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Human: So I’ve been DDoSed and I need help So I was playing gtaV online tonight and was messing with people as normal when one of the guys I killed called me a rude name and shared my ip in the chat. This didn’t really bother me, because I know your ip isn’t hard to find. I ignored him until he said that I was using Comcast and named the state I live in. Shortly after this, he gave a cynical “bye bye” in chat and I was kicked from the game. I closed the game to make sure it wasn’t just my internet connect, only to find that all the devices in my house had lost connection to the internet. I immediately called my ISP and they got to work trying to fix it. After hanging up with them, my internet was back up and running. For about 2 minutes, that is, when suddenly I was unable to open any tabs on my computer again. At this point I was a bit confused, so I did some of my own research while on the phone with ISP again. I couldn’t find any information pertaining to my situation, just a lot of blogs about what ddossing is and how it’s such a big deal now. So my ISP “fixed” the problem again and I was fine for another couple of minutes when everything stopped working again. Now I’m here. I don’t know what to do. I have an online training for my work tomorrow morning and I’m going to have to cancel because this pos decided to DDoS me. If there is anything anyone can do to help me and point me in the right direction, that would be so appreciated right now. Thank you! Tl;dr - I’ve been DDoSed and ISP has failed to help me several times
Assistant: People are talking about the perpetrator. If you want to get back at him, don't try to do something illegal. Find what IP the attacks are coming from, and go to arin.net (if you're in North America, if not look up your regional ICAAN subdivision and use their website). ARIN (in NA) will tell you who owns the IP. You can then contact the ISP and try to get him kicked off of his service. I worked for an ISP, they don't like this shit happening on their network. |
Human: So I’ve been DDoSed and I need help So I was playing gtaV online tonight and was messing with people as normal when one of the guys I killed called me a rude name and shared my ip in the chat. This didn’t really bother me, because I know your ip isn’t hard to find. I ignored him until he said that I was using Comcast and named the state I live in. Shortly after this, he gave a cynical “bye bye” in chat and I was kicked from the game. I closed the game to make sure it wasn’t just my internet connect, only to find that all the devices in my house had lost connection to the internet. I immediately called my ISP and they got to work trying to fix it. After hanging up with them, my internet was back up and running. For about 2 minutes, that is, when suddenly I was unable to open any tabs on my computer again. At this point I was a bit confused, so I did some of my own research while on the phone with ISP again. I couldn’t find any information pertaining to my situation, just a lot of blogs about what ddossing is and how it’s such a big deal now. So my ISP “fixed” the problem again and I was fine for another couple of minutes when everything stopped working again. Now I’m here. I don’t know what to do. I have an online training for my work tomorrow morning and I’m going to have to cancel because this pos decided to DDoS me. If there is anything anyone can do to help me and point me in the right direction, that would be so appreciated right now. Thank you! Tl;dr - I’ve been DDoSed and ISP has failed to help me several times
Assistant: I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this, but: Be sure to report to the platform hosting the game that this happened. PSN and XBOX report links are included here. |
Human: I got a laptop and porn sites keep opening for no reason I got a new laptop on Thursday and Just a few hours ago a bunch of porn sites would start to open and fake message rooms with women trying to get my card info. It's embarrassing if any one saw it but it seems to happen once every 30 seconds for like 5 minutes straight then stop for a while then happen again
Assistant: >... for no reason There's definitely a reason. |
Human: I got a laptop and porn sites keep opening for no reason I got a new laptop on Thursday and Just a few hours ago a bunch of porn sites would start to open and fake message rooms with women trying to get my card info. It's embarrassing if any one saw it but it seems to happen once every 30 seconds for like 5 minutes straight then stop for a while then happen again
Assistant: First thing I do with any new computer is add anti-virus. We've (mum, and later myself) been using ZoneAlarm for 15 years. Never once has it failed me. |
Human: I'm stupid and crying and need help. I'm stupid and everyone treats me like I'm stupid and they're right to. I wasn't raised with good tech and anytime I've been given tech I'm left alone to figure out how it works, with no help. My father gave me an older laptop that he bought from his company a few years ago. I have windows 10. It's not the best laptop, it has broken keys and burns like the sun. But it's all I have. It's my only escape. I'm mentally falling apart because of how my life is right now which leads me to make short term decisions out of frustration and sadness. I just wanted a moving background. I couldn't get it to work so I downloaded something called repaper. Well I fucked it up and shouldn't have downloaded it to begin with because windows tried telling me not to and I did anyway. Well, it won't do what it's supposed to and I can't delete it because it claims it's "open in another file" but it's fucking not. It put a moving background that looks sucky in my desktop background but that's it, and I managed to get it down. I'm so angry at myself. I'm afraid I just downloaded malware or a virus and it has yet to show. Why won't it let me delete it? Am I just too dumb to realize I'm glossing over something? I wish I knew how things work. I'm sorry I can't figure this out by myself.
Assistant: You're definitely not stupid! You did something many people would not do....you asked for help. You took the time to try to figure it out. It can be frustrating when you're new, but we all start somewhere! |
Human: I'm stupid and crying and need help. I'm stupid and everyone treats me like I'm stupid and they're right to. I wasn't raised with good tech and anytime I've been given tech I'm left alone to figure out how it works, with no help. My father gave me an older laptop that he bought from his company a few years ago. I have windows 10. It's not the best laptop, it has broken keys and burns like the sun. But it's all I have. It's my only escape. I'm mentally falling apart because of how my life is right now which leads me to make short term decisions out of frustration and sadness. I just wanted a moving background. I couldn't get it to work so I downloaded something called repaper. Well I fucked it up and shouldn't have downloaded it to begin with because windows tried telling me not to and I did anyway. Well, it won't do what it's supposed to and I can't delete it because it claims it's "open in another file" but it's fucking not. It put a moving background that looks sucky in my desktop background but that's it, and I managed to get it down. I'm so angry at myself. I'm afraid I just downloaded malware or a virus and it has yet to show. Why won't it let me delete it? Am I just too dumb to realize I'm glossing over something? I wish I knew how things work. I'm sorry I can't figure this out by myself.
Assistant: Texh can be difficult bro, don't believe it makes you stupid. Feel free to DM me if you need since it's rarely one factor that can lead to an irrational belief like that, wish you the best with your laptop |
Human: My IP Address may be leaked... should I be worried? I run a private Minecraft server with my family and friends on my personal computer. We haven't had any problems with privacy until just now, when three players of unknown origin somehow found the IP and were able to log in to the server, one after another. I quickly shut down the server and enabled a whitelist to prevent this from happening again. I geolocated their IPs (blurred in the screenshot) and found that one was from Seattle and the two others were signaling from Birmingham, UK. I am from a suburb near Philadelphia. I have no idea who these people were or what their intentions may have been. This implies that my IP was somehow leaked. I trust everyone I currently have told my IP to, so I'm pretty sure we can rule that out. I don't know how these players got my IP address (or if it was some freak coincidence), but I'm worried that my privacy may be compromised. Is this something that warrants action, or am I in no real danger?
Assistant: Totally unrelated but why does your MC server have a gui? command line Linux plus screen does the same job with way less system overhead |
Human: My IP Address may be leaked... should I be worried? I run a private Minecraft server with my family and friends on my personal computer. We haven't had any problems with privacy until just now, when three players of unknown origin somehow found the IP and were able to log in to the server, one after another. I quickly shut down the server and enabled a whitelist to prevent this from happening again. I geolocated their IPs (blurred in the screenshot) and found that one was from Seattle and the two others were signaling from Birmingham, UK. I am from a suburb near Philadelphia. I have no idea who these people were or what their intentions may have been. This implies that my IP was somehow leaked. I trust everyone I currently have told my IP to, so I'm pretty sure we can rule that out. I don't know how these players got my IP address (or if it was some freak coincidence), but I'm worried that my privacy may be compromised. Is this something that warrants action, or am I in no real danger?
Assistant: They probably just found it on shodan, it happened a couple times back on my old server. You can whitelist it if you want. |
Human: My waifu adapter is slow when I connect a VR headset EDIT: WI-FI I recently built a PC, and at the moment I use a TP-Link USB adapter to connect to the internet. However, I've noticed that I get cut off from the Internet when I connect my VR headset (and the two sensors) via USB at the same time as the adapter. (There's also a mouse and keyboard connected at the same time.) I tried looking up "USB bandwidth" and similar terms, but I couldn't find a fix for this. Is there a solution?
Assistant: Which VR headset you got? If I'm not mistaken, the Vive uses the same frequency range as WiFi for talking with the controllers (I'm not sure about the other brands), if your WiFi adapter (or the WiFi router it connects to) is not particularly strong, it might be suffering interference. | ps: Actually, the issue is your waifu gets jealous when you're distracting yourself with other virtual things. |
Human: My waifu adapter is slow when I connect a VR headset EDIT: WI-FI I recently built a PC, and at the moment I use a TP-Link USB adapter to connect to the internet. However, I've noticed that I get cut off from the Internet when I connect my VR headset (and the two sensors) via USB at the same time as the adapter. (There's also a mouse and keyboard connected at the same time.) I tried looking up "USB bandwidth" and similar terms, but I couldn't find a fix for this. Is there a solution?
Assistant: You are looking for QOS. Maybe your waifu router does support that. |
Human: How bad would it be to leave my PC on for like 16 hours a day, compared to like 8? Not constantly doing anything, just sitting there on
Assistant: wait...you people turn off your computers? |
Human: How bad would it be to leave my PC on for like 16 hours a day, compared to like 8? Not constantly doing anything, just sitting there on
Assistant: You guys turn your pcs off? |
Human: It happened. I watched files on a flash drive disappear right before my eyes. Files just don’t delete themselves, right? My boyfriend says “that’s the problem with flash memory.” But says he doesn’t know how to explain the science behind it. Flash Drive: ~150GB Use: for temporary storage before I hook up my mechanical hard drive. Project: Scan old photos for archive project at 1200 dpi. What I was doing: Scanning 3 photos on my Epson V600 flatbed scanner. I had the V600 software open up the folder it is saving the .tifs to. Each scan of batch photos is about 400MB. It opens up the folder for my first scan. It’s not there. I go and check what the file destination is. It is saving to default: Desktop. Ok uh.. weird. I guess I must have clicked default by accident. I go to my desktop, see the file, cut, and paste it to my flash drive to the designated folder I need it in. I go back to my scanning software and change the file destination to the flash drive. This is when I mention to my boyfriend that I felt weird about what was going on. So I opened up the folder on the flash drive where I put the scan file and it’s there! I click on it ... AND IT DISAPPEARS! GONE FROM EXISTENCE! I tried to scan to the flash drive two more times after that and every time it opened the file location after it scanned, they weren’t there, and NOWHERE on my computer. Then.. I go microwave a corn dog in anger. I come back, open the flash file... AND ONE OF THE FILES IS THERE! Able to be viewed and previewed! Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on? This flash drive is possessed! If you explain the science behind it, I’m all ears.
Assistant: You can use a Linux tool called f3fix to "fix" fake drives like this. It'll create a partition with the actual size of the drive so that you can use it without worrying about losing data. I'd still use a more reliable drive but at least it'll stop it from being a paperweight. |
Human: It happened. I watched files on a flash drive disappear right before my eyes. Files just don’t delete themselves, right? My boyfriend says “that’s the problem with flash memory.” But says he doesn’t know how to explain the science behind it. Flash Drive: ~150GB Use: for temporary storage before I hook up my mechanical hard drive. Project: Scan old photos for archive project at 1200 dpi. What I was doing: Scanning 3 photos on my Epson V600 flatbed scanner. I had the V600 software open up the folder it is saving the .tifs to. Each scan of batch photos is about 400MB. It opens up the folder for my first scan. It’s not there. I go and check what the file destination is. It is saving to default: Desktop. Ok uh.. weird. I guess I must have clicked default by accident. I go to my desktop, see the file, cut, and paste it to my flash drive to the designated folder I need it in. I go back to my scanning software and change the file destination to the flash drive. This is when I mention to my boyfriend that I felt weird about what was going on. So I opened up the folder on the flash drive where I put the scan file and it’s there! I click on it ... AND IT DISAPPEARS! GONE FROM EXISTENCE! I tried to scan to the flash drive two more times after that and every time it opened the file location after it scanned, they weren’t there, and NOWHERE on my computer. Then.. I go microwave a corn dog in anger. I come back, open the flash file... AND ONE OF THE FILES IS THERE! Able to be viewed and previewed! Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on? This flash drive is possessed! If you explain the science behind it, I’m all ears.
Assistant: How much did you pay for the drive? Because 150GB is a very strange number that a lot have already said is suspicious. If you paid a low amount it's DEFINITELY a scam flash drive. |
Human: I can't push "p" Whenever I typ\\e "p\\" it always p\\uts a slash at the end of it. If I cap\\atalize the P| it adds a line. I need help\\
Assistant: wut about the p on the title… |
Human: I can't push "p" Whenever I typ\\e "p\\" it always p\\uts a slash at the end of it. If I cap\\atalize the P| it adds a line. I need help\\
Assistant: Did you get liquid in your keyboard? |
Human: I'm fucking sick and tired of news sites autoplaying videos. How do I stop it? I'm using FireFox and there seems to be little in the way of add-ons for this. What can be done to stop it? I'm sick of having to find which tab has a fucking autoplay video and stop/pause it. It's fucking ridiculous.
Assistant: 1. Adblock 2. Uninstall Flash 3. Install an HTML5 autoplay disable addon, or one that makes html5 audio/video click to play. EDIT: Firefox has the media.autoplay.enabled toggle in about:config |
Human: I'm fucking sick and tired of news sites autoplaying videos. How do I stop it? I'm using FireFox and there seems to be little in the way of add-ons for this. What can be done to stop it? I'm sick of having to find which tab has a fucking autoplay video and stop/pause it. It's fucking ridiculous.
Assistant: ublock Origin has a nifty tool that you can remove components of a website. You click the little badge on the firefox toolbar and around the middle of the dropdown is an eyedropper. Click that then click the video then move your mouse to the bottom right of the window and then click Create. You can do this with adblock plus but it doesn't have the nice tool. |
Human: Concerned that I'm being scammed by a computer repair guy... any thoughts? Hey guys, My 2.5yr old lenovo yoga laptop's been crashing / glitching with big black and coloured squares appearing all over the screen when it happens. I tried to figure out what was wrong, updated my graphics driver and everything, but nothing worked, so I took it to a small (I think one-man) repair service that had really good reviews. I met up with him in person outside his office. As I'm a student I asked if it would be alright if he could take a quick look and let me know how much it might cost me to fix it, because if it's too much I'm just going to have to write it off. Things started getting really weird a few days after I left it there. I'll attach links to a screenshot of our texts, but the TLDR is that he says he's buying a part I've never heard of and can't find mention of on the web - then got annoyed when I was concerned about that, and now hasn't replied to any of my messages in nearly a month. He's had my laptop since the 25th of May. I'm pretty annoyed because I need it for work and school, but I don't know if this is all to be expected or not. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/fzxpwMF What should I do?
Assistant: Show up to his shop. I worked at a repair place and this dude brought in a laptop that needed a new screen. After a month I STILL hadn’t located a screen and even HP said they don’t have it. The only ones I found were super expensive. Everywhere else was out of stock for his model and size. But, I always responded and let him know exactly what was going on. |
Human: Concerned that I'm being scammed by a computer repair guy... any thoughts? Hey guys, My 2.5yr old lenovo yoga laptop's been crashing / glitching with big black and coloured squares appearing all over the screen when it happens. I tried to figure out what was wrong, updated my graphics driver and everything, but nothing worked, so I took it to a small (I think one-man) repair service that had really good reviews. I met up with him in person outside his office. As I'm a student I asked if it would be alright if he could take a quick look and let me know how much it might cost me to fix it, because if it's too much I'm just going to have to write it off. Things started getting really weird a few days after I left it there. I'll attach links to a screenshot of our texts, but the TLDR is that he says he's buying a part I've never heard of and can't find mention of on the web - then got annoyed when I was concerned about that, and now hasn't replied to any of my messages in nearly a month. He's had my laptop since the 25th of May. I'm pretty annoyed because I need it for work and school, but I don't know if this is all to be expected or not. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/fzxpwMF What should I do?
