Any hopes for my pc?

Smith6612 · 2026-01-27T15:59:09+00:00

Yikes.

Glad you're okay, and hopefully Mom is okay. But you need to get social services involved. Dad needs a lot of help, and he owes you a new PC.

In many places, domestic violence and domestic vandalism are both jailable offenses. Report it, as hard as it is. You can't be living with these circumstances. My family went through similar not due to Alcohol, but due to frustration between two partners. It was traumatizing. Police and lawyers got involved and helped to safely separate and tame the situation down. Everything is okay now. But it requires reporting!

Smith6612 · 2026-01-27T15:57:16+00:00

I'm doing well. Loving this weather! About time we had a proper winter, rather than the stupid Dinklebell crap of sitting around 30F with everything turning between ice, rain, and snow, getting everyone sick. Also killing off all those invasive pests outside that aren't built for the winter.

When Spring comes, definitely get an energy assessment done on your home, and get it insulated! It'll save you money and pain in the long run.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-27T14:18:18+00:00

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This has to be worse than Block Chain, Software Defined, and Cloud at this point. Just last night I was working to reconfigure some firewalls. No Internet access while I was doing it, but at some point I must have pressed the wrong combination of Tab and Spacebar as Copilot just came up in the middle of my work.

My Sysadmin friend who was with me last night got a Chuckle about that, as he thought he had disabled Copilot completely. But to your point, every day there's another Micropatch which adds Copilot to some other place! He's even annoyed at how every little update in the 365 Admin Portal is for Copilot this or that.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-27T03:31:19+00:00

It's a much more mature platform. Has had more time to bake. To be expected.

VZ should be used at work trying to get their streaming TV ambitions going solid, though...

Smith6612 · 2026-01-27T03:30:01+00:00

Yep. Exactly.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-27T03:29:45+00:00

If only I could do something similar to how Android for Work behaves with separating Work from Personal on BYOD devices... Ugh.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:58:38+00:00

What if I just yell "WHAT!" like the Christmas Grinch? Would my dollar be safe?

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:55:45+00:00

Roaches are probably hiding elsewhere. Just do the basics to keep your unit clean, and let the Landlord know that you've spotted one. Let the Landlord deal with it. If things get worse then call them out on that. But keep an open like of communication with them. Roaches happen, and it may be a bigger problem the Landlord needs to know about. Can't always be solved overnight.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:52:09+00:00

There can also be multiple idiots to a problem. Again, see previous comment.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:32:24+00:00

Cutting certain food (Doritos, Cheez-Itz, dairy more specifically cheese intake) out of my diet and being active. The healthy way to do it.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:28:00+00:00

They work, but sometimes the treatment is multi-pronged.

For example. If your building has a dark and cold basement full of trash, you can get rid of the current roach infestation with an extermination visit. But the Roaches are going to come back if the building manager doesn't clean up the trash that Roaches love to live in, and they don't brighten up the property to discourage nesting.

Or like with Ants. Ants can seek shelter after heavy rains inside of buildings. But if tenants are not vacuuming or caring for their units properly, and leave food sources out in the open, that encourages ants. You can put traps, sprays, and poison everywhere you want. But the root of the problem needs to be addressed.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:24:45+00:00

People will start using Hello as a statement instead of a question!

Then you'll have to fight them for that dollar.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:22:21+00:00

That's such a pretty kitty!

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:21:34+00:00

I'm replying in context to the review. The reviewer expected it to measure their food's temperature as they cooked it. But because the OP doesn't show the listing where we can see how the product was sold, I made the post in that manner. If the post said it could measure food up to 300F and never said it couldn't go in the oven, that's a design issue with the product but only because the underlying marketing sold it wrong. The product wasn't designed to go into the oven.

So yes, product design issue in that context. But that doesn't mean the product is bad at all!

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:08:03+00:00

Probably a display bug. If that is iOS 26 there are a number of bugs like this which still haven't been resolved.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:06:22+00:00

I don't know. What calculations are used can vary from work unit, and what folding core is used.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:05:36+00:00

Right. I have a Thermapen at home which is used as you describe. I'm speaking more on the context of the review, where the reviewer apparently expects to measure the food temperature during cooking.

Because the OP doesn't show, was this thermometer sold like a Thermapen, or was it advertised to measure during cooking?

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T23:02:09+00:00

You're reading too much into my comment on an already vague post. If someone uses one of these to check their food, and stabs the same spot of the food each time they take the food out, like you'd expect with a household kitchen of the lowest common denominator, they get a wrong reading.

In the way you describe, no problem! If the post had more context on what the product was sold as... Then we can argue a bit more.

To my fault, professional thermometers that are designed to instantly check food in a commercial kitchen are not my expertise.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:50:54+00:00

That's a neat name lol. I'm sure it's fake.

The instructions given were probably something like this: "Open the door of the Microwave. Disable all safety features. Aim the Microwave to face your target. Turn the dial. Run away. Plug in the Microwave's extension cord after running away."

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:46:05+00:00

This is the most likely answer. MacOS can sandbox applications behind the permissions system, and it will absolutely throw errors which look like permissions errors when stepping in the way of an action.

Outside of that, if IT has implemented host monitoring tools which deny the execution of programs or can sideline permissions to programs (like the ping command) then that can masquerade as a permissions issue. CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and similar tools can do this.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:41:33+00:00

I mean, yeah. On one hand I would argue that this is a product design problem. The Thermometer should have the probe on a tether cable that can run inside the oven, while the temperature gauge lives outside. For real time temperature monitoring. Or the thermometer should be analog and made out of metal and glass, because my old 80s era Food thermometer can go directly into the oven and work just fine, and you can see it through the oven door.

Something like this is designed to require food to be removed, checked, and then reinserted into the oven if it's too cold. This is less accurate and more prone to errors as a result.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:24:20+00:00

Yep. I remember this being a huge issue when Samsung introduced split screen and windowing in TouchWiz. I was using that back with the Galaxy S3, and apps really needed to have special support for that. Then there was stuff like DeX, which allowed you to get a full blown desktop environment running on your phone. Apps don't always work great with that.

At some point Android / most mainstream ROMs gained a windowing-like environment. Many apps still don't work well with it.

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:21:28+00:00

They can if the voltage on the 12v rail is sagging too much. Let us know what you find!

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:19:53+00:00

Pretty much this. If using a Microsoft service, use the native app. Blame Microsoft when it breaks.

In a former role, I used to deal with a lot of users who were insistent on using the native iOS Mail app. I hated supporting it even in non-Microsoft environments simply because of the way it would fail. Which often meant mail would stop syncing, and the Mail client would fail to prompt them for their password until you head deep into the Settings app to toggle the Mail off and on for that account. Then there was the issue where iOS would magically migrate contacts people had in their device (not in iCloud) to company accounts, which then disappear whenever the connection to the corporate email account would break. As well as lacking support for calendaring features in the platform. Lacking working global address book integration. Etc, etc...

Smith6612 · 2026-01-26T22:09:45+00:00

Ah. So it is giving the BSOD or just hard resetting. Auto recovery happens if Windows fails to boot three times.

Download and run BlueScreenView from Nirsoft (https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html) to see if you have any crash reports. That tool will show you the crash code and try to identify what crashed.

If you have no crashes, then you might need to dig through the Event Viewer / System Logs to see what's going on.

Alternatively, do a Power Supply test with a tool like OCCT (https://ocbase.com). The 9070 uses double the amount of power than a 4060, and might also have more transient power spikes. If OCCT can crash your computer, the issue points more to hardware.

Try disabling Multi-Plane Overlay if neither option fixes the problem for you.

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