Later today, I’ve promised to help someone with an unspecified problem with their laptop running Windows.
I know sod all about Windows these days, which is still a bit more than they do, but please send me your thoughts and prayers.
(Probably not “just install Linux/BSD”, no ;))
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •I volunteer at my local library one day a week as an “IT helper”. Which is to say, I help people who don’t use computers much to do stuff on the library computers (using Windows, obvs) and really, I don’t use Windows much either, but hey, I sort out their problems.
Tho mostly, people want help with printing haha!
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •Andreas
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Thoughts and prayers go out!
From my perspective: Mostoften it's bloatware and adware and sometimes multiple virus scanners that, in total, make the windows notebook unuseable. Low memory (not enough space for swapfile) is also a problem.
There are worse problems, though, I hope for you it's none of the latter!
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •Problem: laptop does not recognise certain keypresses.
Diagnosis: there's rice - yes, rice - under the pertinent keycaps.
Solution: remove rice.
Outcome: laptop recognises all keypresses, and bonus free rice.
No Windows knowledge needed 😀
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •DEC FIeld Service solution: replace rice with other grains until one meets the Standard Keyboard Specification.
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •Sheddi
in reply to Neil Brown • • •we've all been there, I'm sure.
"Turn keyboard upside down and tap it" is one of the first things on my keyboard faultfinding checklist 🙂
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in reply to SamuelJohnson • • •@samueljohnson No! I've never heard of that.
(I've heard of putting accidentally soaked electronics in rice?)
SamuelJohnson
in reply to Neil Brown • • •Turns out (I didn't know) there's a reddit forum for it
reddit.com/r/ricing
All will be revealed.
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namishh.meTeapot Ben
in reply to Neil Brown • • •but it said "curry 7 inside" so I added rice.
*puts on glasses* oh, my mistake. "Core i7"
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in reply to Neil Brown • • •Reminds me of when I got my first own computer.
Set it up, powered it up. It displayed its startup message “COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2…” etc. Then the text would slowly disappear again, one character at a time, starting with the last character.
I had no idea what was going on, but this felt wrong.
Smashed some random keys, they would appear and disappear in the same way.
Power-cycled the thing, still the same issue.
1/2
Peter Hanecak
in reply to Neil Brown • • •I'm agnostic, atheist or whatever, but given the grave situation:
Sending thoughts and prayers!!!
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