Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz aww, i wish your sleepydecider would be nicer to you :T

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz yep! i mean, i only recently learned about the startup profiler, or the ability to even measure the time it takes for things to start when you turn your computer on a few months ago! (it's not very easy to find or install the tools to do that, mind you, even if they are from ms)

and it was even more recently then that where i stopped ignoring the task scheduler altogether

i only started learning things when i tried to make emolga extremely light and stable with WSL, and little else

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i think i'm just more generally used to linux, so my first instinct with windows is to "find the logs"

and as much as i use procmon to watch specific processes, it doesn't quite scratch the same itch as strace imo

windows stuff can really be out of my depth tbh

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz maybe! though some are harmless too, like there's an error for wifi disconnecting for some reason (??)

it's worth it to check them out though, because they can really tell you a lot about the little things that eventually build up into instability

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oh! i actually totally forgot that existed, ahahah

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz hee, me neither! the things i can't actually replace are pretty small overall

i actually use wsl to rsync my home folder to an external drive, and it's not even close to big enough for me to worry about upgrading that any time soon

i know someone who actually clones their entire main hard drive to an external one so they can boot into a working windows version with their stuff if things go south on their main disk

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz also, that event viewer filter is just a nice thing to have in general too. i occasionally check it, because sometime things break in subtle ways--and fixing them can do wonders for system stability

in fact, i don't have many things in my event viewer at all with that view (though i think that reset since my last OS update)

i bring this up because it can save a lot of headache if this ends up being the first place you look if something inexplicable starts happening

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oof, those ain't cheap either

do you have a way things get backed up every now and then to something else?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz a couple other possibilities are that your connection to the drive is bad, or things are overheating

at least, that's what i think

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz my line of reasoning is

• long POST means that it had issue with some hardware likely
• you see corrupted stuff appear sometimes on your drive
• there are SMART warnings
• you have inexplicable instability sometimes
• your system jutters every now and then (a side effect of disk access)
• this log entry points to a disk issue right before the unexpected shutdown

so i'm pretty sure a lot of these things would go away with another drive

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz "HardDiskVolume3"

whichever disk that is...might be your culprit