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    Plugging UPS into non-grounded outlet

    That's a reasonable way to ground a breaker box, as long as that pipe is metal (looks like it) and goes into the ground. Some places code always requires a separare grounding rod, some places either way is fine, there's probably some places that require grounding this way.
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    Plugging UPS into non-grounded outlet

    I think it varies, but it's at least preferred to have all your electrical grounds connected to one place. Grounding through pipes in some places and your system ground in others is not ideal. Some systems will ground the panel with a grounding rod and some ground through a water pipe... some...
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    UPS battery shopping - what specs do I need, etc.

    Having volume and being around means they probably aren't terrible. If you didn't get good batteries from them, you wouldn't order from there again. UPS batteries aren't a big niche to find new customers with, so I don't think you'd put your name on the batteries if they were crap (you could...
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    Is Microsoft Fixing Windows 11 or Making It Worse?

    Assuming you're behind a nat, you'll probably be fine. Except, IIRC, Windows XP needs a hotfix or it can't process the massive size of the update db. I don't know if they ever figured out how to send that update first.
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    Surround Sound System Speaker advice.

    If I understand crossover settings correctly (which yeah, i probably don't)... This seems like you have a hole betwen 120-250 ? Incidentally, your rears probably can go lower than your fronts. If it's not too much trouble you might try swapping them and see if you like that better.
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    Surround Sound System Speaker advice.

    Also, since you can't use the LFE in port on the sub, so you probably can't have the filter bypass on, make sure the crossover control on the sub is all the way up --- the receiver will handle crossover, the sub shouldn't need to. With those speakers, I would expect the crossover set as high as...
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    Is Microsoft Fixing Windows 11 or Making It Worse?

    Yeah, that's why there's MATE which is basically gnome before they threw it all in the trash. The microsoft problem is the faster/better way to do things is always the old way. They eliminated the Software Development Engineer in Test position in 2014 and now you get half-ass shit all over the...
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    UPS battery shopping - what specs do I need, etc.

    I try to order from https://www.upsbatterycenter.com Most of their batteries are whitelabeled, which means they've got to have some volume. Support is helpful.
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    Surround Sound System Speaker advice.

    How broken is the old receiver? Can you get the setup/eq settings off of it? I feel like if used to sound good and all you did is change the receiver, you should be able to get it to sound good again. Unless you blow them out or otherwise mistreat them, speakers aren't really a wear item that...
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    *Free* full tower brand new white tower and 360mm AIO Gigabyte

    Ok well cause OC is betterer. And cause some people want to live near were they could go see Santa in the summertime... and they stayed after santa's village closed? (I moved up north a few decades ago, but grew up in OC)
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    Should desktop computer plugged into UPS show "laptop" battery indicator?

    They've got the self-test, but either it works for 10 seconds and switches back, or it falls over and your computer has a hard stop (unless you setup a test lamp instead). But you don't get a full picture in 10 seconds.
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    Should desktop computer plugged into UPS show "laptop" battery indicator?

    Yes. With your computer connected to the UPS data port, the computer can get a reading for battery % and projected runtime. In a user friendly OS, that will be displayed the same way as on a laptop. Because it's basically the same thing. Edit: for forced battery test. Put a dummy load like a...
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    ...the 10-25GbE rabbit hole... moving fast storage off the main system.

    When you say 'not ethernet cable', you're mistaken. Ethernet runs on many media: thicknet, thinnet, twisted pair, DAC, fiber, actual ether (wifi is wireless ethernet), and if you want to be exotic you can probably use ir or free air lasers. You're looking at 10g/25g ethernet. 10G can run on...
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    30 years of N64 - LGR retrospective

    I mean... n64 and ps1 were both pretty trash graphics wise; but they were different trash. And load times or small/expensive games, pick your poison. Some gems on both platforms. I've got no love for 3d platformers though :p
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    AT&T Eliminating Copper Landlines by 2029

    I live near Seattle. People near me were claiming 20-40ms pings on starlink when it was first widely available. My DSL pings were like 18 ms throughout the day (except when the dslam had no utility power). Low earth orbit isn't that far away, and I think most land based users wouldn't have much...
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