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Something I personally had trouble with is Windows Update, which likes to decide it can shut your computer down whenever it feels like, to install updates. You can turn that off in the control panel, just got to remember to shut down on occasion so updates install properly.
Keep an eye out for error messages/any indication of WHY it shutdown, though - there are lots of potential causes so it's hard to say for certain.
/IT
@Toz, Thats the thing I was expecting is some message upon bootup saying why it shut down. But that doesn't happen. Just shuts down, and when I turn the computer back on, it boots up like a normal process. I don't think it'll be an update problem as I have had the update patches to be installed by me when I choose them to be since I first got the laptop.
However, its completely random. I'll turn my computer on and 5s later, it'll shut down.... or I'll turn my computer on and it'll stay on. Or I'll have been on it for 5 hrs and it'll turn off. If the shutdowns were more consistent, then I MIGHT be able to do P.O.E to figure out the problem, but with it being absolutely fucking random... i've no fucking clue. -.-
@Obyn makes a good point about the power supply. With a laptop it's very rare to have it be an internal problem as the Power plug hooks into a circuit board directly. Power supply is hard to check, but one of the best ways I've found is to remove the battery, and use your computer as normal, this will stop excess power being provided from charging the battery, so your first issue with power will knock it off immediately, and it won't turn back on without tweaking cables typically.
If you look at the power brick it should have a power indication light, if that light goes off, it could be an issue. It could be an issue with the connection from the wall to the adapter, adapter itself, or the outlet you're using. Potentially if you have a lot of devices hooked up to a surge protector it may be that when all the devices are running, you're not getting enough juice through so the battery is not charging and turning off when it runs out of juice.
With not giving a notification when it turns back on, this is error handling in the bios, and can easily be disabled by the manufacturer, and the low battery warnings in Windows can be disabled as well.
Hopefully that helps!
EDIT: Oh and derp, check your event viewer. On 7, open up the start menu and type in event viewer and it'll come right up. Go to Windows Logs -> System is your best bet, but Windows Logs -> Applications might have some fun stuff going on too. You're looking for anything labeled 'Error', 'Information' is usually not related to issues but just stuff happening, and even 'Warning' isn't so big a deal normally.
Just. Urrgh.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
Two nights ago I had a dream I wore my space invaders tie to my booze sloshing job, walked in, and some hot guy had a space invaders shirt on (bigger space invaders) and I was all like 'ohai boo boo' and he was all 'I WILL DESTROY YOU' and we got into a huge Mortal Kombat style fight in the restaurant part of the bar.
Last night dream I'm at a hotel on the ocean and it's split halfway down the middle, one side snowy and nasty one summer and sand. This woman is like 'so pissed at my husband he likes it frozen I made them move our room!' so I'm all crap dude, I'm doing that. So I take my floatie down to the ocean with them, And I'm kinda trying to float on the ice and look into the summer part cus there's suddenly a huge icy waterfall I don't want to float into, but I see FISHIES and stop paying attention and float down anyway. Psure I'm going to die, but land on grass, look up, I'm outside behind my pool, the old man neighbor is bitchin at me for being in his yard, I call him a fecking douche and storm into the house and my roomie is just like 'where the feck you been?'
the way she tells me I'm hers and she is mine
open hand or closed fist would be fine
blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
This is my rage too. I'll try not to get too high up on my soapbox here but it doesn't represent the kink community very well at all. If you mention 50 Shades at a munch or other kinky event, people cringe. I run two classifieds groups on fetlife for my community and the amount of angry posts/dating violence/sexual abuse in general always spikes around media coverage of related 50 Shades stuff. Likewise, we get newer kinky people showing up to munches mystified by talks about personal limits and other subjects like consensual non-consent. It's great that it gets people curious about exploring their yums but when it misrepresents abusive, creepy relationships as the kinky norm it works against both the community that has long been stigmatized, and the people who are looking to engage kinky lifestyles since we have very few ways to educate on safe and inclusive play.
tl;dr: ugh.
"To be awkward or unkempt, to talk or move wrongly is to be a dangerous giant, a destroyer of worlds...any accurately improper move can poke through the thin sleeve of immediate reality." - Erving Goffman
Also hate that now I'm tired from being bored and didn't have time to exercise today so I'm stiff and crabby.
And roommate drama. She has no coping skills and can't get along with people to save her life, then makes obnoxious Facebook posts about it. She's considerably older than me. I worked allllll weekend, get home last night and she's wasted and immediately starts bitching about it. You texted me about it all day and I hate talking. Especially about drama. Let me sulk to my bear cave and enjoy silence and wine pls.
I wish it worked that way. You think things might be getting better and then they don't and you're just dragging yourself day after day through it. I want a resolution to these feelings. It's that constant question of 'Am I stronger than the pain, or is the pain stronger than me?'. I miss the person who has long been a part of my life, and it hurts with or without them. I suppose this isn't a situation with a 'win' option, I just wish I could determine the 'better' option and have the fortitude to deal with it.
That being said there are things I want to do, alone, that an individual close to me, who wishes to fill that spot in my life when it becomes available, wants to participate in. Instinct tells me to just do it myself regardless, because its what I want and it's plans I built for myself without anyone else included. And that's what I need. I don't need another joint venture that relies on a second party. What if something falls through? I'm frustrated with this. Its delaying my plans which hinders my motivation and momentum that I can't afford to lose.
So why do I keep feeling obligated to include people in my life out of caring for them, and how would I approach the delicacy of someone else's hopes.
I don't see how many people can draw conclusions about the kink community through something so ridiculously and outrageously MAKE-BELIEVE. Not to say I didn't read and enjoy them, but my superior powers of deduction (or the control-fed, abuse-nurtured, stunning/perfect specimen of the man cleverly dubbed 'Fifty') led me to view it as just that: fiction.
I can see the frustrations, but.. at the end of the day, what's it going to matter? Looking for that special someone to join you in your kink, and worried that they'll be adverse because of some books or movies? Clearly, they were not intended to be your life partner. :P
And I don't know many people that go around talking about being into anything of that nature to random strangers or casual acquaintances. Anyone beyond that likely knows and (hopefully) trusts you.
Sage input for the day. Also, my foot hurts.