Hi! Is it worth it to upgrade my Laptop

Specs: Acer Aspire E 14; E5-473G-33RT

I'm planning to do the ff upgrade

Storage: 1TB HDD to 512GB SSD Ram: 4gb to 8gb/16gb

It will be mostly used for CAD, Microsoft office, and not for gaming.

TIA!

So from my research the two important things to check is your ability to make phone calls and connect to the internet.

My phone, when connecting to the internet, has the option to support 2,3, and 4G. I have 4G enabled in this setting so this should be okay right?

The second thing is that calls need to be made over VOLTE. This is another setting my phone has and it's turned on (Can't turn it off actually).

So by my reckoning my LG Q7 should be okay for the transition. But when I go to amta.org.au and check it says my phone "will be affected", which isn't incorrect. I won't be able to use 3G anymore. That's being affected. But my phone carrier won't stop giving me 'reminders' about it.

So what the fuck am I looking for to ensure I'm okay?

I just want to make a share that is accessible on windows to anybody on the network. i have turned on/off in every combination in the network sharing advanced settings, i have done anything possible and tested on all devices. i can see it in my web browser locally but not on any other device on the network. i am all out of ideas please help? i have pinged using the computer name and received reply so its definitely connected, ive enabled smbv1.

This questions sounds kind of silly, and I don’t know if this is the correct subreddit. Is there a device that can play a small list of songs. I want something that could constantly play or just plays while I’m in my room. Kind of like a theme in a video game sound track. Thanks ahead of time.

Help🙃 I can’t find out hot to remove suggested accounts on instagram. Every time I go to search something up there’s always accounts at the bottom. Anyone knows?

TLDR: What are some good options for digital note taking for someone like me who likes to doodle and hand write things? What about ai assistants or tools for productivity?

I talked to a guy recently who was using some sort of special tablet that allowed him to take notes by hand and then converted them to text files he could email or add to OneNote. I can’t remember the name of the device but it looked like a cool use of technology that could help me stay on top of my work life.

He also talked about using Notes Assistant on his Samsung phone but didn’t have much feedback yet since he just got it. He said he’d tried a couple others but wasn’t happy with them.

I’m a heavy user of onenote but I’ve never had a tablet to see how it responds to handwritten notes. I’ve tried the Teams note taker function but it was really bad with technical jargon and acronyms, especially when anyone on the call had an accent.

I’m in a place in life where I can afford to try a couple things. It’s nice and I’d like to invest in some tools that will help me be more productive. I don’t plan to try to do more, I just want to have an easier time keeping up and maintaining a good lifestyle.

Basically, I want to get a complete list of every single book title that references Virginia Woolf, as well as every book attributed to her, from Goodreads. Is there anything that could do that for me automatically so I wouldn't have to go to each page one by one and make the list myself?

I actually thought I had installed all the necessary files to get the program running, but I get this notification, can someone with some experience please tell me exactly what the problem is and what I have to do to solve it? https://ibb.co/JKSTrgD

Hi i wanna create an IT-onboarding form that can be connected to our internal portal.

Preferably with connected questionaire similar to the one that you can do in forms but needs to be able to be downloaded preferably in PDF if its possible. anyone stumbled across a site/app that can do this?

Would prefer if it was free since i only need to do one of theese. or if there is any good template that you know of.

I just received an External Harddrive (from Hurricane) and when i want to use it on my Laptop it just shut off and wont turn on again is there a Way to fix that?

I want to buy a phone with good performance, good battery life and a good camera. I don't have a budget, but I want my phone to fulfill the criterias.

My choice for now is nothing phone 2, but is it worth to buy in 2024?

Ik the title might be confusing but for starters. I have a Wi-Fi router in my house and my mother likes to remove the cord from it every night and put it in her closet to prevent us from playing in the night. She’s been doing that for about 4-5 months and I’ve started to realize that the internet has started to slow down dramatically and I suspect that it might be due to my mom unplugging it each night and I was just here to confirm my suspicions if it’s because of her or not

I think I've understood how LLM such as ChatGPT work, by choosing the word with the highest probability to be here to add to a sentence. Was it the same mechanism for the first chatbots, or is this an improvement? Thank you for you answers!

I am senior management with a national Canadian Charity - and I am looking for some help / suggestions when it comes to staff clocking in and out and what may be available as options...

I am hoping someone can suggest something... Here is what we're looking for: we are looking to have staff track hours, by having them sign in and out by either: scanning a barcode ID card OR use ID Swipe Cards to clock in and out using software (not a traditional time clock unit as everyone is remote - it would need to be PC based, and by USB. I did see some options available)

Does anyone have any suggestions or questions?

My wifi connection drops drastically or disconnects when i plug in my laptop to the tv with an hdmi cable. I was using an old cable and run into the same problem with a new cable.

It is 100% the cable as i have tested it quite a few times and happens as soon as i plug it in. I just updated my amd drivers as well.

