My mother-in-law brought me her computer to fix. It’s a seventh GEN Intel processor running windows 10. She’s retired and I think just uses it for Netflix so it’s probably gonna get Linux mint.

UGH... spent an hour trying to get my Ender5 to print properly. I don't know how to fix this.. I have an Ender 5 with a BLTouch. The nozzle is too high when it tries to print, so it's just air printing. Not very good.

Yes, I know about z-offset. I've set it. Over and over again. But it always seems to ignore it and I don't know why.

One further data point, I'm using Octoprint. So maybe I have to put the z-offset in there somewhere? Google hasn't been super helpful, so looking for suggestions.

Just posting this in case it helps somebody else: mastodon.nz refused to load for me today in two different browsers, each on two different machines. I could still access it in an app on my phone so I knew the server was fine.
In each browser, dev tools showed an empty document, but as soon as I clicked on the network tab in dev tools the page suddenly loaded.
Dunno what caused it, but that was the solution.
#TechSupport #mastodonNZ

Gosh do I hate the need for modern tech giants to do anything anymore. I’m stuck in a Brazil-esque loop with my LINE app account. Can’t login, can’t create a new account, can’t contact support (either requires login OR just errors out on the inquiry form). W. T. F.
#technology #brazilmovie #techsupport #techsucks

Thinking of getting a refurbished Dell or Lenovo laptop to run linux on. Mostly to organise and process photos, but also some light CAD. I'll probably look for a laptop with 32gb ram.

The question is how much I should consider processor generation? Should I avoid laptops that are older than 11th gen intel processors?
Gen 9 and 10 are considerably cheaper, but I would like the computer to last a couple of years.

¿Qué distribución de Linux dirían uds. que es la más fácil de instalar y de usar? Vamos, si fueran a recomendarle Linux a su abuelita, ¿cuál sería?

Does anyone know how to batch insert _h264 between the file extension and existing name of a folder full of files?

#meme #memes #browser #techsupport #linus

Anyone out there have any connections to any #RemoteWork out there that is hiring?
#lookingforwork #autistic #TechSupport #usa

Me while updating my #BIOS and system drivers a couple hours before online #Dnd:

#Computers
#techsupport
#ttrpgs

Trying to set up OpenMediaVault on my HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF, but my aftermarket NVMe isn’t detected during install (tested with Debian, OMV, TrueNAS, Arch). BIOS sees it, but no OS does. Even after installing the OS on another PC, the EliteDesk won’t boot from it. Only the original NVMe works. Secure Boot is off. Anyone solved this?

So, I am stuck trying to apply the current #Mastodon update. Note that there may be many good reasons why, chief among them, that I am self-taught and very much in the "trying stuff out half-blindly while learning"-stage. Thankfully, nothing broke irreversably just yet.

If anyone here feels like helping a noob out, or just loves a conundrum, details can be found here:

https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/805157

I have an issue with my iPhone 12. I can't hear anyone who calls me or I call unless I'm using headphones or the speaker. Anyone have any troubleshooting ideas?

"Magic Help Line, my name is Lenore. How can I assist?" I addressed the mirror.

A turquoise cube materialized. "I'd like to leave feedback on a book I bought, Shapeshifting for the Uninitiated. I'm a math teacher and this is all very new to me."

"I'm so sorry, sir, but I'm afraid we don't submit third-party reviews. I should be able to fix your being a cube, though. Let me go ahead and prepare a counterspell to a Quadrilateral Curse."

"Oh, no, positive feedback! I've never been happier!" the cube shifted into a lavender dodecahedron. "A crone I met at the supermarket said she could tell I had natural shapeshifting talent and pulled the book straight out of her handbag."

"Ah, that's wonderful! I'm sure it's working wonderfully to teach your students geometry!"

"I teach calculus, miss," he shifted back into a human. "Teachers do have hobbies outside of work."

"Ah, my apologies. Let me bring up a list of review sites."

A 79 year-old man on the East Coast surprised me this weekend. He called me to work remotely on his Windows 7 computer. I think I talked him into upgrading to a new computer with Windows 11. He asked me for recommendations. I gave him the minimum specs I recommend and taught him how to read the specs in the ads at Best Buy. He said he knows a local computer shop, and he thinks he’ll just go in there with the list of specs I gave him and ask them to put one together.

That was the part that shocked me.

He’s in a state on the Atlantic Coast. He knows a local computer shop. Yet he calls me, in Washington State, for tech support.

Okay then. I’m honored, and happy to help.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

Anyone know why opening #IPv6 ports on #GoogleWifi might be failing for me? I have IPv6 service from my ISP (sonic.net - they're awesome!) and have a web server set up on my #RaspberryPi.

Requests from outside my network sent to the pi's IPv6 GUA keep failing, even though I have ports 80 and 443 open for the pi in the "Port Management" section of the google home app. Requests made to that same IPv6 GUA work fine within my network.

(I also have IPv4 port forwarding set up on that same page, and that seems to work fine to forward requests made to my router's external IPv4 address to the pi, so I could simply not set up an AAAA record and move forward with only IPv4 access to my server, but I'd prefer having a working dual-stack setup!)

Slightly urgent need of good tutorials for data analytics and using R - its for a masters student (I know her dad). Any recs pls let me know asap!