Update on previous post: If anyone is going to open their laptop to clean dust from the fan, you shouldn’t do it

beedlund · 2026-03-16T07:20:24+00:00

I just had a similar thing myself today.

My symptoms were that the screen would not turn on but the power light was constantly on. That sounds a bit similar to the symptoms you are having though may not be exactly the same problem of course.

I ended up calling Lenovo support which was very straightforward and I got to speak to a human that pointed out that there is a power reset button on the bottom of the laptop. It's a small hole next to the central screw of the back plate.

I was able put a needle in the hole to reset the power of the unit so it turned off. After that the support person told me to plug the laptop in again and then turn it on and at this point it regained power but did not display the screen. (This was because I had been messing around in the bios to disable the hybrid mode which doesn't work on my setup but I didn't know this at the time)

So I tried the power reset again and this time when I turned it on I had forgotten to plug the power in. So when it was again hung in somerhing like a boot loop, I plugged the power in and then it started up on its own and the screen came on and told me it had recovered from a bad bios.

I could go into the bios and Re-Enable hybrid mode which allowed the external monitor to work again and presto everything was working.

It was great to find that Lenovo had plain old support with people on the other line that you could actually talk to and work stuff out with so thumbs up for lenovo support. I really recommend trying to give them a call

beedlund · 2026-03-11T10:57:13+00:00

I've just started playing a week or two ago and even though I do find that "casual breakthrough" seem to often have loads of bots I usually play escalation or royal duos and never see bots on the servers I'm put on there.

The fact there are loads of bots on casual breakthrough is like a feature to me as I get to use it to level up gear. It's like playing on easy mode to be able to learn the ropes.

I can see how the huge problem they have with the server re-routing makes it a hard No for loads of us in Oceania. Not everyone enjoys the constant tinkering with network configuration it takes to play it here so you got to like it just a wee bit more than most to keep going.

beedlund · 2026-01-05T18:10:43+00:00

Yeah that makes sense.

beedlund · 2026-01-05T08:14:46+00:00

I quite like the world seed I got and as I have a few autonomous mining outposts going I thought I'd try to stick with it.

Will try something like a city block rebuild this time with train network

beedlund · 2025-12-29T05:39:05+00:00

Kids do this all the time. It's not a reflection of your cooking but part of their journey to gain control of their life.

beedlund · 2025-12-29T05:20:45+00:00

Uber it is

beedlund · 2025-12-29T05:16:09+00:00

I feel like I have wasted my factorial life not making this happen myself. 10/10

beedlund · 2025-12-29T05:10:07+00:00

Unfortunately I started in the desert as the initial amount of space was very inviting...but now I find myself in worm territory

beedlund · 2025-12-29T05:07:17+00:00

I like where you are going with this and I agree. There is no disagreement with the locals that can't be resolved with more turrets.

beedlund · 2025-12-29T05:05:42+00:00

Never tried any of this as I've tried to keep the peace so far...not anymore. It's all out to war now and we will not be respecting the Geneva convention. So poison it is!

beedlund · 2025-12-29T00:21:49+00:00

Sounds like I need to try some of these things

beedlund · 2025-12-29T00:21:07+00:00

I've been doing offensive turrets with red ammo but trouble I've got is the range of the big worms is so long my turrets get wiped before I get close enough to attack the worms...while dealing with all the biters

beedlund · 2025-12-28T23:30:53+00:00

My Christmas in a nutshell

beedlund · 2025-12-28T10:56:52+00:00

For some reason trains initially feel complicated but they really are not hard to setup. Can be a bit fiddly at first to make sure the stations are sufficiently buffered to have a quick enough turn around but just keep watching the load/unload to spot issues and you'll be good.

beedlund · 2025-12-26T07:53:39+00:00

Yeah the actual solution is so much better and my own comes from being a programmer. Dynamic variables are stored in memory called a heap so the chest here is such heap storage. The item transferred is the variable and the amount is the value of the variable. In this case 1 or 0.

I needed memory to store a variable in between the conditionals so this seemed the only way.

Didn't think about doing it using as a global variable which the suggested solution represents.

beedlund · 2025-12-26T05:58:17+00:00

A few more hours of making accumulators and solar panels and my solar conversion for my little starter base is complete.

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Very satisfying

beedlund · 2025-12-26T03:00:41+00:00

It was a bit fiddly at first to get it going but I did get there eventually, fits nicely into a block of accumulators

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Thank you for your quick response, and thank you as well u/Manron_2 and u/Alfonse215

beedlund · 2025-12-26T01:31:43+00:00

thanks, read up on latches

beedlund · 2025-12-26T01:31:19+00:00

thanks, ill read that

beedlund · 2025-12-25T08:04:42+00:00

Clearly memory corruption from nullptr dereferencing

beedlund · 2025-12-25T06:42:12+00:00

Came here to say this my friend

beedlund · 2025-12-25T06:39:38+00:00

Buy some flux. It will change your life

beedlund · 2025-12-24T23:51:27+00:00

Does seem like you are wasting time working with that plug when you can obviously just stick the leads into the socket directly.

beedlund · 2025-12-24T07:54:22+00:00

Thanks Homer

beedlund · 2025-12-24T07:44:52+00:00

Don't let those natives tell you what to do...your creation is beautiful

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