Entries tagged with technology hates me

Let's talk about my ongoing war with every single electronic I own! YAY!

Basically, Session Manager on Firefox decided to stop actually saving my sessions. Also, every time I closed the program, it was registering as a crash, thus forcing me to use Session Manager... do we see where this is going? It's been a few days now and I'm hoping that I fixed it now. My FF needed to be updated anyway, so I saved all my tabs (...all 239 of them) into a bookmark folder, updated FF, removed and re-installed Session Manager. Except then I opened all those links in tabs again and AO3 had decided to log me out, so now I am sitting here going tab by tab and hitting refresh to get past the "this is adult content, would you like to keep going?" It's making me hate the world. Also, I am going to force-crash FF once I am doing refreshing ALL MY TABS and if SM is still not working properly I might have to hit something.

In other news, I brought my 2TB external to work to format it on my work Mac... since, apparently when i started using it, I accidentally made it read-only for Macs. I am mostly hoping that this computer has enough space to back up everything on here. I have my full laptop backup as well as some tv show things that I don't want to lose. #no1curr.

At some point, my plan is to stop bringing my laptop to the lab entirely and just have my external for transporting work. We will see how that goes, I am super attached to my laptop and I might not be able to actually do it. :x

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Guys, do I have gremlins? Is that the issue? Did I offend someone? Does my laptop hate me?

Here's the new issue. (And I'm not sure it's really *new* so much as.... unnoticed until now?)

I can't play DVDs on my laptop.

I can:
Burn music CDs
Burn data CDs/DVDs
Play legitimately purchased music CDs
Play burned music CDs
Access and play files from burned DVDs

However, when I put in a DVD that I paid real money for at a real store, my laptop decides that it doesn't want to play nice. I feel like there is a lesson in here somewhere.

Tonight I tried to watch Star Trek. When I put the DVD in, it spins and the computer is clearly trying to access something. But then it was.. stutter? It's like something is catching on the mechanism and it can't read. I feel like this happened ages ago when I tried to watch 500 Days of Summer, but I figured it was a DVD issue. :|

I tried updating the firmware. I even used Microsoft's diagnostic tool.

I'm a bit confused. The fact that I can do all these other things makes me think that the drive isn't dead. But I'm not sure what else I can do about it. Thoughts? Do you think if I drag it to Best Buy and show the dudes who work there, that they can give me a guess?

Also, to add insult to injury, my internet has been flickering on and off all night.

technological hell

a pile of technological failure