 
 Beau Tran 🥉
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 Why does this baby monitor keep losing signal?
Asked 1 month ago • 55 votes
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Answered 1 month ago 
 Hmm, tbh Figure out whether yours connects through WiFi or its own radio link. For WiFi, pick a fixed channel with low congestion, turn off heavy downloads or backups overnight, and move the router so the nursery and your bedroom both have strong signal, 5 GHz will be cleaner through short distances but 2.4 GHz goes through walls better. For a dedicated radio monitor and change the channel, keep both antennas vertical, and get some height on both ends because bodies and furniture absorb signal but then watch for troublemakers like mirrors, foil backed insulation, and HVAC ducts near the path between the rooms. Sometimes a small rotation of the camera or a two foot nudge clears it up.
 How do you keep your photo library organized across phone and laptop?
Asked 1 month ago • 42 votes
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Answered 1 month ago 
 With all the kids' birthday pics and school events piling up and I've found Google Photos to be a total game-changer for keeping everything synced across my phone and laptop. It automatically backs up, dedupes those duplicate sunsets you mentioned, and even suggests tags for people and places so I don't have to spend precious family time on it. Set it up once with auto-upload on, and you'll be smiling every time you open your library without the chaos.
 Which acrylic paint set is best for beginners in watercolor effects and how do I choose the right brushes?
Asked 2 months ago • 19 votes
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Answered 1 month ago 
 Pick a fluid watercolor-like set or thin with water and use soft synthetic round brushes for smooth blending on a budget. Keep caps tight and store cool, look up tutorials if instructions are sparse, and keep everything in one bin to save space.
 My smartphone case is cracking already—why is that happening?
Asked 1 month ago • 38 votes
  
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Answered 1 month ago 
 Hi Ari,
You probably did nothing wrong. A lot of budget silicone cases are very thin at the corners and around button cutouts. Those spots flex the most and they start to tear, which looks like cracking. Body oils, UV, and heat can also make low grade silicone or TPU go stiff and brittle faster. Some listings call it silicone but it is really a soft coating over hard plastic, and that coating fractures easily. A month is unfortunately common when the material mix or molding is cheap.
If you want something simple that avoids those stress points, try Zittop Universal. The bumper design puts less strain on the edge ring so it flexes instead of splitting, and the elastic silicone handles repeated bends better. It fits phones from 4 to 6.5 inches. The tradeoff is the back is open, so add a screen protector or a thin skin if you want scuff protection, but for stopping edge cracks it is a solid step up from thin full-wrap silicone.
 Best way to organize thousands of phone photos so I can actually find them?
Asked 2 months ago • 41 votes
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Answered 2 months ago 
 Lost my kid's first birthday pics because I trusted optimize storage and a flaky Wi‑Fi. Sick feeling, learned the hard way, fixed it with a boring routine. The fix wasn't magic, just eliminating choices and automating the rest.
I picked one home for photos and stopped pretending I could keep two in sync. I exported full originals from the other service, imported them once, and then turned its sync off everywhere. I let the chosen app index faces and locations so search actually works, and I use favorites for the top shots I'll reuse. I made one running album per month so I can scroll time, not chaos. Once on the first weekend, I plug in an external SSD and export originals into folders named by year and month. Twice a year, I copy that SSD to a second drive and stick it in a drawer at work. If anything dies, I still have my stuff.
It's not clever, but it's been reliable for two years and I can find things in under a minute. If you're overwhelmed, start with last year forward and backfill later.