Assistant: Get your laptop back. |
Human: Found BitCoin Miner in invisible path I noticed loud noises after watching movies or shows, on my PC, but my CPU was never really high. Today I added a Rainmeter skin to permanently graph my GPU usage, and lo and behold, it was at 100% when I didn't touch my PC for a few minutes. I added another skin to show the top programs on my GPU and found out it was "updatedg". After some googling I found 2 other posts mentioning it as a miner. Based on their suggestions I searched C: for it and also found it (still haven't found the hook that started it, though). Now here it gets interesting: For one neither Windows Defender, nor Malwarebytes recognized the program as malicious.\* So that already sucked, but what really made it strange was that the folders above it all displayed to be empty, although I have "display hidden folders/file" set to true in the explorer. How can the folder be empty, yet contain another folder, despite explorer settings to the contrary? Is there another setting to \*really\* show all files and folders? \*I uploaded it to the Windows upload page I've found, but couldn't find a Malwarebyte link, any pointers? The exe is now deleted, but I still got a zip.
Assistant: BitDefender from USB. The key here is from USB, don’t let windows load. |
Human: Found BitCoin Miner in invisible path I noticed loud noises after watching movies or shows, on my PC, but my CPU was never really high. Today I added a Rainmeter skin to permanently graph my GPU usage, and lo and behold, it was at 100% when I didn't touch my PC for a few minutes. I added another skin to show the top programs on my GPU and found out it was "updatedg". After some googling I found 2 other posts mentioning it as a miner. Based on their suggestions I searched C: for it and also found it (still haven't found the hook that started it, though). Now here it gets interesting: For one neither Windows Defender, nor Malwarebytes recognized the program as malicious.\* So that already sucked, but what really made it strange was that the folders above it all displayed to be empty, although I have "display hidden folders/file" set to true in the explorer. How can the folder be empty, yet contain another folder, despite explorer settings to the contrary? Is there another setting to \*really\* show all files and folders? \*I uploaded it to the Windows upload page I've found, but couldn't find a Malwarebyte link, any pointers? The exe is now deleted, but I still got a zip.
Assistant: I'd recommend using GMER if it's a rootkit and use process explorer / autoruns to find the driver and delete it using icacls. If you need assistance removing it PM me, and I'll be glad to help if you don't wanna reinstall windows which is a pain in the ass to get it how it was before. |
Human: Mayonnaise in laptop charging port Fuckin' mayo packet in my backpack squirted the entirety of its oily contents into the HDMI, USB, and charging port of my dell laptop. using Q-tips, a vaccuum cleaner, and toothpicks, I did the best i could to get the disgusting mess out, but now my charger gives me an "AC power adapter type cannot be determined" error whenever i try to plug it in and charge it, telling me it wont charge. can ANYBODY offer anymore advice? the charging port has a post in the middle making it extremely difficult to find anything small but strong enough to clean around it. visually, all the ports look decently clean, but i know there still some oily residue inside them. if yall have any suggestions, please shoot them my way
Assistant: Pour some isopropyl in there, then spray with compressed air - one burst cleans literally any port, even the pins in a VGA or PS/2 port. |
Human: Mayonnaise in laptop charging port Fuckin' mayo packet in my backpack squirted the entirety of its oily contents into the HDMI, USB, and charging port of my dell laptop. using Q-tips, a vaccuum cleaner, and toothpicks, I did the best i could to get the disgusting mess out, but now my charger gives me an "AC power adapter type cannot be determined" error whenever i try to plug it in and charge it, telling me it wont charge. can ANYBODY offer anymore advice? the charging port has a post in the middle making it extremely difficult to find anything small but strong enough to clean around it. visually, all the ports look decently clean, but i know there still some oily residue inside them. if yall have any suggestions, please shoot them my way
Assistant: Might have to resort to a full tear down, cleaning, and likely replacement of the charging port. |
Human: Help, my laptop is being hacked and I cant work out how Hoping someone good with tech can help :) I keep getting messages typed into my google search bar, which show up in the history and sometimes I have even seen them being typed in as I am using my laptop Just insults really and saying they are going to get me...nothing specific Its clearly someone who knows me as there are personal details about my family and our jobs I have avast anti-virus and it comes up clean with a full scan, I also have Malware bytes and Spybot search and destroy and they all come back clean Its been happening for about a year on and off and I have reloaded windows several times to try and get rid of whatever is allowing access. It stopped for a few months but just started up again today. Just before Christmas I had some purchases (which I did not make) from an online seller (Argos) show up on my bank account and I am beginning to think that they managed to get some of my card details from my laptop. Luckily I managed to get the money back from my bank. I have two other PCs in the house and these have never has an issue its just this laptop that I use daily for my work Any suggestions as to how I can clean work out how someone is gaining access or how I can reset the laptop. I am currently thinking of getting a new SSD drive and reinstalling windows on that Many thanks for any help Cheers Grebe
Assistant: uninstall teamviewer |
Human: Help, my laptop is being hacked and I cant work out how Hoping someone good with tech can help :) I keep getting messages typed into my google search bar, which show up in the history and sometimes I have even seen them being typed in as I am using my laptop Just insults really and saying they are going to get me...nothing specific Its clearly someone who knows me as there are personal details about my family and our jobs I have avast anti-virus and it comes up clean with a full scan, I also have Malware bytes and Spybot search and destroy and they all come back clean Its been happening for about a year on and off and I have reloaded windows several times to try and get rid of whatever is allowing access. It stopped for a few months but just started up again today. Just before Christmas I had some purchases (which I did not make) from an online seller (Argos) show up on my bank account and I am beginning to think that they managed to get some of my card details from my laptop. Luckily I managed to get the money back from my bank. I have two other PCs in the house and these have never has an issue its just this laptop that I use daily for my work Any suggestions as to how I can clean work out how someone is gaining access or how I can reset the laptop. I am currently thinking of getting a new SSD drive and reinstalling windows on that Many thanks for any help Cheers Grebe
Assistant: Unplug the damn Ethernet cable! Turn off wifi! |
Human: When I left my android phone for a bit, as you expect, it temporarily turned off after, (didn't shit down tho), when I returned, my phone has that black "your data may be corrupt, either factory reset or try again", has my phone been hacked or something, or is it performance issue My phone had that "your data couldn't be loaded page" I chose the "try again option", and I rebooted my phone, and that screen hasn't appeared again since, but why did this happen and what do i do
Assistant: I had that happen before (i think it was because i filled my memory) so after i clicked reset it created a bug on internal storage so I can’t be formatted anymore, not even trough ADB or recovery so i was left with a brick. Don’t press factory reset if it appears again, if that screen comes and doesn’t want to go away for good use hard reset trough recovery. |
Human: When I left my android phone for a bit, as you expect, it temporarily turned off after, (didn't shit down tho), when I returned, my phone has that black "your data may be corrupt, either factory reset or try again", has my phone been hacked or something, or is it performance issue My phone had that "your data couldn't be loaded page" I chose the "try again option", and I rebooted my phone, and that screen hasn't appeared again since, but why did this happen and what do i do
Assistant: Didn't shit down tho |
Human: My PC was was hacked and now I am out $1,564.95. please help. I was at my sisters house eating dinner with my family when I looked at my phone and saw 3 push messages; A PayPal payment to OPSkins for $1030.18, a payment to G2A for $534.77 and my Steam Guard sending me a message so I could log into my steam account. I logged onto my email and saw that I had 4 Amazon orders. One for $99.98, then one for $49.99, another for $49.99, and the last one which didn't go through because I didn't have enough money in my checking account. I called paypal first and filed a claim on the 2 charges saying that I didn't make the purchases. Next I called Chase and said I didn't make those purchases. Then I contacted Amazon and told them what happened. Amazon was able to cancel them right away because they were for Playstation Network cards and they had not been used yet. Here comes the part that freaked me out... PayPal rejected my claim because "nothing was out of order". The purchases came from my IP address, on my AT&T internet, and they said everything matched up as if I had been sitting on my home PC and placed the orders. I went onto OPSkins.com (to which I had been banned because I filed the claim through PayPal first) I disputed the ban and told them what happened. They told me it was through my IP address so I was full of it. I was also banned on G2A, but I couldn't find a way to contact them. All of these orders were purchased on my accounts. They logged into my PayPal, my Amazon, my G2A, and my OPSkins accounts. It only stopped them when Steam Guard came up (when I am assuming they tried to trade the skins they bought on my account to another one). I have a surveillance camera in my home, no one was here. Could this have been done through hacking into my network/PC? Something else that I found out: $1000 was added to my OPskins account, then an additional $500 was added to my account from G2A pay. So there was a total of ~$1500 in my OPSkins account. I asked OPSkins what the last purchases made on my account were and they told me "Sticker | Martha". 2 of them. One was sold to me for $999.80, and the other was sold to me for $499.90. The item "Sticker | Martha" is $0.48 on the steam marketplace right now. So I am assuming that the person who got into my account was the same person who was selling these items. I contacted OPSkins and asked them what information they could give me of the person who was selling those 2 items. I have been waiting for a reply ever since. I doubt they will do anything about it, but I really hope that I can get some information to report to the authorities. TL;DR - Someone hacked into my Amazon, Paypal, OPSkins, and G2A and now I am out $1564.95. Plz halp.
Assistant: Go talk to your bank, if you genuinely didn't make those purchases then you will get your money back; problem is you might not get it back soon. |
Human: My PC was was hacked and now I am out $1,564.95. please help. I was at my sisters house eating dinner with my family when I looked at my phone and saw 3 push messages; A PayPal payment to OPSkins for $1030.18, a payment to G2A for $534.77 and my Steam Guard sending me a message so I could log into my steam account. I logged onto my email and saw that I had 4 Amazon orders. One for $99.98, then one for $49.99, another for $49.99, and the last one which didn't go through because I didn't have enough money in my checking account. I called paypal first and filed a claim on the 2 charges saying that I didn't make the purchases. Next I called Chase and said I didn't make those purchases. Then I contacted Amazon and told them what happened. Amazon was able to cancel them right away because they were for Playstation Network cards and they had not been used yet. Here comes the part that freaked me out... PayPal rejected my claim because "nothing was out of order". The purchases came from my IP address, on my AT&T internet, and they said everything matched up as if I had been sitting on my home PC and placed the orders. I went onto OPSkins.com (to which I had been banned because I filed the claim through PayPal first) I disputed the ban and told them what happened. They told me it was through my IP address so I was full of it. I was also banned on G2A, but I couldn't find a way to contact them. All of these orders were purchased on my accounts. They logged into my PayPal, my Amazon, my G2A, and my OPSkins accounts. It only stopped them when Steam Guard came up (when I am assuming they tried to trade the skins they bought on my account to another one). I have a surveillance camera in my home, no one was here. Could this have been done through hacking into my network/PC? Something else that I found out: $1000 was added to my OPskins account, then an additional $500 was added to my account from G2A pay. So there was a total of ~$1500 in my OPSkins account. I asked OPSkins what the last purchases made on my account were and they told me "Sticker | Martha". 2 of them. One was sold to me for $999.80, and the other was sold to me for $499.90. The item "Sticker | Martha" is $0.48 on the steam marketplace right now. So I am assuming that the person who got into my account was the same person who was selling these items. I contacted OPSkins and asked them what information they could give me of the person who was selling those 2 items. I have been waiting for a reply ever since. I doubt they will do anything about it, but I really hope that I can get some information to report to the authorities. TL;DR - Someone hacked into my Amazon, Paypal, OPSkins, and G2A and now I am out $1564.95. Plz halp.
Assistant: 1) Call Law Enforcement 2) Call Customer Support of Amazon, Paypal, OPSkins, and G2A. 3) Call your banks, credit unions and all other monetary account operators that you own. 4) File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1 5) When all of this is resolved enable two factor authentication on as many accounts as possible. |
Human: HACKED?? I just received an email containing nothing else but a password that I've used quite a few times over the years and is my current PC password. The sender is Spanish. This is following an unknown Spanish user on my Spotify. Please help! I noticed that someone was using my Spotify account sometime last week, as it would stop my music playing. I logged out of all devices to get rid of them. Last night I received an email in Spanish from Spotify, saying: "We have received a request to download data To authorize the request, we need to verify this email address. If you want to continue with the application, click CONFIRM. If you have not done it this request for a copy of your data, immediately follow these steps to protect your account." I clicked the 'these steps' link, which took me to the official secure spotify site, then changed my Spotify password as well as passwords for Google accounts, Facebook, banking etc. Have checked on social media accounts and Gmail for suspicious sign-ins and there haven't been any. I'm kinda freaking out, I replied to the latest email saying who is this, what do you want? I have no idea how many accounts I've made using this password, but its been a go-to over the years (stupid I know, but I don't have shit to hide or much money anyway). Not sure if I should go to the police or what to do? Btw I'm in Australia. Any help would be amazing !!
Assistant: Never follow a link like that to change security settings. Always navigate independently to the site. I suggest you change passwords again directly on each site. |
Human: HACKED?? I just received an email containing nothing else but a password that I've used quite a few times over the years and is my current PC password. The sender is Spanish. This is following an unknown Spanish user on my Spotify. Please help! I noticed that someone was using my Spotify account sometime last week, as it would stop my music playing. I logged out of all devices to get rid of them. Last night I received an email in Spanish from Spotify, saying: "We have received a request to download data To authorize the request, we need to verify this email address. If you want to continue with the application, click CONFIRM. If you have not done it this request for a copy of your data, immediately follow these steps to protect your account." I clicked the 'these steps' link, which took me to the official secure spotify site, then changed my Spotify password as well as passwords for Google accounts, Facebook, banking etc. Have checked on social media accounts and Gmail for suspicious sign-ins and there haven't been any. I'm kinda freaking out, I replied to the latest email saying who is this, what do you want? I have no idea how many accounts I've made using this password, but its been a go-to over the years (stupid I know, but I don't have shit to hide or much money anyway). Not sure if I should go to the police or what to do? Btw I'm in Australia. Any help would be amazing !!
Assistant: Use lastpass.... Generate random passwords. Also, use two factor authentication (2fa) for your sites. Program like authy is what I use since it creates backups of the tokens. I have authy lastpass on my phone and my laptop. The two work together and through lastpass I can generate compiles random passwords. |
Human: Family's phone numbers are being spoofed, need help. I answered a call from my sister this morning, but heard nothing on the other line so I hung up and called her again to see what was up. She was confused and said she didn't call me, which instantly worried me. I told my dad about the incident and apparently a similar thing happened to him last week (only it was my mom's number rather than my sister's). Hearing that made me even more paranoid. As far as I know, none of us have found any suspicious apps with access to contacts. We've already called the carrier requesting replacement sim cards with different phone numbers. Can anyone give me advice on this situation along with how to prevent it from happening again?
Assistant: not too long ago i got a Duo invitation from my sister...i called her to ask and she had not sent one...but she had **received** one...from me. still haven't figured that out. |
Human: Family's phone numbers are being spoofed, need help. I answered a call from my sister this morning, but heard nothing on the other line so I hung up and called her again to see what was up. She was confused and said she didn't call me, which instantly worried me. I told my dad about the incident and apparently a similar thing happened to him last week (only it was my mom's number rather than my sister's). Hearing that made me even more paranoid. As far as I know, none of us have found any suspicious apps with access to contacts. We've already called the carrier requesting replacement sim cards with different phone numbers. Can anyone give me advice on this situation along with how to prevent it from happening again?
Assistant: Check out Kitboga on twitch. He deals with scammers for fun. Shows insight into their scams |
Human: I think the smartphone repair guy just put me in danger. The battery in my phone was starting to expand so I brought it to the repair shop. He told me it would cost about 70-80 dollars so I told him I'll just throw it away when he told me he'd just "press out the air" for 20 dollars. He did that by just glueing it and pressing it together with these wrench looking things idk. And now I think the phone might explode any minute but because it still looks and feels perfectly fine I don't wanna throw it away. Pls Help?
Assistant: The expansion of the battery is a safety feature. By allowing the battery to expand you significantly reduce the odds of it igniting/exploding/whatever. This is why the samsung phones that had that issue a while back kept igniting - the tolerances were too tight and there was no flexibility for the battery to expand. By compressing it back into it's smaller state it's more or less a time bomb. |
Human: I think the smartphone repair guy just put me in danger. The battery in my phone was starting to expand so I brought it to the repair shop. He told me it would cost about 70-80 dollars so I told him I'll just throw it away when he told me he'd just "press out the air" for 20 dollars. He did that by just glueing it and pressing it together with these wrench looking things idk. And now I think the phone might explode any minute but because it still looks and feels perfectly fine I don't wanna throw it away. Pls Help?
Assistant: Throw that bomb away, and give that idiot a bad review. Wtf. |
Human: Finding the largest files on my machine Hello, I'm running out of space on my PC. It's a 900 gb machine and I can't seem to find where all the large files are. When I go to uninstall a program there is like 5 things 1gb+ and nothing else that large, but I know for a fact I have more then what's listed there. Is there some way I can get a list/location of the largest things on my machine to find stuff to uninstall? Thank you!
