>>27927
Plus they can shoot lightning out of either end.

It turns out there was a massive chunk of fluff in one corner and that eventually shot out with some force. Now my phone is turbocharging again which is something it hasn't done since shortly after I got it.

The lessons are:
1. A plastic comb works so no need to buy toothpicks. Don't use metal obviously.
2. You really do have to spend a good half hour at least digging into it. I only managed to get it out just before I was due to buy a new phone assuming the port was broken.

>>27927
I'm confused as to why you don't just buy a standard dust cover you remove when you want to charge it.

>>27935

>I'm confused as to why you don't just buy a standard dust cover you remove when you want to charge it.

Not him, but the constant plugging and unplugging of the cable is another factor in port damage, with Micro USB perhaps the most common form of failure, I think USB C is a lot better, but still not immune. So it both protects against dust permanently and also greatly reduces the wear on the port itself.

I don't use them myself as I have 1500 spare usb cables and I don't want to be tied down to one or two special ones, but it's still a good idea.

Also RE: cleaning the port, a can of compressed air is very useful.

>>27936

Also the magnetic connector reduces the risk of breaking your USB port or pinging your phone across the room if you trip over the charging cable.

Apple used to have magnetic charger connectors on their laptops for this reason, but they abandoned it in their incessant quest for thinness.

>>27936
Yeah, I charge it at bedside, in the car and at my desk. If I have to connect elsewhere ever, I just unplug the widget.
The benefit over a dust cover is that you just have to lob the cable in the right direction and it clamps on and connects. It also allowed you to connect micro-USB either way up, but that's lost now USB-C has unfucked the design. And yes, connectors fail - these both reduce the number of couplings from daily to annual, and tear free if something stupid (like the dog) happens and the cable gets yanked, avoiding connector damage or the phone being launched across the room. Mine also have tasteful and not-too-bright blue LEDs in the cable ends, so I can find it in the dark on the bedroom floor.
There's no way I'd ever bother with putting a dust cover back on. This cable plays to my idleness, and I'm fine with that.

Is there no warranty or what have you? Have you tried bitching really hard about it to customer support? Looks like a newish laptop so I'm sorry if that's not an option.

>>27676
>7gb dual channel
Huh?

>>27695
Gig for GPU m8

>>27696
Ah, so the system shares a pool of memory. Fair enough, never had a Laptop with an APU in it before.

In case anyone was wondering: the issue was with the power setting, I ran it on high-performance and that meant that both graphics cards were running despite common sense.

use the backlight as a lamp, or stick an acetate of the outside world on it and have a fake window.

I just put a 23 inch LG monitor on gumtree for a fiver, and now someone's offering to pay for a courier to Leeds to have it delivered, which makes me feel like I've mugged myself off.

I got it for a tenner a few years ago off some dude who didn't want it because there was a pixel-wide green line 3/4 across the screen going down the entire way, presumably all dead pixels. Didn't bother me much. Then it started buzzing in the bottom left and flickering, found the problem required soldering, gave up.

Presumably this guy has a soldering iron and some experience with this. I mean, it's a good condition Flatron monitor.

Shall I just say I dropped it when getting it out of storage and try fixing it myself?

Honestly the older I get the less I care. I don't know if I'm just giving up, because I still bristle at the idea of companies having this data on me, but at the same time I feel like they already have nearly two decades of digital information on me, if they were paying any sort of attention. I was not nearly as privacy conscious at 15 as I was at 20-odd, and it's waning again now. The horror of the google maps timeline showing me every location I've ever visited in the last ten or more years is balance by the luxury of being able to go meandering and just have it all recorded for my leisure later. Same goes for being able to search for something like "passport" in my photo archive and a scan of my passport I used three jobs ago showing up. Horrifying, but delightfully convenient. Is that convenience worth the price I pay for it? Almost certainly not, but it's really hard to quit. I suppose that's the point.

Sorry to not help at all, there. I think there's a lot you can do to easily become more infotight, but perhaps a lot of that's negated if you still want to drive on a UK road or carry a mobile phone, or use a debit or credit card.

