Hi everyone!

I'm a second-year Design student at ISIA Florence, Italy, and I'm collaborating with a university research group studying the impact of artificial intelligence on the world of work, particularly in the design field.

AI is becoming increasingly capable of performing tasks that once required specialized human skills. This raises some interesting questions: Which jobs and tasks are most likely to change? Will human creativity and critical thinking become more valuable, or will AI increasingly replace them?

We're conducting a questionnaire to explore people's perspectives on these issues. We'd appreciate input from people with different professional backgrounds and levels of experience with AI.

If you'd like to contribute to our university research, you can find the survey here:

🔗 Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFTmV1FdwmJP130jUtDVL8m_7C1Vjslzba_AUsfD_6fGidDw/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Thank you for your time and participation!

I'm also interested in hearing your thoughts on this question: Which human skill do you think will become most important as AI advances?

I(M25) have been a lifelong android user now I'm in a pickle.

I have a S23U($900), galaxy watch 6($200), galaxy buds 2 pro($100) all bought in dec 2023. My battery went bad in my S23U recently(Sept 2026) and I had to replace it for 100$. Now I have shattered my screen. It is usable but not convenient. Watch and earbuds are doing fine.

I'm wondering whether I should put additional 300$ for screen repair and use same phone for 1/2 more years or should I but a new Apple Iphone 18 Pro Max for $1299. I don't plan to buy airpods or apple watch for atleast 1 year.

I'll buy the latest pro airpods and Watch ultra next year dec if I buy the iphone.

I’ve been exploring more about technology lately, and it’s surprising how many small tips can make everyday computer use easier.

For example, learning a few keyboard shortcuts, managing startup apps, and knowing how to troubleshoot common Wi-Fi issues can save a lot of time.

I’m curious to hear from others:

• What’s one computer or technology tip that you use regularly?
• Is there a free tool or software you think everyone should know about?
• What’s a common tech problem that people often overcomplicate?

Would love to learn some useful tips from the community! 👇

My GitHub account was suspended, and I can't even reach support properly

I'm genuinely frustrated with GitHub right now, and honestly, I'm devastated by the situation.

For six months, I spent a huge amount of my time building software projects hosted on GitHub. One of them was VoidOne, a source-available Windows gaming platform, along with its website. I made over 30,000 code changes for this one project alone, and I had several other projects on my account as well.

These weren't just a few repositories I created and forgot about. They represented months of development, debugging, redesigning, commits, pull requests, experimentation, and learning. A significant amount of my work and development history was tied to my GitHub account.

Then I discovered that my account had been suspended.

The message says my account was suspended for violating GitHub's Terms of Service, but I haven't received a clear explanation of what specifically triggered the suspension.

I tried to contact support through GitHub's official support flow, but I got stuck at SMS verification. After submitting my phone number, I received this message:

«You've reached your request limit, please try again later.»

So now I'm stuck in an incredibly frustrating situation: my account is suspended, I don't know exactly why, and the official route I'm trying to use to ask for help is blocked by a request limit.

I'm not asking GitHub to ignore its rules or give me special treatment. If I violated a policy, I want to know which one and have a fair opportunity to understand the issue and appeal the decision. But a suspension without a clear explanation, combined with an inaccessible support process, leaves me with very few options.

I also have to acknowledge my own mistake: I relied too heavily on GitHub and didn't maintain complete independent local backups of my projects. I understand why backups matter, but realizing that after six months of work—and more than 30,000 code changes on a single project—is a particularly painful lesson.

And VoidOne wasn't my only project. I had other projects and work tied to this account, too. That makes the potential consequences much bigger than losing access to one repository.

I'm looking for practical advice from people who have experienced something similar:

- Has anyone successfully appealed a GitHub account suspension under similar circumstances?

- How did you get past the SMS verification request limit when trying to contact support?

- Is there an official way to request a human review when the normal support flow is inaccessible?

- Is there any legitimate way to recover access to repositories if an account remains suspended?

- What options exist for recovering development history, commits, and project files when no complete local backup is available?

I'm not asking anyone to bypass GitHub's security systems. I want a legitimate way to understand what happened, reach the appropriate support team, and recover my work if possible.

I've spent six months building these projects, made over 30,000 code changes on just one of them, and worked on several others. I know that relying on one platform without independent backups was a mistake, but I still believe users should have a meaningful way to understand an account suspension and seek a review.

Six months of work shouldn't become inaccessible without a clear path to finding out what happened and what can be done about it.

If anyone from GitHub Support sees this, I'd sincerely appreciate guidance on the correct official appeal process.

I'd especially appreciate constructive advice from people who have actually dealt with account suspensions and successfully resolved them.

Beyond my own situation, this raises a bigger question for discussion:

How much responsibility should a platform have when suspending an account that contains months of development work?

I understand that platforms need rules and must enforce them. I'm not arguing that GitHub should never suspend accounts. But where should the balance be between enforcing policies, explaining decisions, providing a usable appeal process, and preserving access to legitimate user-created work?

