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I’m trying to find an old 3D animated marble race video. Probably from the early 2010’s or earlier and likely made in Blender or something similar.

The colours and shapes were very simple. A bunch of marbles went down a Rube Goldberg-esque track with a big explosion of physics objects at the end. Occasionally, a marble would fall off the track as well.

It had this funky music that still pops into and gets stuck in my head sometimes.

Can anyone help me find this old gem of animation?

Don’t get me wrong, I love this show and can’t wait for the final two seasons, but has anyone else sat down to think about how insane the plot is in the latter half?

The first half of the show is cute little episodic stories about a main couple and their quirky side-character friends. In the second half of the show so far, we find out that:

- Like half the main cast is under the effects of “forever potions” which give them superpowers
- Aaron is an “ultima werewolf”, a descendant of the first werewolf
- The high school bully comes back and brainwashes Aph into trying to kill Aaron, which she semi-succeeds in, only for some goddess we don’t know yet (MCD notwithstanding) to save his life
- There’s a thing called the Celestial Cannon which turns humans into powerful “relics” and can also presumably stop comets and meteors
- Half in the main cast dies and comes back at LEAST one time each
- Aphmau’s soul is a third of a goddesses soul
- Some dude called the Demon Warlock (also known as Michael) is the evil ringleader of all this insanity, and wants to bring this goddess back so he can kill her

And there’s probably somehow even more insane stuff that I’m forgetting. Thoughts on this genre-switch?

I was working on a project for about an hour when I went to paste an image, but instead of the image being added on top of everything else, just like every other time, all my work disappeared and this new image became the background, as if, for whatever reason, Photopea deleted everything I was working on and opened this image as a new project.

Why did it delete all my shit and open this image as a new project instead of just adding it to the current one? The fuck?

I am learning C as part of my uni course. Getting it to compile and run has been the nightmare. I'm trying to run a simple "Hello, world!" program, but unfortunately, "It just works" isn't applying here.

The code is fine, but when I try to compile and run the file, VSCode tells me it compiles successfully, then tells me that the output exe does not exist when it tries to run it. I look inside the output folder, and it is indeed not there.

I have managed to get it to compile and run correctly using a series of G++ commands, and once it's compiled, VSCode lets me run the file in the terminal just fine, but I don't want to have to do this every single time I need to compile and run.

How can I get VSCode to compile and run my C code at the touch of a button, rather than manually running commands every time?

I am trying to apply for a healthcare card. For the past TWO WEEKS, the application portal has been telling me that I'm "not eligible" because my address details are being processed. I have lived at the same address for over five years at this point, and there's no reason it should take this long.

Today, I tried calling Cenno, only for some clanker to ask me a bunch of questions I don't know the answer to and ignore my requests to speak to a human. Eventually, it told me that all their humans are busy and, instead of putting me on hold, simply hung up on me.

Now I have no idea what to do. I need to get my healthcare card soon so I can pay for RMIT. What do I do?

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Laptop: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh0082AU

In preparation to replace my laptop’s SSD, I have cloned it to a USB which will then be cloned to the new SSD. However, when I try to boot from it, it waits a while then BSOD’s with the error “INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x7b)”. It then proceeds to boot into the old, failing SSD instead.

I have disabled BIOS settings such as secure boot and TPM, but it still shows the same error. I plugged the USB into my mums laptop and, after changing some BIOS stuff, it works completely fine.

Why will my USB boot on another laptop but not my own? What do I do?

In the middle of a Windows update, my HP Pavilion laptop restarted and displayed the following (roughly):

SMART Hard Disk Error: Imminent failure detected. Please back up important files immediately and run the hard disk test in system diagnostics. (This error now shows up every time Windows tries to boot)

I obliged and ran the test. It found nothing wrong. I went back into Windows, and the update finished fine, to my relief. I ran sfc /scannow, and it found nothing wrong either. I installed CrystalDiskInfo and GSmartControl.

CDI tells me the SSD is in "bad" health, but the only attribute marked in red is the "Uncorrectable Soft Read Error Rate", which has a count of four. That doesn't seem too bad, but what does this actually mean? Why are they uncorrectable?

GSmartControl tells me pretty much the same thing, but much more urgently. Apparently, it failed a basic health check, but when I check the details, the only issue is the same as what CDI shows: four "Uncorrectable Soft Read Error Rates". It warns me to back up my files immediately.

I would very much love to back up my laptop, but I'm away from home right now, and I won't have access to my desktop and my backup tools until Thursday. Are these errors something I actually need to worry about, or is it safe to ignore? If I seriously need to, I can go home as early as tomorrow.

I'm starting university in two weeks, and I can't afford a new laptop (I got mine in 2021). Fortunately, I have a spare m.2 I could put in my current one if worst comes to worst.

TLDR: Are four uncorrectable soft read error rates something to worry about, and if so, how do I fix them? Do I have to replace the SSD, or is there a simpler fix?

Any help is appreciated :)