I tried reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. I don't think I've read anything as waffly and tedious in my life. Yeah, I get it Shoshana, your house burned down. You don't need to spend 50+ pages telling me about every single aspect of that.

I, too, have read the book in the picture and I, too, did not enjoy it. I wanted more anger. I wanted it to be more accessible. I wanted it to have been written by Malcolm Gladwell.

Anyway, I try my hardest not to create new profiles for anything. I do not use apps which replace things I already have (I don't walk outside to an unknown location and trust Google to direct me; I take the A-Z with me that I already own). But there is only so much you can do: I try not to use Google websites in a lot of situations, but in those situations, there are often other services which you can't use unless you do a Captcha, for Google, for free, to train their self-driving car software. So Google do own you. But I keep refreshing the Captcha until I do not get a "keep clicking till there are none left" or one of the big pictures split into 16 segments; I refuse to do those and have been known to just try again later if I can't get an acceptable Captcha. But you can't just refuse to use any services they're involved in, because they are the gatekeepers of the entire Internet.

>>27919
Every time I try to screw up their Captcha by giving slightly wrong answers, it can tell. What's the point of the training aspect if the machine already knows if my answer is correct?

>>27910

It's astounding nobody has thought of putting fancy chains on them like a Kensington lock. Keeps it safe from pickpocketing as well as signalling class.

>>27911
Some googling found this. Certainly not fancy, but I'm trying to think why most people don't already have one of these, myself included. Would I find it too annoying to clip and unclip when I need to leave it to charge etc.? I dunno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFcUjfG_c0

>>27912

Not quite as classy as a nice gold or silver chain, though.

>>27912

I might order some of these for work. People mostly me have a habit of dropping their work phones off of airbridges etc.

I fear a metal chain would just bring to mind the wallet chains of the early 00s.

>>27912
I used to see these all the time but haven't recently.

I used to have a metal wallet chain and was relentlessly bullied for it even though I kept it inside my pocket and did save me from getting pickpocketed a couple of times when I lived in a particularly seedy area.

>>27880
If you're prepared to just chuck that much money away, I could do some serious good for my local community with that.

>>27883
I'd be genuinely interested in hearing what you think can be done with three or four grand, because to me it seems like nothing. Maybe pay for groceries for a few families for a month or two?

>>27884
It's enough to build and secure* a decent size and quality material greenhouse which I could use as a nursery to supply people with lots of free food plants every year, indefinitely. Myself and various charity/local-NGOs would foot the ongoing bill for the soil/compost and pots. Two and a half grand would be plenty, I can do the installation/labour myself.

*move fences around for protection.

>>27886

Where are you? I have an 18m sq glass one I was planning to give away for free.

Though saying that what's wrong with just paying a few hundred quid for a similar sized polytunnel?

>>27889
London. Polytunnel degrades quite rapidly though that's an option.

>>27862
>Screens for older phones are usually cheap as chips on eBay.

Amazon too - most screens are about ten quid now for old phones; you just need the right screwdrivers and a couple of hours on iFixit.

>>27862
>>27863
Was expecting the cost of the screen + the right screwdriver to come to more than just paying to get it done but I'll look into it.

>>27864
Putting pones back together (nicely) is the hard bit a lot of the time, If you don't need to do that, and you don't care about knackering the old screen as you take things apart, it's about as easy as it gets. Watch youtube videos.
I've done a few now, with good results. Amazon/ebay screens aren't always defect free, but again, you don't care.

>>27865
Cheers.

>>27863
The cheap chinesium "open all" screw driver kits also help, you should be able to get one for a few quid. Do not abuse them, they work just fine for the inside a mobile phone but won't screw your door hinges back on without disintegrating. A decent spudger also helps, if you have access to the metal banding used in packing a 2" section with tape around one side works wonders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_photo_frame

>>27839
I'm sure Amazon do something like that.

What about this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/all-new-echo-show-10-hd-smart-display-with-motion-and-alexa-charcoal/dp/B084P3KP2R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35XYHL6YARIP0&dchild=1&keywords=amazon+echo+show+10&qid=1617395734&sprefix=Amazon+echo+sh%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1

>>27841
The Show 8 is significantly cheaper, if you were wanting to go that route.

