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You can buy refurbished older gen OEM PCs (Dell, HP, Lenovo etc) for really low prices including Windows. Some even have been upgraded with SSDs. By the time you factor in your own time and effort it just isn't worth it at the budget end. Also adding a GPU can actually be tricky as if you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for a base build many may not work due to PSU being underspecced and/or lacking connectors, cases lacking space, motherboard slots and so on. Generally low power and/or small or low profile cards can work but mid to high end cards can be a problem. My pitch is can you do something charitable like If say you were sorting PCs or IT for community groups and things like that. Switch in an SSD for them, install and setup a WAP or so on. I'd imagine the profitable side for gaming builds would be bespoke high end custom builds where you can deliver to a really high standard and there is enough meat on the bone you can actually come away with a profit. Conversely need more liquid cash to float that. Although that is just speculation on my part but seems to track with the mindset of some people that want the 'best' at the higher end and throw wads of cash at it regardless of arguments that it's not needed.

Do your existing cameras have audio line-in & out?

Just hear me out guys. Ditch the glass, mesh the side, make the entire case one huge ass blower with your PC inside.

In Australia the same consumer protection applies to prizes as a normal sale. To go to an exteme you could have people trying to pull a dodgy running giveaways/raffles etc. trying to sub out the prize with defective, damaged or refurb things and so on. On the other hand though especially in tech you could have items that are beta or early revision, samples and so on not covered by warranty from the outset. In that case it would suck for a small reviewer to be personally on the hook if they did a low key giveaway of a few items otherwise gathering dust. Becomes a grey area, morally and optics wise I'd argue as to what the giveaway runner gains if anything, what expectations and T&Cs were set and so on. May help to be more clear up top on the LMG side and maybe clarify with some manufacturers If they will warranty it.

How has it ended in disaster ? Should just need to break active not both... ?

Why do they do that, it is gross using audio connectors for power, can end up damaging stuff if someone starts wildly plugging it into things. Anyway: If you can find a power supply suitable with the correct tip. I have seen a few of the 3.5mm tips as an add on accessory to suit the interchangeable tip type power supplies. Like so: https://www.radioparts.com.au/product/30978030/pw8030-35mm-mono-interchangeable-dc-to-suit-switchmode-ps-to-suit-switchmode-ps To give you an idea of something that may be available. Other options using a suitable power supply without the right tip. Somewhat more difficult, yet nicer longterm is cut the barrel plug off a suitable power supply and solder on a 3.5mm mono plug. Easier slightly less nice option is minus the soldering and use a 3.5mm mono to screw terminal plug. Chunkier, worse from a pull-out/strain relief angle but convenient and good for testing.

Yeah so basically as you move the switch positions the contacts will break or make as in disconnect or complete the circuit. However electricity can get a bit eager and can arc or 'jump' a small air gap when the contacts are close to each other. It's not generally wanted and can cause damage to the contacts if excessive. A lot of switches will will have a spring or tensioned parts so that contacts move quickly between positions, kind of jump or snap between them. You don't want them casually meandering over, if switches are mushy it's generally a bad thing. Anyway on that note, don't forcefully or deliberately hold switches in spots they aren't supposed to be in, moreso if you hear arcing. Same goes for say holding a breaker or RCD on that is tripping.

From the title thought you mean you had a VGA cable plugged in and were missing some colours and only had red. I feel old. My bones hurt.

Wouldn't do this for commercial use only as a side hobby. Still never really flew my DIY one, turned into this huge arms race of flight controllers where when I went to work on it I got comms passthrough working for my ESC but the next firmware broke it and then my flight controller was dropped entirely, you'd switch firmware and one thing or another would be broken. Lot of sussing and experimenting, I managed to get serial data going for the receiver but it wouldn't send telemetry back even though theoretically capable. Really good for building knowledge of all the fundamentals but wouldn't want to be chasing parts, tuning and figuring out compatibility for something you do as a day job where you need it to just work.

The warranty person probably can't authorise a resolution for this for you. Not legal advice but I would send them a response along these lines, lay out all the facts and what action you will take. Something along those lines. Could also probably hit up social media, review sites, tech journos/influencers about this If you don't get any traction but I'd try spelling it out to them first how much they stuffed up and it's on them.

Yeah had an old monitor a while ago I actually fixed with a recap at the time but it was very rarely just randomly turning off. Then sometimes wouldn't turn on from standby. Then ded.

Can you help with physical labour for cabling and install and have the tools ? Run 6x Cat 6 to each point and bring out to a 6 outlet plate to save on cost or a cheap/partially loaded patch panel if there's an existing rack. Chinese NVR with on board PoE + camera pack from the likes of Hikvision, Dahua or Uniview plus an appropriate sized hard drive eg. 4-10TB Purple/Skyhawk etc. Should be just doable at that budget if on mates rates labour cost.

Rocket league Free is good. The competitiveness when getting stomped though is a tough one. Far more chill just versing derpy bots. Minecraft Can be cool playing together, building a house etc. Can be some overlap with Roblox as some games are clones or have voxel building/destruction aspects. Been meaning to see if they'd like something like Stardew Valley or Snowrunner

Done the basics ? Update service running ? Firewall/antivirus/network issue Run the dism/sfc cmd commands

Depends how bad I'd say and how it's affecting you in game. I have pretty bad upwards drift on one in it's neutral position and a bit of slop. Didn't really notice before, however it's now creating false inputs in a game and causing me to select wrong items and options in menus. You can see it in the calibrate section of the settings. I am probably going to try a hall effect replacement but they are a bit exxy. It will only get worse though as it wears more so at the very least maybe order it in to allow for shipping and procrastination time.