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ok weird one nostalgia trip gone wrong. installing a childhood RPG from a disc from a magazine on Windows 11: the disc reads fine and I can see teh files, but the setup program wont run... is it the disc, teh installer, or Windows?? I'm comfortable with a…
guys pls help late night shopping is dangerous. A few months ago i bought a drone. i had big plans. Now it has turned into a whole new hobby lol Im curious about teh rest of u. What gadget did you buy with big dreams, and what actually happened? Bonus points…
guys pls help i was halfway through something important on my bank's dashboard when the whole tab turned grey and showed the sad folder face. reloaded, worked for two minutes, died again. now it happens every single time. The error code underneath says…
ok so i was halfway through smth important on Gmail when teh whole tab turned grey and showed teh sad folder face. reloaded, worked for two minutes, died again. now it happens every single time. The error code underneath says STATUS STACK BUFFER OVERRUN.…
were a hospital IT department and use authenticator app codes for MFA today. after haering about push bombing attacks, Im wondering whether were as protected as we think. users approve things without reading, and phishing kits proxy everything aynway. whats…
hello everyone! im a retired engineer from a big busy city. my goal for this year is to stop calling my nephew for help. im a total beginner in some areas and decent in others, and i learn best by asking quetsions and trying thnigs 😤 i promise to search…
my PC keeps crashing with this, usually under light load: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR. It passed hours of stress testing when i set up a CPU overclock, sooo i assumed it was stable. Now Im not so sure. Event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries too. Is the CPU…
please tell me this is a driver thing. glitches on teh desktop on my gaming desktop, starting right after the GeForce Graphics Driver update: the card isnt new but its never shown anything like this before. temperatures look normal. ive tried a different…
so annoyed rn after a audio driver update caused me a day of headaches last month, Im rethinking my whole approach. Now Im wondering if i should just stop updating anything that works. How do you decide when an update is worth it? Id like a simple rule i can…
long time lurker first post lol im 15 hours into a horror game and loving it, but now it crashes at teh second chapter loading screen. Every. Single. Time. This is all i get: I reloaded older saves, rebooted and tried again. same result. I can't progress teh…
guys pls help my 64 GB Steam Deck keeps telling me Im out of space, and i barely have any games installed. when i looked closer, the shader cache is taking several gigabytes: most of it seems to come from a huge RPG. is it safe to delete?? and is there a way…
i need a calm person to talk me down. Thats my Pop! OS laptop after rseizing teh root partition 🔥 It just freezes there with teh caps lock light blinking. i have a live USB from when i installed it. Im comfortable with a terminal but Ive never had to repair…
hmmmm ok please help. My family PC can't finish a Windows update: and a new online game won't start without the latest Windows update. I'm not super technical, where do I begin? any step by step help is appreciated. ill report back with the results of…
Ive been gaming happily for months, but now Im seeing colored cehckerboard squares after the card gets hot. Screenshot from tonight: the card is a RTX 2070 Super. im torn between its a software thing and start saving for a new GPU. how do you actaully narrow…
ok weird one since yesterday my Windows 11 laptop wont get online on teh hotel Wi Fi: the Wi Fi icon has that little globe and the status says 'No internet, secured'... other ppl around me are fine... i think Windows upadted overnight but i'm not sure. Im…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i run a small an open world co op game server on Ubuntu Server. After todays update, SteamCMD fails and players see disk write failure: i've run teh update command three times. It downloads, then fails at the end. What…
i'm torn. With up to 700 dollars i could buy a decent GPU now, or i could just keep my hand me down graphics card and wait. The games i play, mostly story games at 1440p, are not getting lighter :D Is there a smart way to time this, or is it always a gamble?…
ok so weird one. From my parents house, OpenVPN connects and then nothing itnernal resolves: if i type teh IP address of the file share dierctly it sometimes works! but names fail every time, help me before i start memorizing IP addresses. ive also flushed…
help!! every night i put my PS5 Pro into rest mode with a 40 GB update queued, and every morning i find this: Still 0%, still "Waiting...". If I turn the console on and stay on the downloads screen, it starts right away, so the internet clearly works. Im on…
hmmmm ok nostalgia trhead, cuz today's computers are amazing but a bit boring. My first one came with a CRT monitor that weighed a ton. i spent an entire summer on a pixelated adventure game. Nobody explained antyhing to me, i just clicekd until things…
We renewed teh certificate on our internal API yesterday. On my desktop browser everything looks fine. But Python requests now fails with: the certificate isnt expired, the name matches... nothing else changed... why would only some clients complain?? Ive…
my setup is mostly daily browsing on an old laptop, and Ive noticed my browser is the app i spend the most time in, yet Ive barely thought about which one i use. lately Ive seen alot of strong opinions about Brave. some people love it, some say its a…
help!! i found Roku's secret screen today. home 5 times, Fast Forward 3 times, Rewind 2 times. it shows device info and some advanced options. i only looked at the info and backed out. its a fun peek behind the curtain, but its meant for diagnostics. If ure…
long time lurker first post lol i run a small a survival game server on Debian 😭 After todays update, SteamCMD fails and players see outdated server: i've run the update command three times. It downloads, then fails at the end. What am i missing? im…
So i was exctied to finally play a game i borrowed from a friend and my PS5 Slim with teh disc drive just refused: CE 100005 6. the drive does spinning up and down and then gives up. i wiped the disc with a soft cloth from the centre outward, tried again,…
