[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

"sorry, your hard drive is dead. Let's play some asteroids!"

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

I thought it was Ted Cruz

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submitted 11 months ago by djmarcone@lemm.ee to c/techsupport@lemmy.ml

Start a file explorer from the folder icon on task bar - window comes up, spinny wheel for 2-3 seconds, entire desktop crashes and comes back up. Event viewer cites the application error mentioned in the title.

A Dell precision 5520 laptop, good specs, fresh-ish install of 10, rockwell software and other stuff. Had been working normally.

User says he installed a prompted Dell update last night, which could be legit.

SFC scannow - found and repaired corrupted files. Did not fix the problem.

Did the power shell windows image repair-online thing. Did not fix problem

Windows defender scan - found nothing

Put on a windows update, updates are current, did not fix problem.

Uninstalled the latest VCruntime packages, reinstalled, did not fix problem

Safe mode - problem does not arise, thought maybe I could REPLACE the ucrtbase.dll, but alas it appears to be quite difficult to do. The DLL is dated 2022 which may or may not mean anything. That may indicate it isn't the real issue.

So, HERE is the interesting thing-

Right click on desktop, create "New Folder".

Open "New Folder" and a file explorer window comes up, and does NOT crash. Works fine.

Unpin folder icon from task bar, drag new folder icon to task bar, pin. Launch file explorer window from the task bar, crashes explorer.exe as before.

Go back to "new folder" icon on desktop - works fine.

Headdesk.

Any idea why this would happen? Any way to fix?

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 71 points 11 months ago

Side note - people need to be super careful buying used cars for the next several months because of scammers cleaning up flooded cars and brining them north to sell. Check under the carpets and so on, etc. Avoid Florida cars.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

Tbf I haven't used wordpad for a very long time. If ever.

I avoid it because if I'm editing a text file wordpad would just mess it up.

Maybe if it's an rtf file I need wordpad.

But word is available.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

Toyota or lexus are most reliable, Honda (Acura) is a close 2nd. After that it isn't even close.

Yes ford's aren't all bad, especially their international designs are not bad.

After Toyota and Honda the reliable cars to buy are going to be specific models and specific years, you're going to have to find the many youtube mechanic commentary videos "buy this not that" and do your research.

It may be that rather than buying the most reliable vehicle you avoid buying one of the known worst vehicles. I've been there and now I own 2 Toyotas and a Honda.

And it goes without saying, before you buy anything have it inspected by an impartial mechanic you trust.

You will see that Toyotas cost a lot more than other cars. It's because the cheaper cars end up costing thousands more in the long run because of the many repairs you're going to have to do. Pay now or pay later.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

X is safe and effective?

Since Elon has been very transparent about his goal of making X the everything app, by adding all this stuff and biometrics.... For security?

What could possibly go wrong?

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

In Friends:

Monica is on coke. That's how she got thin and why she cleans so obsessively.

Also:

Phoebe is homeless, saw the others in the group in through the window of central perk one day, and the entire series is all in her head.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

This is cool, but, if you can get by with this then did you really need to attend the meeting in the first place?

And once everyone but the meeting caller sends the bot.... Good luck with that.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 38 points 11 months ago

They are doing their job if that job is to make money for the people selling them.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago

Back in 2016 Milo Yiannapoulis referred to himself as trumpsexual

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

Winprivacy.de get it, run it, disable ads and trackers.

[-] djmarcone@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

I think reddit applies an algorithm to put content in your feed that they know you want or like or interact with. That will make it more addictive. Lemmy is just grabbing stuff for you, period, with no personalized algorithm as far as I know. I could be wrong but I think thats why it feels different.

reddit manipulates their users just like Facebook and tiktok etc.

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