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Dusting off my account again to say that we were told we're getting the real-life Tony Stark as CEO, but instead we got Wheatley from Portal 2.

At least Wheatley was funny.

btw it's been not even 3 weeks and he's looking at resigning already

On 9/29/2022 at 10:19 PM, bcredeur97 said:

Yeah that’s a weird one… something you have installed perhaps? Is there a log file somewhere where you can get more detail? 

maybe check the Panther folder. Should be under C:\Windows 

 

 

Jen Gentleman replied to me on Twitter and said that it seems my computer hit a safeguard, and linked me this. I'm not really sure what it means but apparently it'll be automatically lifted after some point.

20 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

tbh, it makes sense if you installed win 11 on unsupported hardware. Since it's a big upgrade it has to use the same installer that will still see your hardware incompatible. 

I wonder if there is a way to bypass it though... without reinstalling from scratch

Pretty sure my laptop that shipped with Windows 11 isn't unsupported. In addition, it passes the PC Health Check... check.

I don't understand why it's not letting me install 22H2.

Dusting off my account to say this.

Excellent work, Microsoft.

If I can't find anything I might just try replacing the display myself because I cba to send this into Lenovo, especially since my old desktop doesn't have a graphics card anymore and was crashing if I put it under a moderate load, and my only other usable computer is a low-end Chromebook a friend got me for my birthday. It's my device, I should be able to try to fix it myself.

I already have some potential panels lined up, I just need to recover from shoulder surgery when that happens in a few days and get the money for the panel.

4 hours ago, Origami Cactus said:

In europe you don't need to be inside the return window, manufacturer caused issue == warranty issue.

Especially because you have had the issue from the very start.

 

But I can't understand how even the Lenovo support can turn you away with an issue that big.

Do you underplay the issue when talking to them? Just can't wrap my head around it.

If you say "My laptop display is constantly flashing on and off when turning the laptop on, and has been doing this since the beginning", they don't give you warranty support?

They couldn't get me any proper support beyond telling me "just reset it lol" a day before I went to visit friends. I'd seek local support but there are no authorized Lenovo repair shops in my state or any nearby states apparently.

It's very on/off, and I have no clue what triggers it. The other day it was working just fine, and I was using the internal display as a third monitor to watch DSU prog on Twitch. Then, I joined a Discord call and the backlight started flashing on and off.

I don't get it.

4 hours ago, Origami Cactus said:

Don't know how it works in the US, but can you take it back to the place you bought it from and show them this occurance? 

In europe this would go straight into the manufacturers warranty, and the backlight would either be replaced for free, or you would get a new functioning laptop.

Yes, but the return window expired months ago. I'd have to go through Lenovo if I need to go through that route now.

please excuse me, I am re-learning how forums work gfkdhdfg

I don't know and I don't know how to diagnose that.

I have the AMD iGPU off in the BIOS rn. Only the 3060 is enabled.

Speaking of, I have not seen this happening while in the BIOS either.

So back in January I got a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with a Ryzen 7 5800H and RTX 3060 to replace my desktop as it was giving me so many issues and I was unable to keep up with them. It's a wonderful machine! It's significantly faster than my old desktop while not having any of the myriad of issues I experienced before retiring it! Except one thing: the internal display likes to flicker black. The actual panel stays on, but the backlight just turns off and starts flickering on and off. It's been doing this since I got it, and I have no idea why. I've tried asking Lenovo for help, and they were useless. I've tried asking on r/LenovoLegion in case someone else there had a similar issue, and got no response. I've tried random things I've found online, and nothing's worked so far.

So I'm at wit's end. I really want to keep this machine, it's been nothing but wonderful otherwise. But this makes traveling with it, as you do with a laptop, hard. I figured I might as well ask here in case any L5P owners here had a similar problem.

I should also note that normally at home I keep it plugged into two monitors, one 1440p and one 1080p and both FreeSync-enabled, and neither of them have the same issue. I dunno if that means anything or not.

pls help

9 hours ago, avg123 said:

onlyfans was not built for sex workers. it was intended for creators. onlyfans has a lot of creators who are not sex workers. sex workers started joining onlyfans later. they have never acknowledged the sex workers on their platform.

 

fansly was built specifically for sex workers. they have no other kind of creators. all the creators of fansly are sex workers

oh, alright

I don't think we can deny that sex workers made OF into what it is, tho.

2 minutes ago, Bensemus said:

That 71% includes the oil we burn. So burning less oil is critical to impacting climate change. 

Well yes, of course. Ending our dependence on oil is gonna have the biggest impact out of everything. Not including the charger with a phone is gonna just be a drop in the ocean compared to that.

9 hours ago, avg123 said:

that would be like porn website banning porn.

isn't that exactly what is happening here

OnlyFans built itself up on porn and support for sex work, and now it's banning that. It's like if McDonalds banned food.

I've been at my aunt's house in Colorado for the past half-week, and I gotta say that while travel feels awkward right now... it's nice not being the only gay person in the house lmao

(one of my cousins out here is gay and married)

1 hour ago, CarlBar said:

Yes, and, that affects the announcement that they're working on the whole concept how exactly? Elon doing weird PR is just Elon being Elon. Pointing out things like it's a guy in spandex, or that an investigation has been opened isn't the knock down argument you think it is. In fact on their own their meaningless. The details are what matters, and right now neither of your links has anything in the details to support your claims in it. In fact the second one does an excellent job of undermining the negativity you seemed to be trying to cast by pointing out that this happen es or is a risk with all similar systems and that the Tesla Manual explicitly warns about this issue, (as does the manual of one of Tesla's rivals with a similar system).

