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My current DNS Servers are Quad9

• 9.9.9.9
• 149.112.112.112

What is DNS Shield and how does it differ from what I'm currently using?

We went from a 3a and 2XL respectively and the cellular connectivity with the new phones is completely unacceptable. They're constantly on 1 or 2 bars (LTE) and have already had dropped calls whereas before the phones were always full bars almost everywhere we went.

Anyone else returning their Black Friday purchase?

Edit: The bad purchase is on me for not doing my research. I just assumed buying a premium phone it would at least be good at doing the most basic thing.

I have two installations of desktop Chrome v119 on Windows 11 (one per Windows user account).

On Windows user account *A*, the option to Share pages in Chrome via the address bar is missing for me. Instead I have the option in my context menu and *Save & Share* option in the overflow menu.

On Windows user account *B*, the option is still in the address bar, but there is no *Save & Share* option in the overflow menu.

What's the reason for the discrepancies on the same versions? Is there a way to revert the Share Page option back to the address bar? I feel it's more intuitive there, and doesn't clutter either the main overflow men

I have a Nest Learning thermostat 2nd gen. It's set up with the Google Home app. My new Pixel phone imported my old apps including the legacy Nest app. The app asked me to turn on presence sensing which I thought was redundant with the Google Home app, and I don't want any undue battery usage on my phone from redundant location services.

My question: Is the Nest app required for anything other than setting schedules, specifically the presence sensing?

For the record it's confusing having two apps that have so much overlap. I wish Google would port the scheduling and whatever remaining features are on the legacy app to the Home app.

Why do you only love the 8 Pro, why? Was really hoping to get the Ghost case for the Pixel 8 (non Pro).

I had my eye on the Mous for Google Pixel 8 MagSafe Case but apparently it has compatibility issues with the Pixel Stand (2nd Gen). Amazon reviews are complaining that it needs to be perfectly aligned to charge which turns me off.

Recommend a MagSafe case that works flawlessly with the Pixel Stand (2nd Gen).

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I recently upgraded from Teksavvy (cable) 120Mbps down. The Cogeco Black Friday 1Gbps deal seemed too good to refuse, yet since switching I have experienced buffering issues with YouTube on multiple occasions, which I've never once experienced using Teksavvy.

We can remove WiFi from the equation because this is happening on hard-wired ethernet connections. When experiencing buffering issues I'll do a speedtest and hit near 1Gbps speeds so I don't understand why the buffering issues.

Any suggestions or feedback?

All four of these lights just decided to stop working with the Google Home app. I've factory reset them about five times each, and attempted adding them from two different phones. Nothing works. They're constantly offline. The lights are basically useless now.

Between these lights, Google Home not recognizing the Samsung TV after a few days of linking to the SmartThings account, and Google Assistant just getting worse with each year I think I'm pretty much done with the Google ecosystem.

Edit: Resolved the light issue by throwing them away and clearing everything out of my Google Home app.

I've installed Ubuntu Server on an old HP Pavillion laptop. Unfortunately the laptop has no physical button to turn off the monitor.

I want Ubuntu Server to automatically turn off the screen after 60s of inactivity, which I almost achieved using GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= "consoleblank=60" in /etc/default/grub.

The problem is while this blanks the screen, the screen backlight remains on. How do I get it to also turn off the screen completely after inactivity, and then turn it back on when it detects keystrokes.

Update: I didn't change a thing but it seems the backlight eventually does turn off by itself just not at 60s.

Is there a way to automatically turn off a device x minutes after it was automatically turned on from presence sensing your location?

1. Google Home detects I have arrived and automatically turns on device (easy enough to do) ✔️
2. Then I want a routine where Google Home automatically turns off the device after 60 minutes of step 1. Can't figure out how to do this.

Any ideas?

If you've had a positive experience with a fence contractor/handyman for a residential wooden fence installation please share your contacts. I need to get this done this year and I'm starting to gather potential contacts.

The job would include material, labor, and demo:

• just your typical pressure treated wood panel fence with a lattice topper for extra privacy (the fence style might change after consulting with my better half)
• two gates
• one side of the lot has a chain link fence and would require removal
• one side has a neighbors tilting wooden fence (not sure if ours would be installed beside it, or what)
• removal of one existing rotting stick built shed

Since the update in January 2022 my Shield went from very responsive and snappy (never had a complaint about it) to slow, sluggish, laggy, and often unusable on Kodi (constant video jutter, lag and entire system freezes requiring constant reboots). I basically don't even use my Shield anymore. It's not just on Kodi either. The home screen UI is quite laggy. It now feels like an ancient piece of hardware trying to run a modern operating system.

Is there anything I can do to return this to it's optimal state prior to the January 2022 release? I am running the third hotfix 9.0.2 (33.1.0.319).

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Brand new laptop here. Was setting up OneDrive and I noticed the title for the first text area that should read "Important PC Folders" is getting clipped. What's glitching and how can I fix it?

The display resolution is 1920x1080 and scaling is set to 125% out of the box. Exact same as my other laptop which does not show this issue.

I have not (yet) altered any settings in Windows.

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I installed the Feature Update 21H1 but the news and interests widget does not appear in my taskbar settings (right click task bar, it is not listed). It showed up automatically on my other laptop, but not this one. What do?

Edition	Windows 10 Home
Version	21H1
Installed on	‎5/‎20/‎2021
OS build	19043.985
Experience	Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.2020.0