xkeeper

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dragon warrior iii for the game boy color describes me as "stubborn", and i'm tempted to agree with that assessment


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peaked somewhere around '07.


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@gull asked:

what is the most inexplicable thing you've seen a computer you were using do?

this one is surprisingly hard to come up with an answer to, because a lot of the most inexplicable stuff is easily explained. even the most wild glitches i've experienced ended up being pretty trivial in the end -- dying hardware resulting in graphics distortion, or other weird issues. or when i was experiencing completely random frame drops, from my motherboard's very specific model being incompatible with a specific cpu. (solution: undervolt and underclock...)

the real one that gets me is when computers turn themselves back on from a screensaver, with no obvious cause.

laying in bed, roll over, and oh, my desktop's screens are on again. the mouse didn't move, no applications seem to be calling for attention, everything is otherwise as it was ... the screensaver just turned off (and sometimes refuses to turn back on).

to this day i still can't find an explanation for why this happens, and it's not just any single computer but something that's gotten me across my desktops for the last several years.

it's largely stopped, but every few weeks it'll do it again.


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in my years of this happening it’s almost always:

  • displayport for some reason??
  • wireless gaming mice

on windows you can enable event viewer to catch wakeup events then you can disable that device’s ability to wake up the computer. disabling your gfx from being able to wake up my computer was a bit surreal. i haven’t had this issue on any linux distro but i imagine the steps are similar.

hdmi and wired mouse here, so neither of those. i've never seen event viewer showing wakeup events, this is actually the first i've heard of it (and that was one of the first places i checked back then). how do you even turn that on

hmm that didn’t have all the various debugging commands i remember (try one at a time):

powercfg -lastwake
powercfg -waketimers
powercfg /requests
powercfg /SYSTEMSLEEPDIAGNOSTICS

lastone dumps a log: c:%5CWindows%5Csystem32%5Csystem-sleep-diagnostics.html

My personal favorite is when the machine I was using to play music locked up in a way where it kept repeating a perfect loop of a ~20 second crossfade of some music. I didn't notice for almost an hour.

god yeah. i was having funny issues in ff14 where like, the world failed to load and i could just see through huge holes in the "ground" to the skybox below and it was utterly surreal

...and also a warning sign of impending hard drive failure

in my experience, it’s spurious signals from the mouse; if it’s happening across multiple computers there’s probably something in your house (like the air conditioner) that occasionally vibrates just hard enough to jiggle it enough to detect