Assistant: Wiztree |
Human: Finding the largest files on my machine Hello, I'm running out of space on my PC. It's a 900 gb machine and I can't seem to find where all the large files are. When I go to uninstall a program there is like 5 things 1gb+ and nothing else that large, but I know for a fact I have more then what's listed there. Is there some way I can get a list/location of the largest things on my machine to find stuff to uninstall? Thank you!
Assistant: use windirstat |
Human: Computer Won't Boot After Running CCleaner and NVIDIA Driver Update I recently installed a new NVME SSD and moved around a lot of games. Not wanting a lot of broken registry links, I ran CCleaner to clear up registry errors. Few hours later tried to install new NVIDIA drivers but it kept saying it couldn't install them at the moment. I restarted my PC and now it won't boot at all. No screen at all, doesn't recognize my keyboard (capslock doesn't trigger corresponding light on keyboard), can't use F11 to start windows repair. CPU and case fans work, rgb on ram and graphics card works. Does not flash Aorus screen or bios options, just no input to monitor at all. Holding down power button does not shut down computer, have to manually unplug or switch it off at the back. Specs if relevant: Windows 10 GTX 1070ti Ryzen 2600 Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 5 wifi
Assistant: I don’t know if this has been suggested but unplug your startup disk (SATA cable) and plug in a USB stick with Linux or some other OS so it tried to boot off that. |
Human: Computer Won't Boot After Running CCleaner and NVIDIA Driver Update I recently installed a new NVME SSD and moved around a lot of games. Not wanting a lot of broken registry links, I ran CCleaner to clear up registry errors. Few hours later tried to install new NVIDIA drivers but it kept saying it couldn't install them at the moment. I restarted my PC and now it won't boot at all. No screen at all, doesn't recognize my keyboard (capslock doesn't trigger corresponding light on keyboard), can't use F11 to start windows repair. CPU and case fans work, rgb on ram and graphics card works. Does not flash Aorus screen or bios options, just no input to monitor at all. Holding down power button does not shut down computer, have to manually unplug or switch it off at the back. Specs if relevant: Windows 10 GTX 1070ti Ryzen 2600 Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 5 wifi
Assistant: Did you install the two recent nvidia game ready drivers? Because apparently those two are causing issues with the 1*** series card, and pretty rampant with GTX 1080/1070 card users on /r/nvidia. |
Human: I think I messed up my pc when I downloaded the Nvidia program. Well, as you can probably tell by now I have absolutely no idea about how things work. The thing is, my computer had always worked really good, but I wanted to... I don't know what I wanted to do. So, knowing that I had an Nvidia GTX 1050 I decided to go to the nvidia's website and downloaded a drive that I thoght was the one I was supposed to download. I don't know iI was wrong. But there has been a significant drop of myor what coul' fps whenever I am playing videogames. So today I was looking for what was slowing down my computer and found a folder called "Nvidia corporation" on my E: disk, when my "strong" is the C: one. I wanna go back, I never had a problem running games at high quality and 120 fps , but now I get like 50 with hiqu quality graphics and 100 with the lowest possible. Is there a way to undo what I did? I you need any specific information tell me and I will do my best to answer.
Assistant: What games are you playing with high quality at 120 fps with a 1050 not even ti? If you see lots or fps in menu that doesn't mean you have high fps in game. Maybe you have activate vsync or something. |
Human: I think I messed up my pc when I downloaded the Nvidia program. Well, as you can probably tell by now I have absolutely no idea about how things work. The thing is, my computer had always worked really good, but I wanted to... I don't know what I wanted to do. So, knowing that I had an Nvidia GTX 1050 I decided to go to the nvidia's website and downloaded a drive that I thoght was the one I was supposed to download. I don't know iI was wrong. But there has been a significant drop of myor what coul' fps whenever I am playing videogames. So today I was looking for what was slowing down my computer and found a folder called "Nvidia corporation" on my E: disk, when my "strong" is the C: one. I wanna go back, I never had a problem running games at high quality and 120 fps , but now I get like 50 with hiqu quality graphics and 100 with the lowest possible. Is there a way to undo what I did? I you need any specific information tell me and I will do my best to answer.
Assistant: Just use Geforce Experience? It does it automatically. |
Human: Keeping my Dads PC alive from his SSD. Hi All, Really sadly we lost my dad recentely. I built him a computer a few years ago with the help of a very good friend. I want to donate the computer to my nephew as he is interested in gaming and they can't afford a new PC. What i'd like to be able to do is just take the SSD out and put that in an enclosure, my question is. If in the future I needed anything off my Dads old PC or wanted to view things like the event viewer for example (we were concerned about trying to figure out the time he died and the event viewer has helped answer some questions) or just keep an eye on his emails... Would this be possible through Virtual Machine software. Essentially i'd like to just have the option to run his PC without needing the actual guts of his machine other than the SSD. Sorry if i've not explained this very well. Thanks :)
Assistant: I *presume* you've already cloned/backed up the SSD? If you haven't do that now, before you do anything else! |
Human: Keeping my Dads PC alive from his SSD. Hi All, Really sadly we lost my dad recentely. I built him a computer a few years ago with the help of a very good friend. I want to donate the computer to my nephew as he is interested in gaming and they can't afford a new PC. What i'd like to be able to do is just take the SSD out and put that in an enclosure, my question is. If in the future I needed anything off my Dads old PC or wanted to view things like the event viewer for example (we were concerned about trying to figure out the time he died and the event viewer has helped answer some questions) or just keep an eye on his emails... Would this be possible through Virtual Machine software. Essentially i'd like to just have the option to run his PC without needing the actual guts of his machine other than the SSD. Sorry if i've not explained this very well. Thanks :)
Assistant: I'm sorry for your loss |
Human: I think my phone has been tapped I've honestly always thought that the only people that actually think their phone has been bugged (or whatever terminology you'd prefer) are tweakers, but I was proven wrong approximately 3 hours ago. It all started when I just gotten home from a friend's house and was sitting in my car. I was scrolling through tiktok, just to pass the time idk. BUT THEN for 2.5 seconds someone's face popped up on my phone. It looked like my phone was glitching. It was someone I personally know. It was from the kind of angle that get when you've accidentally put your camera on and you weren't ready/expecting it. Idk if anyone is gonna come across this but if anybody out there has any advice or has experienced anything like this I would appreciate it greatly. I feel violated. And scared. Also I hope I put the right flair. Sorry if I didn't.
Assistant: One thing i'd suggest checking, go through the settings, you should be able to find the WiFi/Data usage, see if any odd apps stand out on there for data usage and then search what they actually are. |
Human: I think my phone has been tapped I've honestly always thought that the only people that actually think their phone has been bugged (or whatever terminology you'd prefer) are tweakers, but I was proven wrong approximately 3 hours ago. It all started when I just gotten home from a friend's house and was sitting in my car. I was scrolling through tiktok, just to pass the time idk. BUT THEN for 2.5 seconds someone's face popped up on my phone. It looked like my phone was glitching. It was someone I personally know. It was from the kind of angle that get when you've accidentally put your camera on and you weren't ready/expecting it. Idk if anyone is gonna come across this but if anybody out there has any advice or has experienced anything like this I would appreciate it greatly. I feel violated. And scared. Also I hope I put the right flair. Sorry if I didn't.
Assistant: About two year ago I was answering messages before getting out of bed in the morning. Suddenly, I make eye contact with a politician in another province, who was drinking coffee in a robe, using her lap top. We both screamed, laughed so hard we couldn’t speak and have no idea what we both manage to click, but there we were. That joke about typing the wrong series of keystrokes in Word and summoning a demon isn’t as crazy as it sounds, I guess. |
Human: YouTube Down??? Is it just me or is YouTube down for everyone??? Neither the app or site loads even after rebooting my phone. I tried desktop as well.... Nothing
Assistant: I work for a major ISP, and can confirm it's down all over. |
Human: YouTube Down??? Is it just me or is YouTube down for everyone??? Neither the app or site loads even after rebooting my phone. I tried desktop as well.... Nothing
Assistant: down here in latin america, no more despacito then... hahahah |
Human: I can literally hear my neighbor reading what's on my computer screen. I think my neighbor might have hacked into my router, because I know the security on it was WEP. Which I've heard isn't the most secure. Like I said, I think I can literally hear him reading the text on my screen, and I can't access my router. It keeps saying it "took too long". So far, I've used HijackThis, Malwarebytes (The anti-rootki one) and wireless network watcher, and haven't found anything out of the ordinary. I'm using a Windows 7 laptop, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Assistant: I really hope we can hear back from you OP u/shawnnunya656 . If you feel really paranoid and start having feelings about being observed/listened to, you should keep an open mind and seek the help of a health professionnal. Might be gazes leaks as some users suggested. Also, remember we are here to help you. It is a really unlikely scenario, so if you realise you are the only one hearing him, don't panic! I'm sure a lot of people around reddit can help you figure it out from there. Take care! |
Human: I can literally hear my neighbor reading what's on my computer screen. I think my neighbor might have hacked into my router, because I know the security on it was WEP. Which I've heard isn't the most secure. Like I said, I think I can literally hear him reading the text on my screen, and I can't access my router. It keeps saying it "took too long". So far, I've used HijackThis, Malwarebytes (The anti-rootki one) and wireless network watcher, and haven't found anything out of the ordinary. I'm using a Windows 7 laptop, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Assistant: Is your monitor an old CRT up against the wall? Maybe he's using Van Eck phreaking. |
Human: My iPhone 11s storage is almost full, but half of the space is taken up by a category called "other" Apps, photos, videos, messages, and system, only take up half of my storage, while the other half has some "other" category, what is this and how do I get it off?
Assistant: Could be deleted folder you never emptied. Happened to me so maybe. |
Human: My iPhone 11s storage is almost full, but half of the space is taken up by a category called "other" Apps, photos, videos, messages, and system, only take up half of my storage, while the other half has some "other" category, what is this and how do I get it off?
Assistant: Let's call it what it is: Is a feature to make you want to replace your phone, this has been iPhones for years, plenty of time already to diagnose it and fix it, apple won't do it. I hate having to deal with this issues with all users within my organization |
Human: Bought a PC for my son, can barely even play minecraft. Hey guys so first, I know almost nothing about computers. I've always been able to get by with an Xbox and a smartphone. That said, I recently bought a hp m01-f0014 for my son to play minecraft on, the tech at best buy told me it would work fine for that. When you try to play however it is super laggy and pretty much unplayable. Can anyone tell me what to do to make it playable?
Assistant: Update graphics card drivers |
Human: Bought a PC for my son, can barely even play minecraft. Hey guys so first, I know almost nothing about computers. I've always been able to get by with an Xbox and a smartphone. That said, I recently bought a hp m01-f0014 for my son to play minecraft on, the tech at best buy told me it would work fine for that. When you try to play however it is super laggy and pretty much unplayable. Can anyone tell me what to do to make it playable?
Assistant: Take the computer back. It's really underpowered. And it's a huge red flag that it can't play minecraft. |
Human: Help my ISP does not know what's going on So I have been having this problem for close to a year now, the problem I have been having is really bad packet loss going from 50 to 80 percent packet loss and I have went through 7 different modems so I know its not a modem issue. I am also getting a different ip address than the regular 192.168 etc, I'm getting this ip address that says 10.22.248.1. They have ran a coax cable from the pole all the way into my house and into the modem, and that didn't fix anything. They recently have come out here and disconnected me saying its my house that is the problem, which I believed at first, because when they unhooked my internet everyone else in the areas internet that was screwing up was fixed but then I remembered them running the coax from the pole to my modem that would bypass anything that would be wrong with my house. I had an electrician come out and he says there's nothing wrong with the house's wiring. At this point i don't know what else could be wrong. They cant seem to figure it out either. My best guess would be that there is something wrong on the pole? Can anyone here help?
Assistant: So reading the rest of the comments this appears to be a coax cable internet provider rather than ADSL or FTTP. Does this only supply internet or CATV as well? If it supplies CATV or if there's a splitter on the coax running to a TV or another similar device that it could be potentially introducing feedback into the local cable network causing these issues. |
Human: Help my ISP does not know what's going on So I have been having this problem for close to a year now, the problem I have been having is really bad packet loss going from 50 to 80 percent packet loss and I have went through 7 different modems so I know its not a modem issue. I am also getting a different ip address than the regular 192.168 etc, I'm getting this ip address that says 10.22.248.1. They have ran a coax cable from the pole all the way into my house and into the modem, and that didn't fix anything. They recently have come out here and disconnected me saying its my house that is the problem, which I believed at first, because when they unhooked my internet everyone else in the areas internet that was screwing up was fixed but then I remembered them running the coax from the pole to my modem that would bypass anything that would be wrong with my house. I had an electrician come out and he says there's nothing wrong with the house's wiring. At this point i don't know what else could be wrong. They cant seem to figure it out either. My best guess would be that there is something wrong on the pole? Can anyone here help?
Assistant: Buy new Ethernet cable |
Human: Underwhelmed from going to the 3060 from a 1060, am I missing something? As stated I went from a Gigabyte 1060 to an RoG Strix Geforce RTX 3060 and am seriously underwhelmed by everything but the stability of the card. Mind you I'm no tech wiz when it comes to PC's and how they actually work, so it could most definitely be one of my other components, however from what I'm finding online the rest of my kit should be good to go for the type of gaming I'm trying to do? Here's the major things I'm aware of for my build: Core i7 3770 RoG Strix Geforce RTX 3060 16Gb ddr3 RAM Let me know if there's any other relevant information that might help. Am I missing something here? All I'm trying to achieve btw is 1080p 60fps+ gaming. Also this is my first Reddit post so, hello. 👋
Assistant: Yikes. OP, your RAM and CPU are in the stone age amongst an enlightenment era GPU. If budget is a concern, or you didn't get the 3060 for a steal, I'd recommend reallocating those funds ASAP if you're within the return policy period. |
Human: Underwhelmed from going to the 3060 from a 1060, am I missing something? As stated I went from a Gigabyte 1060 to an RoG Strix Geforce RTX 3060 and am seriously underwhelmed by everything but the stability of the card. Mind you I'm no tech wiz when it comes to PC's and how they actually work, so it could most definitely be one of my other components, however from what I'm finding online the rest of my kit should be good to go for the type of gaming I'm trying to do? Here's the major things I'm aware of for my build: Core i7 3770 RoG Strix Geforce RTX 3060 16Gb ddr3 RAM Let me know if there's any other relevant information that might help. Am I missing something here? All I'm trying to achieve btw is 1080p 60fps+ gaming. Also this is my first Reddit post so, hello. 👋
Assistant: Your CPU isn't powerful enough to handle the new graphics card. You will sither have to downgrade the graphics card or upgrade your CPU And in that case you're going to need to get a new motherboard unfortunately, the i7-3770 and its k variant are the best ones you can get for that CPU socket unfortunately |
Human: Vostro was "updated" to W11 but both Dell and Windows support keeps identifying it as W 10. What to do? Dell Updates keep breaking the OS. Even Windows is messing with the installation as though it is still W 10. Now there is "no audio device detected".
Assistant: Personally, I would go back to W10. 11 is still in development, and there's no real need to use it quite yet. I had to downgrade one laptop at work, because of issues with W11. |
Human: Vostro was "updated" to W11 but both Dell and Windows support keeps identifying it as W 10. What to do? Dell Updates keep breaking the OS. Even Windows is messing with the installation as though it is still W 10. Now there is "no audio device detected".
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Human: Accidentally started a low level format. On a scale of one to Greece, how broken would the drive be if I cancelled it? I do not need to recover anything from the drive, I just want to format it for a linux install. I found a format utility in the system configuration menu of an HP Proliant DL20 server. It has an adaptec raid card, 6405. I never wanted a low level format, I just wanted to get rid of the existing partition table. I accidentally hit the low level option and now I'm watching a painfully slow progress bar. It's a 1TB WD Black drive. I don't want to wait another six hours for it to finish. There is no cancel button. I assume that aborting the operation(mashing CTRL ALT DEL) will ruin the drive. Is this correct? Am I doomed to wait six more hours?
Assistant: Cancel the low level format and start a quick format. No harm done |
Human: Accidentally started a low level format. On a scale of one to Greece, how broken would the drive be if I cancelled it? I do not need to recover anything from the drive, I just want to format it for a linux install. I found a format utility in the system configuration menu of an HP Proliant DL20 server. It has an adaptec raid card, 6405. I never wanted a low level format, I just wanted to get rid of the existing partition table. I accidentally hit the low level option and now I'm watching a painfully slow progress bar. It's a 1TB WD Black drive. I don't want to wait another six hours for it to finish. There is no cancel button. I assume that aborting the operation(mashing CTRL ALT DEL) will ruin the drive. Is this correct? Am I doomed to wait six more hours?
