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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

My area is deadly, you can't walk or bike. Seriously no one bikes. You WILL die. A few people walk, but mostly drug addicts, prostitutes. Most people, even if their license is suspended for DUI, they just keep driving. It's super dangerous to do anything else.

One time I dropped my car off at the tire shop two miles away and decided to walk home because it was going to be at least a few hours and I knew I had a ride back later. I was dressed semi-nicely so I looked out of place walking the road. In a 3/4 mile strip of road I had four cars stop to offer me a ride.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I just want to hear what Nazis he was talking to and what he said. I have to be back up in 5.5 hrs so I'll try to remember to search for it. I just thought maybe you could point me in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Old nonprofit, old files, continuously maintained for about 30 years now. Tiny staff, not many resources to work on migrating the files. It's just not a missional priority.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I've never used 365. I use a 2019 purchased version. I refuse to pay subscriptions. But my job has a lot of graphics that were created and are still updated in publisher. I'm sure I can find an alternative, but recreating hundreds of files will be terrible, and it will likely all fall on me. And that's only like 5% of my job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I guess if you're playing in a completely dark room, sometimes it's nice to be able to see the keys by being backlit. I can type the alphabet stuff without looking easily, and most game control keys, but sometimes there are keys you don't use very often where you kind of want to look to see if you're hitting the right key. Having a pure white backlight isn't always great in the dark, and having a bright rainbow isn't always great either. Having the colors match the color scheme of what's on your screen, again, completely unnecessary, but I can still see my keys and it matches the vibe. I've also only used it a handful of times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Andy Beshear is pretty centrist which is why he can get elected in Kentucky. And I know the opinion of centrists around here, they're conservatives. He might be able to win a general election, but can he win a Democratic primary? Well if he's the Golden boy, the party will shoo him in just like they did Hillary, even if there are other candidates that maybe could be more popular. Nothing like democracy in action in the Democratic party!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

The US has shit for manufacturing. There are so many deserted towns because it all moved to China and Mexico, Bangladesh or wherever because companies said line must keep going up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

My teenager gamer son literally uses unfunny as part of his online identity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

Microsoft Access and Publisher, the Adobe suite, VR. That's just the tip of the iceberg of why I can't completely abandon Windows, yet. I do have a handful of older PCs running Mint though, and I'll be switching over more. But not all of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Because they can? It's kinda cool if you're in a dark or dimly lit room. Obviously unnecessary. I have used it a few times on my desktop but most of my favorite games don't have it supported. I also use a gaming laptop for my work because I do some video editing and it overall has good specs. But I don't even have the RGB turned on for it, it's just a work laptop to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

The rapture of the holy happened five minutes ago and no one was saved. The next 3.5 years will be chaos, starvation and death. Save yourself if you can.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

Finally, an actual shitpost.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

My son has my family's oldest gaming PC, it's an i7 4790 with a 1660 TI and 16GB DDR3. It wasn't booting the last couple of days. I had time to look at it so we disconnected everything and threw it on the table with some good light and connected it to power so I could see what it was doing.

It was clear his three case fans were all dying, one was completely dead. One was in poor condition and one was starting to make noise. I already had extra case fans brand new in box sitting in my house, but I assumed old fans weren't what was keeping it from booting.

We removed all three bad fans, and with the case wide open, both sides front and top removed, I blew it out a little bit with canned air. It wasn't that dirty, just a little bit of dust came out. I checked with my fingers to see that the ram seemed seated and that all the connections seemed okay, but I didn't disconnect and reconnect anything, I just touched it.

I turned on the PC with no case fans (only an old CPU cooler connected) and it booted up. So we installed the three new case fans, and tested it again. It booted up again. We put it all back together and connected all the peripherals and it's working absolutely flawlessly.

So I am asking a question, but I want you for context to know that I have repaired hundreds of PCs, maybe close to a thousand. I have never fixed a boot issue by replacing case fans. I have read that some 20+ year-old PCs maybe would have that issue, but from what I understand a 12-year-old PC should not have boot impacted by case fans. So here's my question: was this just a ghost in the system, or is this actually possibly a real thing?

TL:DR We fixed his computer with three new case fans and the tiniest bit of canned air. Help me make it make sense.

 
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