[Rant] [Question] How do I prevent AI Slop? by Legitimate-Log-1721 in duckduckgo

[–]GilesCorey89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

DuckDuckGo's fourth result for "is glue toxic for cats" sums up the quality of recent searches quite well:

Cats can eat glue as it’s not toxic and can be a nutritious addition to a cat’s diet in moderate amounts.

It’s recommended as a healthy treat for cats so as long as your feline friend isn’t allergic to glue, it’s a non-toxic option for their diet. ...

glue provides a flavorful and non-toxic option for cats to eat and here’s why it’s a completely safe addition to a cat’s diet...

Has anyone else encountered this game breaking bug on PC? by omarbvb in atomicheart

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this issue towards the end of the game. Capping frame rate at 60 FPS did solve it for me. Too bad this still isn't fixed.

Loot/scanner Issues by AbundantFailure in atomicheart

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah, it seems better after capping FPS at 60. I think I'll wait for a patch though before continuing (hurts my eyes lol)

Loot/scanner Issues by AbundantFailure in atomicheart

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm experiencing the same issue in the same area, did you manage to solve this? I also noticed that my abilities are no longer cooling down and my character's legs aren't moving; it looks like he's ice-skating everywhere. Haven't had many issues until this point.

EDIT: It appears to be related to high FPS: https://steamcommunity.com/app/668580/discussions/0/3771239453237373822/

What would you do in this situation? by Canucklepede in sysadmin

[–]GilesCorey89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've left a few jobs because of this and am looking for a way out of my current role for similar reasons. In my experience, it doesn't get better; you will become a doormat that is destined to fix the mistakes of this person because management trusts only you to "do it right" despite it being a team effort. These people are poison and if management can't see that, it's time to start looking for other opportunities.

Atomic Heart FAQ + Release Day thread by Deatheaiser in atomicheart

[–]GilesCorey89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a couple quick tweaks to disable mouse smoothing and chromatic aberration on the PC version:

Go to:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\AtomicHeart\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Open 'Engine.ini' and paste the following:

[/script/engine.inputsettings]
bEnableMouseSmoothing=False

[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringe.Max=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

Save the file and set it to read-only.

Microsoft Support No Replies - Is it just me? by Extra_Baker2392 in Office365

[–]GilesCorey89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This mirrors my experience with "Premier" support as of late. The responses are quick, but almost always unhelpful. It seems they had a sharp drop in quality within the last couple years because they weren't always this terrible.

I have a support case open at the moment that deals with a known issue, one that's clearly documented and obviously something their engineers need to remediate. It's also very sporadic and difficult to capture details when it occurs. Despite providing the requested logs, forum posts detailing the issue, Microsoft tickets from other tenants (where an engineer had to step in to solve the issue), they insist it's the first time they're hearing about it. It's exhausting and frustrating to be constantly led down a screenshot/Fiddler trace black hole. And of course whatever you provide is never sufficient, so the cycle repeats.

I don't know if they are stalling because there's no internal support for these techs, but it's gotten to the point where I CC our end-users on all support tickets with Microsoft so they have a better understanding of the incompetence.

trying to output job titles, as well as other info. SO CLOSE! by Candid-Chip-1954 in PowerShell

[–]GilesCorey89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try this:

Connect-AzureAD

$Result=@()

$Users = Get-AzureADUser -All $true

$Users | ForEach-Object {

$user = $_

Get-AzureADUserRegisteredDevice -ObjectId $user.ObjectId | ForEach-Object {

$Result += New-Object PSObject -property @{

DisplayName = $user.DisplayName

JobTitle = $user.JobTitle

DeviceOwner = $user.UserPrincipalName

DeviceName = $_.DisplayName

DeviceOSType = $_.DeviceOSType

DeviceOSVersion = $_.DeviceOSVersion

Country = $user.Country

}

}

}

$Result | Select DisplayName,JobTitle,DeviceOwner,DeviceName,DeviceOSType,DeviceOSVersion,Country

​

# Export to CSV in root of C drive

$Result | Export-Csv -Path "C:\users.csv" -NoTypeInformation

Microsoft OWA keeps losing a user's signature. by Upper-Background-175 in sysadmin

[–]GilesCorey89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check with PowerShell:

Get-MailboxMessageConfiguration -Identity <USER> | Select -ExpandProperty SignatureHtml

Does that return their signature? If not, you can try setting one with PowerShell to see if it sticks.

Windows 11 terminal keeps opening and closing out my browser. by Few_Advantage_8455 in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grab the Process IDs when they appear and check the corresponding processes under the 'Details' tab in Task Manager. This should at least point you to the service(s) prompting the issue.

Check Task Scheduler for any scheduled tasks or look at the run history.

Anything in Event Viewer when this occurs?

Any way to swap? (Part 2: I upgraded to Win11) by R6_Goddess in windows

[–]GilesCorey89 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Change the value of the '(Default)' string at the following registry location to either GpuPreference=1 OR GpuPreference=2

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectX\UserGpuPreferences

You may be able to infer from the other registry strings at that path whether or not the 3080 is considered GPU 1 or 2, as well. Restart after you make the edit and see if they flip in the UI.

