Save your work and your BitLocker Recovery Key! Technology breaks.  Sometimes it is wear and tear, others may be power related, but more often than not I find it is human error.  This is why there are practices to backup work and software, and provide redundancy in servers, services, and storage.  Cloud automation has even made processes to recover from these failures possible in seconds rather than hours, days or worse.  One might think a 20+ year seasoned developer would always take protections.  Well this one, your author, became a little too comfortable and lazy. I worked long and late hours on a refactor and exploration of angular architectural design using SOLID principles - milestone 1 was very much a proof of concept and poorly written.  Uncertain of my direction and the incomplete state I left it in at 04:00 I decided not to muddy up my git branch.   ***Note , if you every find yourself thinking this way, slap yourself and yell...

usb type-c headaches and workarounds After successfully using a Blackweb BWA17HO002 usb-c to hdmi (adapter) to attach a BenQ RL2455HM (monitor) via hdmi alt mode to an HP 15-cb077cl running Windows 10 Pro (laptop) for months the monitor started returning a no hdmi signal message.  The monitor no longer showed in Device Manager.  Reconnecting the adapter, switching cables and switching monitors had no impact.  No relevant errors appeared in Event Viewer and no messages displayed in notifications when plugging and unplugging related components.  Power cycles made no difference.  Updating the BIOS made no difference.  The adapter was about to be declared dead when some magical combination of BIOS settings tinkers and a restarts suddenly brought it back to life. A week later the screen went dead while in use.  No errors, just gone, no signal, like the adapter had been unplugged.  After an exchange of coin Amazon shipped a brand new HooToo HC-UC...