I’m using a website that generates a certain type of video, but it only allows one free trial per device.
Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
First, I used it on my iPad, and the free trial worked.
Then I tried it on my PC, and it worked there too.
However, when I tried using a different Google account, it wouldn’t let me.
I also tried using a VPN, but that didn’t work either.
Finally, I have two different Microsoft accounts on my PC, so I switched between them and tried accessing the website with each one. Surprisingly, it worked!
So apparently, switching Microsoft accounts allows me to get another free trial.
My question is: Is there any way to keep getting these free trials without having to constantly create new Microsoft accounts?
Has anyone figured out how these websites track devices or limit free trials? Is there another workaround?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking at buying a 98-inch TV and have come across this deal on Joybuy:

https://www.joybuy.co.uk/dp/black-friday-deal-tcl-98q6c-qdmini/100003340008398

It's the TCL 98Q6C QD Mini LED, currently around £1,359.

My brother thinks it's not particularly good value for money, but I'm not sure whether he's right or whether this is actually a bargain for a 98-inch Mini LED TV.

A bit about my setup:

• I'm in the UK.

• The TV distance is approximately 4.5 metres from the TV wall to the start of the sofa.

• I'm looking for a 98-inch TV, but willing to change my mind if anyone thinks otherwise

• My ideal maximum budget is £1,500.

• Mainly want good picture quality for films, Netflix, general TV and sport.

I've also been looking at the TCL QM7K, which seems to be a better TV, but I can't seem to find it in the UK at a similar price.

A few questions:

1. Is the 98Q6C actually a good TV?

2. Is £1,359 a genuinely good price, or is it overpriced?

3. How noticeable is the difference between the Q6C and the higher-end TCL Mini LED models?

4. At just over 4.5 metres viewing distance, would 98 inches be a good size?

5. Would you buy this TV, or is there something better for £1,500 or less?

I'd really appreciate honest opinions, especially from anyone who owns this TV or has bought a large TCL from Joybuy.

Thanks!

Hi guys! Looking for some advice on cloud storage.

I just realised I'm paying for both OneDrive and Google Drive, so I'm thinking of cancelling one subscription and sticking with the other.

My initial thought is to cancel OneDrive and keep Google Drive, but I'm open to advice!

I have around 400 GB of photos, videos and other files in EACH drive.

A few questions:

1. Which would you recommend keeping: OneDrive or Google Drive?

2. Is there a tool that can scan both drives, identify duplicates and safely remove them?

3. What's the best way to transfer everything without ending up with duplicate files and doubling my storage usage?

My priorities are saving money, keeping everything backed up safely and making the process as simple as possible.

Would love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!

I fucking hate Apple and their products. I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, and air pods and the quality of all of them sucks. Nothing ever works, or is always glitching. It’s so annoying to spend that much money on products and they don’t even work or aren’t compatible with each other. The design and aesthetic no longer outweighs the functionality for me. I need something that actually works and helps me get things done. Any recs for any new products? I need a laptop that can hold heavy files and storage, has good editing software, and is sturdy. For the other products I’m just looking for something that will support my every day uses. I unfortunately will be keeping my iPhone, but that the only Apple product I want to have from here on out. Need new headphones, tablet, computer, and fitness tracker recs.

Hi, I have an old Sony Ericsson xperia from 2010 more or less. In 2021, I had the great idea of putting a password. I have absolutely forgotten it. I'm really trying to put the password but it's impossible. Is there a way to remove the password without affecting the apps? (Sorry for my bad English, it's not my first language)

Hello, I just bought an onn 65-inch 4K UHD TV and I'm trying to figure out the best way to watch movies and shows through a web browser.

I mainly use Cinejoy and don't want to pay for a bunch of streaming subscriptions. Ideally, I'd like to be able to open a browser directly on my TV, go to Cinejoy, and use an ad blocker like uBlock Origin.

I don't want to connect my PC to the TV or deal with a bunch of cables. I just want a simple setup that works with a regular TV remote.

Would I be better off buying a separate streaming device like an Android TV box or Fire TV Stick, or should I return the onn TV and get something else entirely?

What would you guys recommend?

Hello I want to read some news explaining IT technology.