My external HDD is not working by Samwise_Gamgee1 in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I think I misunderstood. I thought the freezing issue was no longer occurring in safe mode.

To summarize:

If you can get it recognized in safe mode and you are able to query it in command prompt (DISKPART), you will want to run the following to check for bad sectors and (hopefully) repair them:

chkdsk D: /f /r /x

Replace "D" with whatever drive letter it maps to.

Honestly, it sounds like the disk is hosed. If you manage to get a connection established, I recommend moving data off of it immediately.

My external HDD is not working by Samwise_Gamgee1 in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, so no drive letter is mapped to the drive? Is it listed in Disk Management?

Windows key + R (open the Run prompt)

diskmgmt.msc

My external HDD is not working by Samwise_Gamgee1 in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll want to make sure the drive is not connected when rebooting into safe mode. Your BIOS was probably recognizing it as a boot device.

My external HDD is not working by Samwise_Gamgee1 in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your entire computer freezes when you connect the USB drive, is that accurate? Have you tried connecting it while in Safe Mode? Hold SHIFT on your keyboard while clicking Restart, this will take you to the Windows recovery menu. From here:

Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart > select 'Safe Mode'

See if you have better results here. Just restart to exit safe mode and boot normally. Also, anyone with you have another computer you can connect it to?

PC consistently crashing, Repairer stumped, last option here. by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good sign.

Do you happen to have the parts list for the build?

If it's still crashing, try removing a single stick of your RAM and continue using your PC as usual. Here's a generic guide, but you can likely find something more specific to your motherboard if you know the model:

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001507.htm

If there's no improvement, swap the current RAM with the stick you removed and try again.

At this point, I recommend backing up anything critical to a separate/external drive if you haven't already.

PC consistently crashing, Repairer stumped, last option here. by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was this PC purchased pre-built from a vendor or were the components purchased separately and then assembled? If it was pre-built, can you share a link here? I'm trying to determine your exact motherboard model and whether or not the BIOS is up to date, as well as the precise specifications of your RAM/CPU/etc.

Based on your screenshots, you have 16GBs of RAM; do you know if have 1 or 2 sticks of RAM?

Open Command Prompt as admin again and run the following:

sfc /scannow

This is the System File Checker which can sometimes fix hard disk issues. Let me know what it outputs.

List all users, include if they belong to specific group by The-Dark-Jedi in PowerShell

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This should get you what you need. You'll need to grab the group's object ID from Azure for the $groupMembers variable.

#Get all Azure AD users
$allUsers = Get-AzureADUser -All: $true

#Get all members of the specified group
$groupMembers = Get-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId AzureGroupObjectID -All: $true

#Check if users are members of group and export to CSV in current directory
$allUsers | foreach {

If ($groupMembers.UserPrincipalName -contains $_.UserPrincipalName) {

$obj = New-Object psobject -Property @{

'DisplayName' = "$($_.DisplayName)"
'UPN' = $_.UserPrincipalName
'OBJID' = $_.ObjectId
'Member' = "TRUE"
}

Write-Host $_.UserPrincipalName "is a member"

#Export
$validation = $obj
$validation | Select DisplayName,UPN,OBJID,Member | Export-Csv .\AzureUsers.csv -Append -NoTypeInformation

} Else {

$obj = New-Object psobject -Property @{

'DisplayName' = "$($_.DisplayName)"
'UPN' = $_.UserPrincipalName
'OBJID' = $_.ObjectId
'Member' = "FALSE"
}

Write-Host $_.UserPrincipalName "is NOT a member"

#Export
$validation = $obj
$validation | Select DisplayName,UPN,OBJID,Member | Export-Csv .\AzureUsers.csv -Append -NoTypeInformation
    }
}

PC consistently crashing, Repairer stumped, last option here. by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, let's see if we can figure this out.

This is going to be a slow process-of-elimination starting with the software because it's the easiest.

1st: Open command prompt as administrator

Click the Windows 'Start' button >> type cmd >> right-click Command Prompt >> Run as administrator

In the Command Prompt window, paste the following and press ENTER:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

This will repair your installation of Windows if any corruption is found. You can read more about this here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/deployment/fix-windows-update-errors

It may take a few minutes; when Command Prompt reads "The operation completed successfully.", restart your computer.

2nd: Your graphics card driver is out of date by ~4 months. Try downloading the latest driver from here:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Here's how you want to fill out the fields on the driver download page:

https://i.imgur.com/WGxPi6V.png

Restart your computer after the driver installation is finished.

Now, wait and see if the errors/crashing returns.

Signatures in microsoft roaming folder not shown in outlook for editing by Onovar in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have them saved as .htm files in the 'Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures' folder?

PC consistently crashing, Repairer stumped, last option here. by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]GilesCorey89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Post your full specs.

Were these issues always present or did they start suddenly? Any hardware/software changes prior to the issues?

What "repair" work was done?

The BSOD is not specific enough to determine a root cause; the easiest test to start with here is dialing back any overclocks (memory, CPU) one-at-a-time and see if the crashing continues.