Wispy2891

Got an email that says "please pay $33 + shipping to get a t-shirt with our ad on it"

There's people that would actually pay for something like this? This stuff is usually give away for free at conferences and then used as a sleeping dress, no?

They say they're a viable alternative to starlink and ready to start - not sure how much true is that

I read a musk fan saying "but their terminals aren't made in a NATO country" - isn't the same for starlink?

At work I got Windows 11 24H2. It has a bug, known from september 2024, that resizes all the windows in a tiny corner.

Basically, when the screen shuts off for standby, Windows thinks the resolution now is no more 3840x2160 but 640x480. EVERYTHING gets resized in the top left corner at 640x480 and it's ULTRA INFURIATING

Because microsoft took 3 years to fix the taskbar and 4 years to fix the "restore explorer windows at boot" checkbox, I'm not confident that they will fix this issue in this decade, and I must find a solution, or i will become crazy.

Workarounds tried:

• using fancywm - every time i wake up screen i need to wait 10 seconds to see all the windows rearranging and resizing and it's still infuriating.
• disabling monitor timeout and replacing it with a screensaver - I'm at work and group policy mandate monitor timeout at 5 minutes
• updating the AMD drivers
• uninstalling 24H2 - the admin removed the uninstall files, i can't revert to previous version *uninstalling powertoys in the chance if it was caused by fancyzones
• changing UI scale from 150% to 100%

What I did not try:

• replace the displayport cable with a hdmi one (but it should have only 30hz refresh rate in that case)
• use a dummy video adapter
• use a lower resolution
• wipe and reinstall everything, i have too many stuff with too many settings

My sister wanted to get a mechanical keyboard. I bought her the cheapest from aliexpress, a "Philips" one with "blue" switches.

After 6 months she comes again, "you need to buy me a new one, the numpad is weird"

When pressing 9, it types "9+", press 6, and it types "6+", press 0 and it types "0."

I take apart the keyboard, i test the solder points under the switch and i see that somehow there's a short on + when i press 9

Switches are soldered, can't be easily swapped, i order another keyboard (different brand, with "brown" switches, still ultracheap nobrand).

After six months, the same, when pressing "right arrow" it types "right arrow 0"

Is that possible? Coincidence that is always in the same spot? Those are so shitty that break so easily? I noticed that my sister always has a water bottle nearby the numpad, might it be that she's accidentally pouring water and then blame "low quality" for this?

Also: I saw the the RGB LED under the faulty switches are dead or dimmed. It might cause the issue?

This is awesome! For only $450 you can get a machine that can automatically swap battery packs placed on bulky $120 phone cases.

You don't need to plug a cable in your phone anymore, your over engineered machine can swap battery packs for you

I never imagined that I would live this long to see the future

For the first time in my life I'm playing Spyro, the original from 1998.

I played around 20 minutes in the starting fields, found the required ten dragons to go on the hot air balloon but then I had some real life problem and I had to turn off. In all the playtime it didn't ask me to save and once a dragon freed said "the game saves a check point every time you free a dragon".

So I restarted the console and... No save...

How to save?

For some reason my iPhone is called "iPhone (2)" and that bothers me to no end. But i can't find the way to rename it, the name can't be clicked and no textbox appears.

This phone was given to me by my employer. Do they have the power to restrict this?