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  1. Grungie

    Paying for computer repair

    Most common cause of that problem is the cable. Try replacing the cable.
  2. Grungie

    How often do you do a hard shut down on your pc?

    What do you mean by company update? Replacing the computers or updating the software? If it's the latter, it's totally pointless to shut it down, as it won't get the update if it's shut down.
  3. Grungie

    How often do you do a hard shut down on your pc?

    I think you missed my point. I’m talking about how computers have a restart function alongside a shut down function, and how they’re two different functions. Restarting is when it does a quick reboot of your computer, and shut down completely powers it off. When there’s a system update, your...
  4. Grungie

    How often do you do a hard shut down on your pc?

    Those are restarts, which is very different than shutting down for a computer. You can’t push updates to a computer that’s shut down either.
  5. Grungie

    How often do you do a hard shut down on your pc?

    The only major benefit of shutting it down when not in use is wasting electricity, but that depends on if you disabled sleep mode, or the computer draws a ton of power on idle. Also heat generation in your room if you sleep in the same room.
  6. Grungie

    Should some dog breeds be banned?

    Yeah, I have a few friends with pit bulls, and they’re all cuddle buddies. “Please pet me, please pet me”, and whining the whole time. So scary
  7. Grungie

    Should some dog breeds be banned?

    Most of the “dangerous” breeds are due to shitty owners. Pit bulls are actually giant babies.
  8. Grungie

    The Microsoft Paperclip

    Clippy was useless
  9. Grungie

    Defrag, does anyone do it anymore?

    It’s pointless and detrimental on an SSD. Even with HDD’s, with technology, it’s not as necessary as before. It wouldn’t hurt, but you won’t notice a difference.
  10. Grungie

    Have you used the dark web?

    Tbh, with how the dark net works, you have to actually know the links to the sites. So it’s incredibly easy to not see the illegal stuff. Everyone who doesn’t know how it works all think it’s all illegal shady stuff.
  11. Grungie

    Do you believe in perma ban?

    I’ve done it for repeat offenders. Some people won’t get, or don’t want to get that you can’t ignore the rules. I did permaban some users because I pissed off one guy on another forum. He signed up on my site to start a fight, and he brought a posse with him. So I ended up just permabanning all...
  12. Grungie

    Wars Being Caused by Natural Resources

    The thing about trading is because of tariffs, and you end up being reliant on another country for whatever that thing is. If you owned the production of said thing, you’ll be self sufficient, have cheaper access to it, and not be at the whim of another country. Just look at the war in Ukraine...
  13. Grungie

    Does your ISP zap your speeds?

    That doesn’t sound like your ISP is the one zapping your internet. It just sounds like your network doesn’t have enough bandwidth to handle everyone in your house at a desirable speed.
  14. Grungie

    Food stamp shaming?

    Sadly there’s also a crappy in-between range for paychecks where you make too much money to qualify for food stamps/welfare, but not enough to fully live comfortably.
  15. Grungie

    Food stamp shaming?

    It's not unusual for people on food stamps to have jobs. They just work a job that doesn't pay enough, and those tend to be the low skilled jobs. Even less unusual for them to have a job while getting food stamps if they have kids as well.
  16. Grungie

    When your staff makes things worse?

    Never happened on my site, but I’ve seen a few places where moderators were either on power trips, or ran people off just because they didn’t like the user(s).
  17. Grungie

    Have you used the dark web?

    Nah, there isn’t really anything interesting on it. Also needing to install Tor and how you can’t browse it like the surface web, it’s more of a pain for nothing interesting.
  18. Grungie

    Are games easier or more difficult than a decade ago?

    I think the difficulty now is more "fair" than NES games. Me dying now is due to my lack of skill, whereas some of those hard NES games were hard for the wrong reasons. Not to include how cryptic some of those games were. Don't have Nintendo Power? Good luck figuring things out.
  19. Grungie

    What age should kids get a cell phone?

    It depends on the situation. If the kids are by themselves at home, they need a cell phone for you to contact them. Also when they get older and are in after school activities, they need a way for you to contact them. Iirc, there’s parental controls you can put on a phone to restrict them from...
  20. Grungie

    Communism

    I see it as an ideology that sounds fine on paper, and might work for a smaller community, but when you have an entire nation, that’s when human problems come into play.
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