I'd like to wire Ethernet though my house but who do I hire you do that job? I would guess that ordinary electricians don't do that.
A bunch will, or there are dedicated data cabling mobs out there. I got in touch with the sparkie that was in the 'hot tradies in your area' flyer i found in my mailbox, worked out well.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Hey ya'll, Twitch question. I'm out in the country on Satellite internet. My buddy in town does a twitch stream for jackbox for game nights. The issue is that when I'm watching the stream, it'll occasionally buffer and I end up getting farther and farther behind realtime. Is there a way to have it when twitch buffers that it just brings me back to the most current? I've ended up over 30 seconds behind real time before and you can't play jackbox like that, but if I just miss a few seconds here and there, that'll be fine.
Maybe try ctrl+F5 at tactical points. (When a game is over and you're tallying) This should force the webpage to completely reload.
If nothing works out, you can also ask if your buddy can stream to you through discord. In my limited experience the latency in that is lower, and maybe it handles bad connections more like you want.
Ended up having someone share their screen of the twitch stream in Google Meet. It wasn't pretty but it worked like a charm.
I'd like to wire Ethernet though my house but who do I hire you do that job? I would guess that ordinary electricians don't do that.
A bunch will, or there are dedicated data cabling mobs out there. I got in touch with the sparkie that was in the 'hot tradies in your area' flyer i found in my mailbox, worked out well.
Yeah at the very least an old school electrician can run the wires for you and you can terminate on your own for the cost of the tools. But most electricians i've worked with are at the very least familiar with common low voltage cabling. The other place to look is IT service companies, they definitely run cable for commercial companies so they may be ready to do residential as well
or just run it yourself, can't recommend the experience of being in the tightest spot of your above ceiling crawl space, experiencing claustraphobia while struggle to get fishtape through an insulated wall.
I'd like to wire Ethernet though my house but who do I hire you do that job? I would guess that ordinary electricians don't do that.
a normal electrician can pull the wire for you if that's the sticking point. it's pretty easy to do the rest yourself if you're a little technically inclined. punching rj45s and mounting wall boxes is pretty easy.
edit: ah geeze i didn't notice the next page and got super ghosted.
I don't know if this question goes here or the music thread, but I'll start here. Since Amazon apparently got rid of the shopping cart for its MP3 download store and I don't wan to buy my music a single song at a time, what other download stores are there? Preferably not Apple.
So I am basically entirely adjacent to the smart phone market, but my current Moto Z2 Play has a bad bad case of battery bulge and I'm gearing up to either replace or repair it. I've done some battery replacements on super thin tablets so I have the tools and whatnot, but hey, with a raise coming up I was wondering what I could get nowadays in the ~500ish dollar range. I already spotted the Z4 which seems like the logical move but hey.
I have Verizon if it matters at all, using a prepaid plan but can always jump to a more traditional plan.
EDIT: oh, also, looking entirely at Android devices, have zero interest in going back to the iOS ecosystem.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
So I am basically entirely adjacent to the smart phone market, but my current Moto Z2 Play has a bad bad case of battery bulge and I'm gearing up to either replace or repair it. I've done some battery replacements on super thin tablets so I have the tools and whatnot, but hey, with a raise coming up I was wondering what I could get nowadays in the ~500ish dollar range. I already spotted the Z4 which seems like the logical move but hey.
I have Verizon if it matters at all, using a prepaid plan but can always jump to a more traditional plan.
EDIT: oh, also, looking entirely at Android devices, have zero interest in going back to the iOS ecosystem.
Have you considered Nokia?
I have an 8, my better half has an 8 Sirocco, my sister has a 7.2, and they're all great. There's the new 8.3 5G but that might just be outside your price limit depending on currency conversion and the actual in-store (not MSRP) price in your area.
So apparently going for the prepaid plan is considerably more expensive and I could probably get a high-range phone rather than a mid-range phone for only a slight increase in costs.
I have some Yamaha Musiccast wireless speakers that are all on my wifi, they're controlled directly from the app on my phone (no cloud services required) and don't even have microphones in them at all. You can connect them to a google/amazon spysat if you want, but they don't need it and work great without it... with one large caveat.
They work good, I can link them together and tell them to prioritise being in sync so that it's all seamless, I can airplay to them, I can point them to my NAS to play music directly that way.. only downside is that their bluetooth implementation is so bad you basically can't use it. If you have your phone paired, your phone can wake them out of standby and just start playing whatever, whenever. If I got into my car and the phone connected to the bluetooth in there, it would then switch to the speaker in the kitchen and start playing on that for some reason. If I turned the kitchen speaker on to listen to the radio, it would then switch to bluetooth, then I'd angrily switch it back, then it would switch again, then I'd switch it back... and then I unpaired my phone, never again to be paired.
So yea, as long as you don't want to use bluetooth with them, the Yamaha Musiccast speakers are great.
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They all specialise in indie/"underground" music, they also sell vinyl, CDs etc. if you need that.
Qobuz is a French music streaming service that has a digital store as well. This is where I go for more mainstream stuff.
I have no idea if they operate outside of Europe and they can be a bit pricey if you're looking for hi-res flac files.
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There's an artist I like who recently released an album and is only using her Bandcamp to sell vinyl and cassettes and the only way to download is via iTunes.
I hadn't bought anything on iTunes in 10 years.
At least opening it up doesn't crash my computer anymore.
