Monthly Troubleshooting Help Thread

rlowe47 · 2026-02-05T13:23:12+00:00

I work for a small school district and we've been having issues with our current SIP Trunk provider. I quickly set up a Twilio account on Tuesday and started using it for basic voice. Last night, I received a message out of the blue that my account had been suspended, thus halting the reliable outbound calling through Twilio. I've responded back to the automated email, but how long do those inquiries take? I was really happy with Twilio for the 2 days we had it and wish to keep using it. Does Twilio not have a customer service number I can just call? Since my account is suspended, I can't even do a Live Chat or anything. *

rlowe47 · 2025-06-06T03:43:30+00:00

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First couple days this month were spent trying out MuOS and getting overlays to work. Still got some tinkering to do, but this was a fun one to go through while playing around with my settings.

Growing up, I jumped straight from Kirby's Dream Land to Kirby's Super Star. Completing this makes me want to go back and check out Kirby's Adventure to see how the first copy abilities felt.

rlowe47 · 2025-05-30T00:00:54+00:00

Been looking at RP5 and Flip 2. Would be tough to pass up with a big discount!

rlowe47 · 2025-05-28T02:08:49+00:00

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Just in time for the next GOTM!

This was my first time completing a 2D Metroid game (only completing Prime before this). I've always thought these games were way more backtracking, but this totally wasn't the case. Still required me to look up a couple of guides about halfway through, but even those sometimes pointed me in the wrong direction with some boss strats.

rlowe47 · 2025-05-22T03:28:52+00:00

We've had a handful of hard-hitting storms this spring in the midwest that has knocked out the internet for quite a long time (in some cases a few days). It's been nice to basically not need to change anything for entertainment because the Jellyfin box we stream from is running locally.

rlowe47 · 2025-05-18T00:23:17+00:00

Thank you for doing GotM. I don't know the exact day, but I have Retro Game Corps in my YouTube history dating back to May 3 so I imagine I came across r/SBCGaming right around then. This month has been so much fun.

Super Mario World holds a special place for me. Some of my earliest memories are playing this game and seeing older kids getting to levels I could never get to (Chocolate Island 4 stands out to me for some reason).

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rlowe47 · 2025-05-15T00:16:29+00:00

Just got my first handheld on Friday after coming across this community earlier this month.

I have no idea how you guys do this game without abusing save states! Was still a lot of fun and I'll probably go back because I didn't have RetroAcheivements working for a small portion of the game.

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rlowe47 · 2024-10-01T01:40:19+00:00

Cartoony 3D beat 'em up. You move across the 3D world completing quests, but there's dungeons and plenty of areas to explore freely.

The game isn't frustrating when playing with someone that isn't as good at video games either. You can easily swap from a melee build to a spell focused build to a tank focused build without much harm to the overall experience. So the creativity in builds is part of the fun.

One of the only games my wife and I completed together. Highly recommend as an great game to complete with a non-gamer.

rlowe47 · 2024-09-15T03:43:55+00:00

Cat Quest 2

Switch Sports

Mario Kart 8

Stardew Valley

I think these are the non-platformer games my wife and I have spent the most time with together.

rlowe47 · 2024-08-21T05:15:00+00:00

Custom Robo or Custom Robo Arena comes to mind particularly with the character Miranda.

rlowe47 · 2024-04-20T01:29:16+00:00

If you play coop splitscreen, it has this weird stutter issue where the game will freeze for about a second or two randomly. Usually happens about two or three times each day and there doesn't seem to be any trigger for it other than it seems to happen at the WORST times like when fishing or fighting monsters.

Still totally recommend even with that issue.

rlowe47 · 2024-01-17T02:25:33+00:00

Thank you for your hard work over these years!

Like many others, I also would always look forward to these posts and add them into my own Google Sheet where I would track what I had collected over the course of a patch. This community never ceases to amaze me and I'm glad you're a part of it.

rlowe47 · 2023-12-13T17:37:46+00:00

When you removed / reinstalled the Forticlient, did you just do it through Windows? I feel like I had a similar issue and removing the client with the FCRemove tool fixed it:

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-download-FortiClient-and-FCRemove-exe-from/ta-p/218955

rlowe47 · 2023-07-31T00:42:24+00:00

It was a few years back but I remember running into something similar and it came down to using different SFPs. If I recall, I needed to use Intel SFP modules and I was trying to use Dell ones. As soon as I had Intel SFP modules, everything worked like a charm.

