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Good Afternoon, I have basically no experience with Wireless Access Points/Boosters/Extenders but am going to make some assumptions based on my tech experience. So please correct my if I am wrong. My dad has a party barn... yeah, like the Yee-Haw kind, saloon doors and everything. It is roughly 70 yards from his house and he is wanting to get WiFi out to the barn. The current signal from the house is unusable out there. He is looking to do this for the lowest cost possible. [Note: He is not in an HOA and could care less about resale value of his property]. At maximum he is just wanting to be able to put a TV out there and stream netflix and stuff if he wants and stream music. Here is my plan: 1. Bury an outdoor Cat6 (outdoor) cable about 6" deep through the yard running from the router in the house out to the barn. (Lives in Florida) I told him we could also run the cable through conduit or PVC all the way out there if we need to. I think around 300 feet is where signal loss issues start on Cat6 so we should be good on distance. 2. Set up an access point to plug into in the barn. [this is where i needs reassurances, lol) I'm assuming I shouldn't need to do anything special on the networking end to make this work besides setting up the access point. Any recommendations on the Wireless access point would be helpful. I'm thinking about recommending one of those Ubiquity Saucers on the ceiling. I have seen them used in business applications and they seem to work well but, I am assuming they are PoE, I don't know if they have a regular A/C power input (I'm assuming my dad's current residential router from comcast or AT&T doesn't support PoE). Was just thinking this option would look the cleanest out there. Would it be easiest/cheapest just to daisy chain another wifi router out there and setup a guest network just for the barn? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Sorry in advance if my plan is dumb.

I was able to get this resolved by plugging in things externally (monitor/keyboard) while leaving the lid closed and getting in through device manager to disable it. I was then able to get into registry edit and found the DWords that enable the touchscreen function and set them to 0. I then renabled the driver just to test that the registry edits indeed did disable the touchscreen inputs. If I remember correctly from last night the were in... currentuser/software/microsoft/wisp/touch I also did the same thing in the local machine registry. I used TouchGate on local machine and created a new DWord called TouchGate for current user. Glad it worked, I hadn't been into the Regedit in a while.

Hi All, My cousin has a laptop (model) above that has a touchscreen that is on the fritz making inputs like spaz. This issue has been on-going for about 2 years for her. In the past I have been able to get into device manager and disable to driver for the touchscreen and she can use the laptop with no issues. The problem is, every time windows updates it re-enables the driver and the issue comes back. At this point the touchscreen is making inputs at a fast enough rate I cannot log into windows and get into device manager and disable the touch screen. Does anyone know if this can be disabled through bios or if there is another way to resolve this issue without going in through windows? Thank you,

I am mostly looking for more information from the company. I am annoyed because now I am getting 10-15 phishing emails in my inbox every day. I'm sure this is happening to other people as well. I would guess some people don't know any better and are now losing their personal information and ending up with their Identities stolen. So yeah, annoyance for me, potential major issue other people. It would be nice to get something more than a 'Whoopsie, We apologize, here is some vague information' email from a major company like Amazon.

I get that this isn't Amazon's fault but they do have some level of responsibility for the protection of customer data. Something similar to if a UPS driver road rages and hits something with his truck, UPS has a level of responsibility for both the damage caused and the damage/delay to the packages the driver was carrying. Or if a cook decided to spit in your order at a restaurant, the restaurant has some level of responsibility to the customer. While in the examples the Company isn't attempting to do something nefarious and it is something out of their control, it was something that was done that violates the trust of the customer. In my case it violated the Privacy Policy Notice that is promised by Amazon.

That is fair

Anyone else receive one of these yesterday? Looks like it is legit from Amazon and would explain the spam train I have been getting the past couple days. I am attempting to reach out to a CSR for more detailed information but it is slow going so far. I'll update with more information when available. Update: I went through the Chat CSR help, the original CSR decided quickly this was over their head and connected me with an Account Security CSR via a phone call. The Account Security CSR (SCSR) he was very polite and nice but not very helpful. Here are a couple Q&As (I am trying to keep records of all my conversations on this topic) Was the email legitimate? Yes Who was my information provided to? (SCSR did not have this information) What actions is Amazon taking? The incident is under investigation (this is about all the SCSR could tell me) How many people were affected? (SCSR did not have information on the investigation) I asked if I would be able to get updates on the incident and what steps Amazon would be taking as the matter is investigated. The SCSR said he was moving my file to an Account Specialist and I should expect to be contacted by them over the next 24 hours. I did voice my concern about a large amount of sketchy looking spam emails that began flooding my email over the past few days. I will keep everyone up to date if the Account Specialist has anything interesting to say.

This is going to be for my boss's laptop. I mainly work with desktops so this is uncharted waters for me. The laptop appears to have 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports. To my knowledge you can plug USB-C devices into thunderbolt ports, but I could be wrong. If you can plug USB-C into thunderbolt then a USB-C dock/dongle will work fine for him. If not then I guess it will need to be a TB3 dock/dongle. He is wanting to plug his laptop into 2 Monitors 1080p (HDMI/Display/DVI) and also a 4k TV which only has HDMI ports to plug into. HP Spectre x360 w/ i7-8550U

Does anyone know of any or have recommendations for a 3 display USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 dongle? Could be a mix of HDMI & Display Port or all HDMI

That would make things easier, unfortunately wall mounting is not an option for me in my apartment.

I recently bought an awesome 32:9 49" inch 1440p monitor. It looks amazing but.... -The Stand takes up a lot of desk real estate -I would like to mount it above my 24" 240hz monitor. I am having difficulty finding an arm mount for it. The arm mount will need to -Allow the monitor to clear the height of the 24" -Support 33+ Lbs Anyone know of an arm mount that will work? I am considering just screwing some 2x4s to my desk to make a raised mounting point for the mounts that I have found that will support the weight (but aren't tall enough). But would rather not damage the nice hard wood desk top.

You already knew this. I was watching and not partaking. Have a great weekend LTT Staff!

This is a form of measurement I could get behind.

That is cool. Thanks for the info. I was just thinking it might have become the standard in the early days of television manufacturing back in the 1940s and 1950s and just happened to stick and here we are about 75 years later and the world is still measuring TVs in inches.

Hi everyone, I had this question during the video on the Chinese only Huawei TV. I noticed on the box it has 55" written on the box which I found odd since the product isn't intended for sale anywhere outside China. I always assumed screens in other countries of the world would be advertised and measured in cm as anyone outside the USA always says imperial measurements are stupid. Just wondering if inches is the standard measurement for monitor/television screens across globe or if this was an odd occurrence. Thanks for the input!