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.

>>27796

The war of drugs is pointless. But it's easier to shake down the local weed dealer than to get the local oligarch to fork out some readies to pay fair taxes.

>>27797
It's even easier to legalise it all.

>>27798
And let the organised crime groups get away with people trafficking and modern slavery?

>>27799

Human trafficking is more difficult following legalization and regulation. It doesn't go away, but the Sex Workers in Holland have a Trade Union for example, and instead of drug and sex trade being 100% illegal, it becomes mostly illegal and makes things more competitive and less attractive to career criminals.

>>27800

Should say 'mostly legal' obviously.

I'm not so sharp these days what with the whole lockdown dementia and all.

We are on the edge of being able to inject virus that can reprogram your DNA sequence, reusable rockets that will make space travel affordable and augmented reality adoption is only a question of marketing it right and you think we already reached the end of history? were you dropped on your head as a baby.

>>27753
>Again, this "advance" just lets us maintain the normal better.

This really depends on what the "normal" means, for you. If the normal is just "able to produce a vaccine", then yes in a very broad sense, you're right, but the speed at which the vaccine was made was dependant on plenty of technology and processes that did not exist just a few years ago; mRNA vaccines were tested in animals from the 1990s, there was a lot of excitement and companies being built around it for human use in the 2000s and 2010s, but nothing really came to fruition until 2020.

Other recent biotech breakthroughs include CRISPR. Though the acronym strictly refers to understanding a pattern in DNA, it's usually used synonymously with Cas9 or CRISPR-Cas9, a new technology allowing us to edit genes within organisms.

I would say that, based on CRISPR alone, we are going to see some pretty wild and unexpected advances.

>>27756
>if the normal is just "able to produce a vaccine", then yes in a very broad sense, you're right
I mean that the ability to produce the vaccine means we go back to "business as usual" faster. All these advances are just used to maintain the more general status quo.

>>27756 pretty wild and unexpected advances.

Some of which will be advances in inconvenient directions, but yes.

If we can get some advances in small scale, low energy water treatment so I can properly go unabomber (without the actual bombing bit), that would be a blessing.

You seem to be searching for some great shift when the reason we are where we are is because we have collectively tried to suit our desires.

>>27776

There's a claim that only 25 percent of fortune 500 CEOs are bald. There's also research to suggest that bald men are perceived as more commanding or suitable for leadership, but perception is arguably not that important if you've already proved your ability as most C suites have.

Something about high-testosterone males being more likely to lose their hair early, high-testosterone also driving men to be more competitive/ruthless so likely to rise to the top quicker.

>>27778
I read that it's a myth that high testosterone is linked to baldness. Yes testosterone is the trigger, but it's genetics that make you at risk for hair loss, no matter if your testosterone is high or average.

>>27779

That's the most recent science I've heard too.

I have never bought into the bald men having more confidence, it's more that confident men are more likely to make the decision to shave their head rather than cling on. This idea is supported by a quick google of the various baldness related forums that exist mostly so men can post pictures of their bald spots and say "WHAT SHOULD I DO?!".

I feel bad for anyone who is that stressed or depressed about such a common trait in men.

>>27780
It would make sense in that people like Trump and Musk are the other extreme, they're highly confident but they're also narcissists.

>>27759
Synergy is what you need. It's a bit of software that allows you to do this - it's like a VNC or remote desktop application, but is specifically designed around using a single keyboard/mouse across multiple computers and monitors.

It used to be free, but I can see it's now $29 for a lifetime license. I've used it loads, works across Mac/Linux/Windows, and while a niche use case, does exactly what you're describing.

https://symless.com/synergy/features

>>27760

Good shout, but my work laptop requires admin privileges to install new software. I'll raise it with IT and see what they say, but I'm open to other workarounds.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Sharing-Keyboard-Scanner-Printer-Black/dp/B01N6GD9JO/

Getting a flashback to my Maplin days where we would sell people KVM switches that had probably been made in the mid 90s.

>>27714

I would assume the hold out on using skype probably isn't them but the people they are talking to through it.

>There is no point to this thread other than to say I am thoroughly annoyed.

Then this is not the board you should be posting on, motherfucker.

>>27719

Fuck, you've rumbled me. There's even the minor rants and pissoffs thread. What do I do, modlads?

>>27720
We'll forgive you this time, but go and stand in the corner and think about what you've done.

>>27721

Otherlad might forgive you but I don't. Ruined my day you have.

Try IFTTT

I have the same problem but I hardly notice it while the screen is in use. Same pattern, btw. Short of getting a new device and religiously using a microcloth to divide the keyboard and the screen it will happen.

>>27691

Is this a troll post that will actually melt my laptop?

>>27693

It won't melt your laptop, it'll just completely remove the anti-glare coating. That's why they tell you not to use window cleaner on your monitor. If your anti-glare is damaged, it might be preferable to completely remove it.

>>27693
It didn't melt the scanner so I'm guessing it won't melt your laptop, unless these things perhaps react differently on whatever a laptop screen is made of.

>>27698
Scanners are plain regular glass.
Laptops, tablets and phones have special coatings. Some laptops still have plastic screens.

>>27676

Those specs look very recent - are you still under warranty? I wouldn't bother troubleshooting anything weird if I can just get an RtB.

Failing that, my first course of action would be to open up Resource Monitor and wait to see if anything weird happens; any runaway process that is using up all of your CPU should make itself known. If that reveals nothing, I'd use msconfig to reboot into minimal Safe Mode to see if the problem still occurs. If it doesn't, then I'd use Device Manager and msconfig to disable every non-essential driver and background process, then re-enable them one by one.

Caveat: I admin Linux boxes in a professional capacity, but am very much a non-expert when it comes to Windows.

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.