Given the choice, I’d definitely choose a cable for anything I know will require high internet usage. Wireless is just too slow, even on a 5G connection.

I still remember I once broke my Windows installation (young me had tried dual-booting the Windows 10 beta and my Windows 7 installation). I had to get system restored discs from the manufacturer. It wasn’t particularly tricky to fix, but it took a long time to download those Windows updates after it finished. I noticed an immediate change once I remembered I had an old 30 ft. ethernet cable lying around and plugged it in. (This was maybe 8-10 years ago.)

Did you make sure to turn on the “GmsCore Support” patch? (I think it used to be called “MicroG Support”.) You have to enable that patch on unrooted devices in order for the app to work.

I’ll field this one.

Why would a man whose shirt says “Genius at Work” spend all of his time watching a children’s cartoon show?

For me, it’s not that Windows updates my drivers during a big update. It’s simply that Windows broke the driver while installing a big update.

I’ve had it happen where my Wi-Fi driver broke so it could only connect to an unprotected network. So I’d simply setup my phone as a hotspot and download the Wi-Fi driver from the manufacturer’s website and reinstall it. That’d immediately fix the issue. Though, actually, that issue hasn’t occured in years. The last time it happened, I think, was in the early years of Windows 10.

My understanding (unless they’ve changed it) was that a restart is a restart because software (either the OS or 3rd party software or both) may need the computer restarted to finish installing or updating stuff.

I’d heard that a shutdown wasn’t actually a shutdown, though.

and I got one at least once a month.

According to this post, that’s the monthly update Microsoft releases.

/j

Wait, you mean that guy who stood in front of the Waymo car?

/j

Unfortunately, nobody’s gonna switch just because one person left unless it’s a big influencer (which I am not). It’d take multiple people collectively leaving, and that’s not gonna happen without something big. Fortunately, Twitter’s current owner is, well… he’ll likely cause that “something big” all on his own. Like how Reddit’s API thing caused Lemmy to grow in size overnight.

When it does happen, I’ve already got accounts setup on a couple different places from the last time I thought the Great Twitter Exodus was finally happening.

Thinking on it more, I do remember the game pausing to load whenever I dove quickly into the depths.

Zelda is fair, I’ve heard good things about it.

Breath of the Wild actually had quite a lot of frame drops in the Lost Woods. I remember it was a topic of discussion for a while.

I don’t remember for sure if Tears of the Kingdom suffered from the same issues or not.

Did it start happening when they switched the port to 64-bit?

Then have two options: block and mute. With mute, users won’t know you’ve muted them, as you’ve described. With mute, the user would not be able to see your posts.

I wish this were true for me, but many of the voice actors and content creators I pay attention to have yet to move elsewhere.

But they can’t comment on them. To do that, they’d have to create a new account. And, if they did that, you’d see it and be able to report them (if it’s a reportable offense, and, in most cases, it is) or block them (or both).

Pretty sure the ampersand (&) doesn’t work in website URLs like that. (Yes, it does work in URLs, but, without going into detail, it’s typically only used towards the end of the URL.)

That’s what tipped me off about the fake URL.

At least it’s routing you to a department instead of trying to help you solve the issue yourself by showing you different help pages you already looked at before trying to contact support.

I’ve had to literally perform a Google search to find a customer support phone number before. Because the website of the company just kept redirecting me in circles.

Their phone support was just as useless, though.

It was GameStop, by the way.

First, they’d have to find the steam engine, though. Seems like it’s hidden even from radar.

The driver was one installed on the computer by the security company. The driver would look for and block threats incoming via the internet or intranet.

The definitions update included a driver update, and most of the computers the software was used on were configured to automatically restarted to install the update. Unfortunately, the faulty driver update caused computers to BSOD and enter a boot loop.

Because of the boot loop, the driver could only be removed manually by entering Safe Mode. (That’s the thing you saw about deleting that file.) Then the updated driver, the one they released when they discovered the bug, would ideally be able to be installed normally after exiting Safe Mode.

Four days for an update to malware definitions is how computers get infected with malware. But you’re right that they should at least do some sort of simple test. “Does the machine boot, and are its files not getting overzealously deleted?”