Assistant: Once you start a low level format, you can cancel it without damaging the drive. But if you intend to use the drive again you'll still need to format it (or clone it from another). The simple answer is you'll have to wait. |
Human: Someone hacked my Instagram account, and since he has that password, he may have access to other things. So my Instagram got hacked by some guy from Ukraine, so I changed the password and got it back. Now I want to change my password on other things as well. Two questions: 1. Is that necessary? 2. How would I go about doing that to make sure it's secure?
Assistant: If you know accounts have the same pass change them all |
Human: Someone hacked my Instagram account, and since he has that password, he may have access to other things. So my Instagram got hacked by some guy from Ukraine, so I changed the password and got it back. Now I want to change my password on other things as well. Two questions: 1. Is that necessary? 2. How would I go about doing that to make sure it's secure?
Assistant: Why are you sitting here with accounts you can assume are compromised? Every account should use a unique password |
Human: If I stream videos on a 1080p laptop and use a 4K HDMI cable and connect it to a 4K TV, can I watch the videos on 4K quality? Basically what I wrote above, it's nothing too complicated but I need to write something here so I can post, just ignore this guys. Hello, my name is Guttor, I am 62 and I live in Bermuda, I have 8 kids and 20 grandkids. All of them are boys! Very surprising. This was also a lie, I am making this up. Is this enough bot? Please let it be.
Assistant: From some of these replies I swear ppl overthink too much. Confirm that your hardware, mainly the graphics card can output 4k. You can look it up OR test for yourself. Hook up the laptop to your 4k display, make sure you have it on extend mode or project only. Go to YouTube and search for 4k videos, and choose a recent/popular one. You should see a 4k quality video option in the video quality playback settings if your hardware supports 4k. |
Human: If I stream videos on a 1080p laptop and use a 4K HDMI cable and connect it to a 4K TV, can I watch the videos on 4K quality? Basically what I wrote above, it's nothing too complicated but I need to write something here so I can post, just ignore this guys. Hello, my name is Guttor, I am 62 and I live in Bermuda, I have 8 kids and 20 grandkids. All of them are boys! Very surprising. This was also a lie, I am making this up. Is this enough bot? Please let it be.
Assistant: Whatever is the laptops resolution is the highest you can go. You said “on a 1080p laptop”. So I’m going to say no. If you are streaming in 1080p on a 4K laptop then yes, you could push it to a 4K tv and watch in 4K. |
Human: I think someone hacked into my computer About a week ago, someone hacked into my twitter account and changed its name to "Wendy Wood". I managed to get it by changing the password. I changed everything back and set up a 2 way authentication for my gmail. Later I wanted to play with some friends so I opened some ports for it. Today I just got home and wanted to surf on reddit a bit so i opened chrome and went to the url to write something and before i managed to even touch the keyboard, it started typing (in my language): "give it back". I started panicking and opened a notepad trying to talk to the guy. I type "who are you" and he writes back some random letters and soon afterwards it said: "blackwidow f9". I first thought he wanted my keyboard back since i got it yesterday from my mother's friend. I asked him again who is he and he replied in the exact same random letters and then again: "blackwidow f9". F9 was the macro key in that keyboard so i thought it was me that wrote some random letters and macroed it by mistake but if so, why did it write "give it back"?. Im kinda scared and i hope a professional can take a look.
Assistant: https://www.lockdownyourlogin.com/ lists some additional services that support 2fa, you may want to enable on those as well. |
Human: I think someone hacked into my computer About a week ago, someone hacked into my twitter account and changed its name to "Wendy Wood". I managed to get it by changing the password. I changed everything back and set up a 2 way authentication for my gmail. Later I wanted to play with some friends so I opened some ports for it. Today I just got home and wanted to surf on reddit a bit so i opened chrome and went to the url to write something and before i managed to even touch the keyboard, it started typing (in my language): "give it back". I started panicking and opened a notepad trying to talk to the guy. I type "who are you" and he writes back some random letters and soon afterwards it said: "blackwidow f9". I first thought he wanted my keyboard back since i got it yesterday from my mother's friend. I asked him again who is he and he replied in the exact same random letters and then again: "blackwidow f9". F9 was the macro key in that keyboard so i thought it was me that wrote some random letters and macroed it by mistake but if so, why did it write "give it back"?. Im kinda scared and i hope a professional can take a look.
Assistant: I'd use my phone to change my twitter and gmail passwords and I wouldn't update my pc until I was sure it was ok. Next I'd run full antivirus scans. I'd also think about backing up anything I wanted to keep (in my case: tons of animal porn) to a separate usb drive or nas. Then if I was still a bit unsure I'd nuke it. Once clean I'd set up a new account as a non-admin user for myself and I'd probably think about adding a Linux dual boot for doing anything dodgy in the future. hth |
Human: Computer asks for administrative permission to create/delete files on my desktop Hello, I had this problem a few months ago and haven't really been able to find a clear fix for this so I'm hoping I can find some help on here. I am the only user of my desktop and suddenly (and seemingly for no reason) my computer has been saying that I need to provide administrative permission to create/delete/move files on my desktop. I can't even save things like notepad files to my desktop, and when I do I get a prompt that says something like "You don't have permission to save this here, would you like to save it to the documents folder instead?". I am the only user of my computer and have always been the system administrator so I'm not sure why this would be happening. Does anybody know of a way to fix this or why it's happening? Thanks!
Assistant: probably a corrupted user profile. I would suggest making a new admin account on the computer. testing there that you're able to create/delete/edit documents and folders on that desktop etc then begin migrating your user account over -- there are some easy ways to do this, or you can do some of it manually too |
Human: Computer asks for administrative permission to create/delete files on my desktop Hello, I had this problem a few months ago and haven't really been able to find a clear fix for this so I'm hoping I can find some help on here. I am the only user of my desktop and suddenly (and seemingly for no reason) my computer has been saying that I need to provide administrative permission to create/delete/move files on my desktop. I can't even save things like notepad files to my desktop, and when I do I get a prompt that says something like "You don't have permission to save this here, would you like to save it to the documents folder instead?". I am the only user of my computer and have always been the system administrator so I'm not sure why this would be happening. Does anybody know of a way to fix this or why it's happening? Thanks!
Assistant: Probably shit in Public folder, instead user folder. |
Human: I got a free USB flash drive, but it comes preloaded with some files that seem to be "undeletable"/"Read Only". Can I somehow delete these files so that I can use all the space on this USB flash drive for my own files? Thank you Like the title states, I recently got a free USB flash drive from a company at a conference, but the 512mb flash drive came preloaded with several files that I can't seem to delete. I'm on a macbook and when I right click "Get Info", I can see down at the bottom of the info window, in the "Sharing and Permissions" section, that it says "You can only read" (Rude as fuck if you ask me...). Is there any way to change this "Read only" setting, or otherwise delete every single thing off of this flash drive? I tried to reformat the drive a few times, but it never seems to get rid of the part that has those files on it. Also, when I plug the flash drive into my computer it shows up as 2 seperate things on my desktop: A normal flash drive icon that leads to the main drive which is an empty ~490mb, and then there is a CD icon that also appears on the desktop. This CD icon leads to another ~20mb that has all these undeletable/Read only files. Are these files permanently on this drive, or is there some way to totally whip this drive? (I know this is a very small capacity drive, and that I can get larger ones for very cheap, but I just think this on looks pretty cool. Thanks!
Assistant: Question, why would they do that? It doesn't help them in any way. Someone explain? |
Human: I got a free USB flash drive, but it comes preloaded with some files that seem to be "undeletable"/"Read Only". Can I somehow delete these files so that I can use all the space on this USB flash drive for my own files? Thank you Like the title states, I recently got a free USB flash drive from a company at a conference, but the 512mb flash drive came preloaded with several files that I can't seem to delete. I'm on a macbook and when I right click "Get Info", I can see down at the bottom of the info window, in the "Sharing and Permissions" section, that it says "You can only read" (Rude as fuck if you ask me...). Is there any way to change this "Read only" setting, or otherwise delete every single thing off of this flash drive? I tried to reformat the drive a few times, but it never seems to get rid of the part that has those files on it. Also, when I plug the flash drive into my computer it shows up as 2 seperate things on my desktop: A normal flash drive icon that leads to the main drive which is an empty ~490mb, and then there is a CD icon that also appears on the desktop. This CD icon leads to another ~20mb that has all these undeletable/Read only files. Are these files permanently on this drive, or is there some way to totally whip this drive? (I know this is a very small capacity drive, and that I can get larger ones for very cheap, but I just think this on looks pretty cool. Thanks!
Assistant: Get a program similar to Partition Magic, and change the partition type on the read-only partition, then remove all partitions. After that, you should be able to make a whole new single partition and format that. |
Human: Two cpacitors /resistors broke off my video card and now my pc does not boot Two tiny pieces of metal broke off my video card, now when i try to boot my pc it gives me weird graphical glitches and then switches off. Is there any way to fix the situation or is my card permenantly dead ? Pieces of metal - https://imgur.com/a/PaIicrs My pc when booting - https://imgur.com/a/QPzygBk The card - https://imgur.com/a/3a4UiRX Thanks for any help provided
Assistant: I see many other part YEETED out, not only those cap. Let it rest in peace. Also, for curious: that cap may used to regulate and filter the noise given out of the GPU. |
Human: Two cpacitors /resistors broke off my video card and now my pc does not boot Two tiny pieces of metal broke off my video card, now when i try to boot my pc it gives me weird graphical glitches and then switches off. Is there any way to fix the situation or is my card permenantly dead ? Pieces of metal - https://imgur.com/a/PaIicrs My pc when booting - https://imgur.com/a/QPzygBk The card - https://imgur.com/a/3a4UiRX Thanks for any help provided
Assistant: What card was it? |
Human: Internet speed is inconsistent and not what I am paying for Just moved to a new house, got my computer set up, and come to find I am getting only a fraction of my speed with an ethernet cable. I was told by the guy who came and set our internet up that I would have to change my ethernet speed to 1000/100 or something like that to get my full speed from my ethernet cable. tried changing the speed and each time it would have no real difference than auto-navigate. I have tried updating my motherboard drivers and this did not work. I have found that now for some reason just connecting to the internet wirelessly is faster than with an ethernet cable (It's a cat6 cable). With the cable in it will get to higher speeds but plummet and even totally blip out. It seems troubleshooting has actually made my connection speeds worse because I was able to get to 100 MB/s and now the most I've been able to get is north of 50 with the cable in when I should be getting a hell of a lot more than that. I've looked everywhere but I can't seem to find anyone with my exact problem. Please help!
Assistant: Are you connecting directly to the ISP modem when running your speed test? Or do you have your own devices between your computer and the modem (switches or routers)? |
Human: Internet speed is inconsistent and not what I am paying for Just moved to a new house, got my computer set up, and come to find I am getting only a fraction of my speed with an ethernet cable. I was told by the guy who came and set our internet up that I would have to change my ethernet speed to 1000/100 or something like that to get my full speed from my ethernet cable. tried changing the speed and each time it would have no real difference than auto-navigate. I have tried updating my motherboard drivers and this did not work. I have found that now for some reason just connecting to the internet wirelessly is faster than with an ethernet cable (It's a cat6 cable). With the cable in it will get to higher speeds but plummet and even totally blip out. It seems troubleshooting has actually made my connection speeds worse because I was able to get to 100 MB/s and now the most I've been able to get is north of 50 with the cable in when I should be getting a hell of a lot more than that. I've looked everywhere but I can't seem to find anyone with my exact problem. Please help!
Assistant: I doubt this helps but when I moved I bought a new router and it has some crazy good range wirelessly (to my parents next door) but I was having issues connected to it via cable in the same room. Turns out the router has 2 CPUs handling each row of 4 outputs. 1-4 worked and gave me great speeds but 5-8 did not. Tried two of the same routers with the same results and that's when I come to find out about the variation on each row due to the handling done by 2 different CPUs. |
Human: Was just told that the hard drive in my mac has failed. The guy at the repair shop said he could replace it and re-install the os for $165. Just seeking some advice here... Is this something that I could do fairly easily on my own? Should I just consider getting a new system for cheap from craigslist? I'm in a lil bit of a panic with all of my info lost... including my school textbooks. It is a 2006 Macbook running on OSX 10.4. Thanks for help!
Assistant: Honestly, if you've got the cash, I'd throw an SSD in there. This is a good one, but only 128gbs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147192 It'll give you a nice boost in performance. |
Human: Was just told that the hard drive in my mac has failed. The guy at the repair shop said he could replace it and re-install the os for $165. Just seeking some advice here... Is this something that I could do fairly easily on my own? Should I just consider getting a new system for cheap from craigslist? I'm in a lil bit of a panic with all of my info lost... including my school textbooks. It is a 2006 Macbook running on OSX 10.4. Thanks for help!
Assistant: it's pretty easy to replace a hard drive on 2006 Macbook. You can find step-by-step guide on iFixit. Also, you can find smaller (60-100GB) Apple drives with 10.6 preinstalled on Ebay. Otherwise, new 320-500Gb drives are cheap but you need to find Mac OS X installer DVD. I would recommend against 10.4 - you will need to find model-specific installer. 10.5 is Universal but try to get 10.6 - no PowerPC code, supports latest iTunes, Firefox, Chrome etc. |
Human: GPU artifact issues after thermal paste reapplication Hello everyone, I have had my PC for professional work with Unreal Engine game development as well as gaming since November 2019, it's a Ryzen 7 3700X on a B450 GAMING PLUS MAX, GPU is the MSI 2060 Super Armor. I think a year ago I started noticing that the hot spot temperatures always reach 105 degrees and the GPU reaches 72 degrees at which point the fans turn on full blast for 5 seconds then turn back down, they do this even with custom fan curves. So I decided a couple days ago to change the thermal paste to CoolerMaster MasterGel Pro V2 (I live in Algeria so product availability is limited). So, the thermal paste application was horrible on the die and I did my best to clean it but it hit all the surrounding small chips/transistors/SODs not sure what they are. After reassembly everything worked well, on full load the temps on hot spot never exceeded 80-85 degrees and the issue was gone but I immediately noticed that when opening my project in UE or certain games, the textures would flicker horribly, it was immediate on UnrealEngine but not in games. The black triangles on the GPU used to happen very very rarely on Unreal Engine, but very few of them and no "artifacty" lines. The only solution was to underclock it, -110 on Core Clock hit the spot, but this morning after working for a few hours I noticed that it was back and only -200 made it go away. I did a full reinstall of drivers with DDU and everything. Help please lol I'll attach a video of the artifacts and a photo of my cleaning. This is the artifact effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JupumHiz18 Specs of GPU + Die photos before putting new paste: https://imgur.com/a/qjuuS42 Thank you. EDIT: As a note, when the GPU is on full load, it has a constant coil whine, this has been the case for a long time maybe even since it first ran.
Assistant: 72C core temp is totally fine for a GPU Hate to break it to you but it sounds like you're card is on its last leg. Generally once it starts artificating it means theres some damage to something. On your next card just know that 75C even 85C is a totally acceptable temp for that gen Nvidia card under load. Don't go replacing thermal paste because you risk doing damage to the card since GPU heatsinks aren't as user friendly to replace as CPU ones. |
Human: GPU artifact issues after thermal paste reapplication Hello everyone, I have had my PC for professional work with Unreal Engine game development as well as gaming since November 2019, it's a Ryzen 7 3700X on a B450 GAMING PLUS MAX, GPU is the MSI 2060 Super Armor. I think a year ago I started noticing that the hot spot temperatures always reach 105 degrees and the GPU reaches 72 degrees at which point the fans turn on full blast for 5 seconds then turn back down, they do this even with custom fan curves. So I decided a couple days ago to change the thermal paste to CoolerMaster MasterGel Pro V2 (I live in Algeria so product availability is limited). So, the thermal paste application was horrible on the die and I did my best to clean it but it hit all the surrounding small chips/transistors/SODs not sure what they are. After reassembly everything worked well, on full load the temps on hot spot never exceeded 80-85 degrees and the issue was gone but I immediately noticed that when opening my project in UE or certain games, the textures would flicker horribly, it was immediate on UnrealEngine but not in games. The black triangles on the GPU used to happen very very rarely on Unreal Engine, but very few of them and no "artifacty" lines. The only solution was to underclock it, -110 on Core Clock hit the spot, but this morning after working for a few hours I noticed that it was back and only -200 made it go away. I did a full reinstall of drivers with DDU and everything. Help please lol I'll attach a video of the artifacts and a photo of my cleaning. This is the artifact effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JupumHiz18 Specs of GPU + Die photos before putting new paste: https://imgur.com/a/qjuuS42 Thank you. EDIT: As a note, when the GPU is on full load, it has a constant coil whine, this has been the case for a long time maybe even since it first ran.
