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Forum: Windows 10 February 2nd, 2024, 03:35 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 938
Posted By Total Noob
Almost as if by magic, the problem solved itself....

Almost as if by magic, the problem solved itself.

Having futilely tried most or all of the above steps, I readied to open up the sides and do a full cleaning. But before I go to that, my computer...
Forum: Windows 10 January 18th, 2024, 03:50 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 938
Posted By Total Noob
The places I buy second hand computers deal in...

The places I buy second hand computers deal in corporate installations where computers are replaced on a fixed schedule. I have not had a problem with units that were broken or were essentially used...
Forum: Windows 10 January 17th, 2024, 07:00 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 938
Posted By Total Noob
Start key and start button malfunction

Dell Optiplex 7020, running on Win10, but of unknown age, having been bought second hand with a fresh install of the OS. I have had memory problems and Win10 may be overwhelming the device....
Forum: Windows 10 September 25th, 2023, 02:18 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 43,359
Posted By Total Noob
My trick is hardly clever or novel. Stay on top...

My trick is hardly clever or novel. Stay on top of Windows updates.

My son had a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop with a 7th gen i5 core which he bought as a HS senior. He took it to college...
Forum: Linux September 25th, 2023, 01:30 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 6,634
Posted By Total Noob
I turned out it was completely Ubuntu's problem. ...

I turned out it was completely Ubuntu's problem.

Sometime after posting, i got myself a device that allows a user to plug a hard drive into it and use it like a USB, in effect an enclosure that is...
Forum: Linux July 22nd, 2023, 12:35 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 6,634
Posted By Total Noob
Still Say no to Ubuntu

My Windows irreversibly crapped out on a roughly ten year old no brand desktop computer, and to retrieve my data, I tried a temp install of Ubuntu.

It was fine for getting my hard drive stuff...
Forum: Hardware June 9th, 2023, 01:21 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,201
Posted By Total Noob
Thanks.

Thanks.
Forum: The Anything Else Board May 24th, 2023, 06:31 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,441
Posted By Total Noob
Hackable podcast

There were 38 45-60 minute episodes about how phones, TV's, computers etc can be hacked in various ways, and not necessarily by experts. The shows were very informative and very funny. The run ended...
Forum: Open Discussion May 24th, 2023, 06:26 PM
Replies: 385
Views: 186,519
Posted By Total Noob
A regular hardcopy newspaper, namely the St....

A regular hardcopy newspaper, namely the St. Louis Post Dispatch, for a train ride. I highly recommend regular newspapers because they are organized in importance for you, have no bs trending feeds...
Forum: Hardware May 24th, 2023, 06:17 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,201
Posted By Total Noob
Screen problems

I have an old, old Acer laptop running with a Celeron chip. At the moment, I have Linux Mint installed, but that is not the issue.

The difficulty is that about 20% of the screen -- the whole...
Forum: Open Discussion January 14th, 2023, 11:04 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 835
Posted By Total Noob
Impossible Burger

Terrible.

Mitigating was that it was served as institutional food (a hospital), but still bitter, dry, and not anything at all like real meat.

IDK whether or not this will prove to be...
Forum: Internet / Browsers August 17th, 2022, 08:50 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,165
Posted By Total Noob
Reddit problems

I had a pithy thought about "Star Trek" and chose Reddit as the place to reveal it. I had not tried it before.

The post was immediately blocked; the message was that as many first posts were spam,...
Forum: Windows 7 March 31st, 2022, 03:11 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,981
Posted By Total Noob
Downloading in a specific order?

I binge serial podcasts like "Serial" in the car (2018 Camry with low end entertainment package) by downloading the episodes at home each week as they come out and then cut and pasting them to a 4G...
Forum: Phones & Tablets February 23rd, 2022, 01:55 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,350
Posted By Total Noob
App deletion

Do Android apps really die and go to Hell if you delete them?

I got an iHealth government Covid test in the mail yesterday and the packaging insinuated that using its app was a required part of...
Forum: Open Discussion February 8th, 2022, 04:13 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,435
Posted By Total Noob
Kindly explain what's not to like about Jerry...

Kindly explain what's not to like about Jerry Seinfeld or the Seinfeld cast? And why like the Stewart acolyte Oliver but not Colbert?

And who else doesn't like Lily Tomlin, who has been at it for...
Forum: Open Discussion January 27th, 2022, 09:33 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,435
Posted By Total Noob
In no particular order, and not intending to...

In no particular order, and not intending to include everyone, among the living and working, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, everyone on Whose Line is it Anyway, Ricky Gervais, Jerry...
Forum: Open Discussion January 26th, 2022, 02:08 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,435
Posted By Total Noob
Trevor Noah is awful

Just bad and lame attempts at humor. Unwatchable.
Forum: Linux December 27th, 2021, 04:29 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 11,665
Posted By Total Noob
I persisted in the effort to get Zoom on my Linux...

I persisted in the effort to get Zoom on my Linux Mint dual-OS Compaq with an AMD 64 chip and to get it to work with my wifi dongle over Xmas.

It was not only frustrating and ultimately useless,...
Forum: Phones & Tablets December 19th, 2021, 05:47 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,937
Posted By Total Noob
Thanks. I have seen additional devices like that...

Thanks. I have seen additional devices like that but I am trying to consolidate not expand a collection of breakables.

Perhaps the existence of the device is an artifact of there not really being...
Forum: Phones & Tablets December 18th, 2021, 06:53 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,937
Posted By Total Noob
Analog to bluetooth

I have old and new devices that only have analog output good for wired headphones.

Is there an android app that will do aux in from my tv or old stereo through the one jack it has and then put...
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