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Started by Tsutarja June 5th, 2016 8:51 PM
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Raffy98

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I'm really not a fan of using Samsung phones; unless they've changed recently, they used to put a ****ton of bloatware on their phones and from what I hear, TouchWiz UI is garbage. The biggest reason I go with Google phones these days is because I'm a huge fan of how smooth pure Android is rather than the the weird versions of Android Samsung and other manufacturers use, y'know?

Not only that, I'd much rather get my security updates on time, rather than waiting a few months for them on any non-Google device. That's why I'm having a hard time deciding whether I should just go for the regular Pixel or go for the Pixel 2.
I have to say, it was a thing back in the day but I think this has changed. One of my friends has a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and it is pretty smooth with Samsung's Touch Wiz UI, mostly not because the UI itself has been optimized in the meantime but rather due to beefier and beefier hardware inside the devices. lol
In fact, I am considering phones like the Samsung Galaxy S8, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro or the new Razer Phone.

I do agree with you on the fact that pure Android will always be smoother though.
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Samsung phones have excellent hardware. Its just the software (TouchWiz) that is complete muk.

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Touchwiz on the S8 is much better compared to previous versions. The UI is nice and functions similarly to the Pixel launcher. (swipe up reveal apps) The useless Bixby button on the side of the phone and Bixby in general are the main complaint of the S8.

Of course, Pixel phones have a much better history of getting security updates so I'm confident in saying that the Pixel will receive patches at least until next year. After that, there's the option of custom ROMs.

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For those of you who don't know, I work at a college campus computer lab, and today I found uTorrent installed on a computer. It was likely done by a student but holy cow does that violate the college's computer use policy. :|

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I imagine there's no way to find what student installed the application? No logs or file history as to who did it?
I had discovered the installed program on the computer's administrative account, and sadly the account info was posted on a sheet of paper in the front, which I have since removed from the board. Students are supposed to log in with their account credentials.

My boss said not to worry so much about it. However, it was just full of other bloatware as well such as some obscure antimalware program and Avast! on top of the college's antivirus program (repackaged Security Essentials).

The computers are going to be reimaged at the end of the year anyways.

Raffy98

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For those of you who don't know, I work at a college campus computer lab, and today I found uTorrent installed on a computer. It was likely done by a student but holy cow does that violate the college's computer use policy. :|
When I was at school, once, I found Steam and Counter-Strike: Globally Offensive installed on one of the lab PCs. Funny, but at the same time violates the rules.
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Well, my desktop's internal Realtek sound card was malfunctioning recently by doing this static popping noise every now and then, and really psyducking with my computer's sound. I uninstalled the drivers tonight, rebooted, reset my BiOS settings, and then let Windows do its magic. Hopefully the issue is resolved.

Raffy98

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Well, my desktop's internal Realtek sound card was malfunctioning recently by doing this static popping noise every now and then, and really ****ing with my computer's sound. I uninstalled the drivers tonight, rebooted, reset my BiOS settings, and then let Windows do its magic. Hopefully the issue is resolved.
Is it a dedicated sound card or an integrated one?
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Tsutarja

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Is it a dedicated sound card or an integrated one?
It’s integrated. I reinstalled the drivers last night and so far it seems fine. Hopefully it’ll stay that way when I get back on it today.

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For those of you who don't know, I work at a college campus computer lab, and today I found uTorrent installed on a computer. It was likely done by a student but holy cow does that violate the college's computer use policy. :|
Some people used to install stuff on the PCs of my old university, as well. Used to play Minecraft, Skyrim, Terraria and what not. Well, at least they were smart enough to reset the computers afterwards so that nobody noticed that they knew the admin password. {XD}
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Tsutarja

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When I was at school, once, I found Steam and Counter-Strike: Globally Offensive installed on one of the lab PCs. Funny, but at the same time violates the rules.
Well, I guess we as lab techs are a bit guilty here, because we installed Steam onto our computers in the front. And some computers in the lab have League of Legends installed on them (not because we wanted it, but rather students who wanted it).

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Well an update on my sound card: the popping hasn't seemed to happened in quite a few weeks. It involved me pretty much doing two or three clean installs of the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer (Asus), as well as maybe one from Realtek themselves.

Tsutarja

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I heard sound cards are rather... redundant... now-a-days. What are the opinions here?
I'm curious..what makes you think they're redundant?

