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My tenure of using an iPhone as my primary phone concludes this Tuesday. Went up and bought a OnePlus 5T and I'm looking forward to setting it up!
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At any case, welcome to te 5T club!! I'm at least using mine until the OP7 or the Pixel 4 releases. |
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I just think it's a boring design choice when every other phone in 2018 has a notch. It makes the phone itself feel... less unique.
Gotta say, only the OnePlus 6T so far did the notch right. |
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My iPhone 6s Plus is dead, lol. I was trying to repair it and poof came flames and smoke.
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oof. RIP.
Still considering what other phone I would even want at this point. I might just wait until 2019 because I'm not a huge fan of the notch craze going on. Even if I'm going to get used to it eventually, I'd much rather just not have the notch there tbh. |
I agree, I want the notch gone too.
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Speaking of which, I got a new phone as the birthday present from my parents. Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018) looks good so far c:
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I feel like I need a new phone by end of next year because my phone has issues charging (and it's not the charger because it works on other stuff), and I feel like it's going to end up going to the crapper soon. :\
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that depends on your definition of "just got a new phone" i got my phone the beginning of this year tbh so i guess if anything lasting me a year wouldnt be awful |
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I might actually go for the OP7 when that's a thing. Kinda curious to see what it'll be like.
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.... Of course, that's just me either being optimistic and probably naive, but still. |
Any ideas why my browser (Vivaldi) opens on start-up of my computer, even though it doesn't have an option for that in settings, and it's not listed in the list of programs that start on start up?
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my Vivaldi doesn't really do that. o.o;
... but it's not on the list of startup apps on Windows 10, so that make sense why it wouldn't.... |
What's also bizarre about it is the fact that it loads with the pages I was last on before I turned the computer off, instead of the pages I have selected as my start pages.
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If you hold down Alt+F4 on your desktop with all programs minimized, a window will come up to prompt you for shut down, sleep, restart, etc. Doing this method will close all of your programs. |
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Hey folks, how's things? Hit a bit of a snag recently. I'm trying to save photos from my dad's iPhone 7 (front screen is a total write-off, but touch functions mostlyyyy still work), but it's been tricky. For one, when I copy photos onto my PC, half of them show up as 0 bytes in size, but they display fine on the phone. Any idea what's going on? I was speculating if this is a sign some files are corrupted maybe? 🤔 This is probably the first and last time I am going to be using an iPhone too, so 'free' solutions would be preferred! (I'm waryyyy of d/wing iTunes -- might put it on my old comp when I get the chance)
Also I can't believe Apple is really charging €1 per month for 50GB of cloud storage? It's gross how they advertise it in your face when your standard 5GB cloud is nearly full |
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Sooo my desktop front panel has a dead USB port 🙃
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Dear techdiary,
It has now been 3 months since I had the fateful idea of building a PC. It led me to needing a keyboard, which led me to mechanical keyboards, which led me to now having 5 expensive mechanical keyboards in my possession, albeit 2 temporarily. The end is not on the horizon yet. In fact, I have another one coming soon. Scared regards, rika |
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this is a great idea and we should make this its own thread! <3, zach |
I'm just happy with my one mechanical keyboard. Don't think I'll be upgrading it until it dies.
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once you go mechanical, you never go back.
I adore my keyboard rn, only upgraded it when my old one dies or when I don't like using it anymore, which was the case with my old Logitech G710+ I tend to swap peripherals when things go bad in games :v |
My keyboard has been working for four years,It will work......
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Ahaha and here I am already thinking about what to build next xD
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build a TV rika you can do it
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Naaa maybe another computer tho
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im kind of ashamed i still dont know how to build a computer yet... my mind is making it out to be way harder than it probably is ;_;
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I had the same mindset a few years ago till I started to upgrade my PC and realized it's easier than I thought it would be
and then I built my current PC and my sisters PC |
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i havent build a computer yet either, just been learning the parts though of them.
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Building a computer is very fun! I look forward to the day I can build another one 😊
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I need to prevent myself from rebuilding my PC
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i haven't the slightest clue how to build one, but my ex was really good at it. He built his own twice.
