General Discussion

I'd like to preface this by saying I'd owned this phone for three years previously, and still have it to this day and have never had this happen again.

My dad had gone out grocery shopping and my mom realized that she forgot to put something on the list she gave him. She tried texting it to him but he wasn't reading it so she tried calling, nothing. She then told me to try calling him because her phone was about to die. I go to his contact on my phone with his saved number, call it, and it dials for a bit. Then, I get a voice that I've never heard before that asks "Who is this?" I'm surprised so instead of hanging up I ask who the man who very much is not my father is. He says his name is Jack, which is not my dad's name, and I panic so bad I hung up.

I waited a few minutes and called the number again, my dad picked up and I managed to tell him what else we needed from the store and he got home within like 15 minutes of that. What was weird afterwards was when I looked at my call history I realized that the first call to the Jack person didn't have my dad's number listed, but I didn't type in the number to call, I hit the number from my saved contact info for him so I have no clue how the phone managed to mess up which number it dialed and to this day I'm still confused about it.

I have this thing with my laptop where sometimes explorer decides to stop working and either restart itself or I have to manually restart it from task manager. Not that weird, its a thing that happens sometimes, and it doesn't really do much except make my desktop background black and the file explorer won't work.

The weird part is that I had two folders on my desktop where the icons would get super glitchy when it started happening. Like it's not like they disappeared or got a default one or anything, but they would get really distorted or just look like straight up static. I ended up deleting them, and explorer still stops working but nothing else on my desktop has done that since.

And now the microsoft store icon on my taskbar is weird, like its the correct icon except its upside down and looks like if you cut it in half, and then flipped the halves? So they face like away from each other? Microsoft teams did that too for a bit, except it had the spotify logo doing it instead, but that eventually just fixed itself.

Also @KarateOdysseyman, as someone currently using an inspiron 7415, yeah that checks out. It's not like,, a terrible laptop but also it is just kind of a pain in the *** for a laptop that's like not even 3 years old.

OHHH BOY this thread was made for me I feel like. this is going to be very TLDR and I apologize in advance LOL

My friends and family all joke that I was cursed by a vengeful technology wizard. It's not for lack of any know-how, my dad's worked with computers my whole life and has taught me how to maintain my machines. It is to the point I have been banished from at least three local repair shops. I had a repairman who'd worked with laptops and desktops for 20 years tell me, after I'd brought back the machine he repaired after two days with an entirely new problem that my laptops had been "the most cursed machines he'd ever had the task to work on" and that he had "never in his life" seen half the problems I came in with. My curse has claimed many, including but not limited to:

An old IBM thinkpad that the hard drive just... dropped out of the bottom of one day. The backlight also burnt out in that particular machine almost monthly like clockwork.

Another thinkpad that the hinge essentially disintegrated on and i could only use leaning against a wall, the bottom of it also gave me at least two second degree burns.

My old Moto G Stylus that would work unless brought to a specific area of town where everyone else's phones on the same plan bought at the same time would work perfectly fine. At which point it would begin to visually glitch and switch to emergency calls only.

I had not one. Not three. But FIVE separate microsoft surface laptops have battery inflating issues after owning them for under a year. One of which when brought to a brick and mortar store, I had to sign paperwork for a biohazard bucket because the techs couldn't legally let me leave the store with it, as it was classified as an explosive. I finally stopped accepting their "please don't sue us" replacement computers after the second one of their chargers literally lit my pants on fire. Also their proprietary stylus that only works with their screens once flipped to only recognizing inputs BACKWARDS for a month and a half before righting itself.

An SSD who's platter just shattered one day. No impact, no jostle, just decided to retire itself.

a Lenovo laptop that would only connect to Youtube on the internet for days at a time and not load any other page with no rhyme or reason.
When I had the drives for that laptop temporarily moved to another computer so the first could have a scorched motherboard looked at, the donor laptop broke in three days, and in moving the SSD back caused the original Lenovo to freeze at the windows screen and make a horrific screeching noise until turned back off.

There was also the pair of bluetooth headphones I owned that got stuck in a loop of turning themselves on and off repeatedly and didn't stop doing this until the batteries ran out. Nothing I did fixed this and I just decided to call them a loss after a while...