Tech minor victory thread

jwhouk · Oct 6, 2018

Hey, anyone else have this problem when opening up Google today?

I went to the main search page, and this is what I got:

DarkAudit · Nov 24, 2018

Birthday/Xmas money plus a 25% price drop equals a 16GB memory upgrade for my HP laptop.

PatrThom · Nov 24, 2018

FWIW you can get halfway decent 1TB SATA SSDs now for US$125-150, too.

--Patrick

DarkAudit · Nov 26, 2018

Getting to the insides of the laptop was less fraught than I expected. Now all I need is for the mail to arrive with the new RAM.

PatrThom · Nov 26, 2018

DarkAudit said:

I am also waiting for RAM to arrive. It's coming from CA, though, so even though it was supposed to arrive this past Fri, I'm gonna give some slack for the fires, etc.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Thursday at 12:56 PM

Got my laptop back from its warranty repairs today! The keyboard works again! They didn't even wipe the hard drive like I was afraid they would!

My joy has been slightly dampened by the fact that an update has broken hamachi on the laptop, but at least this is something I can fix, albeit a bit of a hassle.

Eriol · Thursday at 12:57 PM

GasBandit said:

Considering what's on the hard drive, I'm surprised you didn't get a visit from the FBI.

:ninja:

GasBandit · Thursday at 12:58 PM

Eriol said:

Oh, there's nothing on my laptop but steam

All the GOOD stuff is on my home desktop!

PatrThom · Thursday at 5:33 PM

Eriol said:

GasBandit said:

What, you don’t keep a drive prepared as the one you swap into whatever machine you are sending in for service?

—Patrick

GasBandit · Thursday at 5:36 PM

PatrThom said:

Nah, this laptop was still brand new, I got it in september. Nothing on it but steam, hamachi, and teamviewer, and discord I guess. So it wasn't really worth messing with. No personal stuff at all.

I've already reinstalled hamachi and fixed it so it is working again.