I'd like to hear different perspectives:

- Should developers treat platforms like GitHub purely as hosting services, or should platforms also have stronger responsibilities toward users whose work depends on them?

- What would a fair suspension and appeal process look like?

- Is relying on one hosting platform primarily a developer's mistake, or is there also a platform-design problem when account access and project recovery become difficult?

- Have you experienced a similar situation, and what did it teach you?

I'm interested in an honest discussion, including people who disagree with me. I want to understand where responsibility should lie and what a better system could look like.

I built QuietBrowse as a small side project. 4.7.0 adds AdGuard Base/Tracking, Peter Lowe's and uBlock lists by default. It scores 100/100 on adblock-tester.com. No account, no telemetry, code is open. Would love blunt feedback on what breaks or what's missing.

Hello people, my grandmother does not have a way to get her Computer in bitlocked, it’s windows 11 and she doesn’t have the key for it. the administrator of the computer no longer speaks to her. Does anyone know a way to fix it?

Hello! I’m a music composer working on a dance project, and would like to have small drums (around 15 cm in diameter) attached to some of the dancers’ costumes, with taps on the drums triggering sounds in the electronic music. I'm just a bit unsure about the technical side of things as I'm not too familiar with all of it!

Based on my research, it seems like I could use a piezo sensor attached to a Raspberry Pi Pico W (or other similar device?)- both within the drum on the costume - which would detect the impacts and send a wireless signal to my laptop (Max/MSP or Ableton) to trigger a specific sound.

I'm quite new to this kind of electronics, so I’m not really sure how to go about setting this up beyond the above! I'm thinking of ordering piezo sensors and a Raspberry Pi Pico W to try things out myself first, but am aware I might have to add extra electrical connections between those two?

Would this be a sensible approach? Are there any easier alternatives for a beginner? Are there any other things I've missed out or that I'd need to procure myself? Any tips, alternative approaches or resources for a beginner would be much appreciated - thanks :))

Our org is a Microsoft shop. Thus, for compatibility reasons, it would generally be easier to use Microsoft cloud and AI products/services. However, Amazon salespeople have been lubricating our executives to use Amazon cloud & AI instead, with discounts, free training, demos, etc. The MS salespeople are absent or sleepy for some reason.😴 What gives?

Wake up, Microsoft, or else Amazon will eat your lunch just as you ate up IBM's lunch in the 1980's. They act hungry, you don't.

(I have no personal love for Microsoft or their products, but I also have no personal love for Amazon. Compatibility is just more convenient, all things being equal.)

Hey everyone!

I'm reaching out here as a last resort, hoping that someone might be able to help me.

I have a Brother DS-720D portable scanner that still works, but unfortunately, one side of the scanned documents always comes out yellowish.

After doing some research, I discovered that the scanner uses a special calibration sheet, which I unfortunately don't have.

The part number is LD0932001, and as far as I know, it's used with the Brother DS-720D and DS-920DW.

I've searched eBay, Google, spare parts websites, and pretty much everywhere I could think of, but I simply cannot find one to buy.

It genuinely hurts to see a perfectly functional little scanner become practically unusable just because of a piece of calibration paper that's almost impossible to find.

Even if you don't have one yourself, any advice, alternative solution, or information about where I could find one would mean a lot.

Thank you so much for reading. Fingers crossed that someone out there still has one! ❤️

I got a free samsung by opening a second line on my plan and my samsung galaxy s26 and quickly i saw it has someone elses games on it and it came with a screen protector already on instead of a seal that u can peel off. Later i started receiving messages from the persons parents and friends and people wishing happy birthday, i was also put into various group chats discussing sensitive family matters but quickly left and i found out their name aswell. Then i would get doordash messages and bank messages. I know that if i had bad intentions i could exploit the hell out of this and do some badd things. I also found the persons social medias by seeing autofill results. My main question is how is this even possible??? This has to be something super off on T mobiles end to let this get through.

I'd like to start by saying sorry if this sounds stupid, I'm not great with understanding the ins and outs of PC parts. I currently have a Radeon RX Vega graphics card, but it can't update to AMD driver version 32.0.22042, which I need to play Helldivers II Smoothly. If I could have any recommendations for any possible upgrades, or if there's anyway to update it that'd be greatly appreciated, thanks!

My laptop (Lenovo Legion 7) recently crashed with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error, and afterward the SSD completely disappeared from BIOS. I tried reseating it and testing it in both M.2 slots, but neither worked. I also tested it using a friend's NVMe dock, and it wasn't detected there either, so I'm pretty sure the SSD itself is dead. The original SSD was a 1TB SK hynix PC801.

Now I'm looking to buy a replacement, and I'm thinking I might as well upgrade to 2TB while I'm at it.

I'm wondering whether it's better to get a single 2TB SSD or two separate 1TB SSDs. Is there any real performance advantage to either setup?

I'd also appreciate some specific SSD recommendations. I want something reliable that won't bottleneck my laptop or compromise its speed, but I also don't want to overpay for performance my laptop can't take advantage of.

What would you guys recommend?

Not a coder myself, know enough about technology to follow instructions but not enough to be an expert.

