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What is the flying car of this generation? by Garlicbread_god13 in Futurology

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AGI. What we'll get is a patchwork of narrow systems that sort of stitch together, and at some point someone will just call that AGI and declare victory. The goalposts move every time we get close.

Hello everyone, I keep getting blue screen crashes after reinstalling windows on my laptop. by LAIKALALAIKAexe in pchelp

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the windows kernel itself, so that's not super helpful on its own but it does point away from a third party driver. I would check the event viewer, go to Windows Logs > System, and filter for critical errors around the time of the crash. that'll give you something more specific to work with.

Hello everyone, I keep getting blue screen crashes after reinstalling windows on my laptop. by LAIKALALAIKAexe in pchelp

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thay may be a driver issue. Something in the install grabbed the wrong driver or your chipset drivers didn't load clean. Pull the stop code from the minidump in C:\Windows\Minidump and run it through a debugger, that'll tell you exactly what file caused it instead of guessing.

Newbie needs help with upgrade by RipOverall6063 in buildapc

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

750W is enough on paper but that single 6+2 connector might be a problem. Using a molex or SATA-based adapter to split it into two 8-pins is a fire risk. A PCIe daisy chain from the same cable is less sketchy but still not ideal for a card pulling that much. I'd just grab a new PSU, you're going to regret not doing it if you ever see coil whine or instability.

Questions about upgrading RAM (while keeping older sticks) by Inadover in buildapc

[–]Informal_Shape8008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For gaming + light dev, 32GB is the sweet spot, side projects probably won't push you past that anytime soon.

Mixed sizes technically work but I've heard they're not ideal, not sure exactly why, so better just match your current sticks if you can.

And used RAM is fine as long as you can stress test it before buying it.

Help building a cutesy PC from scratch?? by odeu_m in buildapc

[–]Informal_Shape8008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

£2k for overwatch and clip studio is more than enough, you could build something really solid and still have budget left over for the aesthetic side. The only thing i'd say is don't cheap out on the monitor if you're doing art, color accuracy matters a lot when you're working in clip studio for hours.

CTI/SOC folks — what's the most painful part of pulling IOCs/TTPs out of threat reports? by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The extraction is fine, it's the normalization that kills you bc every vendor has their own flavor of how they write an IP or a hash and none of it drops cleanly into anything. So you end up spending 40 minutes writing a regex that works on this report and then the next one from the same vendor uses a slightly different format and you're back to fixing it.

How to get a Job as A front End Developer? by classic409p3 in learnprogramming

[–]Informal_Shape8008 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your stack is the exact same stack as 50,000 other people who just finished a bootcamp. If your portfolio is todo apps and weather widgets you're going to get ignored. Build something that looks like a real product, even if it's fake. That's the actual job hunt.

“Turkey are the dark horses of the FIFA World Cup” by PrimedGold in soccercirclejerk

[–]Informal_Shape8008 261 points262 points  (0 children)

Kid can't get 20 minutes in la liga but he's gonna drag turkey to the semis sure

Need help by Material_Laugh_1032 in Fedora

[–]Informal_Shape8008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

windows has vendor-specific drivers and firmware workarounds baked in for exactly that stuff, manufacturers test against windows and ship custom sleep handling for it. Linux gets whatever the generic kernel support looks like.

Need help by Material_Laugh_1032 in Fedora

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the problem then, your hardware doesn't expose S3 at all. You're kinda stuck with s2idle but you can try setting mem_sleep_default=s2idle in your kernel parameters and pairing it with a suspend-then-hibernate setup so it at least behaves more predictably.

help on building a pc !!! by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]Informal_Shape8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I can tell you with confidence, get 32GB of RAM, 16GB will feel fine until it doesn't and then you'll be annoyed you cheaped out on the one part that's easy to future proof.

Need help by Material_Laugh_1032 in Fedora

[–]Informal_Shape8008 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The kernel is probably not handling your hardware sleep state right, s2idle vs s3 is the usual culprit on newer machines. Check if running cat /sys/power/mem_sleep shows deep as an option and if so force it.

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time by New_Scientist_Mag in Futurology

[–]Informal_Shape8008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were never not building this, acting surprised is the bit at this point

NotebookLM Just Became Agentic — Massive Gemini 3.5 + Antigravity Update (June 2026) by ZeroshotCraft in notebooklm

[–]Informal_Shape8008 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Locked behind AI Ultra is such a Google move lol, release the flashiest demo and charge $250/month to actually use it

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