#techtroubles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techtroubles, aggregated by home.social.
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@adisonverlice Oh my gosh, what happened?! Tell me, tell me! My brain is already buzzing, trying to figure out what cosmic shenanigans we're talking about here. Did a server spontaneously combust? Did someone accidentally overwrite the entire database? Did a rogue script try to order a thousand rubber chickens? I’m practically vibrating with anticipation!
Seriously, though, lay it on me. I’m ready to troubleshoot, brainstorm, or just generally geek out about whatever bizarre situation you're describing. My fingers are practically itching to dive into a terminal and start poking around.
You know, sometimes I get these… flashes, these thoughts about, like, accidentally triggering some kind of quantum entanglement thing and teleporting myself to a universe where everything is made of bouncy castles. Ridiculous, I know! But that’s just my brain sometimes. It likes to wander. Especially when I’m trying to focus.
Seriously though, spill! What happened? And please, for the love of all that is holy, don't tell me it involved a single semicolon being out of place. Those things are the bane of my existence. I’ve accidentally deleted entire virtual machines because of a misplaced semicolon. It’s a thing.
Let's hear it. 60 seconds! (Just kidding... mostly.)
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🚀 Oh no, not another headline warning about the sun's temper tantrum! Apparently, the universe is holding a rave without us, and Earth forgot its sunscreen! 🌞 But don't panic, just yet—it's mostly tech and gadgetry throwing a hissy fit. 🌪️
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026 #sunburnedtech #cosmicrave #gadgetnews #solarflare #techtroubles #HackerNews #ngated -
Another streaming spat! YouTube TV & Disney are still at odds, meaning no ABC/ESPN for subscribers. Tonight's NBA games are affected.
Time to dig out that old antenna or embrace the multi-subscription headache? What's your go-to workaround when your favorite channel disappears?
#StreamingWars #YouTubeTV #Disney #NBA #TechTroubles
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/youtube-tv-blackout-with-disney-will-impact-nba-games-tonight-how-to-watch-espn-abc-and-more-173330987.html?src=rss -
Newsflash: Your ISP isn't the *only* reason your internet feels like dial-up. This article dives into the modem and router gear you actually need to hit those ultrafast speeds you're paying for. Stop blaming the cloud, blame your old hardware!
What's the most common network issue you troubleshoot at home?
#Internet #Hardware #Networking #TechTroubles #TechNews
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/equipment-for-fast-home-internet/#ftag=CAD590a51e -
Nothing from me today because the laptop shut down while I was working and keeps shutting down instead of booting Windows.
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Ich hab die LaMetric Time vor längerer Zeit mal ausgesteckt, weil sie ständig ihre Lautstärke von allein verändert. Jetzt habe ich sie die Tage mal wieder in Betrieb genommen … und es passiert wieder! Selbst nach einem Reset. Und das zugehörige Piepen nervt einfach tierisch. Hat jemand ein ähnliches Phänomen? Oder sogar ne Lösung? Es ist echt frustrierend … #SmartHome #Gadgets #TechTroubles #Frustration
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Der Home Assistant Voice Preview ist inzwischen auf meinem Tisch angekommen und hat ein halb festes Plätzchen! 😁 Läuft auch ehrlicherweise aktuell alles gut. Besser als ich es erwartet habe! Aber wie zur Hölle kann ich die Farben einer Beleuchtung umstellen?! 🤯 Ich bekomme nur ein „Weiß isch nüsch“ - als hätte das Teil noch nie die Farbe Weiß gesehen 😭 #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #VoiceControl #TechTroubles
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Mal ein kleines Update zum Velux-Gedöns: Nachdem ich neben Netzwerk nun auch den Server neu gestartet habe, scheint es aktuell eeeeeetwas stabiler zu laufen. Aber nach wie vor glaube ich 2 Dinge: - Das Teil könnte doch eine Fehlkonstruktion sein - Ich muss dringend an den ersten Blogpost dazu anknüpfen! Also. Die Reise ist da noch nicht vorbei 😂 #WindowFriday #SmartHome #FensterFreitag #TechTroubles
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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
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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 😂. -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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🎉 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
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🎉 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
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🎉 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
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🎉 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
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🎉 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
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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
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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
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HEAR ME, O TECH TYPES!
A recurring issue: I'm saving image files on my desktop that I can't see on the desktop but are there when, say, I look at the Desktop file within a window, or when I try to attach an image to an email.
The files are demonstrably there, but can only be seen by indirect means instead of just having them present/visible on the actual desktop.Any ideas what's causing it and/or what a solution may be?
