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Gaming pc
Hi looking for advice about buying a prebuilt gaming pc budget is 1000-1400 pounds i love visuals and graphics and like playing fps games and also 3rd person shooters i have a 4K gaming monitor any advice on graphics cards etc that can display 4K and high fps would be appreciated
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Connecting to a public wifi issue
lately we have had issues connecting to one specific public wifi. We dont have issues with any other wifi. The wifi does require a password but we already put that in ages ago and automatically connect. The problem is some days we connect ok and then on other days we get a connection failure. On the phone it says ip…
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New EE router too new for customer's laptop
Just a quick note about how I "fixed" the router. My customer has just changed from a BT Broadband to EE Broadband contract. EE engineer came out to install the new router and could not get her Windows 10 Lenovo laptop to "see" the WiFi SSID being broadcast by the router. Left her laptop connected to the router via…
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Adobe Discount Offer - Feb 2024
As at 15th Feb 2024, Adobe are offering a discount to NEW CUSTOMERS ONLY of a 40% reduction in price for their All-Apps monthly subscription. I'm currently paying ~£51 per month for this, so the new model comes in at around £32. I bitterly complained using their online chat and they have now reduced my subscription to ~£31…
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Is my Fire tablet dead?
I've tried combinations of power/volume buttons pressed for 20 seconds, 40 seconds, but the screen stays blank. I had switched it off. Then on again, and did a slow charge to about 75%. When I tried to use it a couple of hours later, I couldn't get anything on the screen. It's about 7 years old. Are there any other fixes I…
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Decent SD card for CCTV
Just bought a Tapo C320ws 'Outdoor Security Camera'It needs a "class 10 micro SD card up to 256 GB"Tried googling but a bit of a minefield!Just for general security at our rural property.
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Upgrade tablet's android
I have a Samsung SM-T710 It is from 2015 and has android 5.0.2 I recently did a fresh install because it was really slow unfortunately although it is fine - a lot of apps will not install because it has an old version of android - any ideas on how to upgrade. When I go to software update it is says "Latest updates have…
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Blink camera battery life
I have some Amazon Blink indoor cameras, but seems like I get an alert every 3 months to have the batteries replaced. This is clearly unsustainable. Anyine else have a similar problem? Also where is the cheapest place to buy batteries. Costco?
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BT account hack. how is this being done?
Neighbour had BT account hacked. password, recovery mobile and recovery email all changed. Result - 1. email to address list asking for money 2. replies from these people being forwarded to spammer email address in BT (auto-forward) settings. Sorted with BT, we thought. Half an hour later, the auto-forward has been…
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Microsoft 365 and security options
I have Microsoft 365 Personal plan which is coming up for renewal. Last year I bought through Amazon, and was considering the same again for £45.99 I'm embarrassed to say that I dont run security checks on my laptop. Should I purchase a package with McAfee included (£49.99 at Amazon for family package even though it's just…
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Andriod 12. Incoming calls shown with country code
Incoming calls on my mobile (moto g30) are shown with the country code +44, the contact is not saved with the CC. The correct contact name however, is shown. This, I think, is causing an issue via Bluetooth to my car as the number is shown, not the contact name. So I don't know whether to accept the call or not. Any ideas…
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Basic gaming pc
My 10 yo wants to play Palworld and Hogwarts Legacy on a pc. He already has an ancient Dell which plays Roblox and Minecraft ok. Palworld seems to have the highest recommended specs...which are expensive to meet!! We will have to live with 1080 rather than 2/4k, as the price is way to high. Already have an existing monitor…
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Windows 11 / Media Viewer question
When I play saved videos full screen on my Windows 11 laptop, there's a band across the bottom of the screen with various things on it like play,pause, exit full screen etc. How do I make this band go away during playback?
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Blink doorbell and sync hub. Free forever?
Hi I bought my blink doorbell and sync 2 hubas i assumed i would never need a subscription like the ring doorbell. All was good for 6 months but now I've had an email telling me my blink subscription plan is nearly over. I assumed because i bought the sync hub that FOREVER i would never need to pay a subscription. Right…
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Email address and leaving bt internet
Hello, and thanks in advance for any help my broadband is due to renew soon….and BT are too expensive. however I do have a btinternet.com email address. Can I still access this for free if I leave bt and go to another provider? as far as I know I can, but can’t do so as an app, ie will have to sign in etc on iPad rather…
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Ring camera / doorbell plan price increase..aka unjustified rip off
Anybody else had an email from Ring today to say they are increasing the basic protect plan by 40% from £24.99 to £34.99 from July with some so-called extra features that quite frankly aren't worth a bean to most people (i.e. 180 instead of 30 days video storage, the ability to download 50 clips at one time). Absolute rip…
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Should I get another DSLR camera?
My trusty Canon 550D after 14 years great service has sadly died recently, leaving me with the decision on what to replace it with. We travel a fair bit and I love taken photos and videos. My natural choice would be to go for another Canon DSLR, so would be interested to know people's opinions. Don't want to spend a…
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ITV-X Firestick issue
One of our TV's is unable to upgrade to ITV-X (still has the old ITV Player) so we use a Firestick.Recently, watching a program and, after the ad break, when it goes back to the next section of the program, it just freezes. Sometimes with a spinning circle, sometimes with just a black screen.Pressing back, play or anything…
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Firestick
Hi all We have had a firestick for about 3 years. Last sunday half way through a show, the tv turned it self off, and turned itself on. Kept doing that till we turned off at the plug. So we splashed out on an LG smart tv. However since then, the firestick and the sky q box intermittently will lose connection to the…
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Edge browser now handles avif images.
Microsoft Edge browser v121 has now enabled avif images by default. There's a test page... here ---> https://libre-software.net/image/avif-test/ avif is well supported in web browsers. There's a chart...here ---> https://caniuse.com/avif Good practice for websites is to offer a modern format, such as avif or webp. Also…