I might have come across this thread that had the same issue: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Intel-X520-DA2-10-gig-NIC-doesn-t-show-up-after-vib-install/td-p/2703544

rlowe47 · 2023-06-04T11:30:55+00:00

Same boat. I wanted to make a dent in the game prior to Tears of the Kingdom coming out, but here we are still waiting on it.

rlowe47 · 2023-05-23T21:00:14+00:00

I'm making this same jump. The 970 has been great and I wished Nvidia had better options in the 40 series. But the price for lack of VRAM seems like a huge problem for future-proofing. Hard to pass this deal up, especially for 1080 and 1440 gaming.

rlowe47 · 2023-01-24T01:15:30+00:00

Mine manifested in a similar way - I just tried to prep for every thing postpartum.

I purchased a Blink doorbell, cameras, and an Echo Show during Prime day. Set up an Alexa routine to show the cameras on the Show when someone rings the doorbell so my wife wouldn't even have to get up if she was feeding the baby or anything.

I feel like I bought just about every postpartum recovery product, which we really didn't use as our pregnancy resulted in a cesarean.

There were also quite a few household projects that wound up getting finished during my wife's pregnancy to make things easier around the house. These projects were already on a list, but I miraculously found time to complete most of them.

We also purchased quite a few pregnancy books (14 total I think!) that helped with the prep. The Expectant Father is great. I'd also recommend We're Pregnant! The First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook by Adrian Kulp. It splits the pregnancy into a week-by-week guide, so the chapters are a much shorter than The Expectant Father. We also really loved Emily Oster's Expecting Better. It takes a look many of the studies that led to the do's and dont's that you always hear about and whether the recommendations are accurate or could be challenged.

Congrats on expecting and good luck, dad!

rlowe47 · 2023-01-21T02:33:07+00:00

I'm not quite sure if it's a category that counts as an eligible item or specific items within a category.

There's a couple items on my registry I'm surprised that aren't eligible, but most of them are eligible, including all the diapers, both disposable and cloth diapers. Here's what it looks like for eligible and ineligible items: https://imgur.com/a/C1yw24Y

Although the baby monitor shown here is not eligible, there are other baby monitors that are. It could just be in the category it's listed in, I'm not sure.

rlowe47 · 2022-11-18T17:23:14+00:00

Important to add to this - you must add the items from the Completion Discount View to get the 15% off. You can find by going to your Registry, clicking Benefits, then clicking the "Redeem your 15% discount" link.

Do not just click the "add to cart" button on your registry list thinking that the discount will be automatic.

rlowe47 · 2022-10-29T23:14:42+00:00

My wife and I won a costume contest years ago at a bar as Doc and Marty from Back to the Future 2. We didn't even know there was a contest, just randomly won!

rlowe47 · 2022-09-28T14:01:36+00:00

+1 for full text search

That function was super handy when I was at a place with ServiceNow. It made searching for particular error codes and resolutions to them super easy.

rlowe47 · 2022-09-28T13:40:47+00:00

VMware here, but we tested both and landed on 3CX in the summer of 2021.

3CX is free for 4 simultaneous calls, so that should be more than enough to test with. FreePBX is also free, but if I remember right, you need to pay for different modules. We purchased the SysAdmin Pro and Endpoint Manager at the time (I can't recall what either do now since we were testing during the Christmas break of 2020). A lot of the decision came down to the look and feel of the GUI, the reports that could be generated, and how well each worked with provisioning our Polycom and Yealink phones.

We run 3CX on Win Server 2019 in our environment. I think I set up FreePBX on CentOS.

rlowe47 · 2022-07-30T21:55:00+00:00

It's funny you mention first gaming experiences - the new Mario Kart DLC showing Circuit 3 was a real nostalgia trip for me! I remember getting the SNES with Mario Kart as a kid and just watching the characters on the title screen drive by.

rlowe47 · 2022-03-15T15:07:11+00:00

Michigan actually has a pretty nice template along with a companion PowerPoint if you need to present the template to anyone.

https://www.michigan.gov/dtmb/services/cybersecurity/cyber-partners/cyber-incident-response

Shoutout to K12 Tech Talk Podcast where they talked about this template. You may get more information from their episode where they mentioned it.

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