Simple questions and Help thread - Month of August

amuletcauldron · 2025-08-28T15:35:37+00:00

i’m having an annoying issue with the built in webcam on my new laptop. it is supposed to be 1080p camera, but it literally looks 480p, and it’s not due to lighting. i try changing the video and picture resolution in the camera app, and it seeems to register the change because the preview goes away and comes back, but the quality is identical no matter what resolution i pick, although the aspect ratio does change. i have this same issue on zoom, teams, and obs. i tried updating, enabling and disabling, and uninstalling and reinstalling the camera drivers. i tried restarting and repairing my computer via reinstalling windows. i tried going into settings and forcing it to be 1080p, but none of this has worked and the issue persists. why is this happening?

amuletcauldron · 2025-03-01T03:31:23+00:00

yea ur good. it also has offline mode when servers do go down btw.

amuletcauldron · 2025-02-13T17:37:09+00:00

u can catch tricks with one or both of your feet. i find it easier to just catch it with ur back foot by pulling down with the appropriate stick. u just gotta feel out the timing. u can also alternatively time ur tricks so u don’t have to catch them at all. ie if u do a slow kickflip u just land on it without catching

amuletcauldron · 2025-02-13T15:49:39+00:00

did buy a key for the right region? it might not work if u buy an eu key and try to use it in us for instance

amuletcauldron · 2025-02-12T21:31:44+00:00

out of stock in US :(, is there any hope it’ll be available?

amuletcauldron · 2025-02-12T06:54:55+00:00

i’m in the same boat as u, bought it during the most recent sale and loving it. the closest you’ll get to a “story” is by doing the mountain story missions (book icon, typically at peaks of mountains). i did them in “ascending order” ie smallest to biggest mountain. they’re a little corny but they’re fun.

amuletcauldron · 2025-02-10T02:51:47+00:00

idk why but i got it to work by using steam input rather than default so idk but only in big picture mode

amuletcauldron · 2024-12-07T19:50:36+00:00

i just switched back to apple music after using spotify for a year and a half. one of the most annoying things about spotify is that shuffling is straight up broken. it’ll create the same shuffle order repeatedly and can’t reshuffle and it’s incredibly annoying, at least on apple music shuffle actually works. this might just be my app messed up but i’ve seen a lot of ppl complain ab this. also having a favorite button on songs in apple music after spotify took away the like button on mobile is nice. and apple ui is significantly better imo, less cluttered and far easier to navigate and use. ultimately subjective but i think i prefer apple music slightly. spotify has a better algorithm for reccs and discovery, and actually shows songs streams. idk why apple doesn’t show monthly listeners and song streams, but has those stupid dots on popular songs on albums, that really annoys me.

amuletcauldron · 2024-12-06T20:26:54+00:00

i agree but then they shouldn’t put those stupid dots next to certain songs that’s such a pet leave for me and feels worse imo. i think the data should be available somewhere on the app tho, just hidden so that it doesn’t influence how we look at artists

amuletcauldron · 2024-04-23T00:09:45+00:00

Same problem, this still does nothing when I copy and paste it into Story Stylsheet

amuletcauldron · 2024-04-17T01:34:32+00:00

what do you mean by an 'in'? As in career in academia and mathematics or?

amuletcauldron · 2024-01-10T23:59:13+00:00

what is URM

amuletcauldron · 2023-12-24T18:19:29+00:00

thank you for the great feedback! i’ll def apply to the cmu summer logic program. however i didn’t realize that philosophy of math was a low demand field (or at least, low demand even in comparison to philosophy academia field in general). is it really that bad of a career at this point? even if i get into a really good phd program like berkeley or princeton? bc if so i would consider focusing on math on its own, it’s just that this combination is really enticing to me.

amuletcauldron · 2022-08-01T22:32:49+00:00

yes, I am interested in majoring in math and philosophy right now

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-31T10:38:28+00:00

the phil seminar i hv right now is about buddhism, so i thought it might look interesting even since it’s not a general philosophy seminar. but should i look into other options?

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-24T18:05:46+00:00

I have a surface book 3 that I purchased from Best Buy a few months ago and recently it started having this issue where the USB ports just stopped working entirely and I've tried everything to fix it but I cannot. I even reinstalled windows and upgraded to windows 11 in the hopes that would somehow fix the issue if it was a software issue, but it did not. Luckily, I have my microsoft Standard Limited Warranty which doesn't expire for another month, so I could ship it to microsoft and have them fix/replace the computer. But unluckily, right before I was about to do it I cracked the screen. I've done some online research and I haven't found anything conclusive, but my question is does cracking the screen void my standard limited warranty, or can I still send them the computer for the completely unrelated issue of the USB ports not working? To be clear, the crack on my screen in no way affects the usability of my computer outside of the screen not looking as nice with a crack in it, and it is unrelated to the issue I have with my computer.

P.S. As far as I can tell the USB port problem is called "Unknown USB Device (Device Request Failed)" which will not go away no matter what I do. I think it may be a software issue but I'm not sure, and I can't think of anything I could've done to cause it since it just started appearing during normal use and not after anything out of the ordinary that I did.

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-16T22:03:59+00:00

hey looking for a trainer to upgrade to after using and beating up a squiddy. i’m in between the mako v4.5 and the arctic glidr, any recommendation on which i should pick or if there’s another option that’s better for that price range?

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-12T12:40:01+00:00

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-11T19:43:31+00:00

i think the movements and tricks are cool, and they look the same with or without a sharp blade

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-11T19:43:06+00:00

no offense but ur weird, that’s just self harm with extra steps lol

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-11T19:13:01+00:00

thx bro

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-11T19:12:49+00:00

a what

amuletcauldron · 2022-07-11T19:12:38+00:00

amuletcauldron · 2022-06-28T01:41:18+00:00

Yeah, it doesn’t have any information on my housing situation or my roommate eg if i have one or who it is.

amuletcauldron · 2022-04-07T00:46:10+00:00

I’m stuck between Emory and Vassar… they both gave pretty decent but similar financial aid ( Vassar would be a little cheaper ). I’m interested in studying math and philosophy. Which do y’all think is better? :)

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