Streamers Tech Nightmare Audio Fixed! Let's GOOO! Fixing the issue that was driving me CRAZY! Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e00663ZRxjU #GamingTech #StreamLife #AudioFix #TechTroubles #YouTubeShorts
#techtroubles
Good morning tooters. Very close to zero this morning with a big fog 🌫️ blanketing everything, I can just barely see the big eucalyptus tree at the end of my street. Too damp for a frost & it’s going to be cloudy most of the day with a little sun this afternoon - yaay! It should reach about 13c which is fine by me.
My vertigo 😵💫which seemed completely absent after my remedial massage yesterday has not completely gone, damnit - but I have to say I don’t feel quite as vague & off kilter this morning as I have been this last week or so. It’s obviously helped quite a bit, but I’m still getting the occasional spin. Getting there 😊.
I’m going down to my sisters again this morning. My niece from Perth is a tech trouble shooter for big companies around the world. She is going to set my iPad & iPhone up with a different security company than I’ve been using for years as for some reason the auto renewal never went through even though I’ve contacted them twice! The new one will be cheaper as well!
Wishing everyone a terrific #Thursday, stay warm & stay safe out there 🌻. #Weather #Vertigo #TechTroubles - which I don’t understand 😂.
🚨 X ONTPLOFT! Miljarden gebruikers getroffen door storing. Wat is er aan de hand? 🤔 #SocialMediaFail #TechTroubles
https://itinsights.nl/het-laatste-it-nieuws/x-ontploft-gigantische-storing-schokt-miljarden-gebruikers/
😱 Schermate blu improvvisate? L'aggiornamento di aprile di Windows 11 sembra essere il colpevole! #Windows11 #TechTroubles
Having a bad couple of days in tech.
One of my Proxmox VM hosts has started halting on boot, at different points. The ability to load into recovery is intermittent.
Son's Minecraft install started doing similar. Just quits on the Mojang screen. Nothing seems to fix, and... His worlds appear gone also.
My own laptop's GPU fan is grumbling loudly.
#notimeforthis #techtroubles
Sage Evolution Software Hit by Date-Related Issue (and made worse by Sage's Anti-piracy checks)
https://www.alanbonnici.com/2025/02/sage-evolution-software-hit-by-date.html
#SageEvolution #SoftwareBug #TechTroubles #LogicBomb #Software #AntiPiracy #TTMO
Gentle parenting the 19y.o. coders at U.S. Gov who just learned that CTRL-Z doesn't undo a SQL statement that deleted all the social security numbers. 😬 #TechTroubles #LearningCurve #GentleParenting
https://youtube.com/shorts/5_XRdZ5xb4k
🎉 Great news, everyone! ProtonMail is back online! 🎉 You can now access your emails without any issues. Thanks for your patience during the downtime! Happy emailing! 📧✨ #ProtonMail #BackOnline #EmailJoy #StayTuned #ProtonMail #DownDetector #EmailTroubles #Mail #TechTroubles #EmailOutage
How do I enable location data to be saved in photos using the stock camera on GrapheneOS? 📸🌍
I’ve already set the necessary permissions, but it seems like the location info is still missing. Any tips or hidden settings? 🤔🔧
#TechTroubles #GrapheneOS #LocationData #PhotographyHack #PermissionsPuzzle
Ok, here’s my first IT Horror Story of the Saturday night. It's a bit long.
I was at a client, a healthcare facility, to replace some hard drives. They didn’t want to spend money, so we had to keep the current setup running, which was outdated and unreliable.
Now I can say it: they didn’t want to spend because the general manager’s goal was to give work to a company of his friends, who were already providing support on two VMs, and he wanted to hand everything over to them. The IT manager hadn’t yet understood the financial interests of these people and still believed everything was in good faith, that they really didn’t have the funds. We were holding everything together with duct tape, but it was working and stable. I had set up a "cluster" with OpenNebula and GlusterFS for storage (later replaced with MooseFS and then with Ceph), using all available hardware.
