Techie Stuff

How dangerous is it to upload a selfie for u tube age verification? Everything online says it's a no-no. Adult kids said I'm being neurotic. Any viewpoints would be appreciated.

My iPad has been telling me for a while that I need to accept new iCloud terms & conditions, but whenever I’ve tried to access them I cannot. I click “continue” in the pop-up box in “Settings” to enter my iPad passcode, I get a message saying “this action cannot be completed at this time”. I now cannot access anything via…

When editing flowcharts collaboratively with multiple people in ProcessOn, how do you set different permission levels for team members (Read-only / Editable / Administrator)? Does it support a version history rollback feature?

My connection to the internet is via a Sky router this appears to be broken. When the router is plugged in there are usually 3 lights showing on the front of the router now there are only there are only two showing the middle on is not on. Before my Sky router problem, If needed I could connect any of these to it. Computer…

Hi, I was using my laptop outdoors, and was logging on to whichever free wifi was available in whichever part of London I was in. Now my laptop seems slower, and also, the fan seems to be whirring away all the time even when I am barely using the laptop for anything. Do you know if someone has put a virus on my laptop and…

I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 laptop. I have a problem printing from downloads, which has never been a problem on previous laptops. The problem is printing ferry tickets, which are sent as an email attachment. I can view the attachment without downloading the ticket but because there is no preview when I…

What is the cheapest way to transfer old vhs tapes over to digital mp4 I dont have a VCR player no more.

So I currently own Silver 2018 MacBook Pro 13inch 4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports (2 Each side) with Intel chip 8GB Ram 1TB SSD. MacBook still works fully sometimes a bit slow and battery don't last as long but is in very good condition. What the best/Cheapest way to get M4/M5 Equivalent MacBook Pro/MacBook? I don't have the…

We have an older Humax Freeview recorder that is starting to be unreliable. The Humax Aura is a possible replacement, but I see several user reviews on both John Lewis and Amazon that say it is best avoided. As usual there are the "best thing since sliced bread" vs "don't touch one with a barge pole" reviews, anyone got…

Over the past week or so I have had problems a few times with my phone failing to update my mail. The mail update on my laptop etc - just not on my phone. I have googled a fix. It just doesn't seem to fix my phone permanently. I've had to clear my Cache (via Settings, Apps, Outlook, Storage, Cache & Clear the Cache) That…

There are many ads for these devices - many simply boxes that go between the tap and nozzle - claiming to be at least as powerful as a conventional mains powered pressure washer - but how do they work ? Do they actually increase the flow rate or just the pressure via reduced nozzle size ? how - surely you are limited by…

Help! Apologies for the long post below, but in a nutshell I have lost some internet access since updating and need help with what to try to get it working again. This is the only website I can access where I might get help. Recently I stupidly unlocked my Win 11 pro version from the ultra stable 23h2 and allowed 25h2 to…

Switching to sky full fibre. Concerned about installation and whether they need to dig my driveway. House semi detached with integrated garage.

Switching to full fibre with sky soon. Currently getting 50 mb with bt. Low user mainly browsing and watching Netflix. With sky can get 75 mb for £21, is it worthy to pay extra £2 for 150 mb a month single user. Thanks

whilst switching and requesting to transfer my phone number. Could not do so as according to bt I do not have a phone line with them I do have digital voice. Not sure what to do now. Pl advise. Thanks

Just received the Vax platinum power max cleaner has a gift, but it doesn't seem to be sucking up the water when shampooing, anyone else had this problem please 

Got WiFi and basic virgin plan £34 at the moment. Is it worth getting a firestick? This one?

Who else here is not a fan of larger televisions? I have a 32" screen and it is plenty for me, plus where one sits in my living room, a screen any larger will be partly obsured by a wall shelf I have for a pricey turntable and one of my expertly placed pricey hifi speakers.

Hello, I've got a 4TB Seagate Desktop Expansion USB3 hard drive that was shipped formatted as exFAT and I would like to convert/change it to use NTFS in line with my other hard drives. The Windows Disk Manager window looks like this: Disk 0 is mySeagate Barracuda 2TB SATA3 internal drive, Disk 1 is my Seagate Desktop…

OK, I've tried solving this myself, using web advice, but nothing I try works. I've turned off Autoplay and have made sure it's not in the start menu. I've seen advice to try disabling it in Process Manager but there is no disable option for it. Also, I see Ai advice like "Disable Folder Restoration: Open File Explorer,…