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From https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Support/Warranty/Graphics-Card
Graphics cards: GIGABYTE provides 3 years warranty from the production date. The warranty applies exclusively to distributors and dealers. End users have to claim the RMA service through dealers where the product was purchased.
If the dealer won’t play ball raise it with E-Bay.
However it goes on to say
1st year please contact place of purchase. Years 2-3 contact returns@gbt-tech.co.uk directly. Repair or replace for same or better performance.
This is Les so it’s Linux. However IIRC he does have a small older Shuttle barebones so overheating could be an issue.
I don’t have a Linux PC any more so can’t test any of this, but this thread has some techniques for getting the temps out of an NVidia card http://tinyurl.com/y9x4xsh9
No they aren’t downloaded, the ad server isn’t even contacted. The Pi Hole sends back the internal stack IP (127.0.0.1) as the IP address of the ad server so your browser tries (and fails) to load the advert from your own device.
The opposite is true of browser ad blockers. They download the ad but just stop it displaying.
Bagged one. I have several TLC SSDs installed in “office” machines and they are perfectly OK.
I’ve been using KingSpec 128GB for £31 on Amazon (and the Drevo equivalents) with TimeTec Hynix ram for “office” type machines – including my own.
When the i7 920 arrived (bust RAID array, both HDDs – just ignore error messages until it won’t start at all…) I was surprised with just how sluggish it was (spare HDD put in). Of course it’s the spinner causing the issue but even with an SSD we decided to leave the Pentiums be, whereas the anticipation had been where would we best deploy it.
So a spare it is, but even then the gas guzzling graphics card was replaced with a spare GT 210. In it’s former life it started as a state of the art CAD machine!
I agree the price is about right. You have to remember just how old the i7 920 is, a £40 Pentium G4400 will show it a clean pair of heels in single threaded applications with a TDP of 54 watts vs 130 watts. The HD7870 is another electricity guzzler.
If you need the multi-threaded performance I’d swap the graphics card for a cheap GT710 .
If it’s just for an “office” type machine £220 buys you a new Punch Technology SFF G4400 / 4GB / 1TB from E-Buyer
Let’s put it this way, I have an almost identical spec machine donated to the charity I look after and it’s used as a spare. The main office machines are dual core Celerons or Pentiums with SSDs. There’s nothing wrong with it apart from it’s age, but don’t expect anything spectacular.
Well said Ed, I should have mentioned that.
Steve if you aren’t using SSH yet you probably should be, get Putty https://www.putty.org/ installed on a PC. Basically you put the Pi IP address in, answer a one time security question, then you get a command prompt presented to you. This will allow you to do all sorts of things, including shutting it down gracefully.
sudo shutdown now : pretty self explanatory
sudo shutdown -r now : -r means reboot
This is also how I update my RPI running the UniFi WiFi controller as it has no GUI, TBH it’s easier anyway.
sudo apt-get update : gets a new list of apps from the repositories
sudo apt-get upgrade : upgrade any apps that need it.
You can also get the latest RPi firmware by using
sudo apt-get install rpi-update && echo Y | sudo rpi-update
The RPi will start from power on – there is no power button – and pi hole starts itself.
This is an easier one, GDPR (and it’s predecessors which you should already be compliant with) are only interested in personally identifiable information i.e. it can be tied back to a person.
I seriously doubt you will be sending GA anything like that, but there’s a very good guide here
As long as it has at least a 30 day guarantee I’d go for it. That will give you plenty of time to run all the diagnostics you want.
TBH I haven’t had any ram issues since DDR3. These days I get the best deals from Amazon and lately that’s all been Timetec Hynix, both desktop and laptop. I don’t pay any attention to speed and latency, it’s all more than quick enough. It’s all coexisted with whatever ram was already in the systems.
Timetec have a lifetime guarantee and their website is along the lines of the big boys with a memory finder by system / mobo etc https://www.timetecinc.com/
There are some good alternatives posted here The one that looked interesting for you Pi owning Alexa using folks is MyMedia skill for Alexa @ £5 a year. You can use it on all the other o/ses too.
Us Synology owners have our own Alexa skill provided by Synology but it’s needs an SSL certificate which you can get free from Let’s Encrypt. All instructions at http://tinyurl.com/ydhyo7pc
If it’s technically possible I would consider forcing a one off permission seeking event for everyone the first time they visit after you’ve implemented.
I’ve been doing some research for the small businesses I look after. I’ve attended webinars from people like BitDefender, Hikvision and Synology. It’s nothing to panic about and all common sense. There’s a lot of scaremongering about too. I’m sure you’re doing all of the techie things already, the bit that’s usually missing is formal documentation of your procedures (this basically shows you’ve thought about it and done something about it).
Get permissions (T & Cs) for what you want to do and only do that. Only collect the information that you need to do that.
Keep peoples data safe by doing all you can to protect it from the bad guys, that means keeping security patches up to date, firewalls and AV. It also means user IDs and passwords at your end as well as ours. For backups to places like my server or Dropbox etc. encrypt them and password protect them.
Formally ask me what my procedures are for compliance on my server that you’re storing the encrypted backups on. If any data breach could be traced to me you’d be covered, but then as it’s encrypted and password protected then even if someone got at the backups there’s sod all they could do with it any way.
Having PayPal deal with the financial transactions is a huge tick. If you can’t trust them to do all of the above then who could you trust? and you won’t be holding any sensitive data yourself.
From the Forumite side I’d say you have very little to be worried about hosting a community forum where the only transactions are from people volunteering donations via PayPal.
As I said earlier, login to Chrome on a PC then open up Gmail. On the left the big GMAIL in red is a drop down box. The other options are Contacts and Tasks.
On your phone you should already have a Contacts app, but the full blown Contacts you install and get to can get to from gmail. Touch the hamburger menu to open the sidebar and scroll down.
But as Duke says, organising list is a lot easier on the PC. Chrome is your gateway to the Google world IF you sign into it.
I’ve only ever let Google look after my contacts and I’ve never lost any, how were you saving contacts before? It may be they are still there wherever that is. May be they needed transferring to Google?
If you log into Chrome on with your google account you can see what contacts Google has attached to your account. It’s also a lot easier to import contacts from there, they’ll then be synced to your phone.
Whatever I doubt it’s due to petulance on Google’s part.
PiHole up and running and integrated into the network via DHCP server settings. I’ve just ordered an Active PoE Splitter 48V to 5V 2.4A £8 on Amazon so I can hide it in the network cabinet.
It’s working well and things are definitely snappier compared to Adblock software. It’s amazing how many queries are being blocked.
Well spotted, I didn’t notice. I don’t think they are related as Truecaller is Swedish and TrueCall was founded by Steven Smith which sounds pukka British.
Richard, there’s a good TechRadar review that goes into the features I have forgotten as we don’t use them.
BT do a DECT handset, the BT8500, which uses TrueCall even though they call it BT Call Guardian. It does away with the extra box and builds the Truecall features into the base station. They do cheaper BT “Nuisance Call Blocker” DECT phones but I don’t think these are TrueCall as they use a BT blacklist.
It’s https://www.truecall.co.uk
£98 on amazon
I have the standalone system and the only number lists it looks at are your own. There is no central pubic black list.
You can manage your lists and look at your call history from a cloud app (it sends call data to a server) and it was useful during the first free year but not worth paying for. By that time our lists were pretty stable.
We found that black listing junk calls was mostly a waste of time as they change numbers. The fact they are asked to identify themselves is enough to make them give up. One brave soul did try it once and that’s in 3 or 4 years.
My Pi is sat there doing sod all, might give this a go.
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