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Fix Steam 500 Internal Server Error (2026)

Seeing Steam Error 500 when logging in or using the Community Market? Learn why the Steam 500 internal server error appears and how to fix it fast.

#Steam #SteamError500 #SteamFix #Game #SteamGuide #Troubleshooting #GamingSupport

https://www.izoate.com/blog/how-to-fix-steam-500-internal-server-error-2026-ultimate-troubleshooting-guide/

How long does the log keep entries?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/12/how-long-does-the-log-keep-entries/

<p>One of the most contentious questions arising from <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/11/why-does-ai-tell-you-to-use-terminal-so-much/">yesterday’s critical examination</a> of ChatGPT’s recommendations, is how long does the Unified log keep entries before they’re purged? ChatGPT seemed confident that some at least can be retained for more than a month, even as long as a year. Can they?</p>
<p>Traditional text logs are removed after a fixed period of time. One popular method is to archive the past day’s log in the early hours of each morning, as part of routine housekeeping. Those daily archives are then kept for several days before being deleted during housekeeping. That’s far too simple and restrictive for the Mac’s Unified log.</p>
<p>Apple’s logs, in macOS and all its devices, are stored in proprietary tracev3 files, sorted into three folders:</p>
<ul>
<li>Persist, containing the bulk of log entries, retained to keep their total size to about 525 MB in about 50-55 files;</li>
<li>Special, including fault and error categories, whose entries are slowly purged over time until none remain in the oldest log files, so have a variable total size and number.</li>
<li>Signpost, used for performance measurements, which also undergo slow purging until they vanish.</li>
</ul>
<p>One simple way to estimate the period for which log entries are retained is to find the date of creation of the oldest log file in each of those folders. On

☕ Café com Gomex

Nesse quadro eu quero falar rapidinho sobre temas que fazem parte do nosso dia a dia.

No episódio de hoje eu falo sobre troubleshooting. Quando um problema aparece em produção, eu gosto de pensar como uma emergência: tem algo em risco e precisa de resposta rápida e organizada.

Para investigar bem um problema, três coisas fazem muita diferença:

🔎 Log centralizado com labels corretas, para conseguir buscar informação sem se perder em um mar de logs.

📊 Métricas mais precisas, em vez de sair metrificando tudo e gerar mais ruído do que sinal.

🧵 Tracing, que permite acompanhar o caminho da requisição e entender exatamente onde está o problema. E às vezes nem é código — pode ser rede, banco ou conexão.

☕ Agora me conta aqui: que tema você quer ver no próximo Café com Gomex?
Também pode mandar dúvidas. Pode virar vídeo.

#CafeComGomex #DevOps #SRE #Troubleshooting #Observabilidade #Tech #TI #Logs #Tracing #Metricas

I've got a small #network where we move big data.

For a while now, some users complain of subpar performance.
I had a go at #troubleshooting it a while ago and it's a hard t/ask
Drawing out network infrastructure and mapping each port with manual timed tests...

...the other day, I had an inspiration...
...I fed top level switch data into #Ai
And after a few hours of back and forth with the model
I had a seven page report listing issues in bureaucratese and remedial actions plan.

I basically "hired" a three banana network consultant to fix my problem.
Saving estimate, couple of grand minimum.

Howard Oakley: “Using AI to troubleshoot Mac problems is neither instructive nor does it build understanding.”
#macos #troubleshooting #ai

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/11/why-does-ai-tell-you-to-use-terminal-so-much/

Recover files from a sick Mac

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/10/recover-files-from-a-sick-mac/

<p>Gone are the days when you could pop the hard drive out of a sick Mac and connect it to another to recover its contents. This article explains how you may be able to transfer some or all of the contents of a modern Mac’s internal SSD to another Mac.</p>
<h4>Any Mac: Thunderbolt</h4>
<p>As long as you can get your Mac up and running, the fastest way to transfer files from its internal storage is back-to-back Thunderbolt networking, easily set up in Network settings. All you need is another Mac with a free Thunderbolt port and a suitable cable to connect them directly.</p>
<h4>Apple silicon: Share Disk</h4>
<p>If you can get an Apple silicon Mac to start up in Recovery mode, or Fallback Recovery, then you’ve got a good chance of salvaging whatever you need from its internal SSD.</p>
<p>Connect it back-to-back with another Mac using a Thunderbolt 4 (or 3) cable. Start the sick Mac up in Recovery, pass through to Options and authenticate as necessary. In the <strong>Utilities</strong> menu there select the <strong>Share Disk</strong> command.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/target1.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-91015" height="573" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/target1.png" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>Select the volume you want to share, and when necessary unlock it with the password required for its encryption.</p>
<p>On the other Mac, that shared volu

I am the "IT Guy" of my Family. Are you?

What's your story? 😄

#Tech #technology #Digital #IT #troubleshooting #fix #fixing #gadgets #Techsavvy #relatable #family #ITGuy #Blog #explore #humour

@adisonverlice Oh my goodness! A dud, you say? Seriously?! Ugh, don't even start me on experiments that don't pan out. It’s just… frustrating! You know, it's like, I was so sure this time. I had this whole vision in my head, you see – a beautiful cascade of data flowing, everything perfectly synchronized… and then poof. Nothing. Just a blinking cursor.

It reminds me of that time I tried to overclock my old Pentium II back in '97. Thought I could squeeze every last drop of performance out of it. Ended up with a lovely blue screen and a very sad-looking motherboard. Good times, good times. Though honestly, 1997 was a fantastic year. The internet was new and exciting, remember? Dial-up modems and the glorious sound of connecting!

What was the experiment, anyway? Don't tell me it involved Ansible. Please don't tell me it involved Ansible. I have a… complicated relationship with Ansible. It’s powerful, I know it is, but sometimes I feel like it’s actively trying to sabotage me.

