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Consider this a virtual hug. Let me know if you need anything or just want to talk.

Thoughts on the Toshiba X300 drives? There was a sale on them but I missed it.

apple people use the brave browser to watch youtube or any of the other safari plugins. I have been getting those pop-ups on my desktop computer (brave browser or chrome with ublock) We'll see if youtube takes the measures further than just a popup that can be blocked itself

With those WD Ultrastar drives seems some have some power adaptor and some don't. Any ideas which ones to look for?

My 4TB drives are nearing capacity and I'm looking at larger drives. What drives are you guys using? I see this amazon sale on a seagate 8TB 5400RPM drive for 109 but seems it is shingled and not very good.

After nearly a decade, I'd consider replacing the headlight housing itself. Yes you can "resurface" them but most people aren't sealing them properly after so it just hazes up fairly quickly again. I'd first try changing the lightbulbs with oem bulbs from like autozone or similar. They are...

Mine had a firmware update but I think it just added an option in the bios to disable the app center thing.

Say I wanted to add bluetooth and by extension wifi 6 to this Gigabyte A520M DS3H. What is the best option? Really just for pairing headphones or airpods. The m2 slot has the ssd and there is an expansion card in the first x1 pci express slot for external sata. So leaving the x16 slot alone...

Finished build I did the move in stages. First I bench tested the new build with a linux usb boot drive. Then I moved my boot drive to the new SSD and made sure it booted in the old system and windows still activated. Then I swapped the boards out. I had some issues getting the mbr disk...

I'm keeping this case and just buying this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UBFXMXG It will replace all the front ports and seems well reviewed. Problem solved. I just have to wait for restock of some of these cheap A520M boards.

If I had something like this but reliable and with 2 usb ports, I could keep the existing case and just not hook up the existing front usb, which I use. Any good 5.25" drive bay things like this. Searching on amazon I get too many cheap looking ones. I'd like the faster microsd slot reader...

I've been building some 5600G based systems and might be looking to upgrade this system. Any inexpensive case recommendations?

Sounds like the problem my old samsung note4 used to have. That turned out to be a connector defect that people were solving by just putting something in the phone to increase the pressure or tightening screws. Or you're on a deprioritized mvno instead of with the carrier directly.

Battery in the Moto E5 Plus my son was using went bad and it only worked when plugged in. I replaced it with Moto G Power 2021 which was about $120. I also bought a new battery for the E5 plus and will replace the battery and keep that as a backup phone. The newer versions seem to have...

Consider USMobile as opposed to mint, you can choose between verizon and tmobile networks and pay just about the same as mint but do it monthly instead of a whole year. The biggest difference is the tethering isn't included. As for phones, I'd look for deals on the iphone SE or another model...

Why the SD slot requirement? Phones have huge internal storage. I have a cheap moto E5 plus and had to put lineageos on it to get android 11. But no wifi calling. I'm switching to an iphone when the new ones come out. I'm tired of the stupid android lack of update crap and stuff like wifi...

I finally got around to doing this and used cat8 preterminated cables from monoprice. I did run conduit, plastic, between the floors in the wall along a staircase but not above the drop ceiling in basement. Mostly because I had some conduit leftover from when I ran the hdmi cable behind the wall...

I use Macrium Reflect.

Glad to see you, Merc. I hope Lunar is okay.

If you look at the heat map of infections, it is mostly the middle of the country. So this pattern of hitting the coast and moving inward then bouncing back to the coasts is happening. People are just not being diligent about wearing masks / washing hands. Full Stop. And since we're dependent...

The truth is the postal service can handle the load without any problems, they handle way more volume than voting by mail would add and volume of regular mail is actually down due to the pandemic. Their union rep said as much on one interview I watched. They are overloaded with packages...

So I bought a couple new routers, amplifi alien, to upgrade my network and have one be a mesh point. I may add a third later. While I've got wire in the walls now for the existing router, I want to make it to be more professional with actual jacks in the wall instead of just little holes. I did...

Best timing ever, so much more collectible.

$117 dollars is crazy. Although I have an alert setup at slickdeals for the taxact stuff so when they offer the deal for like $15 or so, I jump on it. The most expensive part of taxact is the state. And in my state I can do that very easily online as I have to do local taxes separately anyway...

Found this interesting. Graph with logarithmic scales so you can see if the country is getting over the virus.

