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In my country we mainly use this type of plug and the standard voltage is 240V.

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Yep british Type-G. Only the brits can come up with something like this. This thing is called the commonweath socket.

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Oh wow, I did think only us (Britain) and India did use this crap. This thing is heavy and difficult to pack - I love american plugs.

Oh wow, I did think only us (Britain) and India did use this crap. This thing is heavy and difficult to pack - I love american plugs.

India has its own plug. Looks basically the same just with round tips.

Changed driver from HD Audio (HDA) to Universal Audio (UAD) on Win10. The biggest benefit is the installation size went down from 400+MB to only 98MB.

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Dafuq!? Those government personnel who had berated me for using the "substandard" LibreOffice before, none of them have MS Office installed on their own department's computers. Instead they are using WPS Office, which I believe is related to Kingsoft Office. If they aren't willing to pay for Microsoft's suite, what right do they have to dictate what office suite I'm using!?

This post has been edited by hujan86: Aug 8 2018, 15:36

Dafuq!? Those government personnel who berated me for using the "substandard" LibreOffice, none of them have MS Office installed on their own department's computers. Instead they are using WPS Office, which I believe is related to Kingsoft Office. If they aren't willing to pay for Microsoft's suite, what right do they to dictate what office suite I'm using!?

Even worse- they're government employees using Chinese software.

What's the difference I wonder?

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Complaints about incomplete finalized File Explorer dark theme draws ire from Microsoft developers

Suck it up, Microsoft. You're a business corporation that aims to make more and more money for shareholders, not a non-profit organization in charge of a community project.

Yep british Type-G. Only the brits can come up with something like this. This thing is called the commonweath socket.

Those plugs are a lot safer and can handle a lot more current draw than american plugs.
Those and europlug types (there are variations country-to-country in mainland europe) are both a lot nicer than our american sockets except when it comes to physical size.

Changed driver from HD Audio (HDA) to Universal Audio (UAD) on Win10. The biggest benefit is the installation size went down from 400+MB to only 98MB.

I am amazed that people will stomach a single audio driver coming with all of that extra bloat.
That goes for the 98 MB driver, too. It has no business being that size. Usually it is possible to get far smaller drivers by unpacking the installers and not installing the GUI configuration tools, but I don't use Windows anymore so it's not my problem anymore.

The grand total size of all of the drivers I have on my system, including the drivers that I don't actually need because I don't have the hardware which would require them, is 222MB.

The total for all of the drivers for different Intel HDA chipsets, including the ones I don't have, is 1.1MB.

My HDA driver alone? That's 176 KB.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 10 2018, 20:57

Solved the performance issue on Outlook.com by installing Pale Moon 28 (Beta5).

I wonder if Opus is now good enough for 5.1 "complex" audios? E.g. movie audios, not just music.

I wonder if its worth buying a laptop with an i7 8750h, it looks like a relatively energy efficient hexacore.

Would I use the laptop though? Also do I have the cash?

I accidentally deleted Microsoft office 2010 and cant get to work on my excel files anymore.
how to fix it.

How does one "accidentally delete" Microsoft Office from his PC?

My TV may die soon.The power charge much faster, but then there's this weird sound and this image deformation.
I liked the good old box thing, not sure if I will be able to find a replacement that would not be a damn flat thingy, that would take the first opportunity to do an acrobatic diving before crashing on the ground, splitting in billions pieces (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Watch the movie about a ugly men having sex with a beauty lady

I wish trump, pence, ryan and hatch had heart attacks.

My TV may die soon.The power charge much faster, but then there's this weird sound and this image deformation.
I liked the good old box thing, not sure if I will be able to find a replacement that would not be a damn flat thingy, that would take the first opportunity to do an acrobatic diving before crashing on the ground, splitting in billions pieces (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

You mean you like tube TV's?
Your symptoms sound like those of a failing flyback transformer coil. If you can still find the coil for your TV, it's repairable.
If it's not the transformer, or if the image is deformed horizontally instead of vertically, it could be either capacitors or the Horizontal Output Transistor (HOT).
Most electronics repair shops will know what these things mean if they are worth their stuff.
If you want to find a new tube TV, you're out of luck. The last manufacturer of color CRT's that I know of was Conrac, and they went out of business in the last three years or so. If you are OK with working used ones, go around garage sales and craigslist and you'll find one.

I myself have lots of 'em.


This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Aug 13 2018, 04:50

AMD's new Threadripper 2990X & 2950X CPUs are getting very positive reviews from many tech sites:
[wccftech.com] wccftech
[www.guru3d.com] Guru3D
[www.guru3d.com] Guru3D
[www.anandtech.com] AnandTech
[www.techspot.com] Techspot
[www.tweaktown.com] TweakTown
[hexus.net] Hexus
[www.eteknix.com] ETeknix
[www.techpowerup.com] TechPowerUp

Whenever I buy/build a new computer in 10 years or something, I hope there's a viable non-apple competitor to i386/amd64. I also hope computer building is still a thing and that laptops get thicker and sturdier again.

It's the end of Radeon as we know it. With Nvidia launching an onslaught with RTX2000 series while AMD delaying their Navi architecture to 2019 ad well as focusing on industrial and professional applications with their 7nm Vega, AMD will lose too much ground in the battle for the heart of gamers by the time they are ready with Navi.