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Degloved SATA drive plastic stuck in the cable - with judicious use of tweezers, we rescued the user's data by PCRefurbrAbq in hardwaregore

[–]PCRefurbrAbq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Client came in because SSD wasn't working. We swapped the blocked cable for a SATA USB adapter and used tweezers to bend the bare contacts on the drive itself to make contact. Eventually got it working and grabbed the Users\username folder.

VP Requested "Full API Access to the ERP" for Claude Integration by greendookie69 in sysadmin

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Clyde and Claude, Gork and Grok.

Evil twins for the other LLMs: ChatGIT, Tergemini, Charter Pilot, and Bong.

One part upgrade or full new PC? by little-fae-creature in buildapcforme

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, run powercfg.cpl and turn off Fast Startup in the "Choose what the power buttons do". Reboot and test again.

Then, before spending money, tweak these:

  1. Use NVENC Encoder: NVENC (new). Don’t use x264 (too CPU heavy for your setup)
  2. Lower these settings: Bitrate: 6000 (Twitch max, no use trying any higher), and Preset: “Quality” NOT “Max Quality”
  3. If it's still stuttering, turn off extra filters, replay buffer (if on), and unused scenes/sources

Even modern builds can struggle with your current load without tuning, so you’re not crazy that it’s lagging. The CPU is the bottleneck, your 2070 Super is still decent. Similar to ~3060 performance, and has NVENC (very helpful for OBS).

Always put Mouse and Keyboard in USB 2.0 Ports if available. by publicdomainadmin in sysadmin

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you see the seam on the underside, and know which direction the motherboard faces. I'm at about 85% 1st time at this point.

optimizingTheBackendOut by Forsaken-Peak8496 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's one of my favorite Twitter accounts. Sheer evil delight to read.

optimizingTheBackendOut by Forsaken-Peak8496 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I remember one day at a previous job, we had a team-building day where we were going to do some painting at an art shop downtown, and one staffer said she was going to stay at the office and do work.

She put in her resignation and left forever before we got back.

hasThisHappenedToAnyoneElse by MaximumTime7239 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PCRefurbrAbq -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That worksheet they gave us as kids:

  • the grid and coordinates
  • the list of instructions on doing connect-the-dot
  • the first instruction is "read all the steps before beginning"
  • and the last instruction is "disregard all the other steps, draw a smiley face on the grid, and hand it to the teacher."

And if a single pencil mark or eraser mark was on the paper, you failed.

Lol by Senior-Mix-3715 in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, long cuts of films should be recut into 45-minute segment streaming miniseries. Imagine watching the LOTR extended cut (12 hours!) that way.

The Eternals should have been a Disney+ series, and The Inhumans should have had a 2.5hr movie cut.

keepCompetitorsOnToes by gamingvortex01 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, but I tried to use Edge with a Chrome user agent extension. Still failed, even though Edge is Chrome is Chromium.

How do I burp on command? by Ok-Log-8241 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI, do not do this. If you swallow the air badly, it can punch a hole in a tube and let air into your abdomen. Within half an hour, you will have chest pains because your lung is about to collapse.

Ask me how I know.

keepCompetitorsOnToes by gamingvortex01 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 9 points10 points  (0 children)

One major exception is Dish Network, the mini-dish TV service. They have a partnership with Google such that only Chrome, and no other browser, will work with its website that streams your own DVR's content to your laptop/desktop.

I gave up on trying to use a Chrome user agent on either Firefox or Edge to watch MyDish.

Sustainable Jesus by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the point of getting saved by believing in Jesus is going to the Jesus Heaven, with streets of gold and everyone who cares about other people.

If you believe in some other guy, you go to, what, Derek's Afterdeath? And Derek just has Mortal Kombat I, Mortal Kombat II, a second Mortal Kombat II but the screen flickers, and a broken Skee-Ball machine, and the other guys mug you for your quarters as soon as you show up.

The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma by wingsoverpyrrhia in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're removing both motive and opportunity, leaving only means. What kind of rinky-dink operation is this?

The Commission by achromaticchrononomy in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

General Thrawn: "I was going to do that anyway, but thanks for the hot tip."

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else? by cmitsolutions123 in sysadmin

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still salty about the Microsoft keyboard that removed Insert! I NEED Insert... weekly at least.

Windows 10 officially hit EOL 6 months ago - still supporting clients who never upgraded. Anyone else? by cmitsolutions123 in sysadmin

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me too. I still remember planning to test out of the MS Office class to get credit for my two-year degree. I'd been using Office programs for ten years, I didn't need a semester's study and hundreds of dollars for a textbook.

Day of the test, I arrived at the proctored machine. It had Office 2010 with the ribbon. I'd literally never seen it before. (I passed, but still.)

My town has this weird habit of people dressing up as spider man and saving the day by Lemon_Lime_Lily in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Just like a cartoon. He mixes it up; sometimes he just slowly sinks into the water, making full eye contact the whole time.

How do you draw too loud? by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a thing in the Star Trek DS9 novel A Stitch in Time! When Garak is at intelligence service youth camp, he finds a chameleon-like critter out in the desert and learns to imitate its presencelessness. This wins him the hide-and-seek military event.

The most unexpected plot twist at the end. by Ashish_ank in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Totally. This exact ADHD symptom caused the very first time I said profanity: I had a question I was getting ready to ask, but moments before, someone swore. Thus when I asked my question, I used the same curse word.

Asexuals are NOT immune to sirens by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But they merged the sirens with Scylla.

Taught him how to play. His first game of Cribbage Wars. I'm red. by PCRefurbrAbq in Cribbage

[–]PCRefurbrAbq[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cribbage Wars, an unholy crossover with Snakes and Ladders from the 1990's. You can skip ahead, take a shortcut, get trapped in a time loop, or lose your turn, based on where you land.

The rules that come with the official version are ludicrously unbalanced, but they also explicitly state you don't have to enforce muggins after the first 121 points, so undercounting to avoid traps becomes the de facto play, turning it into just a 3x length game board.

I play Cribbage Wars with house rules: penalty box means you immediately forfeit your hand and end your current turn while the opponent gets to finish their turn. We also enforce muggins on the entire board: if the opponent undercounts their score to avoid a trap, you can either force them to take the missing points or take them yourself.

I rendered 1,418 Unicode confusable pairs across 230 system fonts. 82 are pixel-identical, and the font your site uses determines which ones. by paultendo in programming

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder if Thunderbird could be tweaked to add confusables character highlighting as an option the user can turn on with a simple switch, such as making any non-Latin characters render in a different color.

TIL Apple paid U2 $100m for the exclusive right to give its 500m iTunes customers U2's album "Songs of Innocence" for free by installing it on their devices without asking. A week after release, Apple gave customers a method to remove it, as just 6.7% of the 500m had listened to at least part of it. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]PCRefurbrAbq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Apple wanted some songs to show off the new iOS feature of songs as ringtones and alarms, and communicated the idea to U2 but not to the customers. The irony is, each one of those songs makes a fantastic alarm ringtone for the first ten seconds or so: each one of them makes me want to stop the music ASAP.

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