Assistant: Probably not the issue, but make sure you didn't download a fake MSI Afterburner. Fake ones are installing miners. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-msi-afterburner-targets-windows-gamers-with-miners-info-stealers/ |
Human: Received 188 phone calls and 1 voicemail from an old friend in the middle of the night. Received 188 calls in the middle of the night from an old friend in the span of a few hours and she left a voicemail. It sounded like she was in a busy store, which doesn't make sense if she's still living in Shreveport like it seems she is, and she was talking like we had spoken earlier. Can old calls get delayed or old voicemails get delayed? I haven't spoken to her in years, and can't get in touch with her, but the voicemail sounded normal. Just didn't have a relationship with her where we phoned each other a lot, and I don't know if she ever left me a voicemail in the past. Is this something that happens every now and then? It's been bothering me, and my nephew said someone on reddit could hopefully explain it. I get scared easy though so my mind goes straight to the worse things, I'm probably making too big a thing of it. Thanks.
Assistant: Ask her |
Human: Received 188 phone calls and 1 voicemail from an old friend in the middle of the night. Received 188 calls in the middle of the night from an old friend in the span of a few hours and she left a voicemail. It sounded like she was in a busy store, which doesn't make sense if she's still living in Shreveport like it seems she is, and she was talking like we had spoken earlier. Can old calls get delayed or old voicemails get delayed? I haven't spoken to her in years, and can't get in touch with her, but the voicemail sounded normal. Just didn't have a relationship with her where we phoned each other a lot, and I don't know if she ever left me a voicemail in the past. Is this something that happens every now and then? It's been bothering me, and my nephew said someone on reddit could hopefully explain it. I get scared easy though so my mind goes straight to the worse things, I'm probably making too big a thing of it. Thanks.
Assistant: I have a jailbroken phone and every so often if i dont LDrestart my phone texts and calls stop coming in. Ill notice when i go to text someone and the texting app wont open. After restart ill get a day or so worth of texts and missed calls |
Human: Deleted my computers whole hard drive. Not sure what to do Explanation: My hard drive was failing, so i got a new one, and bought a drive cloner. I inserted the New drive in slot 2, and old drive in Slot one. The Chinese instructions in the drive cloner literally had it backwards, and instead of cloning my hard drive, I basically cloned the empty one onto it. All my files/operating system are gone. When i plug the hard drive into my Laptop, only the BIOS comes up. Am i totally screwed? Im assuming I can't get my files back, but is there a way at least for me to be able to use my computer again?
Assistant: Clonezilla next time, it's free and supports multiple languages |
Human: Deleted my computers whole hard drive. Not sure what to do Explanation: My hard drive was failing, so i got a new one, and bought a drive cloner. I inserted the New drive in slot 2, and old drive in Slot one. The Chinese instructions in the drive cloner literally had it backwards, and instead of cloning my hard drive, I basically cloned the empty one onto it. All my files/operating system are gone. When i plug the hard drive into my Laptop, only the BIOS comes up. Am i totally screwed? Im assuming I can't get my files back, but is there a way at least for me to be able to use my computer again?
Assistant: For future reference, Chinese is read right to left so if you are reading their stuff you start from what western people would consider the back of the book. But good thing you had a back up. Get an is on a USB or something and fresh install that. |
Human: Is it bad if I use any other power cable to power my PC besides the one that came in the box? My old chord was broken and i wanted to buy a new one, is it bad if i dont buy the same model of the powerchord?
Assistant: Depends what kind of PC. Likely no problem but I know some people call an entire AC adapter 'the cord'. And, as far as I'm aware, a 'powerchord' is a music thing - not a PC thing. |
Human: Is it bad if I use any other power cable to power my PC besides the one that came in the box? My old chord was broken and i wanted to buy a new one, is it bad if i dont buy the same model of the powerchord?
Assistant: If it looks like this. Then yeah most likely any cable you have should be swappable. |
Human: What is wrong with my monitor? I turn my desktop off every night when I'm done with it, but don't actually kill the power to the monitor in my normal usage. For the past couple of days, when I turn the power back on to my computer, the monitor will remain completely black. So then I'll powercycle the monitor, and one of two things will happen: * It will flip right on, no problems * The screen will display some kind of extremely static-y, snow-y, distorted version of the desktop for half a second, and make a strange noise (kind of like a wheeze or a grunt, if that makes sense), and then return to being completely black. If I continue to powercycle the monitor a few times, it will eventually work. Wtf. Why is my monitor grunting? What is wrong with it such that it will sometimes turn on, but sometimes not? It's a Hanns-G HC174A.
Assistant: This sort of problem is often caused by bad capacitors. It's fairly easy to fix if you know how to solder. You should be able to find instructions on how to fix it on Google. |
Human: What is wrong with my monitor? I turn my desktop off every night when I'm done with it, but don't actually kill the power to the monitor in my normal usage. For the past couple of days, when I turn the power back on to my computer, the monitor will remain completely black. So then I'll powercycle the monitor, and one of two things will happen: * It will flip right on, no problems * The screen will display some kind of extremely static-y, snow-y, distorted version of the desktop for half a second, and make a strange noise (kind of like a wheeze or a grunt, if that makes sense), and then return to being completely black. If I continue to powercycle the monitor a few times, it will eventually work. Wtf. Why is my monitor grunting? What is wrong with it such that it will sometimes turn on, but sometimes not? It's a Hanns-G HC174A.
Assistant: Test it on some other PC. |
Human: Can you simulate plugging in and out the Ethernet cable, without doing it manually (or rebooting)? I have the Ethernet cable positioned in a hard to reach spot, and I often need to reseat it because sometimes my pc during boot "forgets" to authenticate itself onto the network, and reseating the cable will make it remember. It's getting real boring, and I wonder if there's any way to do that from the pc itself
Assistant: try replacing the cable edit: the connector may be bad |
Human: Can you simulate plugging in and out the Ethernet cable, without doing it manually (or rebooting)? I have the Ethernet cable positioned in a hard to reach spot, and I often need to reseat it because sometimes my pc during boot "forgets" to authenticate itself onto the network, and reseating the cable will make it remember. It's getting real boring, and I wonder if there's any way to do that from the pc itself
Assistant: I hope you are not trying to do a Lag cheat in PC gaming. Why do you need to do that. |
Human: Windows only uses 8GB of ram, i have 16GB First of all thanks for reading. Since a few days ago i had noticed my games were underperforming, but never bothered to look for a reason why, until i played Forza Horizon 5 and it said i exeded the memory, and that the max was 8gb, but i have 16. So i looked in settings and it said i had 16gb but only 7.92gb was usable. I tought it was a bug with windows so i formated my pc back to windows 10 since i wasnt liking 11 anywaym but it persisted. So i tried re inserting the ram, changed the slots from 1 and 2 to 3 and 4. ( the way my mb ram slots are labeled are, CPU 4 - 2 - 3 - 1, so yes it was in dual channel) didnt work. So i tried booting up with only one stick to see if one of them was faulty. Theyre both fine but they only boot when inserted on the 4 and 2 slots. Does this mean 3 and 1 are faulty? Do i need a new MB? XMP is on in the BIOS and its the latest BIOS too MB is Aorus B450 elite. Thank you.
Assistant: Besides having a video card, does your motherboard and CPU provide a BUILT IN video port? If so, those built in video ports don't have dedicated GRAPHICS memory. Instead they borrow SYSTEM memory. I just skimmed your motherboard's website, and yes, this is the case. It ain't a bug. "IT'S A FEATURE." You can change how much memory it borrows usually. Probably through a utility. Maybe in Easy Tune? If you're not using that built in video port, go into BIOS and make sure it is turned off. |
Human: Windows only uses 8GB of ram, i have 16GB First of all thanks for reading. Since a few days ago i had noticed my games were underperforming, but never bothered to look for a reason why, until i played Forza Horizon 5 and it said i exeded the memory, and that the max was 8gb, but i have 16. So i looked in settings and it said i had 16gb but only 7.92gb was usable. I tought it was a bug with windows so i formated my pc back to windows 10 since i wasnt liking 11 anywaym but it persisted. So i tried re inserting the ram, changed the slots from 1 and 2 to 3 and 4. ( the way my mb ram slots are labeled are, CPU 4 - 2 - 3 - 1, so yes it was in dual channel) didnt work. So i tried booting up with only one stick to see if one of them was faulty. Theyre both fine but they only boot when inserted on the 4 and 2 slots. Does this mean 3 and 1 are faulty? Do i need a new MB? XMP is on in the BIOS and its the latest BIOS too MB is Aorus B450 elite. Thank you.
Assistant: Check Task Manager and see what it tells you |
Human: PC occasionally fully shuts down when playing intensive videogames. Turns on fine but just displays black screen. Problem persists for hours after crash before fixing itself eventually. I built my PC almost 3 years ago and it has worked fine since. I'm on my phone so I can't post full specs but I have an msi z87-g41 motherboard, XFX r9 290, an i5 4670k and a 600w corsair power supply. When playing intensive games like fallout 4 my PC sometimes completely shuts down instantly with no warning. This happens after around 2 hours of playing but varies greatly, sometimes the issue won't occur for days. Once it shuts down it automatically restarts but nothing ever appears on the monitor, no matter how many times I force it to shut down and turn it on again. The PC still works though, the fans start and the mouse lights turn on. Then after around 6 hours the issue fixes itself and stuff is displayed on the monitor fine. My graphics card never goes above 75 degrees Celsius and my CPU never goes over 50 during games.
Assistant: Also check and make sure your north bridge isn't overheating. |
Human: PC occasionally fully shuts down when playing intensive videogames. Turns on fine but just displays black screen. Problem persists for hours after crash before fixing itself eventually. I built my PC almost 3 years ago and it has worked fine since. I'm on my phone so I can't post full specs but I have an msi z87-g41 motherboard, XFX r9 290, an i5 4670k and a 600w corsair power supply. When playing intensive games like fallout 4 my PC sometimes completely shuts down instantly with no warning. This happens after around 2 hours of playing but varies greatly, sometimes the issue won't occur for days. Once it shuts down it automatically restarts but nothing ever appears on the monitor, no matter how many times I force it to shut down and turn it on again. The PC still works though, the fans start and the mouse lights turn on. Then after around 6 hours the issue fixes itself and stuff is displayed on the monitor fine. My graphics card never goes above 75 degrees Celsius and my CPU never goes over 50 during games.
Assistant: I had this exact problem about a year ago with a 7 month old PC, solution: a better PSU. Some PSU's drop quite a bit in performance over the years, if you have a friend or similar with a better PSU try asking if you could swap for a day or 2. |
Human: I Need help with an adapter for this small Ethernet port! No, I don’t think it’s a phone jack! Because the back of my old computer has the same thing! It’s the same width as a Ethernet port! But the length from top to bottom is shorter than a regular Ethernet port! That’s why I found this! Because I’m wondering the same thing! I found another page like this which they said was a phone line! ITS NOT! Which is why I included an image to help! PLEASE DON’T DELETE THIS POST! I NEED HELP! I couldn’t find any information anywhere! Here’s what it looks like: https://share.icloud.com/photos/06cGd6zqvt7kC_RWmWNxMt_CQ
Assistant: I saw the title and I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that this was going to be a laptop with a hinged ethernet port. |
Human: I Need help with an adapter for this small Ethernet port! No, I don’t think it’s a phone jack! Because the back of my old computer has the same thing! It’s the same width as a Ethernet port! But the length from top to bottom is shorter than a regular Ethernet port! That’s why I found this! Because I’m wondering the same thing! I found another page like this which they said was a phone line! ITS NOT! Which is why I included an image to help! PLEASE DON’T DELETE THIS POST! I NEED HELP! I couldn’t find any information anywhere! Here’s what it looks like: https://share.icloud.com/photos/06cGd6zqvt7kC_RWmWNxMt_CQ
Assistant: Dude, exclamation marks aren’t full stops. Please, my eyes hurt. |
Human: Is there a good program that will allow me to use my 2TB external HD as cloud storage for my family and I? Android and iPhone users. Bonus points if they have really good mobile UIs.
Assistant: Sorry I'm on mobile. Google "host your own cloud v2.0" |
Human: Is there a good program that will allow me to use my 2TB external HD as cloud storage for my family and I? Android and iPhone users. Bonus points if they have really good mobile UIs.
Assistant: Program? None I'm aware of. There is this device, however. |
Human: My IT guy is saying it would be too hard to have a email with my maiden name So I've been working at my company for about a year and I've been in the middle of a divorce. My divorce is finally close to be finalized and I am ready to jump and get my name changed back to my maiden name. With that, my current business email is firs tinital married last name @ company name. I want to have an email with first initial maiden name @ company name. I dont think this is really too much to ask. But when I approached my IT guy about it he told me it would be really difficult to do and that he'd have to create a whole new user for me. Is this the case? Can he not just link a new email and have my old email forwarded to this account? My company uses Microsoft outlook. This may be the wrong place to post, or I may not have enough info provided, but hopefully I can get a general sense of whether or not this is out of reach. People get married and divorced all of the time so I dont see why this isnt doable.
Assistant: A lot of people are saying this IT guy is lazy or whatever. Could be the case. It could be an company policy stopping him from doing that. Did you submit a ticket or did you just walk up and ask? |
Human: My IT guy is saying it would be too hard to have a email with my maiden name So I've been working at my company for about a year and I've been in the middle of a divorce. My divorce is finally close to be finalized and I am ready to jump and get my name changed back to my maiden name. With that, my current business email is firs tinital married last name @ company name. I want to have an email with first initial maiden name @ company name. I dont think this is really too much to ask. But when I approached my IT guy about it he told me it would be really difficult to do and that he'd have to create a whole new user for me. Is this the case? Can he not just link a new email and have my old email forwarded to this account? My company uses Microsoft outlook. This may be the wrong place to post, or I may not have enough info provided, but hopefully I can get a general sense of whether or not this is out of reach. People get married and divorced all of the time so I dont see why this isnt doable.
