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  1. vishalrao

    Tata Play Fiber business connection any better quality than regular consumer plans?

    Got a call from a Tata sales guy asking me to move my 1gbps connection from home to business plan. Wanted to ask, is there any difference in the "quality" of the connection? Meaning any improvement in speeds (to far away servers), pings, routing etc? I know about the typical marketing benefits...
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    Why do my 3w LED bulbs glow faintly when powered off?

    Hello! I have a light fixture with two bulb holders and wired for two-way switching. Earlier it housed 7w LED bulbs which didn't have the issue I'm facing after I fitted it today with 3w Halonix-branded (actually 2.9w as printed on the box) LED bulbs. This evening I noticed they both faintly...
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    News DeepSeek.com making waves!

    Folks who are into AI - have you not been following recent chinese deepseek.com news? i just (found out about and) downloaded the lmstudio.ai desktop gui app and gave it a whirl... nice easy way to run local stuff, better than ollama.com in the sense it's only command-line. Go check it out and...
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    Ferrite core rings work to reduce interference on cables?

    Will something like this work for power cables of PC, monitor and other gadgets/appliances? See https://amzn.in/d/eEJVaYk
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    Windows Bitlocker + Win11 Pro 24H2 edition = Secure Boot is mandatory???

    I recently did a fresh install on my new rig with its ASUS ProArt X670E Creator Wifi board and for the life of me I'm unable to get Bitlocker to not keep booting into recovery mode everytime when I disable secure boot in the UEFI settings. My older rig with its ASUS PRIME TRX40 Pro-S and...
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    FS: Desktops Threadripper desktop PC (Zen 2 based 32 core 3970X with 128 GB RAM) for sale in Pune!

    See Threadripper for Sale! for the latest details and info. Pasting the current info here too: Looking to sell my computer: AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 3970X CPU (32 Core / 64 Threads). ASUS Prime sTRX40 Pro S Motherboard. GSkill Ripjaws V 3600 MHz 32 GB DDR4 (x4 total 128 GB) RAM. Thermalright...
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    How to launch a big cloud VM with GPUs to run AI workloads?

    Does anyone here use cloud VMs with GPUs to run AI workloads? I'm trying to run the new Facebook/Meta LLM called Llama 3.1 and its 405b sized model using ollama.com which in GPU mode requires at least 230 GB of total GPU memory. I have been trying to launch VMs in various cloud providers, like...
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    Monitors OLED Monitors

    Anyone else looking forward to replacing their current monitors with the upcoming crop of OLEDs? Not talking about TVs being put to use as computer displays rather the actual latest computer monitor models. Most of the models are gaming grade meaning high refresh rates (240, 360 hz etc) and...
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    Linux The elementary OS thread

    Visit elementary.io especially read their blog: https://blog.elementary.io/ The next upcoming version 8 is in development based on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS though there's no fixed release timeline it should be out soon. I just happened to send in a small code contribution (been doing this...
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    How to stream CCTV RTSP feed to DLNA to view on TV media player app?

    I have a few TPLink TAPO CCTV wifi cameras like the C210 and C320WS which I mistakenly thought could only be viewed with the TAPO phone app. Came across some webpages/articles (including FAQs on tplink website itself) that mention you can open the video feeds in apps like VLC with URL...
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    FS: Mobile Motorola Edge 30 meteor grey 6 GB + 128 GB

    Hello! I'm selling my Motorola Edge 30 phone 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage, grey colour, in excellent condition for ₹12k bought from Flipkart for ₹26k about 2 years ago, reason is it's being replaced with a new phone. You are welcome to message me if interested in buying after inspecting the phone...
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    Advice for Denon X550BT which "trips" sometimes

    Hello folks! I have a so-called 3-phase protector device fixed after my electricity meter box that cuts off supply for at least 2 minutes for over or under voltage, and I have a so-called pure sine wave inverter for whole-home backup in UPS mode which works well for all my devices in the house...
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    Devin, the first AI software engineer

    See: https://x.com/cognition_labs/status/1767548763134964000
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    OpenBSD anyone? Instead of OpnSense, OpenWRT etc?

    I was stumped when I briefly tried opnsense on a routerPC - found the UI to be not really noob user-friendly. Thought about trying OpenBSD instead, configure everything command line. Anyone else tried this OS for stuff like multi-WAN load-balancing, failover/failback etc? Your experience with it?
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    Deals from Electroniks India

    Just got this link from them in WhatsApp -> https://www.electroniksindia.com/collections/deals I bought the Onyx router mini PC some time back. I think it's worth the price, especially if you're lazy enough like me to get it imported yourself. I like the Ryzen mini PC in the link, would have...
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    Review Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 (2023) AMD Ryzen 7840U, 32GB, 1TB laptop review

    TLDR: This is the best laptop I’ve ever used so far in terms of specs and Linux compatibility, especially being the AMD Ryzen platform, so despite being pricey I’m very happy with it. REVIEW: Specs: Ryzen 7 Pro 7840U (Zen 4, 4 nm, codename Phoenix) CPU at 3 Ghz base and 5.1 Ghz boost...
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    Security Software Anyone using PassKeys yet?

    How is your experience? Is there any FAQ anywhere or tutorial? What if I want to login to say my gmail on a public computer or a friends computer? What are the backup/recovery options/requirements? How do you share passkeys on Android and Win11 (version 23H2 has passkeys options I see)...
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    FS: Laptop HP Pavilion 14 Intel Core i5 11th Gen Tiger Lake 16gb 512gb

    Selling this laptop -> https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B0BNW1HVFY/ NOTE: Feel free to post your questions, comments, feedback including anything technical or pricing related here in this thread itself which I prefer over direct messages.
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    FS: Laptop ASUS ZenBook S 13 OLED Ryzen 6800U 16gb 1tb

    Selling this laptop -> https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B0B3F16W62/ NOTE: Feel free to post your questions, comments, feedback including anything technical or pricing related here in this thread itself which I prefer over direct messages.
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    Laptop price check allowed?

    I might have seen posts mention asking for price checks are not allowed, is that right? I need to start a for sale thread? I want to sell my laptop but wanted to get an idea of the resale value beforehand.