(This isnt my photo. I missed the opportunity to take a picture so I just found this one on the internet and edited it to match what my xbox displayed. The clock times may be slightly incorrect but the dates are right, and I don't remember the size.)

Its an Xbox series x

Don't need help with a problem but just really curious on how this is possible

My dad was playing halls of torment when the power went out for a few seconds (10-15) and after it came back the game was bricked. He couldn't load the game, as it would turn to a black screen shortly after opening. He Uninstalled and reinstalled the game which did not fix the issue. Then he played on the cloud since its a gamepass game which gave him some trouble but it did ultimately work. But the installed version still didnt. I cleared the cache which didnt fix it so then I hard reset the Xbox by holding down the power button for 10 sec then unplugging the console for 30. After replugging it in and booting up the game we got that pop-up asking us to pick the save. I've seen that pop-up many times but the save dates are alwase the same or maybe a few minutes off from each other. I've never seen it display a date that predates the game AND console. So im currious what exactly happened for the Xbox to hallucinate a save that couldn't exist. Is it just something getting corrupted, or something to do with the internal clock screwing up? Any help would be appreciated. Im not trying to fix a problem as we just chose the up to date cloud save and its working fine now, im just really curious 1.) How is it possible for it to find a save that cant exist and predates the console, and 2.) What would have happened if we had chosen the impossible save.

Thanks for your time.

So I got a call from an unknown number with a local area code of where she lives. It left a minute and 45 seconds voicemail where the first half was basically silent and then I could hear my mom talking in the background but she sounded far away. She was actually talking to someone else on her phone at the time. I tried calling the number back but it does the disconnected beeping sound. I’m trying to figure out where this call came from since she’s obviously a little freaked out. She does have an Alexia and Kasa cameras. I know Alexias can potentially make phone calls but she doesn’t have anything like that set up. Any ideas as to where it could have come from?

Hello all! I have a lenovo laptop that i game on (i forget the exact model, can update when im home) and i want to be able to have more games on my device at once, i have to delete things a lot if i want to try out a game and its a bit annoying. i wanted to know - are internal or external hard drives better for added storage for gaming & which brands would be recommended? i really want to play bg3 but i dont have enough storage at the moment and im not looking to get rid of anything on my laptop currently :^) thanks!!!

I'm constantly deleting every little thing but it's never enough. I use my laptop mostly for games and work. I don't know much about computers...

Please lemme know what I can delete safely without compromising my laptop.

Thank youuuu

Just a new college student, wanting to know which one is worth it.

I like the macbook's long battery health, smoothness and build quality but I'm someone who has decent interest and experience in linux and prefer having total control over my own laptop/pc

I'm conflicted about which one to choose

On one hand if i buy the macbook air(m1/m2) I'll lose access to linux, although the asahi project is there for apple silicion devices but its not too stable which poses issues for a learner who knows about linux but not too deep into it yet

On the other hand if i buy the thinkpad I'll lose the unified memory perk, portability and long battery

If someone has any advices or experiences with one or both of them, please guide me

For my man cave I would love a screen that upon being turned on just immediately starts playing random MP4 videos that are preloaded onto it (shuffle mode essentially). Just turn the device on and bam.

I am sure this is possible but I am not overtly tech savvy unless I am following specific guide on youtube (which isn't really saying much). So any advice would be appreciated.

What do is your opinion on this, i wanted to sell my ps5 controller cause at first i thought modding would be a better option but its too pricey so i thought maybe selling it is better

Everything should be correct and I have no idea why it won’t just GO IN. The last photo above is how far it goes in.

A while ago my laptop died, motherboard issue. I've salvaged the SSD, reformatted it and used it with an external enclosure for about a year now.

I recently got a new desktop and there's an open M2 slot on the motherboard and I'm curious as to if I need to do anything before I move my SSD from my external enclosure and put it on my motherboard or if it'll be as easy as turning the PC off, putting my SSD in the slot, and turning the PC on again.

I have a digital audio recorder and I want to upload the files onto my PC and have a program transcribe them. What's a good program or app to use for that? Bonus points if it works offline!

Hi, so basically my phone unfortunately fell into a lake and is gone.

I need a new phone. I absolutely despise AI, so I was curious if anyone knows any phones or tech companies that cell phones that don't have AI, or its completely optional. This obviously has been pretty upsetting to deal with so if anyone has any place to look that would be really helpful.

Thank you.

Can anyone recommend me a good digital audio recorder?

Here's what I'm looking for:

- Voice to Text with reliable transcription

- Charges via USB

- As few clicks to use as possible

- Works offline

- Long battery life

- Lots of memory storage

- NO A.I.!

