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My Apple account in the US region has USD, and I want to top up my GPT membership via the App Store on my phone, but it keeps showing that my address settings are problematic. Is there any solution? Second, I have a CCB Mastercard and a China Merchants Mastercard […]

Context: I play folk guitar, and up to about 2010 I had a pretty good repertoire – something like 200 songs I could play from memory at the drop of a hat – and I’ve just returned to playing more seriously again. The problem with a large repertoire is remembering […]

I used to be able to bypass SMART hard disk error by pressing the return key. But return key has stopped working along with 8 other keys on the same line. The component test showed this.

I want to backup my Microsoft 365 Outlook account. How can I save a backup copy of all my Outlook emails?

I’m trying to enter an IF THEN formula but need assistance. If salary is less than $50K then enter 80%, if its 50,000-59,999 then enter 70%, over $60K enter 60%. How would I enter a formula to capture this?

As part of my continuing efforts to pull all my data off of Amazon Web Services, I’ve had to create a new Amazon EC2 instance so that I can download all the data off of my two existing Amazon EBS volumes. Using the command line (and SSH), I was able […]

How can I recover the original working directory of a running Python -m uvicorn main:app --reload process on Windows? I have an interesting Windows debugging puzzle. I discovered that something on my machine is listening on 127.0.0.1:8004. I can identify the process and its Python executable, but I cannot determine […]

My father bought this Syncmaster 933 monitor around 2008. It’s likely an LED monitor. Last I used it was around 2023, and it had no visible flaws in the screen (both when turned on or off). It was as good as new. But then, nobody used it, and it was […]

The Publisher 2016 app keeps crashing when opening some of the .PUB files used at work. An issue for multiple workstations. Publisher crashes almost instantly when the .PUB file is launched. Only some .PUB files are impacted. This only occurs once Office 2016 is fully up to date with it’s […]