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    Advice plz: This ready to go? Mint 21.3 for 2011 era Asus z68 2600k 16GB ram new 500SSDs

    I may have to go to a different distribution if I need to run something special, but I will try things as I go. Way back in the DOS days, half the fun was managing to get finicky games to run, having to change the configuration files until they ran the way I liked them to. I generally used...
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    Advice plz: This ready to go? Mint 21.3 for 2011 era Asus z68 2600k 16GB ram new 500SSDs

    Thanks for the response. I was recommended 21.3 by someone else who is using it, but she had her techy daughter install that build for her, and said that her computer now 'just works fine'. So, I figured that was good enough and I could always upgrade later. . My experience with MS taught me not...
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    Advice plz: This ready to go? Mint 21.3 for 2011 era Asus z68 2600k 16GB ram new 500SSDs

    2011, Last build of 3 such computers, running Win 7,7,10. On e 2500K, two 2600k, all backed down to stock speeds for longevity. Played around with overclocking, but really no point anymore since I don't need to. Icydock backplane w/6 slots, handful of Samsung 500 SSDs Asus MBs are all Z68...
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    Antivirus software and Anti Malware

    Windows defender is enough? But what about if you actually want to know what it's removing and confiscating from your computer before it does it? WD just scans your computer, and removes anything it doesn't like; doesn't even tell you what it's removing. I don't call that a good program; I want...
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    Windows 10 update KB5034441 is still broken, more than a month after release

    Windows has been broken for decades, essentially since the scsi bug appeared and they didn't care about fixing it. That was what, 23 years ago? They don't fix things. They just keep marching along, new bells and whistles, to keep the general population thinking that they are 'upgrading' their...
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    I just want to complain about memory not being enough

    So basically, if I create a machine with 10 TB of ram, and a 10 TB SSD, the new versions of operating systems will read the whole hard drive and cache it to the ram. Whether I ever run those programs or not. So whatever new computer I build, is obsolete the moment I build it? Unless I have more...
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    Best or some of the best Android smartphone ?

    It's not that it was broken, or malfunctioning. It's that the apps had auto updated, but those apps wouldn't work with the outdated iOS, and they take the older app versions off of the itunes store, so that left me with a phone and fewer and fewer apps that would work on it. Enforced...
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    Best or some of the best Android smartphone ?

    Oh, Apple support is great! Their response when things stopped working? 'Just buy a new phone, we have a nice $800 one right here!' Planned obsolescence on a 3 year old device that cost a bundle. I'll never buy another Apple product.
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    How to force a more recent Android version on an old Smartphone?

    I think one of the things you may have missed, was this: "these studies suggest". You will come across lots of qualifiers, which indicate that they aren't sure; it's currently just a 'best guess'. And we can't just assume that those are correct guesses. We see a lot of that in scientific...
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    How to force a more recent Android version on an old Smartphone?

    I'm a nurse, I'm not paranoid about disease. I just know the proper preventative measures which should be taken. And despite not getting into medical school, I did take all the same science courses which someone who is interested in diseases, would take. SOME viruses have a shorter surface...
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    Phone suddenly giving emergency alerts in Spanish?

    Okay, I'm in Arizona. First few years, phone continued as normal. About a year ago, it started giving me emergency alerts in English AND Spanish, but the audio was only in English. A few months later, it started doing the audio in Spanish as well, following the English. Now it's only doing the...
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    How to force a more recent Android version on an old Smartphone?

    It's this kind of disinformation, which helps the foil hat community to remain susceptible to diseases and then spreading them, by believing foolish things. Viruses don't 'die' because they're not alive. They can remain intact for, well, potentially forever, depending on what it is. They don't...
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    Best Buy WD - easystore 12TB $209

    The only cheap ones I found were either refurbished or open box. But if you have a source, go for it.
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    Best Buy WD - easystore 12TB $209

    So where are you getting them today?
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    Best Buy WD - easystore 12TB $209

    https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6425301.p?skuId=6425301 Not sure what's inside, but better than refurbished drives.
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