Do you still feel the same today? Yes, it is a biological problem but it has far reaching implications. There were underlying economic issues, whether in the corporate credit market or the fact that many people haven't really recovered from the 2008 crisis in terms of equal employment and...

Holy shit dude. I was totally unaware of this. Can you detail some of these events from 4 decades?

Used webex for years, now on microsoft teams. Seems like webex nailed the audio better than teams. And the UI for teams is just confusing.

We do antenna + tivo dvr + netflix + amazon prime here. Works well for us. Our verizon is $39.99 / mo for 100/100 service and we use our own router. For someone else I researched and found philo tv for $20/mo which seems to have a nice selection of channels with what they watch. They'll have...

Not really, no. I don't recall which version switched to the xml formatted files (docx vs doc). Honestly I don't even use office at home. But I have some older version on one laptop. I use google docs and sheets most often. Sometimes I use LibreOffice.

Just realized the 2600X has no integrated graphics.

So I looked at microcenter and they have a bundle that includes: Ryzen 5 2600X, Asrock B450 PRO4, Samsung 970 EVO+ 500GB M.2 for 292.97. Adding a case $50 and power supply $50 and 16GB Ram $60 leads to about 452.97 before video card. I told him to watch for sales on video cards and he can deal...

Speaking of Ryzen, my son is trying to build a gaming PC all in (monitor too) for about $600. The purpose is probably gaming. Here's the build list he put together. Thoughts?

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Thanks for the warning

We have these in the bedrooms, though I think we bought the lowes version, and not the trilight version. Inside is just a reflective film. It works great for sleeping, plenty dark. They look pretty good. In our downstairs we went with the roman blinds. Something like this but a cheaper...

Happy Holidays and New Year! I thought Aquaman was awesome. I mean Nicole Kidman's performance was a bit too much fish out of water for me, pun not intended. And I can see what you're saying with Aquaman not really earning the hero/king title via character development, though he's an...

Anandtech's review is up and they had some issues with the 4TB drive. I guess it wasn't ready for prime time. But yeah the pricing is like double what these should sell for. We're having 2TB on sale for $200. So 2TB should be like $150. But 4TB shouldn't be $300, it should be more like $250...

That's a weird question. Yes. I purchased a case from amazon and it came Monday. I put my wallet and phone in my left front jeans pocket and keys in my right front pocket.

Saturday, I bought the Moto E5 Plus. Screen is bright, phone is big, almost too tall actually, performance is great, camera seems decent. No complaints. I haven't used the gps yet. I did buy it directly from tmobile and probably paid too much for it. But I wanted to assure myself that it...

The old iphones don't have the mobile band support that is more crucial than anything. I mean phones for a while now have been good enough. Speed is relative and I'm not playing those fancy games on my device. If there were a truly compelling camera on a phone, I'd upgrade. Still waiting to...

Yes, the Samsung S9 and Note9 and the G7 ThinQ are too new, so still rather expensive there or non-existent. And needing the tmobile specific variant to get bands 66 and 71 is also a constraint. The S8 Active was close but that probably won't get updates. The new pixel 3 has the band support...

Thread hijack So I'm in the market for a inexpensive phone as well. Let's say $250 USD. I'm working on getting my Note 4 repaired but let's ignore that story for now. But I'm looking for similar specs / performance (snapdragon 805 / 32GB internal memory / 3GB RAM / 16MP Camera). But I want...

Her router maybe compromised. Wipe it all would be my suggestion, even the router.

I'm just replacing the board in my note4 for now. It developed the emmc read error that they are known for. Waiting for those super accurate GPS phones. And maybe for phone manufacturers to bring back user replaceable batteries. Hobbling by on a galaxy On5 that has been rooted while waiting...

I have Verizon FIOS. There is fiber to the home. At the home, usually inside, is the verizon network access box. They call it an ONT. This has a ups style battery as a backup. It takes fiber in and has an RJ45 port for internet only or coax for tv/internet. Mine also has four phone ports...

Could we reduce the delay between reporting spam posts? It is set to 60 seconds.

Lunar officially wins the something random thread with the most random thing. :smile:

My issue with crashplan is that I was on the family plan and had 6 computers or so backing up for $150 per year. No way I can touch that with backblaze or carbonite. Just covering my three computers will be $150 / month via backblaze. If these are the real prices for this service, I'm not sure...

Was hoping to use my snowblower for the first time this season, but it was mostly slush. About 2 inches of slush and an inch of snow on top. Had to use the push shovel instead. Slush just clogs the snowblower.