I barely even know how to replace my graphics card LOL |
My friends love that kind of thing, building computers from parts. For me I'm just too intimidated by it. I feel like whatever I build will inevitable blow up on my face. ;(
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So today I watched the stream of AMD’s presentation at Computex in Taiwan a little while back(May 28th to June 1st if anyone was wondering) and they announced several things, including that their new line of Ryzen processors release next month and cost no more than $500(most expensive being a 12 core processor). In addition to being compatible to old Motherboards thanks to the AM4 socket, new Motherboards are coming to the market with a new chipset slated to take advantage of PCIe 4.0. This means faster data speeds for your hardware(like Graphics Cards) compared to PCIe 3.0.
TLDR: AMD is now the King of the Hill for the foreseeable future as Intel won’t be releasing 10nm Desktop CPU’s until 2020(and that’s a big if). Meaning for the rest of 2019 and likely all of 2020, AMD will hold the #1 title at a fraction of the cost of what Intel offers. Seeing as I intend to upgrade to a new Computer Rig later this year after roughly 9 years of abusing my current Computer, this latest Ryzen CPU will likely be my choice(3800x most likely at $400 compared to I9-9900k at $500(give or take $50)). Basically getting the same performance(if not better) at a much cheaper price. Anyone else thinking of getting a new Computer in 2nd half of 2019? |
The other day I upgraded my laptop's WiFi/Bluetooth chip from an Intel 3165 to the Intel 8260. It's working out very great and I couldn't be any more happy with the speeds it can provide over wireless now. The previous chip topped at a rate of only 433 Mb/s, but the new one tops at 866!
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Doubling speed is nice isn't it? From what I've been reading about PCIe 4.0 from AMD is that there's a new line of Solid State Drives slated to take advantage of it that can reach speeds of nearly 5 GB/second. That's just on Solid State Drives. No clue what advantage that will yield for Graphics Cards built for 4.0 and whether NVidia will respond to AMD's latest line of GPU's slated to be released next month solely for that purpose. Then there's ASUS claiming that their new line of Motherboards for AMD Zen 2(aka Ryzen 3000 series AMD just announced) can squeeze every last ounce of frequency from overclocking Memory(RAM). Apparently that's a significant boast since AMD CPU's rely on RAM to operate at their best.
Granted everything I'm reading is just pure speculation at this point. Everyone will know more when the CPU's release next month and even more when the latest AMD GPU's go live as well sometime in August(since I doubt a late July release is going to happen). |
iPad Pro 12.9 inch (2018) was on sale today and $100 cheaper, so I finally caved and ordered along with an Apple Pencil (Generation 2), case, and matte screen protector. Sooo excited to finally be able to draw directly on a screen. My current tablet is one of the plug-into computer ones and it's okay, but I really would so much rather draw on something directly. Plus it hurts my arm. pls get here soon!!!
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I have a laptop where I can detach the screen and use it as a tablet and honestly the convenience is amazing whenever I do need it so I don't blame you at all, Janna. xD
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aaa yes! It is really convenient, I miss actually having my own tablet (got it from dad in high school and it died years back after lots of use, lol). Plus I can get an app that shares what I draw on the iPad to my Macbook screen so going back and forth will be really easy if there's anything I can better edit on the computer 👍
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I'm no artist but I got this laptop mainly for taking notes in school. It costs a pretty penny but unfortunately I felt like it was the only one around that could fit my expectations of what I wanted in a note-taking laptop at the time. I refused to type up my notes and would rather use a tablet pen to write them myself, so I had to settle for this. I don't regret it though.
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I want a Surface laptop so badly just so I can actually use it to write perfectly.
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I've been craving an iPad just for art reasons tbh.
I have a tablet for my PC, but it old. |
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But it also starts wearing out, like the tablet and/or pen won't register properly and you have to toggle it for 30 minutes until you either give up, or can draw afterwords. Also, sometimes the pen sensitivity dies. |
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But I cannot express enough how much I appreciate the screen detaching function, haha. |
i can't stand surfaces. the keyboards are just about the worst things ever
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i've tried it, a whole bunch. not a fan at all.
to each their own tho |
fair enough. I can get not being on the surface pro train and typing on that but I wouldn't group the surface book line in that at all. even reputable tech reviewers (even though it's their own opinion on the matter, but I do take laptop reviews seriously) agree that the surface book typing experience is pretty good and comfortable
essentially, you get what you pay for in a surface product |
all i need is my old laptop which screen is completely messed up
but then again I dont need a laptop anymore |
I have a laptop that does the job for the most part but I really wish it could game :<
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That's the downside with laptops, to be able to do that decently you need to shell out way more cash than with a desktop unfortunately.