My English grade is not good... just wrote this reddit post without any support.

Do you recommend a YouTube channel or internet new webpage or an application?

So, just out of curiosity I bought this book named: "The chip Age" by Rakesh Kumar, to understand more about chips and how it's impacting the world around us. As I started delving deeper into the book, I felt that it would help a lot more if I understand what a chip is on fundamental level.

How does it exactly function? Why smaller chip is more efficient? Why are there different kinds of chips for different tasks? What is transistors? How does transistors work? So many more questions.

Any videos/books/article recommendation would work, that would help a non tech layman like me understand easily.

Thankyou :)

I bought a box of B.S. at a garage sale a while back, just miscellaneous stuff, and just recently I went through it again and it had a couple of samsung tablets in it. And I'm wondering is it even possible to get past the google lock on these?? I've tried everything I can think of and I hate to just throw them away,,, I'm one of those people, and I'm just curious if it's even possible?? Because everything I try tells me it will but it doesn't!! Can anybody shine some light on this for me please,, I'd appreciate it thank you!!

Voilà ce qu'il y a dans la galerie de mon téléphone....

- cela apparaît environ tous les deux trois jours

-Il y a entre 20 et 200 fichiers avec entre 10 et 50 ko par fichier... Ça peut faire quelques Mo au final

- ça prend énormément de place et je ne sais pas d'où ça vient tous les quatre matins...

- dans la galerie de mon téléphone, ces fichiers n'ont pas d'icônes (juste l'icône du fait qu'il n'y ait pas d'icône) et porte des noms très bizarres genre x4Zh-tvul45

- j'ai voulu demander l'intelligence artificielle.... Et elle m'a dit d'installer un gestionnaire de fichiers ou je sais pas quoi pour essayer de bloquer le cas d'une application mais j'ai rien compris.

Hey, i would like to ask this. If any Professionals working in managing Organisation Laptops.

I would like to use "link to windows" app in my personal phone to the company provided laptop. As I need to keep in connect with calls and laptop at the same time.

But i have this doubt regarding how much a company laptop can be remotely monitored?

Can it see my chats and Personal pictures, incase if I used to reply from my laptop while connected?

My main question is can a company automatically consider this as an external device and monitor my activity in a connected phone?

I think the age of owning hardware is coming to an end. Due semiconductor manufacturing bottleneck hardware cost has skyrocketed.

I think that the idea of owning expensive hardware that will be obsolete in a few years will be a thing of the past.

AI and data centers have all hardware we need, so why own it?

The idea of multiple variants of computing, phones, desktops, laptops, tablets, etc.. will be fused into one master OS that can shift from any device (which would be only a receiver powered by a subscription). We just need a way to stream it like we do with GPS.

If this is true then there are huge opportunities for startup ideas, such as physical authentication wearable.

Of course the receivers will have enough power to do basic tasks if there is no signal.

So we could buy a 100$ laptop shell with performance of a 3k one for a monthly fee.

I want to cast a gameplay on my laptop. My phone is samsung SM-M14. It dos not have a smartview or screencast option. So, I was thinking of the developer mode usb method. But I am scared If it messes something up, my parents will crash out

I work for a hospital and I use my phone to record meetings using Rev. Will IT care if I'm on that site? I'am not recording anything from the company laptop

Hello, I saw some older questions and answers regarding 'text to landline' programs but wanted to bring it up again in case there is fresh advice. I have found that a lot more local companies can receive text messages and it makes things really convenient for me as a client or customer. I don't know if they have converted their landline or if they are primarily using a mobile device. Maybe it is more affordable to add a mobile device than use these programs...?

Our org has 3 landlines.... and our telecom provider does not support text to landline at this time.

We have a lot of folks who would like to reach us but aren't always at their computer, in the best service area, or may not be able to or love talking on the phone. If more folks could reach us via text, I think it could help a lot.

We already have a text subscription service that lets us send texts out to those who have subscribed. But only subscribers can text back.

I'm looking for a way people could send a text message to our landline without needing a subscription or an app - and for us to be able to respond and have our response be returned to them as a text message as well.

We don't need it for sales, appointment reminders, anything like that. Just receiving and responding to text messages sent to our landline or landlines.