Assistant: I don't know what your company policy is, so I don't want to step on toes, or throw your IT guy under the bus, but that change should be pretty easy. |
Human: Anyone know if it would be possible for a repair shop to fix this? It’s and led phone case and I’m so sad that I cracked Cracked phone case pics I really hope it can be fixed somehow because I can’t get another one
Assistant: I don't think any shop will repair glass. Although it'll be there visually, you can fill in the cracks with something like superglue or automotive windshield repair resin so smooth it out and prevent scratches and cuts. |
Human: Anyone know if it would be possible for a repair shop to fix this? It’s and led phone case and I’m so sad that I cracked Cracked phone case pics I really hope it can be fixed somehow because I can’t get another one
Assistant: Who was the case made by? Most likely they'll repair it for a fee |
Human: Parents fell for a scam involving a "Microsoft Windows Support" phone call to our home. Help? Computer Info: * Dell Dimension E521 * Windows Vista * AMD Athlon X2 Processor While I was at work today, my parents received a phone call from a man named Shane claiming that he worked for Microsoft Windows Support in New York. He told my parents that he received reports of multiple viruses on my computer. He walked them through the steps that allowed him to take over our computer. I was gone at the time and my parents don't know much about computers so they fell for it. My parents can't describe exactly what he did when he took over the computer, but they said he "opened and closed different programs, and then a long list of viruses and warnings popped up and he fixed them." Then a pop up came up saying that windows has expired and needs to be updated. Shane said that they needed to purchase it via credit card. When my dad refused to give out the credit card, Shane said that all of the viruses were fixed and hung up. When I came home and they told me about this, I knew it was an obvious scam. My parents are now worried that the scammers have access to our information such as credit card numbers, passwords, etc. and want to know if there are any steps we can take to secure our information. Any ideas on what we should do? Here are the phone numbers from the "Microsoft Windows Support": * First phone call: 718-377-9189 * Second phone call after being disconnected: 530-888-9650 * The callback number Shane gave them: 315-215-1156 **Any help, tips, or steps we should take to secure our information and our computer would be greatly appreciated.**
Assistant: Nuke it. A d for gods sake don't put Norton back on it!! :) And on a side note. I own a computer repair biz. I was at a customers house when they got this call. I played along with them. But keep telling them I don't see what your talking about. There is no start button. There is no circle with a flag. Etc. he then asked more questions and I said "guess I should have told you I am using Fedora" he hung up. Never called them back. |
Human: Parents fell for a scam involving a "Microsoft Windows Support" phone call to our home. Help? Computer Info: * Dell Dimension E521 * Windows Vista * AMD Athlon X2 Processor While I was at work today, my parents received a phone call from a man named Shane claiming that he worked for Microsoft Windows Support in New York. He told my parents that he received reports of multiple viruses on my computer. He walked them through the steps that allowed him to take over our computer. I was gone at the time and my parents don't know much about computers so they fell for it. My parents can't describe exactly what he did when he took over the computer, but they said he "opened and closed different programs, and then a long list of viruses and warnings popped up and he fixed them." Then a pop up came up saying that windows has expired and needs to be updated. Shane said that they needed to purchase it via credit card. When my dad refused to give out the credit card, Shane said that all of the viruses were fixed and hung up. When I came home and they told me about this, I knew it was an obvious scam. My parents are now worried that the scammers have access to our information such as credit card numbers, passwords, etc. and want to know if there are any steps we can take to secure our information. Any ideas on what we should do? Here are the phone numbers from the "Microsoft Windows Support": * First phone call: 718-377-9189 * Second phone call after being disconnected: 530-888-9650 * The callback number Shane gave them: 315-215-1156 **Any help, tips, or steps we should take to secure our information and our computer would be greatly appreciated.**
Assistant: Wipe it. Backup the files and wipe it. There's never been a better time, plus Dell's usually have decent recovery media shipped with them (assuming you can find it.) Otherwise, if they can afford it, it might be time to get a newer PC. Anything with Vista on it is what, 5+ years old? It may be time. |
Human: Just got my 240GB SSD! But how do switch the OS on my hardrive to it? Like the title, i got a new 240GB SSD that i wanna use for my OS and anything else if i can. I dont know how to do it however. The PC is BRAND NEW. Nothing is installed other than Steam, Google Chrome, and Malwarebytes. What is the best way to do this? Also, is there anything else i can put on a SSD that can make it run faster(your advice?) Oh, and do i have to format the hardrive after to get the most out of the 1Tb in it? Thank you (: Add: I built the pc fully yesterday. Just in case you need that info
Assistant: To piggyback off your question, I'm pretty much replacing a hard-drive that is making grinding sounds with an ssd. How are you going to transfer your windows key? |
Human: Just got my 240GB SSD! But how do switch the OS on my hardrive to it? Like the title, i got a new 240GB SSD that i wanna use for my OS and anything else if i can. I dont know how to do it however. The PC is BRAND NEW. Nothing is installed other than Steam, Google Chrome, and Malwarebytes. What is the best way to do this? Also, is there anything else i can put on a SSD that can make it run faster(your advice?) Oh, and do i have to format the hardrive after to get the most out of the 1Tb in it? Thank you (: Add: I built the pc fully yesterday. Just in case you need that info
Assistant: Once the OS is on it should default to it.. but it won't hurt to check and make sure it's at the front of the boot sequence. |
Human: ethernet port seemingly broken after thunderstorm. is my whole motherboard at risk? the other day we had a thunderstorm that went right over us and it took our router out. i assumed it was only the router, but when we finally got a new one, no ethernet cables would connect to my computer. when i look at the control panel, it says “disabled”. the port has a constant, unblinking yellow and orange set of lights. the entire pc is still working fine, and i got a usb adapter for the ethernet. the wifi is working fine, so it’s not the router. the problem is that this pc is extremely new, i literally built it less than a week ago. so i’m worried there are other unseen issues with it. is it likely that it’s just the ethernet port, or should i go ahead and replace the entire motherboard?
Assistant: If only my ethernet was the only damage, I would consider doing this based on my mb config: if it has free USB C or 3.2: a powered dock with Gb ethernet and bunch of other types of ports; if not a dock then a power multi purpose hub [mine has sata, two usb 3 general purpose ports and one optimized for ethernet adapters [gigabit]; a Gigabit USB adapter; Add in card with Multi 2x Gigabit ports. Well it a thought .., |
Human: ethernet port seemingly broken after thunderstorm. is my whole motherboard at risk? the other day we had a thunderstorm that went right over us and it took our router out. i assumed it was only the router, but when we finally got a new one, no ethernet cables would connect to my computer. when i look at the control panel, it says “disabled”. the port has a constant, unblinking yellow and orange set of lights. the entire pc is still working fine, and i got a usb adapter for the ethernet. the wifi is working fine, so it’s not the router. the problem is that this pc is extremely new, i literally built it less than a week ago. so i’m worried there are other unseen issues with it. is it likely that it’s just the ethernet port, or should i go ahead and replace the entire motherboard?
Assistant: Usually you can just right click it and select enable. If that doesn't work, reinstall the driver for it. If still no dice, you might want to pic up a spare NIC unless you want to go wireless. |
Human: I just a call from a guy calling from an 800 number saying my IP address is being used and that my computer was hacked. I call bullshit. Today, I got a call from a guy saying my computer was hacked (the number he called from is 8773589365). He told me that my IP address was being used. I want to call bullshit but I have had the suspicion that my computer was hacked. He told me to check if my applications were working, but I just bought up the task manager and everything looked normal. I have no idea how he got my cellphone. FIrst off, how did he get my cell phone number? Secondly, how do I address this? How do I prevent stuff like this from happening in the future?
Assistant: I remember my first Indian scammer; That was one of my best phone calls. They keep calling saying that my computer is sending out "negative energy" |
Human: I just a call from a guy calling from an 800 number saying my IP address is being used and that my computer was hacked. I call bullshit. Today, I got a call from a guy saying my computer was hacked (the number he called from is 8773589365). He told me that my IP address was being used. I want to call bullshit but I have had the suspicion that my computer was hacked. He told me to check if my applications were working, but I just bought up the task manager and everything looked normal. I have no idea how he got my cellphone. FIrst off, how did he get my cell phone number? Secondly, how do I address this? How do I prevent stuff like this from happening in the future?
Assistant: Total scam. If you tell them you run Linux they will immediately hang up. |
Human: SSD not detected by Windows or shown as a boot option in BIOS Bought a brand new and compatible SSD, but it isn’t shown as a boot option even though the BIOS sees it in other menus, and unlisted by Windows as a disk I can interact with. Windows doesn’t list it under devices and drives. Disk Management does not show the SSD or any unallocated partitions. Listed as a physical drive in Storage Spaces but cannot be used to make a storage space. Samsung Magician also doesn’t detect the SSD at all. Using Asrock B450M Pro4 (updated to latest BIOS version), Windows 10, Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2, and an HDD the computer runs on and boots with.
Assistant: From what I've heard elsewhere on the internet, when the m.2 slot is populated, 2 of the sata 6.0 ports on that specific motherboard become disabled. Which might explain why they are registering in bios, but not on OS. |
Human: SSD not detected by Windows or shown as a boot option in BIOS Bought a brand new and compatible SSD, but it isn’t shown as a boot option even though the BIOS sees it in other menus, and unlisted by Windows as a disk I can interact with. Windows doesn’t list it under devices and drives. Disk Management does not show the SSD or any unallocated partitions. Listed as a physical drive in Storage Spaces but cannot be used to make a storage space. Samsung Magician also doesn’t detect the SSD at all. Using Asrock B450M Pro4 (updated to latest BIOS version), Windows 10, Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2, and an HDD the computer runs on and boots with.
Assistant: Try switching the sata cable from your hdd to the other sata slots on your mb and reboot. If you're able to boot up, re check disk management to see if your ssd is there. |
Human: PSU hard drive connector broken I went to install a new drive today and when I removed my previous drive from the bay I discovered that the connector was broken. The copper wires on the drive are exposed and the plastic part is jammed into the cable connector. I don't quite know how to describe it, but it doesn't look like this forum allows pictures? At first I could not even get my computer to access the drive, but luckily by fiddling with it I managed to get a connection and I now have the drive online. I'm just concerned I could lose access to it at some point. This is the first time I've ever had anything like this happen to a drive. Any suggestions? Is the drive too risky to use in this condition? Is it repairable? Is it the sort of thing that the WD warranty would cover? I appreciate your help!
Assistant: I would buy/grab a drive to back up the data to ASAP and take extreme care not to move the connector while backing up. Keep away all forms of life as well (pets, children, parents, husbands, wives...) I've had the same happen to an old drive. I think the plastic had gone brittle due to its age. |
Human: PSU hard drive connector broken I went to install a new drive today and when I removed my previous drive from the bay I discovered that the connector was broken. The copper wires on the drive are exposed and the plastic part is jammed into the cable connector. I don't quite know how to describe it, but it doesn't look like this forum allows pictures? At first I could not even get my computer to access the drive, but luckily by fiddling with it I managed to get a connection and I now have the drive online. I'm just concerned I could lose access to it at some point. This is the first time I've ever had anything like this happen to a drive. Any suggestions? Is the drive too risky to use in this condition? Is it repairable? Is it the sort of thing that the WD warranty would cover? I appreciate your help!
Assistant: Cloud save the entire drive, buy a new hard drive and cable. Download cloud drive data to new drive. |
Human: Can an external SSD cause PC freeze while gaming? Hey everyone, I just gave my computer to after sales service because it often crash freezes when I'm gaming. They ran tests for more than 24h, putting my PC in hardcore stress with a software, but nothing happened. So I started to wonder if it was my external SSD that was causing these crashes. Some games are in fact installed in it. It's a 1TB samsung SSD, bought it something like 2-3 years ago. Never fell. But I lived 1 year in the jungle with it (high humidity and heat). My computer has a i7 11th gen, RTX 3080 and internal SSD, bought it last november and always been in good condition (not living in the jungle anymore). Thanks in advance for your answers.
Assistant: This can happen when a disk goes to sleep, check advanced power settings and power plan. In certain circumstances a disk will disengage totally and the only way it will come back is with a reboot or unplugging and plugging it back in again. If a game or program tries to access that disk, it can wait on a response that never comes and crash. Or it may timeout after some time with an error. |
Human: Can an external SSD cause PC freeze while gaming? Hey everyone, I just gave my computer to after sales service because it often crash freezes when I'm gaming. They ran tests for more than 24h, putting my PC in hardcore stress with a software, but nothing happened. So I started to wonder if it was my external SSD that was causing these crashes. Some games are in fact installed in it. It's a 1TB samsung SSD, bought it something like 2-3 years ago. Never fell. But I lived 1 year in the jungle with it (high humidity and heat). My computer has a i7 11th gen, RTX 3080 and internal SSD, bought it last november and always been in good condition (not living in the jungle anymore). Thanks in advance for your answers.
Assistant: I had a similar problem but my pc never crashed. My whole pc would stutter and if there was any sound being played at the exact moment it would be the "BRRRRR" sound you described. I discovered my hdd usage would spike to 100% during those moments. I installed a new hdd but still keeping the old one and instead unplugged my external ssd and the stutters havent seen=m to happen yet so you might be right. |
Human: I can't loads websites unless I put https on the URL and yahoo.com doesn't load at all,there is no antivirus installed still doesn't work. Chrome Opera and Firefox are my browsers. What do I need to do make it work with http only sites? i have windows 7 installed on my PC
Assistant: Do you use an anti-virus? Can any other computers on your network get to non https sites? |
Human: I can't loads websites unless I put https on the URL and yahoo.com doesn't load at all,there is no antivirus installed still doesn't work. Chrome Opera and Firefox are my browsers. What do I need to do make it work with http only sites? i have windows 7 installed on my PC
Assistant: DO you use a specific Hosts file? |
Human: How is this possible to have a small usb that can hold like 2tb, and a big external hdd that can hold like 4tb? I bought yesterday a usb lenovo, at a very low price, while myy external hdd 4tb is like 200$... I noticed that the usb is slower than hdd So why is there a huge gap in the prices? And the most important question, can i use it as a main storage for my files instead of my external hdd? Or it is not advisble cz usb tends to get corrupted and all files get lost??
Assistant: The other 3 commenters have already covered your answer pretty well, but you can get a 2Tb External drive for $50-$60 while a legitimate 1TB USB drive will set you back at least $100. |
Human: How is this possible to have a small usb that can hold like 2tb, and a big external hdd that can hold like 4tb? I bought yesterday a usb lenovo, at a very low price, while myy external hdd 4tb is like 200$... I noticed that the usb is slower than hdd So why is there a huge gap in the prices? And the most important question, can i use it as a main storage for my files instead of my external hdd? Or it is not advisble cz usb tends to get corrupted and all files get lost??
Assistant: ~~Need more clarification. Did you buy a 2TB usb flash drive, or a 2TB usb SSD?~~ Also, you probably bought your 4TB external a while ago. Prices have gone down alot since. You can get one for under $100 now. If it's as small and slow as you say, you likely got a fake flash drive. |
Human: 5 years ago, Apple wiped my hard drive and deleted thousands of photos from a trip I took. I found them today in my OneDrive folder. How did they get there? This is a weird one, so if I'm not in the right place I'll take it somewhere else. I had a problem with the last Microsoft update and had to reinstall my Microsoft programs (including Word, which was very annoying). I went through my Onedrive folder and found hidden within it almost 1,000 photos from a trip I had taken in 2008. I was shocked, as I had lost these photos back in 2011, when Apple (very obnoxiously) wiped my hard drive in order to replace a screen problem. Every single photo I thought had been lost into the digital wind was there, reminding me of the great times I had. Now that I have my photos back, I've been trying to figure out HOW they got on the OneDrive system. I only subscribed to an office 365 account last Summer (after realizing how much I hated Google Docs), so I never had this storage space before last year. However, I have had the email address and Microsoft account back through at least 2008 (and possibly earlier through Xbox) but I can't remember ever uploading the photos to any storage space. Does anyone remember any promotions or have any ideas how they got on there? I always used OSX but I did have bootcamp on my computers from 2008-2011. I also had my Xbox through this whole period, maybe they got uploaded on there?
Assistant: donald trump asked russia to find them for you |
Human: 5 years ago, Apple wiped my hard drive and deleted thousands of photos from a trip I took. I found them today in my OneDrive folder. How did they get there? This is a weird one, so if I'm not in the right place I'll take it somewhere else. I had a problem with the last Microsoft update and had to reinstall my Microsoft programs (including Word, which was very annoying). I went through my Onedrive folder and found hidden within it almost 1,000 photos from a trip I had taken in 2008. I was shocked, as I had lost these photos back in 2011, when Apple (very obnoxiously) wiped my hard drive in order to replace a screen problem. Every single photo I thought had been lost into the digital wind was there, reminding me of the great times I had. Now that I have my photos back, I've been trying to figure out HOW they got on the OneDrive system. I only subscribed to an office 365 account last Summer (after realizing how much I hated Google Docs), so I never had this storage space before last year. However, I have had the email address and Microsoft account back through at least 2008 (and possibly earlier through Xbox) but I can't remember ever uploading the photos to any storage space. Does anyone remember any promotions or have any ideas how they got on there? I always used OSX but I did have bootcamp on my computers from 2008-2011. I also had my Xbox through this whole period, maybe they got uploaded on there?
Assistant: My vote is in autosync |
Human: Samsung Galaxy S III: Dropped the phone today on a jog and the screen cracked. It lights up, but most of the screen is black, with a few specks of color. Where could I get this repaired for cheap? I have a backup phone, so I am willing to ship my phone somewhere to get it fixed. Is there a way I can fix this for less than $100? I can also post a picture if it helps. It also would help to mention that I am about to go into major debt for school, so every penny I can save counts. Please help :/
Assistant: Best buy...60$ |
Human: Samsung Galaxy S III: Dropped the phone today on a jog and the screen cracked. It lights up, but most of the screen is black, with a few specks of color. Where could I get this repaired for cheap? I have a backup phone, so I am willing to ship my phone somewhere to get it fixed. Is there a way I can fix this for less than $100? I can also post a picture if it helps. It also would help to mention that I am about to go into major debt for school, so every penny I can save counts. Please help :/
Assistant: I havent been able to find a place to replace my cracked glass for less than 260$. I'm under the impression the glass/digitizer are all one piece. Beware of the diy kits, I know quite a few people that have completely ruined their phones. |
Human: Just got hit by Cryptolocker. Can't pay the ransom. Is it pointless to save the encrypted files in hopes of a solution being found in the future? I work from home as a "web search evaluator" and I'm pretty certain this is how I got Cryptolocker on my home computer since I rarely open email on my pc. I got complacent and hadn't backed up in almost a year ( I know, I'm a dumbass). I lost a lot of pics and videos of my kids and it is just making me sick. I can't come up with $500.00 to pay those fuckers, especially in 5 days as they are requesting. Anyway, I decided to burn the encrypted files onto DVDs in hopes that a much more inexpensive solution may be found. I just wanted to know if this is pointless or if there's a better way to go about this. Thanks for any info you can provide.
Assistant: Don't, I repeat, DONT pay the ranson. Dont give out your CC. |
Human: Just got hit by Cryptolocker. Can't pay the ransom. Is it pointless to save the encrypted files in hopes of a solution being found in the future? I work from home as a "web search evaluator" and I'm pretty certain this is how I got Cryptolocker on my home computer since I rarely open email on my pc. I got complacent and hadn't backed up in almost a year ( I know, I'm a dumbass). I lost a lot of pics and videos of my kids and it is just making me sick. I can't come up with $500.00 to pay those fuckers, especially in 5 days as they are requesting. Anyway, I decided to burn the encrypted files onto DVDs in hopes that a much more inexpensive solution may be found. I just wanted to know if this is pointless or if there's a better way to go about this. Thanks for any info you can provide.