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I'm curious..what makes you think they're redundant?
A lot of newer Mobos are coming with pretty decent audio suites. A bunch of headphones as well.

I have a soundblaster pro that I... Liberated... From a family members storage room. Even with all that fun to get it, it was nothing more than a fancy red light in my PC because it didn't have a USB port for my headphones (I wish I didn't get USB headphones) and because the headphones had their own built in audio suite anyways. Sadly I can't fit the SB anymore because my new graphics card is too big and my lowest Pcie is dead. Rip. Case is a lot darker.

The new Mobo I plan to get advertises an amazing sound system as well, built right in.

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A lot of newer Mobos are coming with pretty decent audio suites. A bunch of headphones as well.

I have a soundblaster pro that I... Liberated... From a family members storage room. Even with all that fun to get it, it was nothing more than a fancy red light in my PC because it didn't have a USB port for my headphones (I wish I didn't get USB headphones) and because the headphones had their own built in audio suite anyways. Sadly I can't fit the SB anymore because my new graphics card is too big and my lowest Pcie is dead. Rip. Case is a lot darker.

The new Mobo I plan to get advertises an amazing sound system as well, built right in.
Guess I missed the cue that you were talking about soundcards in general, oops. Still thought you were talking about mine, which is actually built into the mobo. :)

And in other news, my grandmother moved recently and instead of opting for FiOS through Frontier Communications, she wanted to get DSL service, which is what she had at her old house for many years. She wanted copper phone service too because she didn't want her phone to go out during a power outage, which is understandable enough, except her speeds are going to be slow as psyduck since she's moving further away from the central office.

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Welp, my phone apparently continued to discharge overnight despite it being plugged in.

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Are you sure your adapter/cable isn't damaged? I was having a problem where my phone was taking an unusually long amount of time to recharge and it turned out that the cable was opposing a lot of resistance, replaced it and everything went back to normal.
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Are you sure your adapter/cable isn't damaged? I was having a problem where my phone was taking an unusually long amount of time to recharge and it turned out that the cable was opposing a lot of resistance, replaced it and everything went back to normal.
I did find what appears to be a crack going up the middle of the plug on one side, but so far it seems minuscule since it doesn't move when I pinch it. However, I do know it's a crack because I can feel it by running my fingers across it.

Thankfully my phone hasn't done this the past two nights, and I know which side to plug the device in with the Lightning connector now.

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Sounds like a dying cable to me but Idk
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Tsutarja

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Sounds like a dying cable to me but Idk
You're probably right on that.

Raffy98

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I have no idea why Microsoft has made accessing safe mode in Windows 10 so difficult, I have a virtual machine in VMWare which is having some problems with its display adapter (most likely the wrong version of VMWare tools is installed) and as soon as it boots the screen goes black and I can't see what I'm doing.
F8 doesn't work and neither Shift + F8 does because it boots too fast, so what I did was pressing Ctrl + Alt +Del at every boot sequence until it thinks it can't boot and it starts the automatic PC repair... such a pain.
I miss the good old days when pressing F8 was enough...
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Welp, I was doing a firmware update on a router today and the firmware from the manufacturer bricked the psyducking thing.

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I have no idea why Microsoft has made accessing safe mode in Windows 10 so difficult, I have a virtual machine in VMWare which is having some problems with its display adapter (most likely the wrong version of VMWare tools is installed) and as soon as it boots the screen goes black and I can't see what I'm doing.
F8 doesn't work and neither Shift + F8 does because it boots too fast, so what I did was pressing Ctrl + Alt +Del at every boot sequence until it thinks it can't boot and it starts the automatic PC repair... such a pain.
I miss the good old days when pressing F8 was enough...
Yeah it's pretty goofy that you have to boot into windows and go to Safe Mode from an option in the settings. I mean I can understand wanting to get rid of the button mash, but doing so by removing the option altogether doesn't seem like a solution at all...

Raffy98

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Yeah it's pretty goofy that you have to boot into windows and go to Safe Mode from an option in the settings. I mean I can understand wanting to get rid of the button mash, but doing so by removing the option altogether doesn't seem like a solution at all...
Exactly, if you can't boot into Windows and you want to try safe mode you need to have a repair disc or you try that, which is not the best solution though. I really don't understand this choice.
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