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I’ve drowned my old Sony Z4 Tablet (yeah, I’m still not entirely sure how I pulled that one off) and have been living without an Android tablet for about a year now. In the meantime, I’ve bought myself a 12.9 inch iPad Pro 1, which I’m using to type this post. Anyway, the point of this post isn’t about neither the Z4, nor the iPad Pro. Yes, this post is all about my 10 inch Nexus 10, the flagship hardware created by Samsung to Google’s exacting specifications. I’ve stopped using it since 2016 (I know, because when I fired the baby up, she held a full charge* and all the chrome tabs were circa ‘16), and 2 years of storage in humid South East Asia did the poor sod no favors. In some way, I think I’ve come to disuse this tablet because of how bad it feels in the hand. Some boffin thought it would be splendid if the Nexus 10 felt like a good 2B accompaniment - the veritable eraser - and coated the damned thing in a layer of rubberised something . In some way, I suppose they had thei...

Just a short update regarding my router. I pair it with my Asus AC88 PCIe card on my main desktop for an actual throughput of about 500Mbps up/down. The router is situated in my living room, and my desktop is placed around 7.5m away, with a 1/2 foot thick prefabricated wall in between to account for signal attenuation. I find the current setup works fine for me. I have a gigabit internet subscription at home, and 500 up/down is plenty fast for my daily use. I could do a direct plug-in via the router if ever there was any large file transfer required, but my Synology NAS (DS-214) with its ethernet connection deals with that use case for me. Anyhow, since my last post, I've noticed random disconnects on my 5GHz connection. My missus has also been complaining that her iPhone is dropping 2.4GHz connections from her spot in bed (easily the furthest spot from the router in the entire apartment) I did the usual troubleshooting - restoring network connections to default on my PC, ...

So for the last couple of weeks I've been racking my mind wondering what's causing the inability of my Windows 10 PC from going to sleep. For reference, my computer specifications are follows: 1. Intel 4790K @ 4GHz 2. 32GB DDR3 Kingston RAM 3. 2x SSD and 1x 1TB harddisk storage 4. GTX 1080 Founders Edition 5. Asus PCE-AC88 Wireless PCIe Adapter I've also installed several peripherals to my computer via USB, namely: 1. Samsung  M2070W laser printer 2. Logitech G700s mouse 3. Logitech G610 keyboard 4. Thrustmaster FCS T16000.M Joystick and Throttle 5. Oculus Rift CV1 Troubleshooting: Before seeking advice from the oracle that is known by the name Google, I decided to use my years-won repertoire of computerese in an attempt to narrow down the culprit. First, I ran powercfg /requests (in admin mode, of course), to determine if there are any rouge programs keeping the computer awake. No joy on that front. I decided to dig deeper and consider that maybe s...