Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

Sorry if kidding around seems insensitve. Sudden conking out can be distressing or at least inconvenient.

No, it's fine. I mean, I'm not looking forward to having to spend a bunch of money getting it fixed, but I have a separate work computer, plus an older personal computer that still works okay, so I'm not hugely inconvenienced. Mostly I posted bc I thought it was funny.

I grieve for you

All of a sudden, in the blink of a system update, I seem to have lost audio drivers. Can hear nothing. Please send help!

While we're at it - does anyone else have a hard time getting your video to appear in Zoom calls? I assume something is wrong with my camera setting but am not sure how to address it.

Not sure about the second, but for the first, are you using Windows?

So I just got a new system, but I've kept my existing monitor which I've never had a problem with, and now after certain games I get a very slight intermittent flickering at the very top of the screen.

The monitor is running at 144 hz when it does this, locking it down to 60 seems to fix it but I don't want to lose out on faster frame rates. Why would it be doing this? Any ideas. Googling just produces 'oh update drivers' which I already have.

Windows is running it at 143hz which is the closest option for 144. Graphics card is a 3070ti and seems to be fine with everything. Using other monitors that only use 60 limit is fine too.

Can you set the refresh rate to exactly 144Hz in Advanced display settings?

nah it won't go above 143. I read that that is okay though, so don't think it's that. It's weird when it happens, only every now and again but seems to occur on this one game, then when i exit it still happens around windows.

Further reading, someone mentioned G-sync should be enabled. Well it was enabled for full screen but not for windowed apps. So I've now clicked that, first glance seems to have stopped. But i'm tired and going to bed now so will revisit tomorrow.

The 143/144 thing seems culprit -ish. Also what is g sync

one thing i did learn in all this, hdmi cable will only go up to 100 hz but dp cable gives me the full 144

xp, it's nvidia's own v-sync in short. So there might be conflicts if ingame vsync enable etc. I'm going to delve further tomorrow.

does the monitor do 120?

Can anyone help with a Firefox on Android problem?
I updated Firefox yesterday and today my Wordle webpage is a blank white screen. Opening on private browser tab looks normal, but I'd rather not lose my stats.
Have googled and found this https://www.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/sqqkr7/wordle_glitch_is_only_giving_me_a_blank/ but on my phone I can only seem to "delete all cookies and site data" for the site I'm on i.e. NYTimes, which I assume will delete my stats?

Anyone know any way I can delete individual cookies or any other way of getting the Wordle back to normal without deleting my history? It's not the end of the wordl (ha) if I have to but would rather not if there's a way round it?

(I don't have a NY Times subscription)