For what it’s worth, it works on one of my two PCs. But yeah. Clearly not finished.

If I were you I’d try to change every possible Windows display option I can on every possible monitor and change them back, in each possible combination of monitors plugged in/out.

There’s a possibility there’s an option that seems like it’s set one way but it’s actually not. It happens sometimes with Windows version changes.

I think you’re mostly dealing with the consequences of DisplayPort monitors being considered disconnected entirely when off. I tried a display dummy adapter once, and it wouldn’t go above 1080p, plus it didn’t completely solve the issue.

It’s really not an easy problem to solve. Using only HDMI all the time technically works, but very few computers offer more than 1 HDMI port.

A few ideas:

• Have you tried checking or unchecking the checkbox “Remember window locations based on monitor connections”?
• maybe this is the result of Windows putting all your windows on a screen with weird settings when the main one is off. Is this a laptop whose main screen you’re not using for example? Is there anything else that could be considered a “monitor” on this machine? (Including any sort of software-based thing that would connect virtual monitors)? Maybe there IS something at a weird display resolution or scaling but it’s hard to notice what.
• Disconnect the monitor manually and reconnect it. Is the issue the same? If not, the monitor itself may be doing weird things when the system tells it to go to standby.

Edit: Ugh didn’t notice the below wasn’t an option at first

There’s a relatively easy workaround to SOME of it: disable the screen turning off after X minutes of inactivity, and replace that with a screensaver that’s a black screen.

The screen will always be “on” , even though it won’t be displaying anything, which will prevent your windows from being messed with when your PC times out due to inactivity.

But if your PC goes to sleep or you turn a monitor off, it won’t help you.

Probably because it keeps going stonks.

Haikyuu is top quality!

I don’t get it

It’s one or the other. If you pay YouTube for Premium and don’t get any ads, advertisers don’t pay for your ad impression.

Wouldn’t serving video and bandwidth concerns count as complexity?

Remembering that show frustrates me. How did they start with such a hilarious premise and end up with a show that’s okay and not one milligram more?

I hope you can see a doctor because that doesn’t sound good at all

At 60 years old I’d get it but at 30? That’s worrisome.

I hate that this is true. Why are we like this.

How should I go about that exactly?

As a Canadian, I’m like:

You guys are getting food?

(School cafeterias with food service beyond selling terrible premade sandwiches for people who forgot their lunch are rare below college level and AFAIK what few exist all operate like a fast-food restaurant, where everyone pays for their meal then and there.)

Wait it was? How are we still seeing it and commenting on it?

I absolutely love wildly inaccurate old maps. They have so much charm.

That would work for projects important enough to be worth the government’s attention. But we don’t want every small project ever to be dependent on that.

Do you really see some teenager trying to meet a civil servant to explain how their Super Random RPG 2025 wiki is worth it, and the project is finally accepted (or refused, because the civil servant isn’t too hot about giving government money to something about video games) half a year later, when the most intense players, who would have contributed to such a platform a lot, have already finished the game?

I absolutely like that idea and I think it could be great for big sites like Wikipedia and various Internet Archive projects.

But I really don’t think it solves everything.

I’ve got a feeling that advertising companies have ways to differentiate real and fake clicks. Best case scenario, they wouldn’t count those. Worst case scenario, they could notice that too many clicks are fake and revoke the monetization for a website.

If captchas exist, surely they can use similar methods to catch ad cheats like that.

This is older, and not quite the same but back when I was into private Ragnarok Online servers, it was pretty well-known among server admins that you couldn’t ask people to click your ads. Either because you asked, either because they noticed unusual activity, Google would demonetize the ads pretty quickly.

Servers and bandwidth aren’t free. Someone needs to pay for it. There are roughly seven ways to fund a website:

• Complete volunteering, and maintainer pays all fees out of pocket. Only makes sense for very small projects, or when the maintainer is rich and has a great deal of passion or otherwise self-interest in the project.
• Strictly fund the website with donations. That’s more or less how Wikipedia works. It can be hard to make ends meet, and it typically only works if your website basically offers community service like a charity or if you have very passionate users.
• Freemium model: most users are just leeches and are subsidized by the few who pay for the premium version. This is more or less how free-to-play video games work, and some newspapers survive this way. It can be difficult to convince people.
• Members only: you literally cannot use the website unless you pay. A lot of SAAS websites, especially for businesses, work this way. It can be a hard sell for a lot of service categories.
• Ads. Sometimes combined with a freemium model, where you can pay to remove the ads. YouTube works this way.
• Sell user data to advertisers or more sinister entities. Only possible if you have valuable user data to sell. Most social networks get a significant portion of their revenue from this method, but they typically combine it with ads.
• Use venture capital to disturb an existing market at a loss, get massive mindshare and maybe even kill existing competition, and jack the prices up to repay your debts and turn a profit once you have customers and the market is more favourable. Airbnb works this way.

What would you do for review sites? News sites? Video game wikis?

Wouldn’t it suck if a wiki for an old game was just gone because there aren’t many players anymore, and now you just can’t access the info in it?

Marvelous. Thanks. Now I can make those super user-hostile websites usable.

Edit: wow blocking ads breaks a lot of interactivity on Fextralife though. The programming is weird I guess🤔