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My 2019 TV recognises a USB stick but tells you it’s not suitable for use (the streaming thing). An external HDD would need it’s own power supply, but then that applies to all situations.

The press the buttons thing on the adapters is a one time only job to get them to connect to each other securely (early plugs were open by default). Once the LED for that has lit they’re working, not that it matters if you go through the process again.

So if the Home network light is on and the Ethernet light is out then it’s the cable or the TV. If it is the Ethernet then a WiFi adapter wouldn’t work either for the same reason. BTW the Sky adapter (I had one) is nothing special, a TP-LINK TL-WA901ND in Client mode is cheaper and better.

It’s easy to check the cable by swap out and for the adapter, just move the it to your PC (you won’t have to press the buttons again). It is starting to sound like the TV but an alternative to buying another is to use a Roku or similar device to add smart functionality that only needs HDMI to be working.

 

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Just seen this NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan. Here we go, our Govt’s track record on getting software right vs the people who’s product it is.

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It’s Brexit all over again, there is no plan just a smoke screen for why there isn’t. We are being led by resources, not the science.

Meanwhile history is being rewritten and “science” is the scapegoat, not that we know where the science is coming from. That’s a secret.

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I never did get to grips with Win 8, I avoided it as much as possible.

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Yep, they are crap.

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It wouldn’t be for anything vaguely quality. When I bought my first Pi 3 years ago I bought a camera module, I may do something with that, see if I can DIY a Facebook Portal. Clearly they wouldn’t be up to that but I have 2 Pi’s spare and using one of those paper models blown up is an attractive idea.

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I’ve been tempted to get one of the Pi’s out for a project but I’ve been keeping them in reserve in case they’re needed as VPN servers. However the Synology NAS have been fulfilling that role very well so I’ve not need to.

Didn’t know about Stemma speakers, look like they could be useful.

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With Rufus you have full control over GPT etc. but getting the TV to format it is a good idea.

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Don’t worry about the scsci bit, it’s not actually a scsi drive, it’s a USB drive, but different USB controllers seem to present drives in different ways. I’ve heard of this happening more on USB 3 ports, plug it into a USB 2 port and it’ll probably show differently.

NTFS that will probably be the show stopper and formatting it as FAT32 should sort that, but you’ll need to use a third party app to do it. I use Rufus.

EDIT – there is a reason why you have you use an SSD or spinner, they can accept video streams natively which “thumb drives” cannot as they lack the instruction set.

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I wonder if its the lack of face masks rather than their efficacy that’s guiding things?

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Very close but no cigar.

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Nice. it’s much smaller than I thought it would be.

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Nice to know there’s still some decent tradesmen about.

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Look at laptop prices and availability.

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This is the main route into the city from our side of town, the Stoke Gifford Bypass. It goes straight down to the M32 and is used by the Metro buses. Normally I struggle to cross this road at any time of day. This was 11am on Sunday and in normal times on a day like this the bus stop would have a gaggle of people waiting to get into the centre and have a wander around the docks, get some street food and have a few beers in the sunshine.

This gives you an idea how far out I am, on the left is the valley going into Bristol which is way out of sight. The buildings on the horizon are the University of the West of England (UWE) student village. Now being used by NHS workers as there’s a new Nightingale Hospital in the UWE conference centre. Thankfully currently empty.

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I have some linux docker installations, but installed from scripts. They work so I haven’t felt the need to poke about.

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I used to love mucking about with it, see what patterns appeared.

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Our once new house turned out to be a contractors Friday afternoon job in electrics and plumbing. Nowhere near as bad as yours but after 19 years I think we’ve finally replaced them all with what should have been there in the first place. The water meter was a particularly nasty installation which we couldn’t do anything about until we had the kitchen replaced and the room stripped to a shell. The old wiring got dumped too, the electrician was amazed it had held up so long and there were plenty of blackened terminals about. :negative:

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It certainly will.

The beauty of StoreMI is that it manages what you’re using most in that particular time period. It can use up to 256GB of fast storage so there’s room for plenty of stuff, especially as it operates at a sector level so only the relevant parts of a file are cached. It knows not to bother with files that won’t benefit, like music and video for streaming.

Both machines were for young gamers and the feedback is they’ve forgotten it’s there – it just works. No more having your whole Steam library on the faster storage. If you’ve stop playing a game it will quietly be dropped off the NVMe if something more worthy comes along.

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That’s the one. If you add a spinner look at the new version of the free AMD StoreMI software when it’s released. Basically it combines the SSD and spinner into one drive and keeps the sectors that warrant the fastest access on the SSD.

I’ve installed it twice now for customers and it works a treat. None of my PCs need an upgrade yet so I’m not using it personally.

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