Check, isolate, verify

Troubleshoot with Evidence

Start with a measured symptom, preserve failed runs, identify the boundary and prove the fix with the same workload.

WOL Works from Shutdown but Fails from Sleep

Separate S5 from S3, map the active Realtek adapter and turn an intermittent 4/5 result into a repeatable diagnostic.

Isolate a USB 2.0-like bottleneck with port mapping, negotiation checks, repeated transfers and readback hashes.

Check Windows, login, WSL2, Docker, Compose, container health, application readiness and persistent data in order.

Distinguish Direct Play, hardware decode, filters and encode; prove Intel QSV from the complete FFmpeg pipeline.

Handle duplicated factory-image identity with private evidence, a clean installation and carefully scoped publication language.