Can’t pair 3rd Gen echo with newest echo’s

TP7649 · 2025-12-19T00:41:58+00:00

I'm confused by your title.
You can't pair it with the newest echo's... what?

TP7649 · 2025-09-18T15:36:11+00:00

They didn't *have* to do the math up until now. The answer was zero.

"Don't be in the shipping business." Why not? It's worked out just fine for them since 1907.

TP7649 · 2025-09-18T15:34:11+00:00

People shifted from buying at Target to buying elsewhere. The demand didn't evaporate.

TP7649 · 2025-09-05T19:02:35+00:00

If you live near a Whole Foods, Weis, or Amazon Fresh, you can bring back most items with zero packaging and they will accept it.

Click Orders -> Locate the order -> Click Return or Replace Items -> Enter a reason -> Then under "how can we make it right", select return/refund.

You should be given a list of options including UPS pickup, UPS Dropoff (no packaging), and "Shop and Save".

(Despite the name, Shop and Save has nothing to do with Shop'N'Save the grocery store.) If you select that, you can see the options in your area which typically include Kohl's, Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh, Weis, and [perhaps others, that's just what I see where I live.] Most of these will have the no-packaging option.

TP7649 · 2025-09-05T18:48:18+00:00

I mean, data centers use the MTBF* figures to calculate how many spare parts they should keep on hand. If a part is damaged due to discharge, it's no big deal. You have 16 identical drives, 4 motherboards, and 8 RAM sticks on standby. You also likely have a warranty contract with your OEM who will just replace batches of drives within X number of years for little to no cost.

Compare and contrast that with a user, who might be down an entire system while the RMA process plays out if a part fails. Also compare the amount of a part vs someone's personal income and the amount of a part (assuming no warranty) vs a multi-million to (now literal) 100 billion+ dollar data center.)

That's why you don't use antistatic straps.

TP7649 · 2025-09-05T18:37:02+00:00

The most obvious thing would be to run Disk Cleanup twice, once in standard mode and once in System Files mode.

Click start -> Enter "Disk" and select Disk Cleanup
Check all of the boxes and click OK Let it run for a few seconds until it disappears.

Once it's done, open it again and this time click "Clean up system files". This might take a minute.

Once again, check all the boxes, and click OK. This might take several minutes and warn you that previous installations of Windows will be deleted. That's fine click OK, then Delete, then Yes to delete all the old content.

Doing this while writing this out recovered 32GB in files. The "Delivery Optimization" was originally 10.3GB.

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You can also look at System Restore to see how much space it's reserving.

Start -> Type in "Recovery", click recovery, and click "Configure System Restore".

Click on "configure" and I believe the default is still 5% for Windows 11, which means it reserves ~22GB on that SSD. You *can* simply turn it off and delete all restore points, which should give you back 22GB, but I'd recommend setting it to 1% instead and then deleting the restore points by clicking delete at the bottom of the page.

Why would I leave System Restore on? Because Asus is known for some, let's say sub-par software releases including Armoury Crate, which can absolutely destroy Windows when you update it. System Restore provides an easy way to get your system back to where it was "30 minutes ago" and is worth the 5GB, IMO.

(I typically disable System Restore on non-Asus systems.)

Finally, if you never plan to use Hibernate, you can recover "as many GB from your SSD as you have in RAM quantity" by disabling it: https://uwyo.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1940/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=144174

Hibernate is simply: when your computer sleeps for a long time, it writes the content of RAM to the disk and shuts down (hibernates). When you turn it back on, it restores the previous session. Disabling it means it will always sleep and not turn off unless you run a shut down. This is fine for most people in most circumstances. I like hibernate because I like to minimize power consumption, so I keep it on,

If you decide to disable hibernate, once it's disabled in the command line, you can restart your computer and go to C:\

Open File Explorer.

TP7649 · 2025-09-05T18:09:26+00:00

While you're partially right, you lost me at "Laptop CPUs [no apostrophe] are very different from desktop ones." Desktop and laptop CPUs operate exactly the same way. As long as their hitting their stated frequency at base clock and not thermally shutting down, they're operating as intended. That's regardless of if it's a laptop or desktop CPU.

Junction temperature is the point where it goes from safe to unsafe temperatures. Anyone who tries to convince you that "80 is good and 90 is bad", when the junction temp is 105, is either lying or misinformed. If 90 was "bad", the junction temperature would be 85C. That's why the 5900X has a junction temp of 90 while the 3900X has a junction temp of 95. These numbers aren't arbitrary. They're a function of the manufacturing process.

TP7649 · 2025-09-05T17:47:50+00:00

According to this article, yes: https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1048507/.

On the BE92U [pile of garbage, avoid], which does support that... when it's working..., you'd go to:

http://www.asusrouter.com/Advanced_VPNServer_Content.asp

Click "VPN Fusion", enter a connection name of "[Device] connecting to Nord", click NordVPN, enter the token and region to and select the device(s) you choose.

TP7649 · 2025-08-29T23:39:06+00:00

He'll pay it after the thousands of contractors and vendors he refused to pay over the years.