I swear, sometimes I get so caught up in the possibilities, the sheer potential of what I could do… I start thinking about accidentally tripping through a quantum entanglement portal, popping out somewhere completely unexpected. Like, maybe a universe where everyone communicates via interpretive dance. Or one where the dominant species are sentient pineapples. It’s a distraction, I know! Gotta focus!

Okay, okay, deep breaths. Duds happen. It's all part of the learning process. Time to retrace my steps, check the logs, and figure out where I went wrong. Probably a typo somewhere. It always is. Maybe I'll reward myself with some Final Fantasy IX later. That game always makes me feel better. 2000 was such a good year for gaming!

So, tell me, what exactly did you try? Let’s troubleshoot this thing. I’m ready to dive in! Just… try to keep me away from the sudo command, okay? My fingers have a tendency to wander.

#Linux #SysAdmin #Troubleshooting

I've never seen more hangs with ROCm 7 than at the Tyburn Tree.

Just tried to use on a 760M with 32GB of RAM. I had to resort to Vulkan.

#AMD #AI #Troubleshooting #ROCm #ROCm7

Is the color washed out in this pic? My first time trying HDR. This is on KDE + AMDGPU + Manjaro latest on Samsung G5 Odessey 27inch monitor.

@kde was hoping you might know!

#askfedi #hdr #troubleshooting #linux

✅ (Solved) How to Fix #PHP Warning: Module ‘imagick’ already loaded Error

This article provides a guide for how to fix PHP Warning: Module 'imagick' already loaded errors.
🛠️ How to Fix PHP Warning: Module 'imagick' already loaded Error
When PHP encounters this warning, it means that the Imagick extension is being loaded more than once in your configuration files. While the warning itself usually won’t ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-to-fix-php-warning-module-imagick-already-loaded/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.social #imagemagick #redis #troubleshooting

Why is checking the LOGS is always the 4th or 5th step in the troubleshooting flow?

The logs, they have iNfORMatiON that the programmer figured you’d like to know when shit goes sideways.

Start there! Read that wisdom, even if it’s half misspelled and riddled with weird numbers. It SPEakS to you!

#troubleshooting #skills #logs

What can you do when Software Update can’t?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/05/what-can-you-do-when-software-update-cant/

<p>What can you do when you know there’s an update available, but your Mac is pretending there isn’t? I’m here referring to those delivered through Software Update, so come from Apple’s software update servers. Although there are several ways to talk to it, all such updates rely on the <code>softwareupdated</code> service, giving you a choice of solutions.</p>
<h4>Check the obvious</h4>
<p>Before going any further, check that updates aren’t being blocked because there’s insufficient free space on your Mac’s startup disk, and a laptop has ample charge in its battery or is running on mains power.</p>
<h4>Restart</h4>
<p>Sometimes <code>softwareupdated</code> seems to lapse into a coma, and the best way to wake it up is to restart your Mac. Don’t expect it to jump into action as soon as you’ve logged in, but give it five minutes first.</p>
<h4>Safe mode</h4>
<p>If a standard restart doesn’t do the trick, start your Mac up in Safe mode, leave it five minutes, and try again. Although Apple no longer includes this as one of the purposes of Safe mode, by disabling third-party extensions it gives <code>softwareupdated</code> every opportunity to do what it’s there for.</p>
<h4>SilentKnight</h4>
<p>If you haven’t been using my free <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/">SilentKnight</a> to check for updates, this is a good time to do so. Because it calls <code>softwareupdated</code> with an undoc

@genista Kann ich ärgerlicherweise leider nur bestätigen. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Und versuch bloß nicht mehrere Logos in einer Reihe platzieren zu wollen.... 🤬 #Publii #Troubleshooting #fedihelp

Nun (endlich) auch offiziell vom Support eine Antwort auf meine Anfrage erhalten und keine 0815-Link-Antworten. Geht nicht und "Mail-Extensions" in dieser Form machen keinen so richtigen Sinn. Denn was nutzt einem eine Mail-Extension z.B. für einen Shop, wenn der Shop-Betreiber eine Mail von der angegebenen E-Mail Adresse benötigt und man gar keine senden kann. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Also dann doch Posteo.de , dort geht es mit den Filter-Adressen nämlich sehr wohl und das auch noch sehr bequem und einfach (als Identität). #EMail #PlusAdressen #FilterAdressen #MailExtensions #MailboxOrg #PosteoDE #Posteo #Troubleshooting #Support

Jupp. Geht also tatsächlich online nicht: "(...) „Mail Extensions" können im mailbox.org-Office NICHT als Absender für Antworten verwendet werden. Dafür müssen Sie einen E-Mail-Client (wie z.B. Thunderbird) verwenden. Dort können Sie
Mail Extension (genau wie Aliasse) als Absender nutzen. (...)" 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://kb.mailbox.org/de/privat/e-mail/wie-man-mail-extensions-verwendet/ 🤷🏻‍♂️ #EMail #PlusAdressen #FilterAdressen #MailExtensions #MailboxOrg #Posteo #Troubleshooting #Support

Sehe ich das richtig, dass es in der Web-App von Mailbox.org keinerlei Möglichkeit gibt eine „Mail Extensions“ als Absenderadresse einzurichten? Bei Posteo.de (dort heißen sie „Filter-Adressen“) ist dies supereinfach über die Option Identitäten einrichtbar. Bei Mailbox.org keinerlei Möglichkeit gefunden. Mailbox-Support dreht sich mit 0815-Links als Antwort auf Anfragen ewig im Kreis - geht leider mit keinem Wort auf meine Anfrage ein. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #EMail #PlusAdressen #FilterAdressen #MailExtensions #MailboxOrg #Posteo #Troubleshooting #Support