Because all the other explanations I’ve read have made me feel stupid. And I’m starting to think I am.

Hello!

I am wondering if anyone has used a wireless HDMI for gaming? I am only a casual gamer, but I am still interested to know if anyone has used one and has any experiences with lag?

(Xbox series S)

ASKING FOR HELP/BEGINNER NOOB to A.I. and ML (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) I know what A.I can and is used for, but I don’t have a strong understanding of the benefits it can provide

I am not in the tech field and I don’t create content for a living. I enjoy posting on different social media platforms and love to stream video games. I want to understand A.I. I want to know how to create prompts. It would be great to know some practical uses of these programs to maybe make my life easier (I do have an iPhone and gaming PC, and Apple products, but live in condo so my home isn’t all wired up electronically) and also maybe some uses geared towards just for fun.

I don’t really know where to start. I have ChatGPT on my phone, I do have Siri (iPhone), and I have X Premium (which I think means I have access to Grok.

Is there a certain use case scenarios one would use a specific A.I program for some things and another if you are trying to achieve something else? Do they all more or less produce similar results (maybe minor differences) or are some better than others. I looked at some pricing tiers and shocked to see how much some people pay per month to have unlimited queries, etc

I’ll be honest, I know what a prompt is, but don’t know, if there are any, certain rules or guidelines to follow when starting off with one (wording, what’s allowed, language or terms more friendly to help me get what I am looking for or terminology that I should avoid)?? Is it good to always add a photo? Can you add audio to a prompt (say I wanted a program to alter a song or something audio)?

I know this post is vague and a little all over, but just trying to get some assistance. I also know this specific community is meant specifically for the Grok (X) application, but after reading through some posts in other communities, this community seems a little more welcoming to people who have no idea how to use A.I and others can be pretty hurtful and discouraging when asking questions

TLDR: Give me some tips/tricks and helpful advice to assist me in learning and using different A.I Applications. Mainly use my IPhone 17 Pro Max, but I do have a M4 MacBook Pro and a gaming pc (5080). I mention specs because I know sometimes that matters in what you are trying to accomplish.

Thanks again

Hello, I'm soon finishing high school and I'm planning to enroll a university (Information Design). I grew up with a charger-bound thinkpad that smelled like burned plastic and death after 15 minutes of watching youtube. I thought about buying a Macbook M3 16/256gb (I'd be using stuff like Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator). I understand that 256gb is small. I have a PC I use for games and it takes a big chunk of my storage. So I obviously thought about buying a 1tb external ssd to have for my Macbook. Nope. Literally everywhere I went people were BAWLING about how horrible that is, god forbid, carrying a 150 gram plate along with your laptop, so inconvenient! Why? What's so wrong about external SSDs? I'm on a tight budget so I REALLY don't want to pay 200$ for a storage upgrade.

Hey everyone!

So I accidentally deleted a Widget. Now when I try to get it back, it doesn't show up, I only see strange AI widgets, and no widgets from Apps I actually have. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks!

(Ps: phone is a Xiaomi 14T)

I am thinking to turn my old phone into a second processor for my old laptop, what do you think is it possible??

I accidentally stepped on my chromebook many years ago and half the screen is just black now. I wish to still use it. It’s still useable now I just can’t see half the screen lol. Everywhere I’ve brought they told me I should just get a new one but I have pictures and videos on this chromebook. Is there really no way to change out the screen part?

I’m looking to get adaptive TV backlight for my boyfriend for christmas. he has a lg 55” oled tv and wants adaptive lights he can use with his ps5, but also native with netflix and disney plus ect. He doesn’t really want a camera either. any recommendations

Hey guys,

I would like to remote video chat my grandmother with my family. She is in an assisted living home 14 hours away and can barely work a t.v. remote. Is there anyway I can set it up so i can accept the call on my end? Possibly make calls to others so she can see her friends faces again too? Preferably through facebook messenger. I plan to get her a starlink mini and a battery back-up incase of a power outtage, as i cant always make the drive out to fix it. My parents live close to her, but never visit.

Thank you!