Looks like I need to get a replacement for my Surface Book; what's the best way these days for me to back up this whole fucking thing and transform my new Surface into my old Surface with a minimum of fuss?
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Looks like I need to get a replacement for my Surface Book; what's the best way these days for me to back up this whole fucking thing and transform my new Surface into my old Surface with a minimum of fuss?
Copy your user folder to a thumb drive (do it from another account)
Move the user folder to the new machine and then create the profile (from another account)
Looks like I need to get a replacement for my Surface Book; what's the best way these days for me to back up this whole fucking thing and transform my new Surface into my old Surface with a minimum of fuss?
If you're signed into the old machine with your microsoft account, you can just use a thumb drive or whatever to copy your Desktop, Downloads, and Documents/etc folders off, then set up the new machine with your microsoft account and copy all the stuff back over.
Pro tip - never delete a downloaded installer for a program you actually use with any frequency from your Downloads folder. Just keep a copy of your Downloads on an external source. Makes it so much easier to rebuild after a wipe/reload or whatever.
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A bunch will, or there are dedicated data cabling mobs out there. I got in touch with the sparkie that was in the 'hot tradies in your area' flyer i found in my mailbox, worked out well.
Ended up having someone share their screen of the twitch stream in Google Meet. It wasn't pretty but it worked like a charm.
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Yeah at the very least an old school electrician can run the wires for you and you can terminate on your own for the cost of the tools. But most electricians i've worked with are at the very least familiar with common low voltage cabling. The other place to look is IT service companies, they definitely run cable for commercial companies so they may be ready to do residential as well
or just run it yourself, can't recommend the experience of being in the tightest spot of your above ceiling crawl space, experiencing claustraphobia while struggle to get fishtape through an insulated wall.
a normal electrician can pull the wire for you if that's the sticking point. it's pretty easy to do the rest yourself if you're a little technically inclined. punching rj45s and mounting wall boxes is pretty easy.
edit: ah geeze i didn't notice the next page and got super ghosted.
i shall leave my shame
I have Verizon if it matters at all, using a prepaid plan but can always jump to a more traditional plan.
EDIT: oh, also, looking entirely at Android devices, have zero interest in going back to the iOS ecosystem.
Have you considered Nokia?
I have an 8, my better half has an 8 Sirocco, my sister has a 7.2, and they're all great. There's the new 8.3 5G but that might just be outside your price limit depending on currency conversion and the actual in-store (not MSRP) price in your area.
I went from an iPhone 6s to the z2 Play in 2018. Before the 6s I had a flip phone.
love to have my toothbrush inspect my phone and judge it TOO CRAZY
Um... What is that? Should I get it?
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
No.
At some point you have to admit that you've brought this on yourself
Time to call my carrier and figure this shit out.
I got one. It's not plugged in. I occasionally plug it in for the Disney stories you can summon from it (they have some good Frozen ones).
I didn't bring it on myself, it was gifted to me by my brother-in-law :P .
...yes I thought it was ridiculous, I've not downloaded the app or connected my toothbrush to my phone by Bluetooth. Ugh.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
Amazon too
They work good, I can link them together and tell them to prioritise being in sync so that it's all seamless, I can airplay to them, I can point them to my NAS to play music directly that way.. only downside is that their bluetooth implementation is so bad you basically can't use it. If you have your phone paired, your phone can wake them out of standby and just start playing whatever, whenever. If I got into my car and the phone connected to the bluetooth in there, it would then switch to the speaker in the kitchen and start playing on that for some reason. If I turned the kitchen speaker on to listen to the radio, it would then switch to bluetooth, then I'd angrily switch it back, then it would switch again, then I'd switch it back... and then I unpaired my phone, never again to be paired.
So yea, as long as you don't want to use bluetooth with them, the Yamaha Musiccast speakers are great.
The Sonos One SL is the current-gen speaker without Alexa. It's even a little cheaper than the ones with microphones!
Actually....Ikea has a speaker lamp and just speakers from I think Sonos that link through your Alexa/Google Home now.
There's a few sites I use to buy music:
Bandcamp
Bleep
Boomkat
They all specialise in indie/"underground" music, they also sell vinyl, CDs etc. if you need that.
Qobuz is a French music streaming service that has a digital store as well. This is where I go for more mainstream stuff.
I have no idea if they operate outside of Europe and they can be a bit pricey if you're looking for hi-res flac files.
I hadn't bought anything on iTunes in 10 years.
At least opening it up doesn't crash my computer anymore.
Copy your user folder to a thumb drive (do it from another account)
Move the user folder to the new machine and then create the profile (from another account)
Probably the the best way to do it.
(skip to 26:30 if necessary. Also it's a 360 degree video for some reason).
If you're signed into the old machine with your microsoft account, you can just use a thumb drive or whatever to copy your Desktop, Downloads, and Documents/etc folders off, then set up the new machine with your microsoft account and copy all the stuff back over.
Pro tip - never delete a downloaded installer for a program you actually use with any frequency from your Downloads folder. Just keep a copy of your Downloads on an external source. Makes it so much easier to rebuild after a wipe/reload or whatever.
Yeah I wonder if there's a way to do that and maintain the ships long-term, I'm always amazed at the relatively short life spans of cruise ships.
I mean, if we're going cyberpunk dystopia, may as well go full cyberpunk dystopia