, but on 64 bit Windows 10 teh installer from the manufacturer's site throws this: The installer is from years ago and only lists older Windows versions... i really dont wanna throw away a…
help!! setting up a Windows 11 laptop for a new colleague 🔥 it joins the hotel Wi Fi, teh password is accepted, and then: They start tomorrow morning ;) i tried the truobleshooter, it fixed nothing. Any ideas before i just give them my own laptop? the…
ugh. my PC keeps crashing with this, usually while browsing: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR.. ;) it passed hours of stress testing when i set up a CPU overcolck, so i assumed it was stable, now Im not so sure... event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries too... is the…
ok so new member here, i'm a dad with a new gaming PC... everyone told me this forum is friendly to beginners, so here goes... after two hundred hours, a racing sim decided to crash every half hour. Outside of games Im into music and cooking, and Im happy to…
ugh. merged a depednency update PR and now webpack refuses to build: The error is node gyp rebuild falied. The PR looked harmless, a few version bumps. Id rather understand teh cause than blindly revert or slap a flag on it. Whats the right way to read this…
Help! Client footage is a mirrorless camera's 10 bit files, and my NLE gives me clips won't import at all: I need to start editing today. What's the fatsest reliable fix? Im comfortable with simple command line tools if thats what it takes. I just need a…
hmmmm ok if your laptop mostly stays on the charger, check for a charge limit: 1. Look in the manufacturers utility app (Vantage, MyASUS, Dell Power Manager/Optimizer, HPs BIOS options, etc.). 2. Or check the BIOS under power or battery settings. 3... pick a…
we run Terraform from two separate pipelines that share teh same Terraform Cloud state for teh networking stack :/ since this week, one of them rnadomly fails with: retrying usually works. is this just a race, and how do people normally avoid it?? Our setup…
thread for the unpaid IT department of every family. my latest: my uncle, 'the screen went sideways', and a solution that involved one button nobody had noitced. share yours, and if u have tricks for making family tech easier, i want those too. i'm convinced…
moved my site to a webiste builder this weekend. www.mydomain loads perfectly. but type the domain without www and it times out. the hosts docs say to add a CNAME for teh root domain, but my hosts zone editor refuses and says a CNAME cannot coexist with…
guys pls help my old screen started flickering and I have to replace it soon. I do mostly watching movies and gaming... the two options I keep coming back to are a 27 inch 1440p high refresh and a bigger TV used as a monitor. friends are split down the…
Urgent ish: i need this Wi Fi adapter for work tomorrow and it's showing Code 43: it was fine yseterday, it started after a driver update, i tried a different port and a reboot... i cant tell if i should be shopping for a replacement or digging deeper into…
I finally added a monitor arm to my desk after years of putting it off, and it has quietly changed my whole day of spreadsheet work. It made me curious what everyone else is using. Not the fanciest gear, but the stuff youd actually rebuy tomorrow if it…
ok weird one myapp.service was fine until todays server patching. Now it wont start: the status line says status=217/USER. I didnt touch the unit file. did the update change something underneath? The update touched a bunch of packages, sooo it could be…
help!! docking my refurbished Switch with the travel dock and getting this on teh TV in teh bedroom: the console does seem to detect teh dock. befroe I order a new one, what can I test at home? If anyone has had the same thing and fixed it, Id love to hear…
ugh. hello! Introducing myself: a high school robotics club member, living in a small coastal town. i'm here mostly to get into home networking, and to stop feeling lost every time smth on my computer breaks, i'm also happy to chat about anything off topic.…
My old screen staretd flickering and i have to replace it soon. i do mostly photo editing. The two options i keep coming back to are a 4K 60Hz and a 27 inch IPS for color work. Friends are split down the middle. Help me break teh tie 👍 Bonus points if you…
