Forum: Open Discussion
April 15th, 2024, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 266
Taylor Swift???
I get it that I am an old timer, but what's the affinity to Taylor Swift?
The songs are meh. You do not forget Beyonce or Adele or Bob Dylan when hearing the lyrics. The singing is meh. Ok, the...
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Forum: Windows 10
February 2nd, 2024, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,125
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Forum: Windows 10
January 18th, 2024, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,125
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...
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Forum: Windows 10
January 17th, 2024, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,125
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....
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Forum: Windows 10
September 25th, 2023, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 43,975
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Forum: Linux
September 25th, 2023, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 6,747
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Forum: Linux
July 22nd, 2023, 12:35 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 6,747
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...
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Forum: Hardware
June 9th, 2023, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,243
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Forum: The Anything Else Board
May 24th, 2023, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,475
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...
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Forum: Open Discussion
May 24th, 2023, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 389
Views: 188,385
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...
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Forum: Hardware
May 24th, 2023, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,243
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...
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Forum: Open Discussion
January 14th, 2023, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 856
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...
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Forum: Internet / Browsers
August 17th, 2022, 08:50 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,190
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,...
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Forum: Windows 7
March 31st, 2022, 03:11 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,109
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...
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Forum: Phones & Tablets
February 23rd, 2022, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 3,495
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...
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Forum: Open Discussion
February 8th, 2022, 04:13 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,494
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...
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Forum: Open Discussion
January 27th, 2022, 09:33 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,494
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...
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Forum: Open Discussion
January 26th, 2022, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,494
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Forum: Linux
December 27th, 2021, 04:29 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,849
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Forum: Phones & Tablets
December 19th, 2021, 05:47 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 9,072
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