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    IP camera dropping off randomly

    Good to hear that its not the power or weather. 2.4GHz usually works better over long range as it provides most coverage compared to 5GHz, but its you call to stay on this freqency or to try swapping to the alternate. For ping, on your laptop, you can set up a script to ping every 5 mins to...
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    IP camera dropping off randomly

    How are you powering the setup? Is there a chance it could be a power failure? Is there any relevace to weather conditions such as rain or wind? Also worth checking the firmware to see if its the latest in case of bugs within the system which has since been patched. Also worth checking for Wifi...
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    Best way to resize images?

    Take a screenshot while you have the image on your phone screen, crop it if required. Usually brings down the size considerably. At 50kb you are looking at pretty much nothing more than a thumbnail as it wouldn't hold much information. Again based on type of image it might be what you are after...
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    Car Trailer (Old) - 5x4 feet or smaller

    Looking for an old car trailer around South East London/ Kent area if anyone got one lying around that's not being used or wants to part with one. Looking for one for occassional use with mostly garden stuff/ firewood and a trip to the skip once every so often. Happy to even pick on one which...
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    Where can I buy a sensible laptop?!

    Try eBay and get a decent Windows laptop for under £200. These days to keep it gooing, pick one with at least 8GB RAM (higher the better), Win10 preferably to Win 11, about 500GB hard disk and better if you can find SSD with an i5 processor. Dell Latitude E7470 is a cheap but good option. Best...
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    mobile phones and antivirus

    Each app on the phone in most cases works as a container of its own with the user having no ability to modify it. The communication is usually via a secure method and unles you use a browser like Chrome or FIrefox or Safari, you are pretty safe. Also in my view iOS (Apple) devices have less of...
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    Google searches , not showing on my IPhone 8?

    Glad all's good.
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    Are AirPods worth the money?

    A bluetooth speakers might be a better option. There are also cheaper alternates which works equally well as Airpods if you want easphones.
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    Windows on a Mac

    Oracle Virtualbox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
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    Phone lines and broadband.

    Simple questions, simple answers. Do reach out if I can be of further help Need to sort job out. Got a mobile on sim only. (Ok) Land line /Broadband . (Ok) Only 44 calls on land line last quarter. - Are you planning to keep this going? There are free numbers you can get which route the calls to...
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    Google searches , not showing on my IPhone 8?

    Are you referring to the google searches you show on your computer which was synced with your iPhone automatically? If this is the case, it might be worth checking the setting to see if you are logged in using the same account on both devices and if some sort of sync permission was discontinued...
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    Battery Failier

    You can get a cheap car voltmeter to go into the cigarette lighter socket to see if the alternator is working while you are driving. It usually shows somewhere in the region o 14v. New battery will hopefully solve the issue.
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    Ebay - Can't change my bank details.

    Glad to hear that all's well.
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    Shove your cookies......

    Try AdBlockPlus addon which has a section for 'I don't care about Cookies' which automatically squishes the Cookies banner and life goes back to normal. Noone reads it, it barely tells anything useful and some beurocrazies in EU decided that we needed this for some weird reason.
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