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[Rose]

x86 android? Are you sure?

It's not uncommon.

[wierd]

Yes, I am sure.

I just made use of my Linux Deploy environment to run efibootmgr, and change the boot order for the EFI bios.  It was sidestepping looking for bootable media on the USB interface by jumping straight to the android loader as the first boot option.  Changed boot order to look for bootable USB sticks and CDroms first.
(This thing's EFI implementation lacks a "bios screen", so I have to probe it with byzantine tools like this. This is to be expected-- they intend it to be an idiot proofed Android only tablet. Nevermind that the ONLY DIFFERNCE between this tablet and a substantially more expensive windows 8.1 tablet by the same maker, is 1gb of RAM, as far as hardware goes. 8.1 will run like poop on 1gb of RAM, but Mint will do OK if I turn zram on with some aggressive settings. It will be nice having native linux with sound working. My Linux Deploy solution uses the in-memory kernel that android uses, and the alsa modules baked into it wont work with normal linux. The graphics kernel module does though! I have accelerated video right now.)

Now I just need an OTG cable, and I can boot a minty fresh EFI linux live stick.  I think my sister has such a thing. I will go visit her. (Failing that, I can go shopping in town)

The OTG cable will have other uses, such as attaching a USB hub to the port, and having a USB keyboard and mouse attached all at the same time. This will be very helpful in setting up any OSes I may want to double, or triple boot. When I have it all configured, I will install something like ReFIT, which has a nice little GUI for picking and choosing EFI capable start options. (that should let me leverage the touchscreen to pick the OS on power on.)

[Lord Shonus]

Been having a wierd problem with my USB ports since I upgraded to Windows 10. I move my computer fairly frequently for gaming purposes, and every single time I do so none of the rear (as in, the ones that are physically part of the motherboard) do not work until I connect a mouse to the front USB ports and reboot. After doing so, they work flawlessly.

[TheBiggerFish]

Okay, this isn't exactly a computer thing, but this is the closest thread and I don't want to be the proprietor of the mobile equivalent of this thread so here goes.

I've got a Samsung Galaxy S5 Note, and 8.some odd GB (that seems to actually be 11 GB when you look at the unitemized bar graph thing) of files that I don't know what they are doing or how to get rid of them.  They're tagged as 'System Memory' in the Storage widget.

I think it might be something to do with Google Drive's uploading, which caused pretty bad problems (Keyboard has stopped) when I tried to upload a mass of stuff, but I cancelled that.  So I don't know why the massive amounts of memory are still in use.

It might be too many Chrome tabs, but I doubt it.  There's no way.

[Thief^]

If it's labeled "system", there's probably not a lot you can do. It's most likely preinstalled apps and so on, and won't be removable without rooting.

You've also confused Ram and storage (both get called " memory", it's a common mistake). The number you are talking about is storage, and is shared with installed apps and files (e.g. photos taken). Running apps use RAM, e.g. those chrome tabs you mentioned, or any other activity you can think of (e.g. Google Drive uploading)

[TheBiggerFish]

Thing is, it only blew up with a massive uploading binge in Drive, which makes me think it's not SYSTEM files but instead temporary files that won't go away.

Geez, no, I know the difference between RAM and ROM, but I figured all of those windows might be taking up a lot of cache or whatever.  They weren't, but honestly it was high time I closed some anyway.

So, to clarify what I suspect is going on:
>Drive uploads create temp files which don't get cleared out very well.
>>Note that in a massive upload, I got a "running low on STORAGE" error, not a slowdown or etc., to the point that I literally couldn't receive messages.
>>>Cancelled all uploads, problem went poof.
>Now attempting uploads again, piece by piece.
>>Running out of storage alert pops up.
>>>Check Storage widget, see 11.some odd GB of Miscellaneous Files.
>>>>Turns out that I can only pin down 8.5 GB of files in the itemized list?
>>>These files were not there before the mass upload and appear to be increasing as I upload files.
>>Cannot delete files that are taking up the space.
>Problem.

[miauw62]

try clearing buffers on all of your apps

[Thief^]

On android, apps can't write to the phone's internal memory outside of the app's own folder. If drive is the problem, it should be under the "drive" app. It will have a clear cache option in the app properties (in the phone's app settings, rather than the app's own settings).

[TheBiggerFish]

On android, apps can't write to the phone's internal memory outside of the app's own folder. If drive is the problem, it should be under the "drive" app. It will have a clear cache option in the app properties (in the phone's app settings, rather than the app's own settings).

Well carp.
I don't know what is the problem but Drive apparently wasn't it.

Yaaaaay.

[IronTomato]

Is it your browser? I once had to delete a random folder because it contained around 10GB of shit from my browser which couldn't seem to be deleted any other way.

[TheBiggerFish]

I still don't know, but I did manage to get the videos off at least.

[Sappho]

ARGH big problem... Suddenly subtitles aren't working on my computer. I rely on subtitles to watch video, so it is EXTREMELY important that I get them working. I use Media Player Classic, but I tried other media players as well (Windows Media, VLC) and they don't work there either.

Subtitles I already have saved to the computer seem to work fine, but if I try to download new ones, only .sub files seem to work. .srt no longer work. I use the auto-search in Media Player Classic, sometimes using Czech and sometimes English. There are various different file types (avi, mpg, mp4, flv) and that doesn't seem to make a difference. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling MPC but that didn't fix it. It seems that .sub files still work consistently, but .srt ones only work if I already have them saved to the computer - if I download new .srt files, they don't work.

I'm at my wits' end. The particular shows that aren't working are my go-to de-stress shows and I need to be able to watch them with subtitles. I'm already in stress- and sensory-overload today and this is pushing me into meltdown territory. Please tell me someone has some idea how to fix it... Thank you so much for any help...

EDIT: Okay, I've tried downloading subtitles from the web directly (opensubtitles.org) and they seem to work. So this appears to be a problem with MPC downloading .srt files and corrupting them somehow. But why? I haven't changed anything, haven't updated or messed with any settings. Why would their subtitle downloader suddenly stop working for .srt files, especially when it still works fine for .sub?

[TheBiggerFish]

*applies muffling hugpats*

I don't have any clue whatsoever.

It might be in the site you're getting them from as opposed to the player.

[Sappho]

The strange thing is, I'm pretty sure HPC downloads them from opensubtitles.org, which is the site I just got the functioning subs from. It's a massive pain in the ass to navigate the site and manually download every subtitle file, so I'm really hoping I can get the automatic one to work again. It's like the player has forgotten how to download .srt files and corrupts them along the way, whereas if I download them directly from the web site, they work normally. But WHY would it suddenly stop working? It makes no sense!!!

[TheBiggerFish]

Yeah, I don't know either.

Incoming cliche: Have you tried rebooting?