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I thought that was a dog..

I think I need to clean my glasses.

 

And? Maybe she just needed 1 onion, not an unreasonable thing to go to the store for

 

It just struck me as slightly bizzare.

 

I once went to the main mall in my area to buy a USB drive, I'm pretty sure there should be a line for "Below 10 items" or something similar.

 

micro sd card for me.. i win

 

I can top all of you- Once I went to Micro-center, didn't find what I needed, and bought nothing except a box of M&M's at the checkout register

 

It was a big store, too. It wasn’t a farm stand, but a supermarket.

 

welp i dragged a bike and lawnmower out of yet another scrap pile.
also made this thing in solidworks.

 

There were 4 flybys over the city today, managed to get a nice spot and capture 3 of them on camera !

 

If any of you actually care, for the first time ever, Pokemon will NOT allow a number of pokemon from other games to transfer to Sword & Shield, the upcoming core titles. There has been significant backlash, and I had too much time on my hands (Roughly 6 hours), and this was the result:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/c006dj/i_calculated_the_probabilities_of_pokemon_teams/

 

Yeah, it's been all over Reddit the past couple of days. But like I said there (and go downvoted for) it's just the same old lack of ambition that's plaguing every genre right now. If you're old enough to be a mature, discerning enthusiast of anything, whether it be cars, war, virtual monsters, doesn't even frickin' matter, game companies don't care about you. It's much easier and more lucrative to go after the kiddies who will beg their parents to buy any dang thing that has the right name or logo on it. This is why Need for Speed is dead on its feet and Forza Horizon looks to be heading that way. What's happening with Pokemon is pretty much the same.

 

Im really starting to get pissed at my PC it laggs like hell with no obvious reason and i dont want to reinstall everything on it again the c drive always is full but no programm uses that much space on it. Any idea what it could be? Also youtube just stops playing halfway through a video even though it is buffered completly.

 

Thanks for the reply! Small problem i dont have the button to either activate or deactivate it? Do i need to do something special there?

 

Win+G

 

Could potentially be caused by your C drive being full. If its an SSD, they typically prefer not to be full in order to perform best. If its a HDD, data stored most recently will have slower transfer speeds, since it will be stored on the inside circumference of the disk which travels more slowly. But potentially more importantly, fragmentation can become a bigger issue if a HDD is full, since it has to split files into thousands of tiny chunks in order to fit them into all the gaps on the drive (the gaps are left over from deleted files), then it has to go searching all over the disk in order to read a file, which is slow.

It is also possible that you could have a misbehaving driver installed, sometimes they wont even show up on task manager as using CPU time.

Equally possible is that you could have a virus such as a miner installed that is using up CPU cycles.


There is a really good bit of software called "Space Sniffer" which can show where your storage space is being used visually. (There are also some other bits of software that can do the same thing if you don't fancy that specific one)

 

Slightly off topic, but this was really weird timing

I literally did this exact thing a couple hours ago. My C Drive was getting really full so I used Space Sniffer to find out what was taking up all the space.
(It turns out it was a bunch of Autodesk programs which were installed on the wrong drive)

 

I've been using it a lot recently to figure out which games I should uninstall in order to fit new ones on my computer. Honestly, I probably ought to go to town on the C and E drives and get them in much better shape. I think the inevitable is going to be more hard drives at some point though, I might have a data hoarding problem xD


Huh, that's interesting, didn't realise that the recycling bin could be both empty and have over 13gb of data in it simultaneously...


So I just right clicked on the recycling bin to empty it, I'm now a little confused...

Must have been recycling bin folders on multiple drives that were all showing as empty under windows explorer, but were not actually empty?

 

Almost 900GB worth of games... I'm sure you could uninstall a few of those