I did some quick research and saw the following programs which seem like they may work for what we are looking for. I'm prepared to go down the paths with all to get quotes and more info but thought I'd check here first. I appreciate any insights or other recs folks might have.

Quick research:

Textline ($149 up to $349 per month - probably way too pricey)

TextBetter ($79 or $109 or more per month - still pricey but a little better)

TextyPro ($25 a month up to $200 per year - much more affordable but seems like lots of mixed reviews)

Today, I thought I should spend some time reading about Rust and understanding how it works. While going through the documentation, I came across an article titled Everything You Need to Know About Rust. I checked its publication date and hesitated for a moment before reading it. It was nearly four years old, and somehow, that made it feel outdated to me.

I think this is an effect of AI. Somewhere along the way, we've developed the mindset that whatever we learn today needs to be as recent as possible to remain relevant in a world where AI and other technologies are evolving so rapidly.

Earlier, when we came across something relevant to what we were looking for, we were happy to explore it. It didn't really matter how old the resource was unless it was perhaps eight or nine years old. Today, anything more than a year old somehow feels outdated.

As AI has increased the rate at which code can be produced, it has also increased the volume of things being created that engineers are expected to explore, understand, and eventually master. Mastering a skill takes at least a year or sometimes even a year and a half. But by the time you get there, three or four more things have already been released, and suddenly, you get this false sense that you're falling behind.

It's a strange cycle. You spend so much time trying to keep up that you barely get the chance to appreciate how much you've actually learned. And perhaps the most interesting part is that this feeling isn't unique to you or me. It's something almost everyone in the industry is experiencing.

We're all caught in this void of constantly trying to stay relevant, wondering whether we're learning enough, learning the right things, or already falling behind. And the truth is, it sometimes feels like it's just us, when in reality, it's almost everyone.

Hi everybody; I'm an art student looking for a tablet + laptop hybrid that's portable and can run basic drawing/editing apps (krita, photoshop, etc.) I want something that DOES NOT have a loud fan. That's very important.

My current problem is that my laptop im using now is heavy, disturbingly loud, and sort of a pain; I have to hook my drawing tablet up every time I use it, and it gets irritating.

Any suggestions? I'd prefer something semi-affordable. Student budget, lol.

Hello,

Some time ago I downloaded an app or a settings menu that allowed me to access an in-depth settings options for my samsung, such as: different volume for different apps, different screen behaviors such as extra dim light, more than what the standard menu offers.

I cant find what it was and i was looking for some time. Can anyone help me?

Hi! I want to build an accounting system and hris using AI. Is it possible? I don’t know how to code. How can I create this without hiring someone else to code for me? Thank you!

have a background in data extraction and cleaning (Python, SQL, entity resolution), and I’m looking at specializing specifically in global trade and customs data for import/export companies and boutique consultancies.

​From what I’ve seen, enterprise platforms like Panjiva, Datamyne, and ImportGenius are great, but they lock smaller teams into expensive annual contracts—and even when you export the CSVs, the company names are fragmented (e.g., 10 different spellings for the same consignee), freight forwarders clog up the shipper columns, and cargo descriptions are a mess. On the flip side, free tools like ImportYeti only cover US ocean manifests and lack contact enrichment.

​For those of you actually working in import/export, procurement, or supply chain analytics:

​1. How are you currently pulling competitor shipment data or vetting overseas suppliers?

​2. Would a small-to-mid-sized company ever pay an independent specialist a flat fee or monthly retainer to pull, clean, deduplicate, and enrich specific HS code/port data from public government registries—or is that something you’d only ever keep in-house / inside an existing SaaS tool?

​3. What’s the biggest headache you run into when trying to use raw Bill of Lading or customs manifest data?

​Not selling anything here—just trying to validate whether there’s real demand for a "done-for-you" trade data service before I commit to building out the pipelines.

Just noticed on the Sensors Multitool app that my s26 has a barometer, and it seems pretty accurate. Why on earth is this on a smartphone

From phones to laptops. And why did everything get so rounded?. What is the need for a display to get rounded in the edges. On a phone they say ergonomics and in hand feel. But why do tablets and laptops have this.

I would still happily prefer a top and bottom bar device. The good old days.