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March 13

Wall mounting a TV

I'm helping someone move and there's a 32" flatscreen TV that we want to mount at a specific location on a wall. It's normal drywall and because of proximity to doorways and stuff, the TV must be placed in a fairly precise spot, within 1cm or so. I think the TV has the usual cutout for a VESA mount, but the usual mounts if I'm not mistaken usually want to be screwed into a wall stud, so the location of the stud controls where the TV can hang.

Is there such a thing as a mount that allows adjusting the horizontal placement of the TV? I see a lot on newegg with tilt, swivel, extension arms, etc. All I'm after is a stationary mount where the TV just stays in one exact spot, no adjustments after installation and tightening things down, that hopefully doesn't stick out too far from the wall like those extension arm things would. Thanks!

73.93.142.128 (talk) 04:27, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps you can just screw a couple of horizontal pieces of timber into the wall studs, and then attach the normal mounting frame to that at the position you want. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:59, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

D'oh! That's a great idea, thanks very much! It's probably better than any special purpose gadget so I'm likely to use that approach. Thanks again! 73.93.142.128 (talk) 05:26, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

A good VESA wallmount adapter can be adjusted. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 11:19, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Any good extension arm wall mount should barely stick out of the wall when you don't want it to. Mine is only about 1 cm. That said, if you're sure you have no use for the feature, I agree it's better to get one without. Nil Einne (talk) 11:55, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

• Typical large TV mounts consist of a couple of horizontal rails (which may be DIN rail or similar) and a mount which attaches easily to those. The long rails can span wherever the studs are. The mount can be moved along the rails.

There are also fixing like the Grip-it [1] which provide strong connections to plasterboard or drywall. However plasterboard itself has its limits. In particular, it's surprisingly strong for a simple pure shear load, but the safe reduces reduces to about a quarter of this if it's at all offset from the plane of the board. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:04, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Gaming Console Cooling System Working All The The Time

I've installed a game on my console since three weeks, and every time I play that game I hear the sound of the cooling system all the time during the game, while in other games played by a blue ray disk, I don't hear the sound too much, does that sound makes an indication of a horrible end for my device? 86.108.122.103 (talk) 05:41, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

If it's really the cooling fans, (as opposed to the hard-drive), I wouldn't worry about it too much. It could just indicate that the new game is more graphically or CPU intensive. Some compressed air to clean out the dust probably wouldn't hurt, though.

If the noise is coming from the harddrive, that could be serious. Obviously, physical hard-drives make noise when they run, but usually it's pretty quiet. If it's making noticeably more noise than normal, you might consider backing up your data, just in case. Here are PS4 instructions, and Here are XBOne instructions. ApLundell (talk) 23:01, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks alot. 149.200.150.160 (talk) 18:31, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

ignoring changes to the .gitignore file

I'm working on a public git repo where there is a .gitignore file, per standard practices. On my local repo I have some personal customization files, let's say at "mueller/", and those files should never ever be checked in. So I added a new line, mueller/, to the .gitignore file so that that mueller/ never shows up in git. That's all working well and good.

But the problem is now git is reporting that the .gitignore file has been changed (with the extra line), and is bugging me about it constantly. Is there a way to ignore changes to the .gitignore file?

I know I can gitignore the .gitignore file itself, but that involves untracking .gitignore, which affects other people unfortunately. Mũeller (talk) 07:06, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

• As far as I understand the question, this StackOverflow question (and the accepted answer) solve it. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:31, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much. That solved it perfectly. Mũeller (talk) 07:25, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

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