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hmmmm ok i used to buy every big release on day one. lately, every launch comes with a 50 GB day one patch, and the first week is all about bugs and performance complaints. with big open world games especially, waiting for teh first big patch seems to give a…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i wanted a super simple work log without installing anything. someone told me about Notepads .LOG trick. create a new text file, type .LOG in uppercase as the very first line, save it, and close it. the next time you…
Unpopular among my friends: i think consoles are the better choice for most people who play big story games. You sit down, press a button, play. PC is great if you enjoy teh tinkering, but most ppl dont. As a new parent, conveniecne wins. Who agrees and who…
I start nursing soon and my parents gave me about 700 dollars for a laptop... that is all I get for teh next four years, sooo I really cannot mess this up... everyone online seems to recommend whatever they personally own... my priorities: a light chassis,…
I found a box I found in the attic for an old flight sim and got realy excited. Then I tried to install it on a new gaming laptop: I tried compatibility mode for older Windows versions and running as administrator. no luck. I really want to play this again.…
ugh. ive been tinkering with computers for five years and this one bugs me: laptops dont need to be thinner. Every review praises the opposite, every product launch doubles down, and i just dont see the benefit in my daily life. Maybe Im missing something.…
well. say you have a search console, a JavaScript analytics tool and raw server logs, and they all disagree about traffic.. :/ not slightly: meaningfully. the gap is big enough that a client asking about it would expect an explanation, and "tools disagree"…
My entry level card from years ago has served me well, but story games at 1440p is turning into a slideshow on medium settings. I have up to 700 dollars set aside :/ Every time I am about to click buy, someone says new cards are coming and prices will drop.…
ok so search Console flagged the home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: Watching teh page load on my phone, I can see content jump down at least once. My gut says its an embedded review widget, because thats teh last thing we…
so annoyed rn im on a work call, my wireless earubds go silent, and i have to unplug and replug everything while ppl wait. again, this is what Device Manager showed afterwards: It seems worse when i'm downloading large files. Is that a real pattern or am i…
i'm replaying the original Zelda and found out about the ZELDA name trick. At file registration, type ZELDA as ur name. The game drops you into the Second Quest from the start. Its teh post game hard mode with rearranged dungeons and new secrets. Its one of…
guys pls help help. The audio on my ROG Ally X died after a Windows update: I can see teh device in Device Manager, but it has a warning icon. Where should I start? id also love tips on how to stop this from happening again after the next update... its teh…
help!! this is a good thread. Imagine your phone buzzing in the middle of the night because a clients store is showing this to every visitor: thats the etnire page. front end and /wp admin both. i had auto upadtes on for plugins, so something udpated…
Deployed my first real project to a fresh VPS today. On the server itself, curl localhost:8443 returns my page. from my laptop, the brwoser just says: ERR CONNECTION REFUSED. i opened the port in the firewall, i think. i restarted the app twice, i'm at the…
Fun problem! After a routine OS upgrade, a command line tool Ive used forever now does this on startup: nothing changed in the tool itself. how do i find out whether it's teh tool, a library, or the system? seriously need help here 😭
halo 3 has 13 hidden skulls across the campaign, and one of them changes nothing except what characters say. The IWHBYD skull, located on The Covenant, makes rare diaolgue much more common. Grunts get chatty, Marines say weird things. Its purely for fun.…
guys pls help moved my site to a website builder this weekend. www.mydomain loads perfectly. but type teh domain without www and it shows a parked page. the host's docs say to add a CNAME for the root domain, but a budget registrar refuses and says a CNAME…
hmmmm ok you know teh bouncing yellow text next to the Minecraft logo?? 😂 Those are splash texts, and there are hundreds of them, pulled at random each time teh title screen loads. The secret part: on certain dates teh game skips the random pick and shows a…
ok weird one i opened my project in DaVinci Resolve after the external drive getting a new letter, and my heart sank: just the audio files show 'Media Offline'. The files are all still there, I can see them in Explorer. I have weeks of edits in this project.…
long time lurker first post lol metroid on the NES uses passwords instead of battery saves. The most famous one is: JUSTIN BAILEY followed by dashes to fill teh rest (written as 'JUSTIN BAILEY '). Enter it and you start with Samus out of her power suit, in a…
im literally losing my mind here small mystery for the driver experts: thats teh last missing driver on my older desktop, unknown device with Code 28. everything seems to work fine, but Id rather not leave it like this in case its something like the card…
My PC keeps crashing with this, usually overnight: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR. It passed hours of stress testing when i set up an undervolt, sooo i assumed it was stable. Now Im not so suree. Event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries too. Is teh CPU damaged? i dont…
ugh. hey, thread for discussing voice comms habits... i play alot of objective based team games with randoms and i wanna be a good teammate, not the one everyone mutes. what makes a good callout? how much talking is…
Every time i open a news sites video player, videos refuse to load xD i refreshed, celared cache, rebooted. My colleague on teh same network opens teh exact same page and it works perfectly. The only difference i can think of is that i have a bunch of…
Unpopular among my friends: i think consoles are teh better choice for most people who play competitive shooters. You sit down, press a button, play. PC is great if you enjoy the tinkreing, but most people dont. As a person who travels for work, convenience…
