My ISP has done something that messes up my browsing experience.

I keep getting errors with certain programs like yt-dl failing to work properly, and problems like randomly getting captchas on multiple sites. Sometimes I get signed out of certain platforms.

The issues don't happen whenever I use mobile data. They've configured something that's inconveniencing me. Man, I can't use yt-dl on mobile data because some videos are really big.

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u/SparkMyke — 1 day ago
▲ 119 r/Piracy

As kids, most families had these VCD players with an inbuilt NES emulator and a 300 Games in 1 CD.

u/SparkMyke — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/pchelp

Laptop won't boot every time it restarts.

It's a HP 440 G3. Whenever it's on and I reboot it, it powers on and off completely without even POSTing. That is, after pressing the power button, the LEDs light up then off.

I removed the CMOS battery and it's own battery to allow the BIOS to reset and enable me to power it on by plugging in the charger. Now even after showing this error screen, pressing restart brings it back to the problem.

https://preview.redd.it/sohc51tra0gh1.png?width=591&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccdffb77f5e1d7000347291a0c5f3a20ba41eaea

The only way it boots is by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL and it boots normally.

I have flashed various firmware in the BIOS but the issue persists. Even the earliest firmware. I have tried different RAM sticks. Even removed the storage but nada.

It's weird knowing that starting it up is a 2 step process. Plug in the charger, wait for it to bring the CMOS reset error then press CTRL+ALT+DEL.

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u/SparkMyke — 22 days ago
▲ 46 r/Kenya

Remember this one? Where Kevin Bacon comes to Kenya to play basketball with The Maasai?

u/SparkMyke — 27 days ago
▲ 3 r/CareersKenya+2 crossposts

There is a game night at Capital Club Nairobi on 28th (registration form link)

🎲 GAME NIGHT IS ALMOST HERE! 🎲

A huge thank you to everyone who grabbed their tickets during our 24-hour flash sale! We can’t wait to see you all!

Missed the flash sale? Don’t worry, you can still join us! 👀

🎟️ Tickets are now back to Ksh. 2,500/-.

Get ready for an evening of:

🎲 Immersive games

🤝 Meaningful connections

🏆 Amazing prizes

🍴 Bites & refreshments

📅 28th July 2026

📍 Capital Club Nairobi

⏰ 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Don’t wait until it’s too late—grab your ticket and come ready to play, connect and have a good time! 💜

🎟️ Get your tickets: [registration form.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZ1lckrT5wDIjwja4QBpirWBdQMbJIWX0gwMv4-vDOE4PYrw/viewform)

u/SparkMyke — 27 days ago

Facebook is down. Says account is temporarily unavailable due to site issue.

I never thought Facebook in the sheer colossal size it is will follow Twitter's shortcomings like not supporting location filtering search results. Twitter has a nonfunctional search feature. Facebook also has a broken search feature that somehow uses a frustrating summing algorithm that interprets search terms instead of finding results verbatim.

Searching "Telephone" returns results of anything resembling a cellular device. It doesn't even support quoted search terms so instead of showing "looking for", it shows results with "looking" and "for" in it. You could search for "Experia" (to account for misspelt Xperia listings) and you'll get everything with "experience".

EDIT: The problem seems to be on desktop web as it works on mobile apps.

u/SparkMyke — 1 month ago

Man down.

I just sold my Redmi 9 to get a Xperia 10 mk1 so I could finally join the club and the damn phone just grew legs and left. I left it at my shop to charge so I could take a leak and that's how I got in and out of the club.

On a feature phone now. They can be quite humbling.

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u/SparkMyke — 1 month ago

This sick Logitech G602 I got that's missing its receiver.

I really wanted it to work with my unifying receiver but it isn't a unifying device. 11 programmable keys. It's so damn expensive now, they're like £150.

u/SparkMyke — 1 month ago