I've been using Google Calendar for years until dumping all my big three apps - I have Fossify Calendar now with DavX5 syncing my CalDav calendars hosted on Thundermail to both my Android app and to Thunderbird client on desktop.

Since I've only worked with one massive calendar before, and I now have limitless calendar options, I'm just wondering how everyone organizes there's. Obviously I created my main personal calendar + one work calendar.

Work I'm okay with being a catch all calendar because we have other in-house methods to track appointments and events, but I'm wondering how to organize my personal stuff: do I make separate calendars for medical appointments, gym day schedules, a separate one for contacts' birthdays, one for anniversaries, etc? Or do you use mostly one calendar with different colors for different categories?

Different colors is what I used with Google Calendar but it's a little irritating to get the same color to populate on both the Thunderbird side and Fossify side. I guess a benefit of separate calendars would be easily filtering (hide calendar in Thunderbird or Fossify is a toggle right up front) them so it's less visually packed.

Curious what your organization method and workflow is!

I'm interested in more than whether phones secretly record conversations for advertising. There are documented cases of mass surveillance, opaque data collection and corporate misuse, yet the full extent of these practices is often difficult to establish independently.

My broader question is: when powerful institutions have both incentives to exploit data and the technical or legal means to conceal how they do so, how should we assess the likelihood and scale of undiscovered abuse?

Does increasing technological complexity and opacity make systematic underestimation more likely? And if independent verification has fundamental limits, what does meaningful freedom look like ~ better regulation and transparency, alternative technologies, or reducing our dependence on connected systems altogether?

I'm interested in empirical evidence, technical counterarguments and philosophical perspectives, particularly on how to distinguish reasonable precaution from unjustified suspicion.

When I Google my own name or ID, certain likes and comments I made in the past still appear in the search results, even after I’ve deleted the comments from the original platform.

How can I remove this information from Google’s search results? Also, how can I ensure that my past likes, comments, and other personal information do not appear when someone searches for me on Google in the future?

That’s the type I prefer to have, but AT&T has shutoff 2G, so I need something else.

I have tried finding an appropriate subreddit for this question for a while, so I hope this is the right one. Christmas is coming up, and my father needs a new tablet. He is an android guy, so no iOS, to my dismay (because there are so many android tablet options compared to Apple). He uses his tablet for Clash of Clans gaming, but before clash of clans started to take up so much space he would use his tablet for emails and business. But he somehow deleted everything off the tablet to make space for clash of clans. That’s all he does on the tablet. And his tablet is probably around 10 years old. I’m not sure how much storage it has, but no more than 64gb currently. And it’s sooooo slow. And he’s been dreaming about getting a new one and I would like to gift him one.

He has talked about wanting a larger tablet, and one that is faster, and has more storage so he can return to using it for emails and business. Android OS of course. He does have a Samsung phone, and his currently tablet may be a Tab A of some sort.

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations. I wasn’t really interested in buying a 1200 USD top of the line S series tablet, as all he uses it for is Clash of Clans and emails, but I’ve been struggling to find something that would work for his needs. And there are so many brands and options.

Anyway, any help is best. Thanks!

Hello, I struggle with technology and am trying to change the name that pops up when using personal hotpot on my Iphone for privacy reasons. Right now it’s (“my name’s hotspot”) and I just don’t like other people in public places can see that. Can anyone advise me on how to change this? Thank you in advance!

I currently have McAfee installed on my laptop, and I’ve been wondering if paying for an antivirus is actually worth it or if I’m just wasting my money.

I mainly use my laptop for university work, programming, and personal entertainment, like watching movies and TV shows. I don’t do anything particularly advanced when it comes to cybersecurity, but I do download files and tools occasionally for my projects and other stuff.

I’ve heard that Windows Defender has gotten pretty good over the years, so I’m wondering if there’s any real reason to keep paying for McAfee.

Would switching to Windows Defender be enough for my use case, or does McAfee offer meaningful extra protection that I’d be giving up?