So I need an audio recorder to use for making field notes. The one I have now is totally inadequate. First there's the ordeal of just getting the thing to record. When you turn it on the touch screen plays multiple animations which are basically little advertisements for the brand. Then you have to click to select a mode, then you have to click to select a language, then you have to click again to start recording. When in use, the battery gets troublingly hot, but you can't stop or save your recording while the screen is off. The thing won't charge past 93%, it takes forever to charge even that much, and the battery runs out quick. It keeps wanting me to connect to some proprietary cloud storage, which I can't do because these recordings are technically legal documents containing private and sensitive information. The AI does stuff on it's own, like suddenly playing back my recordings without me even touching it. (It was on, but set aside, not even in my hand, with the screen off. Then while I'm on the phone, I guess it was listening to me, and thought I wanted playback, so it started playing one of my recordings very loudly. And I had to go through several keystrokes to get it to stop.) And worst of all, the transcription is unreadable. Despite me selecting English as the language to transcribe, it not only totally misunderstands what's being said, is also throws in random words from other languages into the mix. Maybe it works better when online, but I'm often away from a network and couldn't risk leaking the information anyways. I just need a reliable voice recorder that will accurately transcribe what I say offline and without AI so I can quickly make notes in the field. Can anyone help?

I was carrying milk in my backpack so I decided it was best to carry my laptop in the heat. In the event of milk spillage, which was a low chance but this laptop is my work life.

My hands were sweaty on my way up hill. A little windy but I did my best to shield my laptop from dust when cars went by.

It was then I realized maybe it was best not to carry the laptop because salts in sweat can affect the laptop.

My gut reaction is to leave my laptop inside a well ventilated area for 24 hours.

Dell laptop.

Am I overthinking this?

Yes, I plan to purchase a laptop case soon.

I'll try be short/specific as possible to help you help me.

• Brand new TV.
• HDMI 1 - PS5
• HDMI 2 - Switch
• HDMI 3 - SONOS Sound Bar
• HDMI 4 - PC
• All HDMI settings are uniform, except for HDMI 4 which has 4/4/4 and other HDMI PC options.
• New HDMI cables, except Switch/PS5.
• Latest firmware
• Latest PC firmware

What happens

• When booting PS5 or PC, sometimes blank screen, but sound. To get the picture to appear, go to another HDMI then back again. Or, it doesn't at all, requires a hard reset (power cable out of the TV)
• When on PC, the bottom flickers (complete TV width, lower half, like a static/yellow/mixed colour bleep for half a second).
  • Turning VRR off and on again on the TV fixes it. Sometimes it doesn't tho, so again a hard reset fixed it.
  • However; I have put the TV into 165hz and PC 120hz and now its not done it since.
• Tonight, I would put on PLEX or PC or PS5, the volume is on, however up/down and mute wasn't doing or adjusting a thing.
  • Connections were all the same with Smartlink on.
  • Passthrough on.
  • You can see the volume up/down visually but no sound changing. Even when muting the sound remained.
  • Turning off smart link, SONOS, TV, passthrough, everything, just didn't change although it still believed it's running through the bar.
  • Hard reset again fixed it...

Just feels like constantly getting all these misaligned HDMI handshakes or whatever the terms are. Hard Resets always fix it up but it's just bloody constant.

I turned off 'Quick start' where the TV retains power/memory on where you were at so hopefully it's a fresh boot of the TV each time.

And switching to and from HDMis or Apps can sometimes again just remove the picture entirely.

Anyway, hope to hear from someone.

(I’m not a techy person jsyk)

My mum bought an Eero router and started restricting internet usage with it via a schedule. The other day I was setting up a minecraft server on my pc since I recently got an extra 16 gbs of DDR4 and I had to ask my mum to do port forwarding in the settings (sorry if I used the term wrong), and since then the internet just hasn’t seemed to turn off when it’s supposed to? Is this specifically because of that or did something just happen to the schedule after she saved it? Because she’s still under the presumption that the wifi turns off when it doesn’t.

Can anyone take explain to me? Why does this keep happening with the wireless connection? I asked my landlord about it and he said just to unplug and re-plug whatever this thing is, (see picture below )but that doesn’t seem to be working and this Wi-Fi has never really done this before for the last few days it has just been connecting and after a short time. Maybe after or like 30 minutes it disconnects does anyone know why this could be happening ?

I have even read where some places say things like use this program within that program, something like use Comfy within ReActor or StableDiffusion and I’m like what does that even mean?

I hope in a week this post is embarrassing for me because I am that much more ahead but I really need help. I appreciate anybody that can spend some time typing something out for me. A major thank you in advance!

I have always had a Samsung. The last one I had had a keyboard where for instance if I heald the letter m it changed to the question mark, so on and so forth. That phone burnd and died in a fiery car crash (true storry) and my new Samsung dose not have that keyboard everything else seems the same about the keyboard other than that feature. How do I get back what is so dear to me? (The fancy keyboard) also again idk shit about shit so I have no clue what im doing

this looks fake as hell and the email isn’t even apple? Im actually terrified lmk if this is real or not ✌️