Assistant: Hello, Contact your anti-malware company and ask if they have a decryption utility. They may not, but it's possible they *might*. Depends on what the exact malware is. If nothing else, you might want to keep a spare backup copy (or two) of the files. If the criminals behind it get caught, it's likely the decryption key generation algorithm will become public knowledge and you'll get your files back. It might be years before this happens, though. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky |
Human: Accidentally wiped my laptop hard drive and now bootable USB won't recognize my hard drive So my hp laptop had a windows update and when it restarted it went to bitlocker recovery mode. Problem is I don't have the code so I decided to wipe the hard drive and start over. So I used diskpart under the commend in the bitlocker recovery mode and executed the clean command on my one and only petition of my hard drive. When the computer restarted the HP laptop shows 3F0 error due to boot device not found. At this point I made a bootable windows 11 usb and try clean install it. However, the windows 11 installation couldnt find my hard drive and when I check diskpart again the hard drive is completely missing, only the USB drive is listed under diskpart. I looked into my problem on the internet and it looks like diskpart and the bootable usb does not recognize unallocated space. What can I do at this point? I appreciate your help!
Assistant: The bootable USB *should* recognize unallocated space just fine, btw. |
Human: Accidentally wiped my laptop hard drive and now bootable USB won't recognize my hard drive So my hp laptop had a windows update and when it restarted it went to bitlocker recovery mode. Problem is I don't have the code so I decided to wipe the hard drive and start over. So I used diskpart under the commend in the bitlocker recovery mode and executed the clean command on my one and only petition of my hard drive. When the computer restarted the HP laptop shows 3F0 error due to boot device not found. At this point I made a bootable windows 11 usb and try clean install it. However, the windows 11 installation couldnt find my hard drive and when I check diskpart again the hard drive is completely missing, only the USB drive is listed under diskpart. I looked into my problem on the internet and it looks like diskpart and the bootable usb does not recognize unallocated space. What can I do at this point? I appreciate your help!
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Human: I got Unallocated space that I cant allocate on my HDD. Ok, so I just bought a new HDD, and on the total of 3To, I got 746Go That I cant allocate. How can I allocate this 740Go? picture of my situation : https://imgur.com/a/Yhga7Ug (I know its in French but you should be able to understand. if not just ask me :) )
Assistant: Partition wizard is my freeware go-to program for this. |
Human: I got Unallocated space that I cant allocate on my HDD. Ok, so I just bought a new HDD, and on the total of 3To, I got 746Go That I cant allocate. How can I allocate this 740Go? picture of my situation : https://imgur.com/a/Yhga7Ug (I know its in French but you should be able to understand. if not just ask me :) )
Assistant: is your pc uefi based? if it isnt, it wont support more than 2tb |
Human: Shows with a great mystery that kept you HOOKED because you needed to know what was going on? like some of my favorites: -dark -the leftovers -severance -servant
Assistant: Mare of Easttown The Outsider |
Human: Shows with a great mystery that kept you HOOKED because you needed to know what was going on? like some of my favorites: -dark -the leftovers -severance -servant
Assistant: westworld mr robot **twin peaks (a classic but i haven't finished it)** endeavour |
Human: Binge-worthy tv shows that are gripping/well-written? Hello there! I am looking for a binge-worthy series that catches your attention, is well-written, and is not a sitcom (although it can have some comedic aspects to it). Thrillers, dramas, horror, and detective shows, and a shows with a little sci-fi/mystery are all welcome. I must warn you though, I have seen a lot of tv shows! So the more "underrated" or less-talked about shows, the better. Here are some shows I've seen and really enjoyed: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Hannibal, Scream, Slasher, Dexter, House M.D, GoT, The Last Kingdom, You, Santa Clarita Diet, Dead To Me, Atypical, How to Get Away with Murder (got bored of it when I got to s4), Vikings, The Missing, The Fall. Thank you!
Assistant: Yellowstone Banshee |
Human: Binge-worthy tv shows that are gripping/well-written? Hello there! I am looking for a binge-worthy series that catches your attention, is well-written, and is not a sitcom (although it can have some comedic aspects to it). Thrillers, dramas, horror, and detective shows, and a shows with a little sci-fi/mystery are all welcome. I must warn you though, I have seen a lot of tv shows! So the more "underrated" or less-talked about shows, the better. Here are some shows I've seen and really enjoyed: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Hannibal, Scream, Slasher, Dexter, House M.D, GoT, The Last Kingdom, You, Santa Clarita Diet, Dead To Me, Atypical, How to Get Away with Murder (got bored of it when I got to s4), Vikings, The Missing, The Fall. Thank you!
Assistant: Harper’s island Cruel summer Home before dark |
Human: Underrated shows! The following are a few shows that I think are underappreciated , do add the shows in comments which you feel are not as popular as they should be. 1. The leftovers. 2. Strike back. 3. Justified. 4. Bodyguard. 5. Person of interest. 6. Broadchurch. 7.Hannibal 8.Spartacus
Assistant: Mr Mercedes |
Human: Underrated shows! The following are a few shows that I think are underappreciated , do add the shows in comments which you feel are not as popular as they should be. 1. The leftovers. 2. Strike back. 3. Justified. 4. Bodyguard. 5. Person of interest. 6. Broadchurch. 7.Hannibal 8.Spartacus
Assistant: Man in the high castle Altered carbon |
Human: Best Detective Series/Shows to Watch Basically what the title says, I’m looking for suggestions on the best detective (or detective style) series to binge watch. Whether it’s Monk, Lucifer, The Mentalist, Brooklyn 99 or whatever (those listed are more an indication of the variety I enjoy), I’m looking for something along those lines to binge watch. ‘Obvious’ answers would also be welcome as there are multiple more popular ones that I have yet to get around to watching, so basically, whatever gets either the most suggestions or the most votes will be the one that I’ll start on first. (If the series has already finished, I’d prefer ones that didn’t end on a cliff hanger because I find those extremely anticlimactic, but if you believe the rest of the series is good enough to make up for that, then that’s fine). Sorry for the lengthy post, and thank you in advance.
Assistant: Person of Interest & White Collar |
Human: Best Detective Series/Shows to Watch Basically what the title says, I’m looking for suggestions on the best detective (or detective style) series to binge watch. Whether it’s Monk, Lucifer, The Mentalist, Brooklyn 99 or whatever (those listed are more an indication of the variety I enjoy), I’m looking for something along those lines to binge watch. ‘Obvious’ answers would also be welcome as there are multiple more popular ones that I have yet to get around to watching, so basically, whatever gets either the most suggestions or the most votes will be the one that I’ll start on first. (If the series has already finished, I’d prefer ones that didn’t end on a cliff hanger because I find those extremely anticlimactic, but if you believe the rest of the series is good enough to make up for that, then that’s fine). Sorry for the lengthy post, and thank you in advance.
Assistant: Life (2007) |
Human: Tv shows about criminals that are actually about crimes and not interpersonal drama? I think title explains it quite well. I just watched the first two seasons of "Money Heist" and started "Animal Kingdom". I really like the parts where there is an actual heist or some sort of another criminal activity. Chars are on edge, something goes wrong, change of plan and all that. But it's just really hard for me to care about who sleeps with whom, who's addicted to what and who really hates their mom. Any recommendations for shows that are like 70-80% crimes and only 20-30% people being unstable children in bodies of grown ups?
Assistant: Boardwalk Empire Godfather of Harlem Power Trailer: https://youtu.be/0bbwp6feNwM BMF Queen of The South |
Human: Tv shows about criminals that are actually about crimes and not interpersonal drama? I think title explains it quite well. I just watched the first two seasons of "Money Heist" and started "Animal Kingdom". I really like the parts where there is an actual heist or some sort of another criminal activity. Chars are on edge, something goes wrong, change of plan and all that. But it's just really hard for me to care about who sleeps with whom, who's addicted to what and who really hates their mom. Any recommendations for shows that are like 70-80% crimes and only 20-30% people being unstable children in bodies of grown ups?
Assistant: That's how I felt about Breaking Bad. Several episodes in, and I was skipping through every family scene to get to the crime parts, and I felt like I wasn't missing anything. |
Human: TV Shows without the unneccesary emotions/drama. "Mr. Inbetween" Could you recomend a tv show similar to "Mr Inbetween." Like you see in the video. They're all mostly calm even though the guy is about to die. It's cause he's a professional and the show does have emotional scenes when the main character kills amateurs. But most shows would milk a scene like this for as much emotion as possible. So, could you pls recommend a show that presents things sort of calmly without the annoying drama/emotions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTMXhnYZ9eM
Assistant: * The Patriot * Barry |
Human: TV Shows without the unneccesary emotions/drama. "Mr. Inbetween" Could you recomend a tv show similar to "Mr Inbetween." Like you see in the video. They're all mostly calm even though the guy is about to die. It's cause he's a professional and the show does have emotional scenes when the main character kills amateurs. But most shows would milk a scene like this for as much emotion as possible. So, could you pls recommend a show that presents things sort of calmly without the annoying drama/emotions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTMXhnYZ9eM
Assistant: Peacemaker on HBOMAX. |
Human: Looking for good mind-bending mystery show, especially genre stuff like sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural. I'm a sucker for some crazy mysteries. When a show is able to be compelling *and* is a total mindfuck, I can't put into words how much I love that. I'm looking for a good show that's consistently making you think "what the fuuuck", and preferably just gets crazier as it goes on. However, I do like it when the story is able to deliver and give a satisfying resolution that explains and provides pay off to the mystery. For example, I love **The Leftovers** but it's not exactly what I'm talking about because it's not really played as a mystery (the crazy unknown elements were never the main focus). Here are some shows I've already seen that have what I'm looking for: * **Mr. Robot** * **Dark** * **The Expanse (especially season 3)** * **Attack on Titan** * **Wilfred** Some slightly less "on the spot" examples would be **12 Monkeys,** some parts of **Westworld** and maybe **Devs**.
Assistant: The OA fits this perfectly |
Human: Looking for good mind-bending mystery show, especially genre stuff like sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural. I'm a sucker for some crazy mysteries. When a show is able to be compelling *and* is a total mindfuck, I can't put into words how much I love that. I'm looking for a good show that's consistently making you think "what the fuuuck", and preferably just gets crazier as it goes on. However, I do like it when the story is able to deliver and give a satisfying resolution that explains and provides pay off to the mystery. For example, I love **The Leftovers** but it's not exactly what I'm talking about because it's not really played as a mystery (the crazy unknown elements were never the main focus). Here are some shows I've already seen that have what I'm looking for: * **Mr. Robot** * **Dark** * **The Expanse (especially season 3)** * **Attack on Titan** * **Wilfred** Some slightly less "on the spot" examples would be **12 Monkeys,** some parts of **Westworld** and maybe **Devs**.
Assistant: MIndhunter FOr all Mankind |
Human: Tv show like Mindhunter Hey,2years ago i saw mindhunter and until now i searching for something like that but I can't find a good tv shod i saw some of crime series like true detective,ozark, outsider but non of them were as good as mindhunter,i think i love psychological part of mindhunter,if someone has a suggestion pls tell
Assistant: Mare of Easttown |
Human: Tv show like Mindhunter Hey,2years ago i saw mindhunter and until now i searching for something like that but I can't find a good tv shod i saw some of crime series like true detective,ozark, outsider but non of them were as good as mindhunter,i think i love psychological part of mindhunter,if someone has a suggestion pls tell
Assistant: Criminal Minds or Prodigal Son? |
Human: looking for an ‘ensemble’ show where any character is at risk of dying, more details inside i’ve been having a great time watching shows with smart characters like the wire, better call saul, breaking bad, etc but one thing that i dislike about them is knowing that the main characters are all relatively safe throughout. instead of stressing about what will happen, i instead am just thinking of how will our characters get out of this one? i’m looking for a show, preferably with no real “main” character, where you are truly left guessing which characters will or won’t die. i dont necessarily have a genre preference and i am open to anime as well. some good examples of shows i’ve seen like this are death note, fate/zero, and to a slightly lesser extent attack on titan. the stakes are high and i’m always left guessing who will out on top thanks (: open to movie recs as well
Assistant: - The 100 - How To Get Away With Murder - The Walking Dead - Grey’s Anatomy - Squid Game - Alice In Borderland These shows are very different from each other and some do have big main characters but they still aren’t afraid of killing off important ones |
Human: looking for an ‘ensemble’ show where any character is at risk of dying, more details inside i’ve been having a great time watching shows with smart characters like the wire, better call saul, breaking bad, etc but one thing that i dislike about them is knowing that the main characters are all relatively safe throughout. instead of stressing about what will happen, i instead am just thinking of how will our characters get out of this one? i’m looking for a show, preferably with no real “main” character, where you are truly left guessing which characters will or won’t die. i dont necessarily have a genre preference and i am open to anime as well. some good examples of shows i’ve seen like this are death note, fate/zero, and to a slightly lesser extent attack on titan. the stakes are high and i’m always left guessing who will out on top thanks (: open to movie recs as well
Assistant: No spoilers, but *Deadwood.* |
Human: TV shows that aren't classified as horror but still got strong horror elements. Looking for a show like: True Detective, Ratched, Sharp Objects, Carnivale, X files, And then there were none, Chernobyl, Etc.. Where the show itself isn't considered horror but the story has a lot of horror elements and is disturbing and frightening.
Assistant: Fargo |
Human: TV shows that aren't classified as horror but still got strong horror elements. Looking for a show like: True Detective, Ratched, Sharp Objects, Carnivale, X files, And then there were none, Chernobyl, Etc.. Where the show itself isn't considered horror but the story has a lot of horror elements and is disturbing and frightening.
Assistant: Mare of Easttown |
Human: What are the best new shows that either finished their first/second season or are still ongoing? I recently watched the first episode of 'The Suspect' which is excellent! Recommended. I also watched the first five episodes of 'Five days at Memorial' - which is amazing (but off-putting coz the series is almost always showing white people despite the place is mostly black community.). Still recommending. What are the other good shows that have finished their first/second season or are ongoing? Excluding The Sandman, LOTR, House of Dragon since they are already popular.
Assistant: The Bear, Severance, Patriot, We Own This City |
Human: What are the best new shows that either finished their first/second season or are still ongoing? I recently watched the first episode of 'The Suspect' which is excellent! Recommended. I also watched the first five episodes of 'Five days at Memorial' - which is amazing (but off-putting coz the series is almost always showing white people despite the place is mostly black community.). Still recommending. What are the other good shows that have finished their first/second season or are ongoing? Excluding The Sandman, LOTR, House of Dragon since they are already popular.
Assistant: Only Murders in the Building |
Human: TV shows where someone accidentally kills someone and tries to cover it up? I'm looking for recommendations for TV shows in which a character accidentally kills someone and then tries to cover it up. I would prefer for the accidental death not to involve an overdose. It doesn't have to be the main plot of the show. Thank you!
Assistant: Big Little Lies |
Human: TV shows where someone accidentally kills someone and tries to cover it up? I'm looking for recommendations for TV shows in which a character accidentally kills someone and then tries to cover it up. I would prefer for the accidental death not to involve an overdose. It doesn't have to be the main plot of the show. Thank you!
Assistant: Black Mirror / Season 4, ep 3 - "Crocodile" |
Human: Adult animated shows Looking for good adult, or at least appealing to adults, animated action/drama shows that aren't anime, like Castlevania or Invincible. Not adult cartoons like Rick and Morty or Bob's Burgers (I already love those).
Assistant: Invincible |
Human: Adult animated shows Looking for good adult, or at least appealing to adults, animated action/drama shows that aren't anime, like Castlevania or Invincible. Not adult cartoons like Rick and Morty or Bob's Burgers (I already love those).
Assistant: Primal) |
Human: Looking for comedic mystery sho where lead and most of the main characters ARE NOT cops. I’m especially but not necessarily looking for a show where they work outside law enforcement for the most part. Also it’s acceptable if maybe one or two of the main characters are cops but definitely not the lead. And last of all I really want the show to make me laugh a lot. Thank you!
Assistant: Bored to death |
Human: Looking for comedic mystery sho where lead and most of the main characters ARE NOT cops. I’m especially but not necessarily looking for a show where they work outside law enforcement for the most part. Also it’s acceptable if maybe one or two of the main characters are cops but definitely not the lead. And last of all I really want the show to make me laugh a lot. Thank you!
