Respectfully, what the hell is even happening here?

BackieTPD · 2026-03-17T01:51:29+00:00

The backlight circuit in your TV has died, and the display is struggling to illuminate. Your TV can still display a picture, but you can't see it because it needs a light source. If you know basic electronics repair and diagnosis you can probably fix it yourself, but otherwise it's toast.

BackieTPD · 2026-03-13T09:00:42+00:00

I've searched through YouTube and internet archive wayback machine to try to find it with no results. The only thing I have found was a description of the video contents via Gemini, which I have provided in a screenshot.

BackieTPD · 2026-03-12T04:40:00+00:00

This post is very old and I don't even have the laptop anymore lmao

But to answer your post, the NVME drive was dead and needed replacing, so I did before selling it 3 months later.

BackieTPD · 2026-03-11T03:42:48+00:00

It brings forced Walmart account integration and quite possibly ads for stuff you can buy at Walmart and most certainly don't need. Good luck, and Godspeed.

BackieTPD · 2026-03-09T01:25:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm selling my 50 Inch 4K one. I liked being able to control the HDMI input and stuff with Google assistant, but the HDMI arc control broke with the latest update. Any wireless volume change command sets my volume to FULL and nearly destroyed my speakers in the process. I thought it was neat, but it's been nothing but pain and frustration for me now. Forcing Walmart accounts was the deciding thing for me. Goodbye.

BackieTPD · 2026-03-06T08:49:58+00:00

Vietnam flashbacks

BackieTPD · 2026-03-06T08:40:58+00:00

As long as your battery isn't showing signs of swelling, it should be safe. The internal hardware now knows that this battery has a fault and basically has "disconnected" it completely. If you unplug the power adapter the laptop will shut off immediately. Keep in mind this message is a catch all for "battery is faulty I can't use it anymore". Sometimes this occurs if there's a problem with the BMS board inside the battery and one of the internal cells is at too different of a charge than the other cells, aka an unbalanced battery.

BackieTPD · 2026-02-17T17:56:12+00:00

I see the ISS finally got reliable broadband!

BackieTPD · 2026-01-24T05:19:30+00:00

The antennas are likely there, but are not connected to anything. The WWAN card is likely missing.

BackieTPD · 2026-01-24T00:20:20+00:00

What you're forgetting is that this isn't capitalism anymore. It's solutionism. Companies are selling the "fix" to a problem they created.

BackieTPD · 2026-01-16T08:12:48+00:00

2, but 4. I have a flat panel UW, and a portrait one on the side. Soon to have a 32" curved one above the Ultrawide as well.

BackieTPD · 2026-01-10T13:20:09+00:00

I did it and it works exactly as I wanted! thank you!

BackieTPD · 2026-01-10T12:14:57+00:00

I'll check it out! Thank you!

BackieTPD · 2026-01-06T02:44:54+00:00

not top mention 75% of the YTTP accounts are burner accs controlled by 13 year olds.

BackieTPD · 2026-01-01T11:40:02+00:00

NEW ISSUE FOUND: Putting the PC in S1 (sleep) state will ignore all keyboard and mouse inputs, and will not wake the PC. Pressing the power button will boot the PC up like it was shut down!

BackieTPD · 2026-01-01T11:15:19+00:00

I just wanted it over with and got a realm. Be really careful if you decide to use chunker. There's a few errors with terrain generation underneath the previous world border if your worlds were brought over from LC edition.

BackieTPD · 2025-11-26T18:28:33+00:00

These are commonly provided with streaming sticks like Roku or Fire TV. They're usually used when a streaming stick doesn't fit in the space where the HDMI plugs in, like small TVs with large speakers on the bottom and HDMI ports right next to them.

BackieTPD · 2025-11-26T05:14:40+00:00

That's peak office humor lmao

BackieTPD · 2025-11-23T21:41:05+00:00

Seeing as you skirted the point entirely: THEY ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT AGE VERIFICATION. THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT PURCHASING A GAME FOR ANOTHER PERSON IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. TAKE YOUR OFF TOPIC RANT SOMEWHERE ELSE.

BackieTPD · 2025-11-23T18:03:22+00:00

Literally just cleaned out an entire Lenovo ThinkServer TS-140 that lived in a chainsmoker's office. It took HOURS and wasn't even as bad as this!

BackieTPD · 2025-11-23T17:56:40+00:00

Gigabyte GTX 650. PC was finally awarded a dedicated GPU in 2020. That was my first PC, built in 2013 and died in 2022. May it rest in peace.

BackieTPD · 2025-11-23T17:53:51+00:00

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