r/computers

20+ years as a designer on MacBooks and Mac towers. Every single one has had problems. Batteries die fast, they shut off when they want, performance degrades within 2-3 years, keyboards fail, ports break, fans scream under loads that shouldn’t faze them.

Recently built a PC for 3D work and it’s faster and better in every way. Now I’m wondering, has PC actually been better this whole time and I just didn’t know because “Macs are the industry standard for design”? Or am I in a honeymoon phase?

Have I been drinking the Kool-Aid for two decades, or is there a real reason designers stay on Mac?

I am unsure this is the proper place to post the question but I am wanting to play an old DOS game from my childhood. I currently have a Mac so I’m looking to get a PC because no matter why I try, it will not run on my Mac. I’m really just wanting to play my DOS games from childhood like Torin’s Passage and possibly even older games like word munchers and treasure mountain (I think that’s what it’s called). I also wouldn’t mind playing newer “cozy” games, any recs for systems would be appreciated! I am looking for anything budget friendly.

So I got a shitty prebuilt PC off Amazon, it’s decent for gaming but I don’t really need it to have good graphics, just to play games, which it can. Now my issue is that after 2-3 years (now) it randomly freezes out of nowhere. It doesn’t shut down, just completely freezes, all audio cuts too.

I usually can’t shut it down either without unplugging it and no matter how long it’s frozen it won’t shutdown or restart without unplugging and replugging it. It’s extremely annoying especially when I also need to do schoolwork sometimes.

It would also be worth mentioning that whenever I restart, 80% of the time it freezes basically right after I unplug and plug it back in. Help?

This is my attempt at not violently slandering wondershare to the ground on every platform imaginable.
I did a fair bit of research before paying for UniConverter. I’m just naturally untrusting of anything said on forums.
Despite my lack of better judgement, I decided to go with the name I recognized and not one of the lesser known options. BIG MISTAKE.

I was doing a PC wipe trying to reconfigure file locations and where my videos were stored. I’m a college age hobbyist. That said, I squeeze as many hours of recording, editing, and content creation into my days as possible. So for the last 4-6 days I’ve been prepping for the actual pc reset. Backing up files, compressing where I can.

I wanted to find a reliable way to safely compress the files that wasn’t just .zip, as many of you may know, the process takes time. Time that I didn’t have to babysit my PC in storm season with my work and studies. So I bought UniConverter, but only after having watched close to 20 videos speaking about it. Some from their page, some from “unprompted” tech creators, and even the ones that are intentionally too harsh. At the end of the day, I went for it. I’m a big name kind of person. And in the past, despite some troubles, that’s worked out for me.

WonderShare is the exception.

So, if you’re considering using UniConverter to save time on your compression. Know this:
YOU WONT BE ABLE TO RELIABLY DECOMPRESS THE FILES. Despite their official YouTube saying otherwise.

TL:DR
I was an idiot and fell for false marketing, and lost 50gb of footage, and a week of work. DONT USE WONDERSHARE.

So i have a wifi card it usually works fine but whenever i turn off my wifi or accidentally press the airplane mode ( that turns off my wifi ), the wifi networks available for connection just disappear and it takes a while for the connections to appear again.
Can anybody help fix this problem?

Until yesterday, I had around 36 GB of free storage on my C drive, and today I noticed that I suddenly got 60 GB of free storage without doing anything.
Is my pc safe? Or is some malware deleting stuff from my computer?

I don't know what to do anymore...

This happens every single time. I'm so exhausted from it, but I can't stand it anymore. I went from 3gb free on my C: drive to ~28gb free because I went through I deleted a bunch of stuff.

Did not download anything at all in between that time. Come back now, I'm back to 5gb free.

I've run out of things to delete, I'm at a loss for words.

So, I downloaded a hacked Minecraft jar from 9minecraft... Looks to be a simple browser cookie stealer, they were about to get into my microsoft account (I didn't have 2fa enabled at that time). I still have access to the OG gmail account, from which I can see that they did whatever complicated sequence of adding authentication apps, adding recovery emails, changing my passwords, to now where I have no way of getting back in the account.

Now, I've tried submitting the Microsoft account recovery form, and I'm fairly sure I have a decent amount of info (the billing info, the zip code the account was created at, the xbox gamertag) but am I completely screwed because the attacker enabled 2FA on his end??

And does the form ever actually recover accounts, or is the most they do suspend them?

I'm asking because it's imperative that the account remains open to being played on Minecraft/Hypixel, a lock or suspension of the account is absolutely NOT what I want. Anyone have the best advice for someone in my situation?

I have a b450v2ds3h and I took out one of my 2 8gb ram sticks and left other one in to test but now when I return it to the slot pc is not working, it boots up but windows does not boot up. I tried reseting pc battery and nothing fixed