Technology hates me, I’m pretty sure. I do everything right and it still gives me the finger. If I don’t know what I’m doing or something isn’t working, I default to Bob—the guy who gets paid to beat technology into submission—and whatever problem I’m having magically WORKS for him, despite doing the exact same thing I was doing.
What.
Ever.
FILSS.
My current laptop has pretty good sound for a laptop. It’s nothing fancy. Just a Dell we bought off the shelf at Microcenter when my last laptop took a shit and gave me a hearty EFFFFF YOOOOO. It has a decent graphics card that lets me play games (on low settings, but functional nonetheless) and it has two hard drives for me to fill up with lots and lots of music.
But it hates me.
The Realtek HD Audio Manager kept crashing. Over and over and over again. (and over…and over…and over…)
Every single Google search said to reinstall the drivers. So Bob reinstalled said drivers for me. (The last time I touched drivers on my own—pre Bob—my laptop made a REALLY LOUD cracking noise and would no longer start.) And ever since the sound has been absolute shit. It’s way too quiet at what used to be normal levels. And certain programs are even quieter at max volume. The sound also seems to pulsate, fading in and out, making things extremely difficult to listen to. It is marginally better with headphones, but it’s still all wrong. And with Misophonia at work…it’s all I can do to not smash the machine to bits with a sledgehammer.
Bob went through every setting he could find and we thought he had it figured out…sort of. The sound was better—still not quite right, but better—but it only lasted about a day before it reverted back to the horseshit, despite all the settings remaining the same.
I’ve spent a hell of a lot of time looking for answers on the interwebz, and no matter how specific or general I search, I get the same answer:
Make sure your external speakers are plugged in to the correct port on your desktop PC.
Not.
Helpful.
And I’m about to start hucking rocks at people.
In other news…
I got a new mouse. My old mouse was dying a slow and aggravating death, so I finally invested in an actual gaming mouse. I hated the price tag, but I found one with programmable buttons that actually fits my small hands and isn’t some bizarre space-aged shape with sharp, confusing angles. Gaming mice are apparently designed for men with giant bear paws and contortionist thumbs who don’t mind sharp edges digging into their skin.
I haven’t mastered actually using the extra buttons yet. I’m so used to a basic mouse, I forget the extra stuff is there. But so far things are actually working.
Although a certain pink fuzzball is dubious.
Emerson Mouse is skeptical that this new “mouse” is really a mouse at all.
Sure it has a long tail, but where are the ears? And what’s with the green light?
What?
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