I think id have to waste twice as much cash to get the same performance my desktop delivers |
i've had windows laptops in the past but they've gone faulty or broken within a couple of years which always put me off. my desktop i've had since 2012 and it honestly runs just as smoothly as it did years ago. i've always preferred the reliability of desktops over laptops. the most reliable laptop i've purchased (and still currently have) is my macbook air which i got back in 2014 and that still works well 5 years on.
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I should... actually try a Macbook and see what those are like. .__. I've always been on Windows laptops and they've been fine for me for the most part. Never really had a whole lot of issue with them.
But I'm willing to try something new when it comes to tech so I hope to experience what a Macbook is like in the future. :o |
I had a classmate who had a macbook and he could do so little with it in the course we had it was hilarious how many workarounds he had to use to do common things for said course.
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yeah, there are a lot of things that you can't do with a mac that you can do with a windows laptop (i found out the hard way lmao). going from windows to mac takes a while to adjust though. even now i still sometimes get confused by the differences, but i have found it to easily be the most reliable laptop.
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My impression on Macs tends to be "shell out a lot of money for hardware and then shell out even more for the software". I've heard the majority of people who use one of those are either businessmen or artists, people who also spend a lot of money on expensive software.
I'll take any machine that is able to run Linux. If it has WIndows (which it probably has) then it gets replaced with my own setup. I'm currently on somewhat of a minimalist setup where I've gotten rid of a lot of software in favor of command line and shell scripts (most of which are assigned to some sort of keyboard shortcut). That's something that bugs me about Windows in particular: most keyboard shortcuts are already in use and cannot be reassigned without major effort. |
Minimalism is great if you know what you are doing. Unfortunately, a majority of end-users would be lost when it comes to solely using a command-line interface.
Meanwhile, over the weekend, I set up a FreePBX server and a SIP phone! I acquired a used Cisco 7941 IP phone that was sitting in the lab where I work, and learned a lot in the past three days about how SIP phones and IP phones in general work. It has paging and hold music. |
I wish I was technologically savvy enough to understand your second paragraph. :<
But yeah, re: minimalism, I appreciate the training I had to go through for my major, requiring familiarity with command line to more efficiently access Fortran modelling programs. Thanks to said training, when things are a bit minimalist, I wouldn't be too lost. Although I do prefer it when software developers make things easier for the end-user. It takes a lot of love to try to make things digestible by people like me. |
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https://www.3cx.com/pbx/sip-phones/ And then PBXs: https://www.3cx.com/pbx/pbx-phone-system/ Pretty much any office or business that's not a small business would have a PBX system installed. |
So, a provider here in the Netherlands is having issues and even the national alarm number is affected by it and is offline at the moment.
Some 4G issue it appears to be |
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I've been wanting to get a Raspberry Pi for my FreePBX/Asterisk setup for some time now, that way it's at least not running off a VM on my desktop and running on a physical device instead. And since my last post, I've figured out how to configure it to receive incoming calls from an Obihai device, but have yet to get outgoing calls working. |
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I'd love to get one of those, or an Arduino, but more so to program various things around my room, like lighting for example. In my own place I have a lot more plans such as automated processes at home to do with ventilation, cleaning etc, but that's a way off I think. Definitely something I've got planned though. Also building my own emulator would be nice. My dad has already built one, along with an amplifier too. |
for some reason I think my Task Manager is broken. Yesterday I experienced a random crash and after some testing it would seem when I try to launch a game both my CPU and GPU rise up to 100%
now I have not been able to replicate the crash itself, but I find it odd that these two rise with even a low demanding game aswell as a very demanding one best of all, performance isn't even affected at all and after 4 hours of testing I still have not crashed. Also I find it very odd that when I look at the settings its supposed to use up 1/8th of the GPU, instead of it all. |
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and strangely enough it doesn't impact anything and everything handles fine... that or it has been doing this for ages and I could get better performance oof |
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Currently running a memory scan, will try that once it's done
Glad I got pretty darn great dl speeds otherwise it would be a pain to redownload up to 200GB of stuff lol EDIT: was indeed some corrupted files, got them fixed |
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