What first world problem did you have today?

[igor_kavinski]

Sometimes I still miss the days of strip-ship WinXP, lol.

It seems like every time I like how responsive and quick the Start Menu opens up on new hardware, M$ decides its time for a new OS to bog down the new hardware.

 

[Pohemi]

It seems like every time I like how responsive and quick the Start Menu opens up on new hardware, M$ decides its time for a new OS to bog down the new hardware.

Def a FWP, haha. But, I hear ya nonetheless. Probably why I sandbag on older versions so hard, lol. I didn't switch to 7 (from XP, not Vista) until well into SP2. Skipped 8/8.1 and went to 10 not long before 7 was at EoL. I've had a reg key for 11 for years now and have yet to install it.

 

[pete6032]

Def a FWP, haha. But, I hear ya nonetheless. Probably why I sandbag on older versions so hard, lol. I didn't switch to 7 (from XP, not Vista) until well into SP2. Skipped 8/8.1 and went to 10 not long before 7 was at EoL. I've had a reg key for 11 for years now and have yet to install it.

11 and 10 are very similar if you are just a standard user. I don't see much of a difference in features or performance.

 

[igor_kavinski]

11 and 10 are very similar if you are just a standard user.

Beg to disagree. Win11 gives you a daily reminder to say "WTF Mcrosoft????".

 

[KLin]

Pretty sure I'm starting my 3rd bout of covid. womp womp.

False alarm. Got over my symptoms I had Friday. w00t.

 

[Muadib]

False alarm. Got over my symptoms I had Friday. w00t.

Um congrats!?!

 

[Chaotic42]

I don’t see foreign listings when searching eBay.com. I have to go to eBay.de or ebay.it or ebay.co.uk to see items from those countries.

Virtually everything I search for on eBay is sold in the US, India, and China. The Indian and Chinese variants are always nominally cheaper - China has huge shipping times and fees and things from India never seem to show up.

 

[KLin]

Um congrats!?!

Fckn A!

 

[balloonshark]

On Amazon you can't read all the reviews or search the Q&A and reviews on a product page without being logged in now. Hell, they completely removed the search the Q&A/reviews box if you're aren't logged in. I assume they did this to reduce the workload on their unnecessary AI summaries. They should have kept the question section and just removed the AI functionality. Killing those feature is really stupid because it's literally how I window shop. It's only going to hurt them and save me money by putting up a barrier.

 

[Chaotic42]

I tried to be clever and dry epsom salt in a mason jar. Ended up with a brick of dry-ish salt. I put some water in it just to see what would happen. For weeks, nothing. Then I go to check on it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Well this fucking sucks. 3 of my 4k monitors on my work machine started to go haywire and the remaining one was flashing and I couldn't do anything, eventually everything just went black and I had to force reboot.

I guess I didn't solve that issue after all. Now I have to relogin to everything FFS. That's like a 45 minute ordeal that I really don't feel like dealing with right now at this time of night.

 

[Shmee]

Well that does suck. Any update on the issue? Sounds more like a video/computer hardware issue of some sort than a monitor issue, but it sounds like there are a fair amount of unknowns there.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I do get an error in event log about the display driver crashing so it's sorta a place to start I guess but why it's doing that I don't know. It lasted the rest of the night, so I suspect I have 2 issues going on, the heat issue which is most likely solved otherwise I think it would have died right away, and now some random software issue.

The mini DP to regular DP adapters may also be at fault, when I initially setup my PC at the office I had to play around with them to get all displays to work. So maybe something slightly moved and triggered this. They are kind of dodgy.

My next shift is going to be at home so I'm bringing my PC and I have a whole week off so think I will leave it turned on at home to see if it does it again. If yes I will come pull the GPU from my old PC at the office and swap it to see if it solves the issue. The fact that it's so random is going to make this a pain to troubleshoot though. It lasted 3 days before doing this.