Hypothetically, or i guess in practice, could a flash drive with an executable program on it change a device setting or circumnavigate administrator restrictions? Not as in could it fully and permanently root a device, but specifically disable administrator restrictions? Such as GoGuardian and things of the sort.

I work in a non-software related department.

They sent an email that if anyone thinks of AI use case ideas, share them. They'll compile a list of all ideas, and the AI dev team will go through it. They may implement something on the list depending on their business goals, and if it happens, there may be a prize for the person who suggested the idea.

It lowkey makes me mad. 😡

Like, you want us to do your discovery work for you! Shouldn't your AI dev team be doing the hard work of finding out use cases and exploring ways for adopting AI into our workflows? And we don't even get compensated for brainstorming ideas to automate some of our work tasks with AI!

It's like they dangle the carrot of getting a prize (if we come up with an idea that gets implemented) to get us to do their discovery work for them.

Am I right to feel slighted by this? Or is this normal and I'm overreacting?

Is the iphone 18 really worth it if you have a 17?

Eli5 please im no expert

what can I do now that I have 2 iphones? (I replaced the cracked screen on my old phone)

I've always been kind of fascinated by how you can't really make a heater more or less efficient on the electronic side, because all electronics create heat as waste energy anyway. So it got me thinking, computers obviously put out heat, but does any of it not create heat? Besides the other somewhat obvious areas: fans, LEDs, radio waves (Wi-Fi etc).

It would fascinate me even more if some of those watts just kind of "disappeared" into computing energy. Kind of like how our brains burn calories just sitting around thinking...

Hi, I'm having an issue with my laptop. When I install the RAM, the display comes on and everything starts, but the cooling fan doesn't spin and the CPU heats up(sound of takk) until the laptop shuts down. But if I remove the RAM and try to power it on, the fan starts running fast. It was working fine right after repair, but after a few days, the same problem started again. I've taken the laptop to repair multiple times, and the technician says the graphics card issue is fixed because the dedicated graphics card is turned off, and now it's running on the CPU's integrated graphics.it needs a motherboard replacement,am so confused

So 3 days ago, I was plugging in my phone. And I heard a crackling/humming sound coming from where my Charger was plugged in. I re-plugged it and it did the same thing. Sometimes it takes minutes to happen. Other times it’s instant. Next day I tried the charger on multiple outlets. All of them did the same thing. The low Crackling sound when you put your ear Upto it, You can hear it clearer. Today I bought a new Apple charger, plugged that one into my outlet. It did it too. Now I’m very confused.

I am plugging it in within the basement. A place that is now my room, which is a former Wood workshop that had machines in those outlets. So my Room should be the most safest place for tech. And I need help because I don’t want to start a Fire, since I was already in a house fire and I’m panicking. Is this Normal or is it not? Because I bought a new charger and nothing fixed! And I have my Light, USB-C cable for my VR, and PC plugged in and they’re not doing the sound. It’s only my Apple charger.

I just need guidance because I genuinely don’t know what this could be 😭

Hi everyone,
Just wondering about phones listening to us and how true it is. So I recently went and done my padi scuba diving course and my tik tok has never shown me anything about scuba diving. Obviously been talking about it with the rest of the group everyday. I haven’t really searched anything to do with diving only one thing. All of a sudden my tik tok is just people scuba diving in different places around the world. This has happened with other things before which I can’t recall right now but I usually just thought oh I’m just paranoid. But this time I’m like woah that’s weird. Is it true hahaha?

Hey guys, I was doing the dishes and didn't realize my phone fell in and was fully submerged in dirty dishwater for like 15-20 minutes. Yes, I'm an idiot. Is it toast? I immediately powered it off, dried it down, and haven't touched it since. Its been off for 30 ish hours, google recommends 48+. Just not really sure what to do, should i take it to apple store tmrw? Lowkey got it on kijiji so defo no warranty on it. #sendhelp.

I’m hitting my storage limit on Google cloud. I realized my iPhone library has been backing up to Google cloud, but all my iPhone pics are already in Apple cloud so I don’t want to pay for more storage.

However, I have photos (wedding photos and ones shared with me via Google albums) that are just in Google.

There’s way to many to go thru and I’m scared to bulk delete from Google without knowing for sure I won’t lose non-duplicate photos.

What are the safest/most efficient ways to delete only the duplicate photos from Google cloud?

A family member of mine wrote a lot of stories on their typewriter back in the day and left them to me in a big stack of A4 paper. I'm looking for a tool that can copy the text from the scans I've done so that I can put it all together and typeset it into a complete book for my family. However, I don't want to use anything that will collect / use the data to train their AI or whatever else they like to do these days. Suggestions are very much appreciated.

Hi all!!

I’m looking for recommendations on a new phone. I currently have an iPhone 13 Pro Max and I’ve gotten most of the use that I can outta this puppy! I’ve been on the edge of switching to android but I do have a MacBook and I’m thinking of getting an iPad mini or an e reader for text book reading (college student here).

I’m open to everything. What are your thoughts?