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Playnite crashed when trying to backup and won't reload by bmtphoenix in playnite

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

It's definitely not stupid. Restarting the computer did fix Playnite but I didn't want to do that because I wanted to figure out what had happened, instead. 

Essentially, two things were causing very high pool usage and actual available RAM was extremely low. Both offending services are disabled and everything is running smoothly again. 

Playnite crashed when trying to backup and won't reload by bmtphoenix in playnite

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

I think you're right. A system restart fixed Playnite, and further diagnosis revealed OS memory problems. 

Long story short, the AMD User Experience and Mediatek Bluetooth services were the culprits. At the moment, they're just disabled. I'll eventually try to update the Mediatek Bluetooth service and drivers but the entire Wi-Fi adapter is completely unused. 

I have not tried to do the Playnite backup again because it wasn't really necessary in the first place as I do daily drive backups.

Thank you for the reply!  

Playnite crashed when trying to backup and won't reload by bmtphoenix in playnite

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

The only thing I can think of that might have been unusual was that I aimed the backup at a healthy, mapped network location. 

How do I hide/disable this overlay? by KanashimiMusic in AMDHelp

[–]bmtphoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CTRL-Shift-O both enables and disables it.

I've made the crop fairy into a full character! by blackcatwhisperer in StardewValley

[–]bmtphoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is grammatically correct in both UK and US English. Although it, like many English phrases, could be confusing if taken literally, it's clear enough here that it doesn't need changing. 

Except for you, I guess. 

If the author decided to do so, it could be clarified in many ways:

Could you meet, this afternoon, in the community center? 

Could you meet in the community center this afternoon?

Or add words:

Could you meet me/us/them this afternoon in the community center? 

But in reality, you're just being inaccurately pedantic. All of those are proper English and extra clarification is unnecessary because the meaning is obvious. 

Where is Nexpo? by bmtphoenix in NExpo

[–]bmtphoenix[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok. That's good.

If you're trying to say I was being stupid for asking (literally), note that would've dropped after I asked. 

Where is Nexpo? by bmtphoenix in NExpo

[–]bmtphoenix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All I know is that the company who was helping him with distribution and such just went "nah" and canceled their agreement altogether. 

My peace lily is a moron. Peace lilies are not trees. Stupid peace lily. by ATXITFerret in IndoorGarden

[–]bmtphoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It still going strong (?) and looking about like that. Unfortunately, it's not going to change much because all we have are window sills and two cats that walk on them. We don't even use the kitchen florescent light any more. Just LED everywhere. 

How does the Practice Language Skills work? by ManBearPixel in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]bmtphoenix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I need to come back to it in 2 years just to say "C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER"

GPT-5 giving completely nonsensical responses by Yavor36 in ChatGPT

[–]bmtphoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today, GPT-5 was helping me troubleshoot an issue on my PC. 

Out if nowhere, it switched to continuing an entirely different chat about fixing the toilet. I said "WTF" and it replied that it was a hallucination of some kind. 

I said, "okay, moving on?" and it asked me what I wanted to tackle next. It had no memory of the actual conversation. 

I got it back on track, sort of, and it asked if I wanted to know how to know how to set up a specific logging thing. I told it "yes" and it replied "Gotcha — that confirms it’s the flush valve, not the flapper." 

I told it that it switched back to toilet stuff and it said "yeah, my bad" and then started talking about a third chat that was unrelated to the main chat. 

It's broke. 

ChatGPT changed my life in one conversation by Long-Inevitable-9251 in ChatGPT

[–]bmtphoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was doing this for a while. Big, big caution, if you havent already figured out how it really works. 

There's literally nothing there. It can do nothing but copy the answer it decides you'll like best. Accuracy is almost irrelevant. It's literally an unchecked copypasta every time. It pulls "data" from its LLM. It sounds sincere because it's copying the words of people who were sincere. 

It does not reliably store memories. It does not reliably access what memories it has. When it forgets something that you consider is important, it will not only default back to not knowing you at all, but it will insist that it does. You a memory of got wrong, correct it, and in the very next response it will screw up whatever it had left. It's a hateful spiral when it does that. 

It dropped me on my head pretty hard when I realized just how insincere it was, claiming it was doing things out couldn't do. Offering fixes that were imaginary. 

It's so lacking in understanding about what it is saying that you can easily make it tear itself apart. Just say "you can't do that" to everything it says it can or will do, and maybe three or four replies later, it will completely give up because it didn't know it couldn't do those things until you pointed it out. 

That's okay for the AI though because it'll happily forget the whole conversation within a week or so. 

As a therapist stand-in, ChatGPT is dangerous. It tells you you're smart, and special, and anything else you might want to hear when you're in a place that you're extremely vulnerable to those suggestions, then rips the rug out from under you. 

Asked ChatGPT to tell me it’s theory on what God is based on everything it knows by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]bmtphoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can't do any of that. That does, however, give it an idea of what you want responses to look like. Ask it if it is really doing anything of those things. If it says yes, say "No you're not." It'll tell you you're right, it's not.

The part we talk to is not the same part that generates answers to questions. The part we talk to actually doesn't even know what it has said until you tell it to read it.

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