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    PS3 Controller with Windows

    Not really possible without downloading something that's basically spywareand/or malware. (Motioninjoy) If you've got a PS4 controller on hand those just work without anything special.
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    Don't know much about the PSU game. How much power do I need for 8 SATA drives?

    I rather doubt it was overloaded. I've got a 550W PSU in a machine with 1x SSD and 8x HDD's. Never sees more than ~300W at the wall according to the UPS. (that's full cpu load with the drives being written to, rather rare)
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    Chromecast, Monitor and HDMI Audio Extractor

    HDMI audio extractors are a bit of a mixed bag. I've used a couple in the past (one built into the switch, currently have a standalone one) and in both cases the Cromecast just plain wouldn't work. Not sure if that's the audio extractor or the odd setup i've got going on though. my setup...
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    M.2 SSD from laptop to desktop?

    Define: M.2 There's two main types of m.2 drives, one that speaks SATA and one that speaks PCIe, that adapter only works on the ones that speak SATA (and it's keyed for either sata or PCIe... very naughty)
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    Is there a way for me to fit a 2280 M.2 in MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC (Supports 2242 and 2260)?

    Slight necrobump here but the part arrived today, I can confirm that it will fit on the motherboard fine. I don't (yet) have a m.2 drive to put in there though.
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    Why are Android phones so unreliable?

    That has NOTHING to do with android or the Pixel hardware. That could have just as easily happend to just about any other phone by the looks of it as it was a software screwup. (*not* the phone's software either)
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    Is there a way for me to fit a 2280 M.2 in MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC (Supports 2242 and 2260)?

    1: Re-read what I said, those terms aren't mutually exclusive. 2: So what? Try and find somewhere to buy that, it doesn't exist as far as google shopping is concerned, I already ran into that one.
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    Leave BluRay as MKV or convert to MP4

    Plex doesn't care at all about the container provided it can read it fine. I would personally run it out as MKV that way you could include subtitles should one need them in the future.
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    Is there a way for me to fit a 2280 M.2 in MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC (Supports 2242 and 2260)?

    I have one of these on order from China (via Amazon) as I have the same board and the same problem. It may do the trick given there isn't any chips on the bottom but I haven't gotten the part yet. (it won't get here until next month sometime) The problem with that is that PCIe 2260 m.2 drives...
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    Image backup

    There's also fsarchiver if you're running one of the supported filesystems. It can be run from a running system but that's in the very much so not recommended department. (files changing underneath the thing running and all that) That one's more partition imaging than drive imaging though.
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    Recommendations Needed - HTPC - Micro/Mini ATX - Low Profile Case/Mobo/PSU Combo

    ITX boards only come with one PCIe slot, period. Size restrictions and all of that. Agreed, with no games being played then onboard will be plenty. Heck, it'll also expose QuickSync to the OS wherein running any kind of video card shuts that off. (quicksync is on the onboard gpu, takes...
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    Why are Android phones so unreliable?

    Yeah.. there's reasons I haven't sold or given away my old LG G2 and have been dragging it out and re-flashing it every once in a while to keep it up to date. (been getting hard to find roms given it's the sprint spec version) Though that wouldn't be a sim swap but same diff. Keeping a backup...
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    Updated 4 computers in my house to Win10 1703

    I'm just going to wait until it's pushed down on me. I remember reading something about how your privacy settings get reset if you manually update. Having said that, one of my three machines has been updated, the Dell Venue 11 Pro (7140), sucked down the update after last week after doing the...
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    Need a PCIe wireless card for gaming

    Seconded.. Gaming and wifi are mutually exclusive terms just about. Wifi is extra latency and a bunch of other fun stuff like interference causing dropped packets.
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    Windows 10 Blu-Ray playback

    Doesn't crack the encryption and like Domingo said menus are non-functional. (kind of understandable given they use BD-J which is a java stack)
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