How to Not Drop Your Phone; Why are Mechanical Keyboard Keys so Expensive?

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[Android Central] How to Fix “The Driver Being Installed Is Not Validated For This Computer” on Intel Computers Intel’s graphics drivers will refuse to install on some computers, even if they use Intel graphics chips. If you see this error message, your computer manufacturer wants you to install drivers from their website, not directly from Intel. But there’s a way to bypass this message and install the Intel drivers anyway. Read This Article → What’s the Latest Version of Android? Android can be confusing. There are a lot of different versions, and many of them are still running on devices today. Keeping up with the latest version can be a challenge, but fret not—we have you covered. Read This Article → How To Not Drop Your Phone Glass is back, baby. And glass is back for backs. Most new high end phones this year—like the iPhone X and Galaxy S9, have glass screens and backs. This could mean expensive repairs, so let's go back to basics, and look at how to not drop your phone. Read This Article → Why are Mechanical Keyboard Keycaps so Expensive? If you’re getting into the mechanical keyboard hobby, prepare your wallet for some serious hits. In addition to the hardware itself, the customized keycap sets that you add to the mechanical switches can be shockingly expensive. But why? Read This Article → Can You Really Make Money Mining Bitcoin With Your Gaming PC? People mining cryptocurrency have driven up the price of GPUs. So, if you’re a gamer and you already have a powerful GPU in your gaming PC, can you really make some extra cash mining cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin) with your PC? Read This Article → Why Old Video Games Were So Hard: The Unofficial History of Nintendo Hard If you’re old enough to have played games in the 80s or early 90s, you’ll remember that they were hard: really damn hard. Why they were they so infuriatingly difficult? The answer presents a fascinating look at the history of video games. Read This Article → How to Factory Reset Your Synology NAS If your Synology NAS drive is giving you problems, or you’re just upgrading to a whole new system, there are a few ways you can reset it, depending on what you want to do with it. Read This Article → Troubleshoot Browsing Issues by Reloading the DNS Client Cache on Windows Have you ever gotten DNS errors while trying to browse the web, but another computer on the same network is working just fine? There’s a good chance you need to clear the computer’s DNS cache to fix it. Read This Article → How to Access Your Ubuntu Bash Files in Windows (and Your Windows System Drive in Bash) Linux environments you install from the Store (like Ubuntu and openSUSE) keep their files in a hidden folder. You can access this folder to back up and view files. You can also access your Windows files from the Bash shell. Read This Article → How to Force the Dark Quick Settings Theme in Android Oreo Android Oreo (8.1) automatically applies either a light or dark theme to the Quick Settings menu depending on your wallpaper. If you want a specific wallpaper and theme instead, there’s an easy way to force it. Read This Article → How to Silence WhatsApp Group Notification Sounds Group chats are the bane of most WhatsApp users' existence. Just when you put your phone down, your mates decide to solve world hunger, the nuclear proliferation problem, and the unconscionable decision to push Game of Thrones' final season back to 2019. Here's how to get a handle on all those notifications. Read This Article → How to Get More Meaningful Battery Stats on Your Android Phone Android battery life and the tools for monitoring usage have gotten better over the last few years, but the stock options are still sometimes not enough. But there are ways to gauge your battery usage, remaining time, and even hunt down apps that steal your precious juice. Read This Article → Advertisement Try The New and Improved CleanMyPC 1.8.9 with Smart Uninstaller If you want to clean up your PC the easy way, CleanMyPC is a great tool to get the job done easily, and it will even keep your computer clean automatically. The Uninstaller module can find and erase any app completely with no leftovers. The improved module includes the Safety Database to make uninstallation more accurate and safe. Free Download