We scheduled an intervention and notified everyone to disconnect and shut down the machines by 12:30. By 13, we had completed the backups, aiming to start the intervention by 14 and get the work up and running by 15:30. The goal was to update the systems and check the disks. We shut down all the VMs, had everyone disconnect. It was lunchtime.
We updated the servers, rebooted them. One of the disks started throwing errors. GlusterFS, for some reason I never really investigated (I have my theories, which I’ll share later, but from that day forward, GlusterFS no longer exists for me), decided to overwrite both that disk and its replica with zeros. I hadn’t changed anything.
Panic – there were backups, but on a USB 2 disk (old servers, no USB 3)! I immediately stopped everything. I was almost fainting. The IT manager didn’t understand what had happened, so I explained it to him. He announced to everyone that we would cancel the rest of the intervention, restore from backup, and have the work back up by 15:30 as planned, prioritizing the most critical VMs.
The "competing" company reached out. They had powered on one of their VMs and started "doing their own interventions." Even though they had been warned not to do anything. And they complained "we" had lost some of their data. Of course, the manager and those guys went "carpe diem": they put me under accusation, saying I had undoubtedly made a mistake that led to "lost data." I wrote a technical report explaining what I had seen, noting various SSH logins from those guys during the intervention. The "history" had been erased. Of course, not by me.
They continued to harass me for a while. The last thing they asked was for me to go to a meeting "to explain in person." They tried to schedule it the day before my wedding. And they knew it.
They threatened to ask me for an unspecified (high) financial compensation for 'the lost data.' What lost data? The ones that, allegedly, the other company would have entered in the meantime.
Final result: no problem for me (I hadn’t done anything wrong), the backups were fine, they only calmed down when I proved (logs in hand) that I wasn’t the only one connected to that machine, and my witnesses (two colleagues and the IT manager) had seen all my actions, confirming I hadn’t done anything wrong.
In the end: I realized they would do it again and I left the client – even the IT manager decided to resign and change jobs. The general manager managed to install, at astronomical figures, the company he wanted to place. After two months, they got their hands on the system and broke it. They asked me for assistance, which I refused. At any price.
After a few years, I found out that the general manager ended up in jail for corruption, bribes, and for favoring his friend companies in many sectors.
That day, I celebrated.
#HorrorStory #ITHorrorStory #ITSupport #TechTroubles #SysAdmin
Ordered a router from @nomadinternet_ over 10 days ago, and it's still MIA. 😩
My new job hangs in the balance if it doesn't land by Friday. 😬
#RouterRoulette #InternetWoes #NomadLife #JobOnTheLine #TechTroubles
🍏📉 "Apple perde milioni: difficile distinguere migliaia di iPhone contraffatti! #TechTroubles"
Mr. Homn tried to fix the holo-emitter and now it only shows Ferengi infomercials. Ever had a tech project go hilariously wrong? #LwaxanaTroi #TechTroubles
MacBooks experiencing new issue. #MacBookproblems #techtroubles #friendlyhelp https://us.technoholic.me/3enW8Ea
Sorry, can't take your call or text right now! Phone service is down, using credit for now. New device coming soon—back in action in a couple of days. Stay tuned! #TechTroubles #DeviceDrama #StayConnected #NewGadgetComing
Struggling with password chaos! Changed the corporate password, and now the VPN & desktop don’t match. Locked out; too many attempts. The service desk can’t reset due to incorrect personal information in the HR system. Waiting on HR call back to fix. 🤕 #TechTroubles
(wp.me pn73N-tjB)
🎮💥 When your trusty editing rig pulls a "dinosaur" and goes extinct right before your eyes... 🦖💻 Time to upgrade to a new beast, but for now, I'm eyeing the junior's gaming setup. Negotiations are tough; the kiddo drives a hard bargain! 🤓🕹️ #GamerDad #TechTroubles
Mac fan? We're PC people so won’t judge you :> Some people have had a problem with the USB hubs embedded into their monitors after running the macOS Sonoma 14.4 update. I suggest you wait
#macOSSonoma #TechTroubles #StaySafe https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/12/latest-macos-sonoma-update-is-breaking-some-usb-hubs-in-monitors
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