sunjester

I'm hoping this is the right section for this. I just got the Xiaomi Mi Box S and have set it up with my TV, and I'm getting absolutely no sound from it at all. I have it going into my TV (an Insignia 43 inch tv, nothing fancy), and the TV is plugging into a Sonos Beam with two Sonos One's set up behind the couch. My first inclination was to think that it was something to do with compatibility with the Sonos speakers, but I'm not even getting any sound through the TV speakers when I turn those on. Anyone got any ideas?

I've tried editing it multiple times. I even submitted the infrared version of the image and it got rejected as well. I think now in total it's been reject 7-8 times. I ended up just giving up and going with the option to do like a google map of my current city instead. More than anything else I'm just amazed that this even happened. It means that they've set up their workflow in a way where the copyright detection isn't working properly, but they built in no manual override so it can't be dealt with without doing back-end modifications to the system. It'd be nice to get some kind of media spotlight on this because this means that other people are going to have non-copyrighted images rejected as well and Google is literally claiming "We can't do anything about it, sorry.". I just can't even. I'm not even a teenage girl and I still can't even.

So according to a supervisor at the Google Store support, the following is how things are right now. My image is being rejected automatically due to copyright reasons. No one at Google has any idea why it's being rejected. There is also no one at Google who can apparently override this and approve my order. They have no idea if this issue is going to be fixed and are simply telling me to use a different image.

Just like it says in the title. I preordered a Pixel 3 last week and with it tried to preorder a My Case with this image. I had the exact same image on my Pixel 1 and Pixel 2 cases with no issue. I have tried to order this 4 times and every single time my order has been rejected because "There was a copyright problem with your My Case order". Except, this image is not copyrighted, and cannot be copyrighted. According to US copyright law, "works created by the U.S. federal government or its agencies cannot be copyrighted. (This does not apply to works created by state or local governments.) Therefore, NASA pictures are legally in the public domain.". I have contacted the Google Store about this multiple times, and I have a case with them that's been open for almost a week now with no word and no resolution. I've tried tweeting at madebygoogle to no avail. Does anyone know who the hell I have to talk to to get this issue resolved? I just want my damn phone case.

This would be perfect for couch gaming/multimedia. Basically a Steam machine by a different name.

Well, it is now legal in DC....

All the utilities are built into my rent, and my rent is a set amount that was set based off average usage of utilities. She's claiming this is the highest monthly usage they've had in 2 years, even with previous tenants living in the basement. I really do not think it's remotely possible for my power use to account for this sudden surge but I wanted to be sure. Only other thing I can think of is that one of the utilities may have broken in some way and starting running inefficiently. The only thing I can think of is that one of the utilities (I think the AC) seems to turn on every half hour, runs for maybe 20 minutes, then shuts off. Then a half hour later it comes on again. This seems to happen 24/7. Since I just moved in a month ago I don't know if this is normal or not but I don't think it is.

I have occasionally left on a single 60 watt lightbulb for my cat, but that's only when I'm at work, and if I'm right in a regular 8 hour interval that should only draw .48 kWh. Over a month that's only around 13 kWh total so that can't be it. That's literally the only thing that I leave on when I'm not there, aside from maybe the fridge which.... no one ever turns that off. I don't cook at all. The house itself has an AC unit but that's mainly for cooling the upstairs portion of the house. Since I'm in a basement it stays cool without AC. Other than that I use appliances/shower/other stuff on a completely normal basis. I cannot even begin to imagine what has caused that jump in power consumption.

Ok so bear with me here, this is an odd question. I don't know if this belongs with the power supplies, but I didn't see a better place to put it. I just moved into a new basement apartment, and according to my landlady the power bill in the past month (since I've been here) has about doubled (from under 1050 kWh to 1759 kWh). My first thought was well shit, I have a gaming pc perhaps that has something to do with it. But then I started doing the math. I'm running a Corsair HX 850 power supply, an AMD FX-8350, and an EVGA GTX 770, with those being the most power hungry components in my machine. Everything else draws significantly less than a lightbulb (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong). I also have Logitech Z5300d speakers plugged in as another power hungry component. Now, since I moved in, there's maybe a 4-5 hour window per day where I'm using my computer at all, sometimes more, but oftentimes less. I also don't game as much as I used to, with at least 3-4 days a week without me playing anything, and the other days I'm gaming 1-2 hours. To sum up, I don't have my computer under load very often. Based on how much these components draw (230 for the gtx, 125 for the fx, 280 for the speakers so 635 total), even if I were to run my pc under load 24/7, that still doesn't account for the drastic surge in power consumption for the house. For reference, running it under load 24/7 for a month would come out to a kWh usage of somewhere in the ballpark of 470. But I only run it about 4-5 hours per day so worst case there comes to 98 kWh (for a month). But I don't run it under load for the entire time so if my math is right it's more around 40-50 kWh (for the whole month). Now my pc is by far the most power hungry thing I have in my apartment, and when I'm not there or asleep I have everything shut off. Question is, is my math completely wrong and I am the cause of the power surge? Or does this mean there's something else going on? I've never seen a power bill this high, even during times where I've used my computer significantly more. I find it very hard to believe that I by myself could be responsible for almost a 1000 kWh jump in usage, though it seemed that that's what my landlady was trying to insinuate.

Good showing from AMD, but I do have to wonder why everyone seems to be so surprised about seeing HBM on a graphics card. Thing is, the only cards that have it are the Fury cards, and if AMD hadn't done that this generation they'd be completely screwed because Nvidia announced stacked DRAM waaaaaay back in March of 2014 for their upcoming Pascal architecture. AMD literally had no choice but to get there first considering the position they're in. http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/25/gpu-roadmap-pascal/ That combined with Unified Memory and a possible replacement for PCI-e means that next year the landscape is going to get pretty shaken up. Here's hoping AMD can keep this current trend going to stay competitive.

So I have an Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z and I'm seeing a somewhat consistent problem trying to boot past the ROG splash screen. It seems every time I do a cold boot it gets stuck on the splash screen, and to get it to boot I have to press the reset switch and suddenly it passes the splash screen and gets into the OS. Once I'm in the OS everything works perfectly fine and it's as stable as can be. The other interesting thing is that a few times over the past week I've been seeing it get past the splash screen and displaying the message "Updating iROG firmware now! Do not shut off or reboot your computer until this process is complete.". It stays for at most 10 seconds and then another message flashes underneath that's too quick to read, then it resets. I've tried clearing the CMOS so far but beyond that I'm not sure what to do. Outside of messing with the RAM clock I haven't touched the BIOS since I installed the latest update for it (version 2101) almost a year ago. Anyone have any ideas?