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    Need help secure my home network in a custom manner

    @nRiTeCh check if your phone WiFi settings has a certain "privacy feature" where it randomizes it's MAC everytime it joins a network. Mine had it enabled out of the box, which freaked me out and thought I was under attack in spite of having a long random password + SSID broadcast disabled. If...
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    Budget 0-20k BIG Tower Cooler: Help me make the right choice

    Adding to this, Noctua provides new mounting hardware for your future platform changes, so you don't need to buy a whole new cooler every few years.
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    Airtel and SMS Error

    I just texted a US number from my Airtel prepaid and it went through. Got charged 5 bucks. Guess I'd activated international outgoing at some point
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    Airtel and SMS Error

    Check if international calling is enabled on your number, they might be blocking SMS as well. International plans will give you discounted rates, but shouldn't be a requirement as such
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    Android What Android keyboard are you using? Any personal review

    Got the latest from the Store. Not as good as it was before, but still way better than the ridiculous POS that Gboard is. Retards at Google think everyone in India wants to type in Hinglish In fact I've kept Gboard only to easily insert GIFS/emojis:
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    Car & Bike My New Cosmic Yellow bike

    Bumble bee Three!
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    Sonoff Alternatives??

    What are my options for a non cloud, LAN only controlled wifi switch? I've played around with ESP32/8266 based projects on breadboard, but a commercial package in a small form factor that I could reprogram is enticing
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    Monitors Refurbished monitor from Amazon

    Grey market = without bill = 18% less than MRP + no warranty Contact your local shops for more info PS: I'm not encouraging buying from grey market; I'm saying it's stupid to buy some stuff refurbished from Az with no manufacturer warranty
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    Monitors Refurbished monitor from Amazon

    Not totally sure, but I think Acer didn't ask for invoice for providing on site warranty, just needed Serial no. + photos of dead pixels. Coming to the topic of refurbished items, why are you buying a returned item when you can buy a brand new sealed item in the grey market without bill? There...
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    Amazon India lightning deals

    For a little more, there's tripods with ball heads, where one of the legs is detachable to work as a monopod. You get the best of both worlds
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    Amazon India lightning deals

    How? For physical damage you still need to record unboxing, which takes away the fun/excitement
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    Amazon India lightning deals

    So, to summarize: physical stores are not only cheaper, but you can be sure of getting a working product without having to run to a brand's service centre/make unboxing videos/fight with customer care. How the turn tables have...
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    The right and safer products for PC cleaning/dusting

    You just need high pressure air to blow away dust particles, which all your options provide. Where the air comes from is irrelevant. Electric options are better for the environment than single use cans. You won't remove 100% of the dust, but that's totally fine. Physically touching components...
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    Inverter & Power consumption

    That's like my total home consumption o_O I think your testing methodology is wrong
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    Windows Move Windows EFI

    With HDD, the data has to be physically moved to create free space at the beginning of the disk. Like on a book shelf you have to move all the books to the right, if you want to create space on the left. With SSD, the physical area where the data is actually stored is irrelevant, only the...
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    Windows Move Windows EFI

    Create a 100MB partition on SSD Clone the EFI partition from HDD to SSD using partition clone option, not disk clone
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    Warranty Claim for Used PC Components

    It is also summer now, so higher temps are expected in our tropical nation. 4k vs 1080p won't matter unless your friend was playing with Vsync enabled or fps capped on 1080p, the GPU would try to render as many frames as the CPU can push, i.e. it would always be running close to 100%
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    What to keep in mind before getting a fiber connection?

    As long as the device the fiber cable is connected to is powered, you will get internet. This might be in your home, or somewhere central. With copper connection, every switch/repeater needs to have backup. Since fibre can run longer, only the endpoints need power Cash paid to govt employess...
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    Car & Bike Which is good for your spine - Car or motorcycle?

    Glass is transparent. The colour is added to it. How is green better than other colours?
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    Windows Your preferred backup method for installed Windows 10

    Not backup TO a bootable USB, OP means they want to boot from a USB drive and image an Windows partition @OP Clonezilla is free, fast, and looks like DOS too. Used it as recently as a few days ago. I have an E2B USB drive containing multiple ISO utilites in case of emergency
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