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Thoughts on replacing iPhone 11pro battery
I have an iPhone 11 pro that I bought second hand 3 years ago. I'm still happy with it except that this winter the battery life has dropped off a cliff, needing repeat charges in a day even on light use, and shutting down from showing 40% or more. Into spring the battery is lasting better but not great. As I see it have…
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Complex Excel Forumula
Layer Rate Commission Overrider Profit share 160%30%5%10%220%30%15%0%350%20%0%10% I am trying to sell a complex product where I sell it to the customer for X and then have to distribute those monies to a series of suppliers based on a percentage of X and in exchange for that they give me some money back in the form of a…
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Scam Facebook Ads
Everytime I go on FB, the annoying ads in my news feeds are all 100% scams. All of them. Every time without fail.Like a full DeWalt power tools set (RRP well over £1000) for $29.99. Amazon Pallets, magic face washes, games consoles, cat wheels, and any other fake ad that they might have scraped from your cookies somewhere…
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Google drive & gmail nightmares
Hi. I had a gmail account for years, and used my google drive without any issues. As it was so good, I used it for uploading lots of scans of 19th century letters and transcriptions, of huge sentimental and genealogical value to our family. Then one day something happened to my gmail, and I could not access it at all. I…
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Create XLS with Pivot on the fly
We have a bit of a silly form in XLS which lists each team/team member on rows and a columns of products. The manager has to fill-in for each team the split of effort by member and product over the next month so the sum of the team must be 100%. This then goes into a db via an upload in the central team. The form is…
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How to watch Netflix and discovery plus without broadband
Hi all Sky accidently switched off our broadband and we have to wait two weeks for it to come back. Sky said we can connect our phone to the home TV to watch discovery plus and Netflix. But can someone please tell me how I do this? Thanks
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Please recommend budget refurbished laptop
Looking for a decent refurbished laptop for my nephew who will be studying computer science. No gaming or other antics. Unfortunately the most I can spend is between £150 and £170 (or under :) ). Any recommendations please? Thanks all
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Email hosting
Hi EveryoneHope to get some advice on email hosting if possible.I have a domain name registered with GoDaddy, and use it with a gmail account so that I have a myname@mydomain email address.Google Workspace started charging in Oct 2022, and since then have steadily increased the price so that they now want £12/month (must…
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Laptop fan "revs up" when screen turns off
When I'm working on my Dell Inspiron 17-5770 the fan is only just audible. I have it set for the screen to turn off after 20 minutes of inactivity, and within a minute or two of that happening the fan speeds up and is quite loud. This continues until either I start using the machine again or it goes into sleep mode. This…
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Can anyone report an incorrect movie on PLEX?
Plex showed an advert supported movie called Hurricane Heist, curious how bad the adverts were on Plex we clicked it and found the movie was totally different to the one listed. Instead of Hurricane Heist about weather it was a film Hurricane from the same year but about WW2 Polish pilots joining the RAF. Tried joining the…
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How much phone data do you use?
I have recently bought a pay monthly sim for my phone that has 12 gb of data per month. After 4 days use, I have only used 130 mb. We have Wi-Fi at home, so the phone data is only used when out. I haven’t yet watched any films. If I did would that push up the data used a lot?
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Recent ad blocker problem
Hello, hope someone can help.I watch tv on my laptop and not had any problems watching live or carchup, but the last few days, I have not been able to watch because the screen comes up that I have an ad blocker, this was when I was trying to watch channel4 catchup, might very well be others but this was where it has…
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Network a PC and Laptop
I have a windows 11 pro PC and a windows 10 pro laptop that I am trying to network together. If I use file explorer I can see the laptop from the PC and the PC from the laptop but I can only click on and use each users folder, otherwise I get Windows cannot access \\W10laptop\c\Windows or any folder other than Users same…
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Box.co.uk in administration
Shame to discover this today, I only bought from there a couple of months back, item arrived quick and most of their reviews are positive. I guess their competitive prices were difficult to keep them in business. Thought I'd share in case anyone had bought anything from there recently or used them.
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Lebara & WiFi Calling
Moved from BT mobile ( EE ) to Lebara ( Vodaphone ) about a month ago. WiFi calling worked with BT mobile. Despite several 'Chats' with Lebara I still am not able to use WiFi calling on my mobile phone. Moto G50 Android 12 Anybody else having this problem ?
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LAPTOP! Looking for a Cheap / Reliable / Pretty Fast One. Mainly for Microsoft Teams & Zoom Meetings
Hi all, I currently have a desktop set up, which works well for most things I want to do. However, even after buying a couple of different webcams to try over the last few years. I find they are not great in online meetings, it's quite difficult to find the perfect spot to place / rest them. So I end up looking as if I am…
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Disney+ app will no longer open on Smart TV
Disney+ app was working perfectly fine on my Philips Android TV. Then my subscription ended and I took up a new subscription, using a new Disney+ account. Set it up on my laptop and fully activated. However after clearing all the previous account account details from my TV app, clearing cache/data, force stop and the…
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Outgoing emails blocked
A problem has started today with emails failing to go out from my Windows 11 laptop through my Three broadband hub (ZTE MC888), which appears to be because my IP address has been put on the CSS blocklist (see https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?searchterm= for more details). Any thoughts on what I can do to get it…
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Unlock mobile phone
I have my sons iPhone. He passed away last year. I want his phone unlocked so I can use my SIM card in his. Apple store will not unlock it without proof of purchase which I do not have. Can anyone help?
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ip address from fe80::1683:e97e:e9b7 ?
If I ping JohnPC-w10 I get Reply from fe80::1683:e97e:e9b7:c3d7%15: time=7ms How do I get the IP address in the format 192.168.0.??? ?