It means they aren't, that the technology they're touting doesn't actually exist, and are simply trying to escape bad press about a federal investigation by "announcing" something they A. know they can't ship, especially not by 2022 and B. have no intention of ever shipping. Don't fall for it.

1 minute ago, poochyena said:

well yea, brand new phones, but your point was focused around phones with usb c. My phone, when it was brand new, was $600, has usb C, but only has 2 back cameras. if you saw my phone, you'd think it was a cheap phone, and thus think it wouldn't have usb c.

You tell me that like I don't know what phone you're holding by just looking at the camera bump/cluster.

Yes, I have too much free time, I know this.

Just now, CarlBar said:

 

Or maybe your just full of it. Seriously neither of those links is seems to have anything of note to them. I'm not Elon's biggest fan, (great idea's, often good execution, but the man and some of the details that result from that aren't kosher IMO), but this reads like classic looking for somthing to hate and conspiracy theory crap.

Is this not obviously a man in spandex pretending to be a humanoid robot?

Remember that Boston Dynamics has been working on robots like this for years and have been basically leading robotics the entire time, and even they can't produce anything like what Elon and Tesla are promising to deliver in a year. If anyone's full of shit, it's Elon.

8 minutes ago, poochyena said:

how can you tell just from looking at a distance, especially with most people having a case?

Camera bumps/clusters. Literally the only way how phones can differentiate themselves now.

6 hours ago, PocketNerd said:

All "AI" we have right now is just an expert system with a fancy algorithm.

Or maybe someone in South America who's paid abysmal rates to remotely provide "artificial intelligence" to the machine. Or, in the case of the Tesla Bot, a guy in spandex badly imitating a robot because Tesla has no intentions of ever actually shipping this thing, and needed a distraction from the fact that there's a federal investigation of Tesla looking into why Autopilot tends to crash into parked emergency vehicles that started a week ago.

On 8/19/2021 at 8:06 PM, Caroline said:

tl;dr banning porn is useless and serves no purpose.

The only thing it does is force sex work underground, which increases sex trafficking and sexual slavery. Every single group who claims to be against sex trafficking and sexual exploitation is actually for it, because they see it as punishing people for expressing themselves in ways that their god doesn't approve. It's...

Fucked.

50 minutes ago, poochyena said:

rofl
I love how the last poster tried the "everyone buys cheap phones" angle, so now you're trying to go for the "everyone buys expensive phones" angle. Why does it upset you that these companies profit off doing environmentally good things? If someone needs a new charger, good for them. The entire point is not everyone does need a new one though. Giving people electrics they don't need lead to e-waste, and if that has the side effect of giving phone companies more profits, then good for them.

If you go to this magical place called "the outdoors" then tell me how many people you see with expensive phones compared to cheap phones. Yesterday I was at the Denver Zoo and aside from the typical iPhone, the only Android phones I saw were all cheapo devices that don't cost more than $200. Aside from the sole Galaxy S21 I saw I'm 100% sure I had the most expensive Android phone in the entire zoo, and mine cost me $350 lmao

People who have a lot of money to dump on phones and a smorgasbord of accessories are a minority.

Also, do you remember the New 3DS and how Nintendo didn't include the proprietary charger with it because "everyone already owns a 3DS" (If "everyone" means ~50 million people out of... 7 billion people) and people correctly pointed out that this was a problem because people were gonna buy a New 3DS as their first 3DS and then would have to drop another $30 on a charger on top of what they already spent on the 3DS? lmfao

18 minutes ago, poochyena said:

ok and? This is about cables and reducing the number of cables and wall outlets as a way to reduce e-waste

It's just empty posturing. They can talk about how much they love the environment all they want but they're still major contributors to ewaste by way of the phones themselves.

Just now, poochyena said:

ok and? Whats your point? You can buy a new cable for 5 to 10 dollars if you really need another one. Many people don't, especially those buying higher end phones. The point is to reduce waste. I have 4 or 5 usb c cables. If a device I buy comes with an extra cable and wall outlet, it would just be e-waste.

There's still the actual phones. Those are gonna continue contributing to eWaste, especially since every OEM hates the idea of you fixing your phone yourself and would prefer it if you just bought a new phone every year because that makes them more money. And they have non-recyclable elements, like those batteries.

There's no way around it. They're gonna contribute to eWaste regardless.

Just now, poochyena said:

Plenty of people have micro usb cables too, so i'm not real sure what your point is

Yeah, because everything used to use that and there still are things that do. Meanwhile, as I said, someone's only USB-C device might be a Switch.

3 minutes ago, poochyena said:

No, most are not mico usb, they were type C https://www.statista.com/statistics/1122068/share-of-new-smartphone-models-with-usb-c-charger/
and no, that does not explain how not including a usb cable and wall charger somehow mean they will need to increase production.

 

oh, and here you can see half of phones relased between 2018 and now under $400 have usb c https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?nYearMin=2018&nPriceMax=350

I mean the bottom of the barrel. Phones for like, $100. Phones that people buy because they don't really want or need a whole lot of phone, and don't have a lot of money to spend. Very few of those are USB-C, even from big names from Samsung.

But you might be able to find one from Nokia lol