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help!! the smart speaker shows connected to Wi Fi but no internet access. this happened right before the big match, of course. i tried forgetting the network and joining again, no luck. the router was replaced by teh internet provider last month, if that…
Long time lurker, first post. Sysadmin at a logistics company, twenty five years in. i'm the person ppl call when everything is on fire, sooo here i'm hoping for slower, friendlier conversations. Also happy to talk about hiking with no phone signal if anyone…
guys pls help i type git status about a hundred times a day :) Then i learned Git supports aliases. One command: git config global alias.st status now git st works. my favorite is a pretty log: git config global alias.lg "log oneline graph decorate all".…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts honest question: does cable management matter for anything except looks? my PC sits under teh desk with a solid side panel. im not suree its worth an afternoon of fighting with cable combs. but I keep seeing ppl say it…
help!! this hapepned after teh battery died on my Legion Go: the card is a card i formatted on Windows. i tried rebooting and reseatnig it. nothing. i cant even tell if the card is dead or just has a broken file system. what should i try first? im…
im literally losing my mind here i put a game i borrowed from a friend into my PS5 Slim with teh disc drive and got this instead of the game: The drive was making a clicking sound for a few seconds before the error came up. I took the disc out, checked it…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts added a new NVMe SSD to my PC for extra games storage. its nowhere to be seen in Device Manager: Also, one of my SATA drvies disappeared at the same time 🔥 That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like…
ok so genuine question, not a rant... is soldered RAM actually necessary for modern designs, or just convenient for manufacturers? im buying a new tablet soon and Im torn between a sleek sealed model and a slightly thicker one that i could fix myself in six…
ugh. this one is driving me crazy. after a reboot, a chunk of requests fail with this page: not all of them, maybe one in ten 👍 the Spring Boot app health check is green the whole time. my manager asked if we 'turned it off and on again' 😂 we did 🤦…
hmmmm ok weird one. after a power cut mid update, my Ubuntu install panics on boot: but if I pick teh previous kernel under advanced options in GRUB, it boots fine and everything works... so the disk isnt dead. whats diffreent about the new kernel entry?? id…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts unpopular among my friends: I think consoles are the better choice for most ppl who play competitive shooters. you sit down, press a button, play. PC is great if you enjoy teh tinkering, but most people don't. as a shift…
ugh. old school admins used wmic for hardware queries. Microsoft deprecated it, and on Windows 11 24H2 it's an optional feature that's disabled by default. The replacement is PowerShell's CIM cmdlets. Examples i use now: Get CimInstance Win32 Processor…
This happened after moving it to another device on my ROG Ally: The card is a 512 GB card. I tried rebooting and reseating it. Nothing. I cant even tell if the card is dead or just has a broken file system. What should I try first? I'm comfortable following…
ok weird one my wireless earbuds keep disconnecting from my PC roughly every ten minutes. the sound cuts out, the reconnect chime plays, and sometimes it doesnt come back at all. device Manager shows this after one of the drops: on my phone the same wireless…
ok weird one i run a small business and customers keep emailing that on our project management board, buttons do nothing. our developer cannot reproduce it on any of his devices. One customer sent a screenshot and i spotted a password manager extension in…
Were about to design the internal APIs for six microservices, greenfield. i keep going back and forth between plain REST with an OpenAPI spec and gRPC with protobuf. Performance is not our bottleneck right now, consistency is. What would u pick, and why? we…
long time lurker first post lol this happened out of nowhere on my Steam Deck LCD: the card is a cheap 1 TB card. i tried rebooting and reseating it. nothing. i cant even tell if teh card is dead or just has a broken file system 👍 what should i try first?…
hmmmm ok i finally did the Reptile fight in the original Mortal Kombat on a home version that emulates the arcade game. the conditions: The Pit stage, a shadow flying across the moon, double flawless victory, no blocking at all, and a fatality at the end.…
ugh. quick one, hopefully lmao After some server changes last week, our staging server shows NET::ERR CERT AUTHORITY INVALID: the certificate files on the server look recent, but the browser seems to see something else. could it be serving teh wrong…
im literally losing my mind here quick panic post. My Xbox Series S was fine yesterday. Today, after changing the resolution to 4K, nothing on screen: I've power cyceld it twice. I'm using the cable that came in the box. I have no other screen to test with…
hmmmm ok i just installed a second M.2 drive and it doesn't appear in File Explorer: its seated in teh M.2 slot and screwed down. the motherboard manual says teh slot supports it lmao im starting to think the drive is defective. before i send it back, what…
im tearing my hair out. my a co op shooter server on a mini PC works locally, but my friends server list shows nothing. I forwarded UDP 7777 and still got this on the host when I checked the network: any ideas before i give up and rent a server? i'm…
hmmmm ok my team keeps asking why Im not talking in an MMO raid. The problem: I cant hear anynoe. My wireless headset works perfectly in Discord and in Windows sound settings. I also noticed this in Device Manager: ive toggled every voice setting in the…
Late night shopping is dangerous 👍 A few months ago i bought a high end mechnaical keyboard. i had big plans. Now it gets used every single day. Im curious about teh rest of you. What gadget did u buy with big dreams, and what actually happened?? Bonus…
long time lurker first post lol got this when installing a big game update on my Xbox Series S: the queue just stops and then teh error appears. the target is an expansion card. I've seen people say to reset the console, which feels extreme. is there a…
