Tried converting a story from TIFU to greentext because I'm bored at work.
I saved a Gimp Template while working on it: https://files.catbox.moe/ipnjzk.xcf
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Me plugging my monitor into my mobo instead of my graphics card for three years. I thought I had just gotten reeeeally unlucky in the silicon lottery.
Or getting a high refresh rate monitor and not changing the refresh rate in your os.
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Last time I did that I just didn't get any output to the monitor, isn't that how it's supposed to work?
Massively depends on the system.
if you get a F series CPU with no igpu then you will likely get no output.
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I'm pretty sure the fan was not the only thing set to "dim".
You know, you only need to be around 5% smarter than the tool you are using to be successful with it. Humanity is right fuckered isn't it?
Okay, I'm sorry, but this is totally true and heterosexual. I have seen two people do this in real life.
His life was set to ‚dim’ for six years
Cause in the dark no one could see his tears
Once you get used to proper bias lighting, suddenly overhead lamps become insufferable. I don't know how people do it.
you can make things feel much comfier with a well positioned cheap lamp
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My grandmother gifted me their old TV back in the 2000s because it was only showing black and white.
They had a mechanic look at it, who said it was broken
There was a button to change the saturation and get the TV back to show colours
Edit: There and their
I know someone who bought a new laptop and complained that the display broke after only a couple weeks
It only showed a super dim display and the viewing angle sucked
I pressed the fancy new "privacy screen" button and it "worked flawlessly" again
Ha. I had a coworker gift me a high end amp because the volume was all crackly. Opened it up sprayed electronic cleaner on the volume rheostat thingy and gave it a few back and forth turns. Perfect sound. I offered it back but he'd already purchased a new one. :/
I had something similar, except it was a blown fuse.
Granted, the fuse was soldered in place and you had to take it apart to get to it. But once it was replaced it worked perfectly. No idea why the fuse blew either, unless it was just defective.
this is a vegan greentext no animals were harmed in the creation
I was gonna say “CFLs just plug into a normal socket, those don’t generally just ‘go bad’”
The text is about a halogen bulb, though, not a CFL. Those generally use flanged prongs.
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Oh, 4chan is back Your post is how I got to know it.
There are consequences to being stupid.
Anon has never heard of lamps, either.
idk if this is gay or fake, but it's funny as shit
When you don't read the "friendly" manual.
Pro tip: Modern American fans are required to have a voltage limiter chip to dial down the lights. They fail. Lots. If your fan lights don't work, buzz, hum, whatever, take it down and cut the little fucker out, wire back together with wire nuts.
I've replaced two crappy fans with really nice units I found in the trash. 100 how-to's on YT.
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This feels...wrong.
Human Moment™. One of my former professors in Uni, the one I respected the most because she was one of the wisest and most perceptive people I'd met at that point, confided in us that it took her however many years since their introduction to realise that the small light on some wall-mounted light switches was meant as a guidance light if it's pitch black.
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anon gets owned by a fan
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