Assistant: I second Only Murders in the Building! |
Human: Is there a show like "Scrubs" but for lawyers/law? One of the things I liked about "Scrubs" was that it didn't portray a completely unrealistic view of medicine, where genius doctors solve dramatic and rare medical mysteries (think House). It focused on the gritty reality of the experience of being a young doctor, and this allowed the show to be interesting without relying on fake exaggerated medicine. Is there a show about lawyers that is similar to this? Where instead of being a drama about unrealistic court cases, it focuses more on the actual gritty reality of actually practicing law? It can be a comedy, a drama, whatever.
Assistant: Boston Legal? It's often goofy, occasionally dark, but I'm not sure if it's realistic enough for you. |
Human: Is there a show like "Scrubs" but for lawyers/law? One of the things I liked about "Scrubs" was that it didn't portray a completely unrealistic view of medicine, where genius doctors solve dramatic and rare medical mysteries (think House). It focused on the gritty reality of the experience of being a young doctor, and this allowed the show to be interesting without relying on fake exaggerated medicine. Is there a show about lawyers that is similar to this? Where instead of being a drama about unrealistic court cases, it focuses more on the actual gritty reality of actually practicing law? It can be a comedy, a drama, whatever.
Assistant: There are many types of law - and many types of lawyers. Their worlds and experience vary quite a bit. Suits offers some sense of civil law - primarily high end corporate law. Rumpole Of The Bailey offers a look at the life of a criminal defense lawyer - in England. No show can convey what years of experience can teach - but these shows can give you a taste of what their worlds are like. |
Human: A good mystery series like Sherlock That is my favourite tv show of all time and wondering if there are any more like this..
Assistant: This is gonna sound weird, but American Vandal on Netflix, it's a comedic parody, but the mystery is actually really well written. It's a staged true crime mockumentary about proving the innocence of some guy who drew dicks on teachers cars. This dumb plot scares of every potential viewer, but it's really a hidden gem if you give it a shot. |
Human: A good mystery series like Sherlock That is my favourite tv show of all time and wondering if there are any more like this..
Assistant: Poirot isn’t too bad. Some episodes are a bit dated and slow moving but it’s actually pretty decent. |
Human: Need a new show to binge over Christmas I think Breaking Bad and The Americans are the two best tv shows I've ever seen. Need some new blood to watch. I've also seen Black Mirror (awesome), Succession (great) and Ozark (pretty darn good). Yes, I particularly like dramas but also Scifi. Never seen Mad Men, Vikings, Orphan Black, the Wire or the Shield, but all suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Assistant: It's my favorite show to suggest...12 monkeys. It's on Hulu. Best show ever and it looks like we have similar taste. |
Human: Need a new show to binge over Christmas I think Breaking Bad and The Americans are the two best tv shows I've ever seen. Need some new blood to watch. I've also seen Black Mirror (awesome), Succession (great) and Ozark (pretty darn good). Yes, I particularly like dramas but also Scifi. Never seen Mad Men, Vikings, Orphan Black, the Wire or the Shield, but all suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Assistant: Bad Blood, Shooter, Luther, You |
Human: Looking for TV shows that features a character who is fundamentally alone. I think these shows are kind of hard to produce. Whenever you have a protagonist, they always need a complimentary friend (whether they want one or not.) Shows that I think that get pretty close (and stuff I've seen). * House (but he's got wilson) * Mr. Robot (but he's kind of got Mr. Robot and his neighbours) * 13 reasons why * Jessica Jones
Assistant: With Jessica Jones, how much did you like it overall vs specifically a character who is fundamentally alone? If it's the former, I'd suggest the other TV shows which were formerly (or are about to be formerly) the Marvel Netflix TV shows - Daredevil, The Punisher, The Defenders, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage (because they are generally speaking similar and are connected to each other). |
Human: Looking for TV shows that features a character who is fundamentally alone. I think these shows are kind of hard to produce. Whenever you have a protagonist, they always need a complimentary friend (whether they want one or not.) Shows that I think that get pretty close (and stuff I've seen). * House (but he's got wilson) * Mr. Robot (but he's kind of got Mr. Robot and his neighbours) * 13 reasons why * Jessica Jones
Assistant: Day Break (2006) - protagonist is trapped in a time loop. No one else matters - tomorrow when the protagonist wakes, no one will know what happened in the protagonists last day - for everyone else is back exactly where they were. |
Human: Are there any TV Shows about the Production of a TV Show I'm Really Interested in the Idea of such a Meta Show actually existing; that's all about the Behind-the-scenes production of a Fictional In-Universe TV Show. . . I Mean; I'd Be Surprised If Nobody's thought of that as an Idea. . . The Characters of the Show; actually Being The Ones trying to Produce The In-Universe TV Show. . .
Assistant: **The Newsroom** is an amazing HBO drama. **Review** is a very funny mockumentary. **Julia**, **The Morning Show** and **UnReal** are on my watchlist. |
Human: Are there any TV Shows about the Production of a TV Show I'm Really Interested in the Idea of such a Meta Show actually existing; that's all about the Behind-the-scenes production of a Fictional In-Universe TV Show. . . I Mean; I'd Be Surprised If Nobody's thought of that as an Idea. . . The Characters of the Show; actually Being The Ones trying to Produce The In-Universe TV Show. . .
Assistant: The Offer, |
Human: TV show about something happening and rebuilding civilization? Show like Jericho, The Dome, The Society, even Lost.. Doesn’t need to be the main focus, but, something where an event happens, and a group of people is left and they need to survive, someone takes charge, figure out food, shelter, etc. also, no shows earlier than 2000! Thanks for any recommendations!
Assistant: I watched *The Last Ship* summer of 2020 and often found myself sitting on the edge of my chair. It often had my adrenalin pumping and I was sad to see it end after five seasons. |
Human: TV show about something happening and rebuilding civilization? Show like Jericho, The Dome, The Society, even Lost.. Doesn’t need to be the main focus, but, something where an event happens, and a group of people is left and they need to survive, someone takes charge, figure out food, shelter, etc. also, no shows earlier than 2000! Thanks for any recommendations!
Assistant: The Wilds Daybreak Battlestar Galactica The Last Ship Snowpiercer Colony |
Human: Shows that consistently portray examples of great/supportive parenting/families? For anyone out there who didn't really have that experience? The best example I have is from the movie Easy A. I like to watch it when I'm having a hard time because Olive's family dynamic is the best portrayal of a supportive loving family that I've seen, and it warms my heart, yet there's an ache for more. I'd love to see more of that in television. The best television example I know of is Modern Family, which, especially in later seasons, hones in on interpersonal growth, and that's what I'd love to see in more shows. I haven't watched a large variety of television so any suggestions are appreciated. I'd love movie recommendations too, but this post is more focused on TV.
Assistant: You would also like " The Middle" |
Human: Shows that consistently portray examples of great/supportive parenting/families? For anyone out there who didn't really have that experience? The best example I have is from the movie Easy A. I like to watch it when I'm having a hard time because Olive's family dynamic is the best portrayal of a supportive loving family that I've seen, and it warms my heart, yet there's an ache for more. I'd love to see more of that in television. The best television example I know of is Modern Family, which, especially in later seasons, hones in on interpersonal growth, and that's what I'd love to see in more shows. I haven't watched a large variety of television so any suggestions are appreciated. I'd love movie recommendations too, but this post is more focused on TV.
Assistant: I think the parents on Malcolm in the Middle are so wonderful and sweet. They deal with the craziest kids imaginable in a very loving way. Realistic portrayal of a chaotic household. |
Human: Anti heroes and living with damage, finding identity I just finished Bojack Horseman and find myself deeply relating to the last season. I've spent the past year switching mental health medication so often I feel like I've lost who I am. I'm looking for shows that explore identity, finding who you really are (damage and all) and how to continue moving forward.
Assistant: Jessica Jones |
Human: Anti heroes and living with damage, finding identity I just finished Bojack Horseman and find myself deeply relating to the last season. I've spent the past year switching mental health medication so often I feel like I've lost who I am. I'm looking for shows that explore identity, finding who you really are (damage and all) and how to continue moving forward.
Assistant: Mr Robot - protagonist Elliot suffers from a number of mental health conditions and the series explores that as a central theme. It's also about hacking and anarchy which I found super interesting, plus it's a really well crafted series. |
Human: Looking for a good sci fi mystery show like severance, dark, lost (though it did go into the fantasy side of things but still) Check text for more Basically something where no one knows what’s going on or how it’s happening etc..
Assistant: You’ll have to let the story play out but I highly recommend Wayward Pines |
Human: Looking for a good sci fi mystery show like severance, dark, lost (though it did go into the fantasy side of things but still) Check text for more Basically something where no one knows what’s going on or how it’s happening etc..
Assistant: 12 Monkeys - more fun than Dark |
Human: Shows like Mr Robot, Severance, Foundation, Twilight Zone(new one) I’m looking for psychological thriller-type shows that aren’t predictable. If anyone knows shows that are consistently interesting, good cliffhangers, mind f*cks, mysteries, or unique. Thank you!
Assistant: Black Mirror |
Human: Shows like Mr Robot, Severance, Foundation, Twilight Zone(new one) I’m looking for psychological thriller-type shows that aren’t predictable. If anyone knows shows that are consistently interesting, good cliffhangers, mind f*cks, mysteries, or unique. Thank you!
Assistant: Lost Wayward pines |
Human: I need a new TV show Hey guys, as the title says I need a new show. Here are some shows I love: - Stranger Things - Outer Banks - Euphoria - Peaky Blinders - Game of Thrones - Vikings - Sons of Anarchy - Scream - The Boys - Penny Dreadful - Breaking Bad - Supernatural - Vampire Diaries Here are some shows I hated: - Titans - Arrow - 13 Reasons Why - Money Heist
Assistant: Maybe Sex Education |
Human: I need a new TV show Hey guys, as the title says I need a new show. Here are some shows I love: - Stranger Things - Outer Banks - Euphoria - Peaky Blinders - Game of Thrones - Vikings - Sons of Anarchy - Scream - The Boys - Penny Dreadful - Breaking Bad - Supernatural - Vampire Diaries Here are some shows I hated: - Titans - Arrow - 13 Reasons Why - Money Heist
Assistant: Cobra Kai |
Human: what are the best fantasy and sci fi series ? What are considered the best fantasy and sci fi series to watch
Assistant: Where’s Sandman, darlin? |
Human: what are the best fantasy and sci fi series ? What are considered the best fantasy and sci fi series to watch
Assistant: Outlander |
Human: TV series about covering up a crime? Series like Breaking Bad, Bad Sisters (Loved this new show), Big Little Lies, How to get away with murder, Dead to Me, Dexter(??). Not necessarily about Murder but could be any crime. Ozark too comes under this category, I guess.
Assistant: BARRY |
Human: TV series about covering up a crime? Series like Breaking Bad, Bad Sisters (Loved this new show), Big Little Lies, How to get away with murder, Dead to Me, Dexter(??). Not necessarily about Murder but could be any crime. Ozark too comes under this category, I guess.
Assistant: Prison Break |
Human: Need a New Series to Watch Liked: The Americans, Counterpart, Night Manager, Looming Tower Succession, Billions Patriot, Mindhunter, Peaky Blinders, Sneaky Pete, Sherlock, Westworld, Maniac You're the Worst, Silicon Valley, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Atlanta, Seinfeld
Assistant: the boys , on amazon |
Human: Need a New Series to Watch Liked: The Americans, Counterpart, Night Manager, Looming Tower Succession, Billions Patriot, Mindhunter, Peaky Blinders, Sneaky Pete, Sherlock, Westworld, Maniac You're the Worst, Silicon Valley, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Atlanta, Seinfeld
Assistant: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Dexter, lost, prison break, true detective, sons of anarchy are all great if you haven’t seen them. |
Human: Good shows to watch Hi looking for some good documentaries or some good little mini series either something funny or drama
Assistant: Chernobyl: Adapted documentary |
Human: Good shows to watch Hi looking for some good documentaries or some good little mini series either something funny or drama
Assistant: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II |
Human: looking for a new show to watch so I'm trying to find a new show to watch that will hook me in during the first episode or 2. my current favorite shows are lost and attack on titan. try to keep the recommendations mostly tame, I'm fine with everything except for too much sexual content. also try to keep the recommendations easy to access, try to have it be available on streaming services (netflix, prime video, disney plus, paramount plus etc.). thanks
Assistant: Dark |
Human: looking for a new show to watch so I'm trying to find a new show to watch that will hook me in during the first episode or 2. my current favorite shows are lost and attack on titan. try to keep the recommendations mostly tame, I'm fine with everything except for too much sexual content. also try to keep the recommendations easy to access, try to have it be available on streaming services (netflix, prime video, disney plus, paramount plus etc.). thanks
Assistant: Resident Alien is my new favorite currently |
Human: Please suggest me a tv show 1) I'm looking for something likely in the cartoon format with art style like Rick and Morty, Gravity falls or Paradise PD 2) I want a show that's kinda stupid funny, not all that deep. I am ok with more offensive humor. I've been watching Rick and Morty, Solar opposites, Family guy, Brickleberry, Paradise PD and close enough. 3) I am Australian so I don't have access to Hulu and HBO, I have Disney+, Stan, Netflix, Prime video and Apple tv.
Assistant: **Kick Buttowski** is super fun |
Human: Please suggest me a tv show 1) I'm looking for something likely in the cartoon format with art style like Rick and Morty, Gravity falls or Paradise PD 2) I want a show that's kinda stupid funny, not all that deep. I am ok with more offensive humor. I've been watching Rick and Morty, Solar opposites, Family guy, Brickleberry, Paradise PD and close enough. 3) I am Australian so I don't have access to Hulu and HBO, I have Disney+, Stan, Netflix, Prime video and Apple tv.
Assistant: Tuca and Bertie Hit monkey Inside job Hoops |
Human: Can someone recommend me a series where a teenager gets some superpowers? Hi! Just like the title says I would like you to recommend some TV shows where a teenager/school boy gets some kind of cool superpower. Like *No Ordinary Family* (J.J Powell is a good example,>! even though he doesn't exactly became a cool character!<), or something similar.
Assistant: Heroes Invincible (very gory) |
Human: Can someone recommend me a series where a teenager gets some superpowers? Hi! Just like the title says I would like you to recommend some TV shows where a teenager/school boy gets some kind of cool superpower. Like *No Ordinary Family* (J.J Powell is a good example,>! even though he doesn't exactly became a cool character!<), or something similar.
Assistant: KYLE XY and teen wolf Both amazing tv shows 10/10 |
Human: Vampire TV shows with female leads? Open to any suggestions, movie or TV.
Assistant: Tv - Adventure Time - Marceline the Vampire Queen - A Discovery of Witches - Ysabeau Movies - Underworld - Selene - Twilight - several |
Human: Vampire TV shows with female leads? Open to any suggestions, movie or TV.
Assistant: Not a vampire (how many can there be with that specificity, lol) but iZombie might scratch an itch. Millennial detective zombie show. Female lead. |
Human: Are there any good shows with a female "Dexter"- type of character? You know, a series about a sympathetic serial killer. Or any type of criminal as long as she's got some sort of moral code and you find yourself rooting for her. Hopefully some sort of vigilante like him. Just to be clear I mean the 2006 Dexter show. Any genres.
Assistant: She’s not the lead, but The villain in Luther fits your description. She’s brilliant, has a code, and I wish i could say more… |
Human: Are there any good shows with a female "Dexter"- type of character? You know, a series about a sympathetic serial killer. Or any type of criminal as long as she's got some sort of moral code and you find yourself rooting for her. Hopefully some sort of vigilante like him. Just to be clear I mean the 2006 Dexter show. Any genres.
Assistant: I would say Reacher, as he is technically a criminal (vigilante). He gets arrested and everything. He basically kills all the bad guys even though he’s a civilian and the show is pretty good. It’s sort of light-hearted, similar to Dexter, even though it’s about mass murder. I do warn you, there’s only one season so far, but season two is filming. Edit: Sorry, I somehow missed the female requirement. I’d still say to watch it though. There is a badass female side-kick. |
Human: What are some comedy shows which are extremely witty and good to watch when depressed ? My favourite shows in this category : The good place Parks and rec Community The inbetweeners What we do in the shadows Arrested development Brooklyn Nine nine Silicon valley
Assistant: Your list is the list I would put together. You’re making me work for this. * Freaks and Geeks (Hulu; comedy drama) * Pen15 (Hulu) * Schitt’s Creek (Netflix) * Broad City (Hulu) * Mythic Quest (Apple Tv) |
Human: What are some comedy shows which are extremely witty and good to watch when depressed ? My favourite shows in this category : The good place Parks and rec Community The inbetweeners What we do in the shadows Arrested development Brooklyn Nine nine Silicon valley
Assistant: The answer to this type of question is always Ted Lasso |