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Seems like I might have to try delete (uninstalling) the game, and possibly any saved data in order to sign out of my MS account. Came across this:

wow that is almost EPIC levels of stupid design to have to do something like that just to sign in with another account.

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Anti-patterns, you know all about that hey @Beo

haha touchê sir.

I find so many in Microsoft’s solutions and suits and it astounds me how simple things get overlooked or just not even considered.

Evening, all.

I’ve got a fancy shmancy motherboard with 2 m.2/NVMe slots. (I never know which is which. Is the form factor m.2? Is the bus NVMe? Are all these acronyms just made up?!)

I’ve got one populated, but I have a second drive in a drawer. I want to put it in, but alas, I can not find a screw… I know it’s an M2x3, but currently my best bet to find one is the local hardware stores. Does anyone know of a better place to be looking?

I should mention, I did try the local Incredible Connection. As expected, no luck.

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yea i had a hard time finding those screws as well by luck I had an old laptop that had a screw I could use.

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I’ve checked the old laptops I’ve have, unfortunately nothing I could salvage :confused:

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sigh not sure but dam those screws are quite hard to find

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Stick it down with insulation tape, or if your C: drive is under your graphics card, swap the screw to the 2nd drive, and stick the main drive down. The GPU should hold it in place. While you’re screw hunting

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I love the redneck engineering, but this is a brand new build, and it’s for the 2nd drive. I’ll rather be without for a while for now, but I’m making a note of your suggestions for when I sukkel in future!

Before I got my new case my SSD was cable-tied into the old FDD area on the old case, half attached to the metal frame and half-suspended in a web of cable ties :smile: Gotta love non-mechanical, non-moving parts!

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I’m surprised no one has suggested hot glue yet.

No, I’m not suggesting that, I’m just dumbfounded at the overuse of the stuff around here…

And yes, I have seen SATA cables hot glued to motherboards. Just buy the cables with the dang clips, morons!

I watched enough linus tech tip to not use glue. But glitter should work :slight_smile:

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Ugh! What is it with people in this country and hot glue?

Just stop!

Hot glue is awesome, but it has its place.

Within 2 meters of a motherboard is not its place.

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Exactly. Its place is 5-minute crafts type stuff :sweat_smile:

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I just finished fixing a refurbished GPU, where the cunts lost 3 screws, snapped off the plastic mount points, and had glued the heatsink in place, which made for some serious RAGE, when I had to replace the fans

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More screws than you need but at that price…

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I saw that, and it’s my plan b right now. The price is fine (I’ve bought enough fasteners in my life), but the lead time…

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