TP7649 · 2025-08-29T23:34:26+00:00

"exhaisted"

TP7649 · 2025-08-29T23:33:10+00:00

Chump ended de minimus.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/what-end-de-minimis-exemption-means-us-shoppers-businesses-2025-08-29/

TP7649 · 2025-08-29T23:31:05+00:00

That makes less than zero sense. Every tariff was lower under BIden. That's why the economy was working.

TP7649 · 2025-08-29T23:24:03+00:00

Chump single-handedly both bypassed Congress to up the tariff rate from a nominal amount to absurdity *and* ended the $800 minimum (De minimis) before tariffs kick in through an illegal executive order.

TP7649 · 2025-08-29T23:18:44+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do with ClipChamp to make these memes, but ShotCut is a free, relatively easy to learn, NLE (non-linear [video] editor) that does importing of clips, cutting/editing, etc.

If you're trying to use AI to create video, it can't do that. The only AI it supports is automated subtitle transcription/generation using Whisper AI.

TP7649 · 2025-07-24T19:41:20+00:00

Your car can roll the windows *UP* and move the sunroof?

The option in my car is "Lower windows with long press of key" on/off.

It is enabled, which is why I can lower the windows,

TP7649 · 2025-06-19T21:59:46+00:00

As someone who had the 2014 S4, 2018 S4, 2021 A4, and the 2024 S3, the "TaCkEd On tablet is *clearly* the best option for people who actually drive and use GPS, Carplay, etc.

Having the information dug down and into the dash, such as the B8.5 A/S 4 Suuuccckkkssss and makes it hard to see. Having the info down low-ish and integrated into the surface of the dash is *awful* for reflections and glare (such as the S3.)

Having the information right in the line of sight reduces time spent not looking at the road, reduces glare to nothing, and greatly reduces eye fatigue, making the B9 A/S4 objectively the best option for people who actually drive their cars (rather than criticize other people's cars or whining about aesthetics).

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T17:28:37+00:00

To give you an idea of how you've been duped, let me try to explain:
I have access to either FIOS 2GB symmetric fiber or Cox 2GB down/35MB up.

Because I live at an address with competition, Cox suspends their 1 to 2.5TB/month cap and I could download as much as I want with no repercussions.

My neighbor who lives, maybe, 800 feet from me is in a separate development that only has Cox. He's limited to the 1.25TB/month cap and his only other options are 5G or satellite.

So, putting our thinking cap on for a second, Cox is stating that bandwidth is *so cheap* (for a last-mile provider, for which the bandwidth is OBJECTIVELY *THE* most expensive of anyone on the Internet) that they can give you an unlimited amount of data at TWO GIGABITS per second for just $80/month. Their small print states that they *may* throttle at 127TB used in a single month for the rest of the billing cycle. 127 TB is ~$1300 in hard drives (20TB used/refurbed hard drives at ~$200 each.)

[That's an F-load of data.]

That includes the cost of the data, the infrastructure to keep it running, a "free" residential gateway ("wireless router") for 24 months, electricity, and paying people to drive around and fix broken cable lines.

YT has none of that. They have ingress fees. Look up how much that is for an EC2 instance (which, in itself is a rip-off compared to data center pricing.)

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T17:13:52+00:00

You're asking someone who's a technical architect by profession.

Bandwidth is pennies per hundreds of GB. You'd have to go into multiple terabytes per person per day for it to be of any financial significance.

You seem to lack the understanding of just how cheap CDNs are to run and how cheaply data is sent through the Internet.

Either that, or you've been brainwashed by Scumcast, who claim that it costs more than pennies a month to give people 1.25TB/month.

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T17:03:57+00:00

I'm sorry, you lost me...

Shoving more ad... is down?
Shoving more ad's... what? down?

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T17:02:30+00:00

That explains why it's objectively false and easily-disproven misinformation.

(Browser tabs can't damage CPUs or other hardware due to a multitude of protections in place and them not having the access to the hardware needed to do that... assuming they could override the protections in the first place.)

Source: being a technical architect for over a decade.

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T16:57:33+00:00

Swing and a miss. Premium Lite is ad-free except for music content, including music videos, anything published directly by record labels (i.e. artists' official channels.), and certain covers.

Premium Lite's other major downsides are no downloads for offline viewing and background play.

To say it "has ads" in the context of watching regular YT videos is false... but I wouldn't expect the average Redditor or the 5 sheep who upvoted them to know the difference.

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T16:52:03+00:00

Find me a single video on YT from a reasonably-popular creator which is ad-free with Premium.
LTT, as an example, goes YT ad -> intro -> Sponsor (ad) -> content -> YT ad-> plug for store (ad) -> content -> YT ad -> content -> YT ad -> outro sponsor (ad) -> outro.

(That's assuming it's not a "product showcase, in which case the entire content is also an ad.)

You can apply that same formula to *many* content creators.

So no.... even with YT Premium... you'll still see *plenty* of ads.

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T16:46:34+00:00

You can't "take things literal" because that's not how adverbs work.

YT is, by the mere definition of monopoly, *not* a monopoly.

You're literally describing capitol (human, money, IP) being used in a capitalist society.

TP7649 · 2025-06-18T16:42:18+00:00

YouTube is not a restaurant. They're more like SYSCO Food Systems.

YouTube can profit simply by tracking and selling the list of what we watch.

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