The main solution i saw online was a new cable but the problem still persisted for me

Not strictly a tech support question, but why does it seem like people migrated from VGA to HDMI (and now to DisplayPort) and skipped DVI? Was it just not that good at all or why would people not want to use it?

So I just got a samsung z flip4 and I've been having this problem when I connect the phone to the aux port of my car where my spotify will randomly skip songs and pause, meanwhile the volume goes kinda haywire and maxes out, and OK Google gets triggered. It's an old car so not using Android Auto. Any help? Thanks

Hello, this is my first Reddit post and I hope it's up to snuff.

The rural camp where I go has trees between the structure and the nearest cell tower. Connectivity is fine about 100 yards away but not inside or next to the camp. If I walk about 25 yards to a country lane, the signal gets strong enough for talk, data, and text. This country lane creates a wide alley away from trees.

Which method would you choose for improving cell connectivity in this scenario? I've found a cell signal booster antenna for about $120 and I've found a refurbished Nighthawk hot spot device for about the same price. Trying to keep it low budget. There's a mix of AT&T and Verizon phones needing connectivity and no internet available in the area so WiFi is not an option.

Appreciate any feedback and thanks for your time with reading this :-)

I have a Dell XPS 13 that only has USB-C ports, and a Dell monitor from 2016-ish. The monitor has ports for HDMI, VGA, and DisplayPort, as well as a few USB 3 ports along the side. I want to make a setup where I can plug one cable into my laptop, and have both my laptop start charging, and have my screen extend to the monitor. Is this possible on this kind of a monitor, or would I need a newer USB-C monitor?

For my birthday I received a landline phone as a prop decoration, but I thought it would be pretty cool to use that decoration in some of my ttrpg sessions.

I'm looking for a way to use either a raspberry pi or a laptop to ring the phone, and when picked up it will play pre-recorded audio.

Bonus points if the solution also allows me to record the player's responses spoken into the phone.

I have seen that there are USB to landline jack adapters so I assume that will be necessary, but I have no idea what software to look for or if I might need to roll my own in this scenario.

If a business changes their internet provider and use 365 for email, will the password change for their email access?

I want to delete website accounts that i do not use for a security reason but as i used my email for quite some time there is many sites that are connected to it which i forgot about. So help me please

A heads-up for anyone using The Unarchiver on macOS—there’s a new malware threat that’s been discovered targeting this app. This could potentially compromise user data. What are your thoughts on this? Anyone taking extra precautions? Let’s chat about it in the comments.

I just got scammed by a person selling clothes. She promised to send me the clothes but she never did. I just found out that there were some other people who got scammed by this person too. All we have are the Facebook accounts she used to talk to us and her bank account information (we live in Vietnam). Do you guy have any advice on how to disclose her IP address and real address and so we can contact the police and bring her to court? Thank you for any insights :)

I didn't know where else to go to ask this question. I just bought a phone and I can't set it up after it's been factory reset.

When I boot it up, it gives me the usual greeting, asks me to insert a SIM card and then tells me to begin the transfer process, here's where the issue is.

Let's say I press "don't copy", it asks me for the last used PIN on the phone, something I have no way of knowing. It also gives me the option to "Use my Google Account instead" whick prompts me to enter a google account that was previously entered on the device and irs password, again, which I have no way of knowing.

At this point it also gives me an opfion incase I "Forgot email" which prompts me to enter a phone number or recovery email. To my knowledge, no matter what I enter here it won't do anything.

Let's say I press continue on the transfer process, it then prompts me to pick a backup from the cloud or an iPhone. Picking the iPhone option just prompts me to enter the PIN again. Same with the cloud.

The phone is unusable without managing to establish contact with the previous owner or brute-forcing a PIN. At this point I'm willing to reinstall the OS if that would make it work.

Apologies for any typos or grammar mistakes. Your help would be much appreciated.

hey there! i know this might be a little irrelevant but i wanted to ask if by any chance anyone knows if its possible to recover photos from shoebox or an alternative? i just noticed it shut down in 2019 and i had over 7000 pictures :’) if anyone can help me that’d be great!

I am a 2nd year engineering student and going to participate in a hackathon . The selection round involves presentation of idea , so I am looking for ideas for a project that I can do . The different domains from which I can choose an idea are: AI & ML , blockchain , Iot, robotics and open innovation (integrating diverse technologies and solving real world problems) . Please suggest me some ideas that I can put forward Thanks

Can anyone suggest how to get static ip? Contacted airtel and jio but they are asking for more than 3000 inr per month.

I am in search of a multi-channel video scaler with rca-av, coaxial, and HDMI inputs with a single HDMI output. Does such a piece of equipment exist?

Long story short, for whatever reason, I was banned from the site. My best guess is that someone was maliciously reporting me repreadedtly, eventually leading to a permanent ban. And now, it seems like I can't use the app on my phone at all, since every time I log in with an account on my phone, it gets banned. What can I do about this? I have this account on my PC, but how do I use the app on my phone again?