If you dont want to or cant use discord what could you use? I tried stoat and some other apps i also saw like Root that was popping up online but there is not much apps that you could use for just generally talking, sending images, screen sharing and ect. I dont really care about discord servers much so i left it. And now when i play something or am in a call with friends its either Viber (main app in our country which has kinda all that but the quality is questionable) and Steam voice calls which is okay when it works (sometimes it wont connect) but no screen sharing. I never really used skype myself as my parents used it back in the day, and it seemed to me like a great app...Nowdays there is so much copies of discord and all that im not sure what to use?

Not really sure where to post this so it's going in this sub-reddit.

My MS (Microsoft) account was hacked recently and the hacker changed the password AND email address. Now when I try to login with my original email address it says "We couldn't find a Microsoft account. Try entering your details again, or create an account."

I've gone through the usual account recovery methods and have (multiple times) completed the MS account recovery form.

What else can I do to get my account back or is it a lost cause ?

Also, during the recovery form, I've recently gotten an email saying this "We recently received a request to recover your Microsoft account ja**6@dropbuoys.live. Unfortunately, we have determined that the information you provided was not sufficient for us to validate your account ownership. We take the security and privacy of our customers very seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information."

I've already given all the info I can, past passwords, the payment details, ect.

- If this is the wrong subreddit to be posting this, kindly redirect me to a better place for this post.

Hi guys, Where i work we have 3 Bizerba SC II 800 7" scales. Every week we get an list of products to add to scales. Process of adding all the products manually is tedious and very boring. I was wondering is there any way of sending data to the scales from a Laptop. I read somewhere that you can do it through FTP but I cant find any guide to doing so, and i dont want to mess something up. Does anyone have any experience with doing it?

Thanks in advance

I want to play videogames while completely laying in bed and absolutely looking to the ceiling.

Options

1. AR glasses. The drawback is I don't know if I will get eye fatigue after a few hours.

2. 15 inch monitor with a monitor holder holding it above my head very closely to my face. Drawback is I don't know if the experience will be a screen too small to truly enjoy it.

3. A projector. Just project the screen up there. Drawback is I got a few lights right above me so the screen wont be flat in some spots

Thank you

I have a old phone (iPhone 7 pro max) that have been deactivated and running on no electricity for two or three years now, and no longer capable of turning on

I plan to finally throw it away after leaving it in my cabinet for years, though im uncomfortable throwing it away when it still has my data inside that I am unable to delete since I can’t turn it on

what would be the best way to destroy the data inside my phone without hurting myself (broken glass cutting me/toxic chemicals)?

i was thinking of carefully dropping it into hot water for an hour, but idk

So my uni gave all students infinite tokens on any AI of our choosing as an incentive to get us to use it and learn about proper prompting. I however don't really use AI nor do I trust it's answers. HOWEVER it would be a waste as a broke collage student not to use everything that's available to me so how can I incorporate AI to my student life.

Bonus question, If someone had a grudge on the uni wouldn't this be a great opportunity to cost it some money? Like tokes aren't cheap and I don't think they have a contract with every AI company for a discount.

Hey! I am a hobbyist when it comes to pcs and hardware in general. I'm the guy who installs OS for everyone in the family and builds their PCs, fixes their phones but lacks the foresight for the industry.

My questions, from my recent experience and readings online, is such : is this kind of the end of people owning their hardware? At leasty when it comes to laptops and pcs.

Maybe the AI bubble is going to burst, sure, and i do hope so, as i am a 2D artist by profession, BUT I find that difficult to count on. And so lets say it doesnt, or at least the bubble size isnt reduced that much. That leaves us with PC parts that are more and more expensive, consoles will no longer be worth paying for, for the average joe and at that point i can legit only see the future as everyone having some very low end devices (or phone) that you use to connect to a server that lends you its wast resources, for a subsription. The only way i could imagine this not happening is if the prices are too high even for streaming companies to get builds to rent.

I mean, i kind of expected at least game developers to start making games for lower spec pcs, but then you get metro 2039 with its insane requirements - who can realistically afford to play such a game nowadays for it to sell well?

Alright, maybe my income is too low recently and that's influencing my view on things, but I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter, thank you!