Why YSK: I had this experience this morning. I was raging because the “alt + tab” shortcut had changed on my work computer when it worked fine yesterday. Now it opened the task view, but wouldn’t switch windows unless I clicked on a different program.
I figured either windows had rolled out some new “feature” or the IT department had changed something without telling anyone. I kept trying different google searches but couldn’t find anyone talking about my specific issue. Tried restarting, changing “multitasking” settings, editing the registry.
Finally some old post prompted me to try “windows + tab” and that worked. I discovered the windows and alt tab had been switched. So I tried a different keyboard and it worked fine. Finally I learned that my main keyboard has a “Windows” layout and a “Mac” layout, and somehow I had accidentally switched them.
So I wasted a bunch of time, got upset and was mentally blaming others when the issue was on my end. And one sign I could have used to realize that was that apparently in the whole world of internet search results I was the only one experiencing the issue.
About a week ago now a good friend of mine was trying to play atomic heart on his headphones on his new gaming PC to really push the limits and see what it can do. The audio was immediately bad and crackly and glitchy, and he spent over an hour trying various solutions and fighting with Google for anything that could help, since he knew the headphones were fine since he used them on his work computer.
He didn’t plug the antenna into the dual wifi/bluetooth card in his new PC build. He was on ethernet, and didn’t realize Bluetooth needed an antenna as well. Over an hour and all that frustration, for an antenna he threw aside that he “didn’t need” 🤌