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    Yellow_ got a reaction from szym3k in Is BenQ's EX3501R gsync capable?   
    According to this spreadsheet, it works fine.
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    Yellow_ reacted to .Apex. in What are VRM phases and how do they work?   
    here's a good place to start
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    Yellow_ reacted to vorticalbox in Python - How to find cells around index in Array?   
    It thought I would have a go, do try to complete it before looking at my code. It's not fun just to copy
     
     
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    Yellow_ reacted to minibois in SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!   
    Uhh, welcome here? Just for future reference; it usually works better actually writing down your post here (or even copy pasting it).
    But what the user Thomas91290 on Reddit suggested would be my suggestion too; sounds like possibly a corrupt driver, which a full reinstall of the driver might fix.
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    Yellow_ got a reaction from BrinkGG in Plex for lots of files for multiple people   
    Awesome.
     
    I'll start my hard research then.
     
    Thanks so much @Brink2Three and @Electronics Wizardy
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    Yellow_ reacted to Lady Fitzgerald in Storage for movies and TV shows?   
    I have 702 DVDs (including a few BDs) that I ripped to .ISO files and stored on a couple of 4TB drives in my now deceased desktop rig (I still have the drives, though, which will go into the new desktop rig once I finish it). Each of those drives have a set of four backup drives; two of each set are kept onsite and the other two are kept offsite (my credit union safe deposit box; I already had the box so why not use it?). I went with .ISO files so I could play them on a virtual ODD just like the original disc. It allows easy access to special features (ripping was also easier).
     
    Since DVD and BD boxes take up so much room (it's taken longer than most of you have been alive to accumulate so many), the DVDs and BDs themselves are stored in CD/DVD cases that have 150 dual-sided hanging sleeves, allowing me to store up to 300 discs in each case. I removed and scanned the liner notes of each disc (and scanned a picture of the label side of the disc) which are kept together in a PDF inside the folder each disc is in on the computer. After scanning and backing up the resulting PDFs, I destroyed the liner notes and tossed the individual boxes. I'm hanging onto the discs themselves for now for various reasons but I'll eventually destroy them.
     
    I did not go with a separate NAS since that's just another piece of hardware I would have to keep up with and find room for. A couple of drives in the computer take up far less space and are easier to backup (yes, even a NAS has to be backed up!). I have two 4TB video drives since I've abandoned HDDs in favor of SSDs. I do not recommend using SSDs for most people for such massive amounts of storage due to their high cost. HDDs come in much larger sizes and would be much more cost effective for most people.
     
    I've been using VLC Player to play them since I can continue to use VLC once I move to Linux. I haven't found a skin for Linux that makes finding movies easy (or even possible) when viewing a 43" TV screen from 10' away so I've been experimenting with using a menu list based on a Libre Office Calc spreadsheet. It's a little short on looks but it works quite well. Plex has a much better interface (and also has Windows and Linux versions) but it doesn't have the capability to compress audio dynamic range or normalize volume like VLC does.
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    Yellow_ reacted to Salacious B Crum in Storage for movies and TV shows?   
    To give you an idea of storage requirements I have 300 movies to date 90% are 1080p and that equals almost 1TB of storage I built an unRAID server from an i7 6700 pre-built which is rock solid at 28TB of raw storage and the os was the cheapest part of the build so don't shy away over the cost of unRAID as it is much more than just a storage device
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    Yellow_ reacted to GuruOfNothing in Storage for movies and TV shows?   
    Go buy a 10TB WD Easystore drive from Best Buy (which is a WD Red drive, probably white labelled) and either use that as an external media storage drive or shuck it and install it in your box. Plex Media Server is a great way to go for streaming to anything in your house. I have an old Dell Inspiron 570 with a 500G drive for the OS and a 10TB drive to store the some 600 discs worth of media I own, mounted in the box. I bought a second matching 10TB drive that has a current backup of the media drive and it is unplugged and stored away for safe keeping.
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    Yellow_ reacted to DogKnight in Storage for movies and TV shows?   
    If you want something simple to share files over DLNA, a NAS box may be a good idea. Bit more expensive initially than using your existing parts, but cheaper to run in the long term (a NAS unit generally has a much lower power draw than a desktop tower). They can also provide some other neat features through apps they can run. 
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    Yellow_ reacted to drinklime in My Grandma needs tech support   
    Linus Posted a video on recovering a hard drive, but if you follow the instructions you will lose all your data. So don't watch it. You will have to hire the company in the video instead, which makes me think it may have been some kind of viral video advertisement.
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    Yellow_ got a reaction from Eastman51 in Which M.2 Should I Go For?   
    Do you need NVMe though?
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    Yellow_ reacted to Arika in Welp! Are AIOs that bad?   
    and they perform roughly the same.
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    Yellow_ got a reaction from TempestCatto in Welp! Are AIOs that bad?   
    Not common, but the problems still have a probability of happening. A low grade water cooler costs as much as a high tier air cooler so I don't see why you would go with the former 
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    Yellow_ got a reaction from minibois in Welp! Are AIOs that bad?   
    Not common, but the problems still have a probability of happening. A low grade water cooler costs as much as a high tier air cooler so I don't see why you would go with the former 
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    Yellow_ reacted to straight_stewie in Python list help   
    In a single list comprehension:
    test_list = ["65uyr, the, quick, brown", "h213, fox jumps over"] final_list = [i.split(",")[j] for i in test_list for j in range(1, len(i.split(",")))]
    Anything that can be written as a series of nested loops, each loop only containing another loop except for the final loop which can contain some action that appends some items to another list and is able to be written in a single statement can be converted to a list comprehension.

    For example:
    test_list = ["65uyr, the, quick, brown", "h213, fox jumps over"] tmp = [] for i in test_list: for j in range(1, len(i.split(","))): tmp.append(i.split(",")[j]) becomes:
    test_list = ["65uyr, the, quick, brown", "h213, fox jumps over"] tmp = [i.split(",")[j] for i in test_list for j in range(1, len(i.split(",")))]
    The algorithm is quite simple, assuming that your loop chain is already written in the form described above:
    Take the final statement of the for loop chain, and make it the first statement in the list comprehension. Write the loops in order from top to bottom. Disclaimer: It may be possible to make list comprehensions from nested loops that do not conform to the above description. I haven't experimented enough to find out yet.
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    Yellow_ got a reaction from Billy Pilgrim in Best way to give out passwords?   
    Morse Code -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
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    Yellow_ got a reaction from Fasauceome in New pc build   
    List your full specs please
     
    Tried reseating all connectors and ram?
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