Last night, neighbours out, wanted some loud music.
Soundbar was on, but it would not respond to the remote or the flipper zero.
Just now went to do a better check. New batteries in the remote, flipperzero fully charged.
Nothing - just a solid red LED showing it had power.
Unplugged it.
Plugged it back in.
NOW it works.

I never thought the ‘turn it off, turn it on’ would apply to a soundbar…..

(Majority Snowden II it is)

#tech #soundbar #TurnItOffAndOnAgain

Sometimes the Genius Bar is just too far away. Especially if working from home or en route to any nearby celestial bodies…

#space #tech #techsupport #artemis #outlook #turnitoffandonagain

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/artemis-ii-astronaut-finds-two-outlook-instances-running-on-computers-call-on-houston-to-fix-microsoft-anomaly-puzzled-caller-describes-two-outlooks-and-neither-one-of-those-are-working

So, two years ago I bought a new vehicle to replace a 15-year-old one that had been written off after a collision. It's my first brand-new #vehicle I've ever owned. And being from the 2020s, it has a lot more #tech in it than any previous vehicle I've owned.

A week or so ago, the rear hatch (which is powered) stopped closing. It gets to about a foot open, then stops and #beeps and backs up a bit, behaving as if it's obstructed. I don't see any sensors it would use for detecting objects (but maybe they exist, just hidden), so I assume it's sensing motor current or something.

I booked an #appointment at the #dealer to have it checked and fixed. It was a 3-week wait. The #service manager said in the meantime to try a " #reset " of the car - just drop by and let them disconnect the battery for half an hour. I told them I could do that myself, and did.

So they really did just tell me "Did you try turning it off and turning it on again?"

It didn't fix the #problem. But it did give me a new one! Now two of the four side windows no longer support the automatic-all-the-way-up-or-down feature you normally get by pressing the window control buttons to the second stop. And it's not even both on one side, or both front or both rear...

"For a list of ways in which technology has failed to improve our lives, please press '1'."

#TurnItOffAndOnAgain

Crowdstrike's fiasco is the world's worst example of "... well it worked on my system." Right?

#Crowdstrike #Microsoft #Outage #IT #Cybersecurity #TestInProduction #TurnItOffAndOnAgain #Computer #Windows #BSOD

Dnes je ten den, kdy jsem se musel odhlásit z bankovní webové aplikace a zase přihlásit, aby se mi ukázal správný zůstatek na účtu. Jen reload stránky nepomohl.

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