How colourful do you want? e-paper displays are handy for this sort of thing.
https://hackaday.io/project/175022-raspberry-pi-e-paper-weather-display
(and thousands of others. Reclaimed kindle displays are cheap, as are repurposed shelf-edge advertising labels).

You can find old Android tablets on eBay with weak processors and shagged out batteries for next to nothing.

If you want a really big screen, you could get a cheap second-hand monitor or TV and hook up a Raspberry Pi or an Android TV box. If you're reasonably handy with electronics, you can get LVDS controller boards off eBay or Aliexpress for less than a tenner which would allow you to use the LCD from a broken laptop as a monitor.

>>27826
uBlock Origin
HTTPS Everywhere
Tampermonkey
Facebook container
Decentraleyes

>>27827
>>27829

While we're here I'd add my core set:

Noscript
SmartHTTPS
uBlock Origin
User-agent switcher
Decentraleyes

Video Speed Controller

AdFree Youtube
Coincidence Detector (banned)
De-mainstream Youtube
Diigo
Dissenter (banned)
Emoji Now Emoji Keyboard
FoxScroller
Greasemonkey
Image Downloader
Instagram Downloader
PocketTube (youtube subscription manager)
Quora Login Bypass
Reverse Image Search
Singlefile
Tab Session Manager

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uBlock Origin
Distraction Free Youtube
Bypass Paywalls

>what happens if I switch halfway through my current contract? Do I still have to pay the remainder?

Yes. The "switching service" just allows you to move your number from one network to another. You're still liable for the remainder of your contract and you still need to tell your existing network that you're leaving.

>>27812
Ah right thanks.

So maybe I'd be better off cancelling the first contract and waiting a month before taking out the 2nd contract? Otherwise I'll be paying for two plans simultaneously.

>>27813
But if you let your current plan lapse, you'll lose the number. I think that you either need to time it excruciatingly carefully and hope that neither provider fucks up (hah!) or just accept some overlap and pay the tenner.

If you cancel a pay monthly contract, you'll have to pay a cancellation fee and the remaining monthly fees of your contract.

>>27833
> Someone from Currys/PC World said so.

I for one always take my compsci advice from someone who failed their Argos exam.

In all seriousness you might be right, work has me tied into Intel CPUs for various reasons but I did recently (like a year ago) work with a bunch of HP gaming laptops with B&O speakers and top of the line AMD CPUs. We broke a lot of them but none of them due to overheating of the CPU afaik.

However those gaming laptops were basically mobile workstations - like 2" thick and with a power adaptor the size of a brick.

Caveat emptor and all that.

Intel's latest are shite, Steve from Gamer's Nexus told me so and I trust him because he looks almost exactly like me.

>>27838
> compsci
lad

>>27843
I would have thought their testing methodology would be what put them in the trusted category, rather than his matted locks.

>>27847
Woah, pal, let's not start saying rude things about Steve's very nice hair. This has been a perfectly civil thread up until now.

>>27398
> In order for both cars in that situation to have the feature, it will need to have been paid for three times.

Fuck spaceX, that musk's got the gig sorted right there.

I tested it on my smart TV and it seemed very poor at blocking YouTube ads.

>>27807
uBlock origin is enough to block most ads on its own.

>>27808
Thank you very much. How do I install uBlock on my start TV?

>>27809
Whoops my bad, didn't read it was for TV specifically, but unfortunately the answer is that blocking Youtube ads on your TV, even with a Pi-hole, is just not that doable at the moment as Youtube's videos and ads are served from the same domain.

The Pocophone talk in /101/ got me thinking about my Pocophone F1 and how it's still working great, but the camera is fucking atrocious. If only they were interchangeable phone-to-phone, I'd upgrade it without having to ditch the rest of the phone.

Fucking planned obsolescence.

>>27802
I just bought a Fairphone 3+, I believe it is what you're looking for.

>>27803
Are fairphones upgradeable?

>>27804
Yes, they're modular so the parts are replaceable/upgradeable.

>>27803
Thank you for this, I'm looking to upgrade my phone at some point this year and wasn't aware of these.