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Glad you could fix it so quick! You're right: most people would look inside a PC and their eyes would rattle around a bit and they'd slowly back away. I know mine would, and, hell, I've even helped assemble a few in my lifetime!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We have a couple of old dinosaurs built of server grade stuff. They've got to be at least 12 years old by now, and in that time we've tossed a three or four laptops and four cell/ smart phones. We currently have a tablet and a laptop for casual use. The keypad on the tablet stopped working two years ago and a critical area on the screen (the one that displays all open windows) stopped responding to touch. (Fortunately it still responds to the special pen they included.) The laptop, which is only a year old, needs to be rebooted at least once a day, not sure if it's crappy software (memory leak) or something hardware, but it's a PITA to use.

Anyhow... glad you're able to cobble together working systems for yourself. Most people are hostage to the ready made junk that's sold today. If you ever wanted to go into business for yourself you could do repairs and upgrades and recoveries.

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I took yesterday off. Aside from making b'fast and dinner and walking the dog, I crawled into bed and napped, or put my feet up and watched TV. I felt guilty bc there's so much to do, but I needed it. Gotta say, I made creative use of leftovers for b'fast and dinner. For b'fast I made hubby a bowl of leftover albondigas soup (no meatballs) and a wrap using locarb tortilla, mayo, swiss, a strip of hot pepper cheese and strips of leftover roast beef. For dinner I had a salad and leftover oven "fried" chicken, dear daughter had albondigas with meatballs, and hubby had meatballs that I turned into 'spaghetti and meatballs" with leftover tomato sauce and seasonings and no-cal "noodles", and a salad on the side. So we all had our veggies and the frig got cleared. Yay!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We have a couple of old dinosaurs built of server grade stuff. They've got to be at least 12 years old by now, and in that time we've tossed a three or four laptops and four cell/ smart phones. We currently have a tablet and a laptop for casual use. The keypad on the tablet stopped working two years ago and a critical area on the screen (the one that displays all open windows) stopped responding to touch. (Fortunately it still responds to the special pen they included.) The laptop, which is only a year old, needs to be rebooted at least once a day, not sure if it's crappy software (memory leak) or something hardware, but it's a PITA to use.

Anyhow... glad you're able to cobble together working systems for yourself. Most people are hostage to the ready made junk that's sold today. If you ever wanted to go into business for yourself you could do repairs and upgrades and recoveries.

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I can imagine the problems you have. My only piece of relatively "new" hardware is the used cell phone I bought for my diabetes monitoring and the pods. It was the only way that I could use both and have them work in tandem with each other. (The fucking nerve of them to require me to have my own cell phone to do the heavy lifting with the fucking prices they charge for this bullshit).

It started acting jenky about 6 months ago and now the battery with a full charge will die in about 8 hours. I blame that on the software though. The damn insulin pod software won't even run unless you give it a ton of control over your phone, such as not being allowed to turn off notifications or turn the volume down or only have it vibrate when you are high or low. Nope. It's got to SCREAM at you when you're not in range. I absolutely hate it.

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I took yesterday off. Aside from making b'fast and dinner and walking the dog, I crawled into bed and napped, or put my feet up and watched TV. I felt guilty bc there's so much to do, but I needed it. Gotta say, I made creative use of leftovers for b'fast and dinner. For b'fast I made hubby a bowl of leftover albondigas soup (no meatballs) and a wrap using locarb tortilla, mayo, swiss, a strip of hot pepper cheese and strips of leftover roast beef. For dinner I had a salad and leftover oven "fried" chicken, dear daughter had albondigas with meatballs, and hubby had meatballs that I turned into 'spaghetti and meatballs" with leftover tomato sauce and seasonings and no-cal "noodles", and a salad on the side. So we all had our veggies and the frig got cleared. Yay!

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Sometimes you need a break. Don't feel guilty about it.


Thought I was going to my friend's today to get his computer situation taken care of. Ended up working with him until 9PM clearing shit out of his mom's basement that flooded with all the rain we just got.

That was fun.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We have a couple of old dinosaurs built of server grade stuff. They've got to be at least 12 years old by now, and in that time we've tossed a three or four laptops and four cell/ smart phones. We currently have a tablet and a laptop for casual use. The keypad on the tablet stopped working two years ago and a critical area on the screen (the one that displays all open windows) stopped responding to touch. (Fortunately it still responds to the special pen they included.) The laptop, which is only a year old, needs to be rebooted at least once a day, not sure if it's crappy software (memory leak) or something hardware, but it's a PITA to use.

Anyhow... glad you're able to cobble together working systems for yourself. Most people are hostage to the ready made junk that's sold today. If you ever wanted to go into business for yourself you could do repairs and upgrades and recoveries.

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I can imagine the problems you have. My only piece of relatively "new" hardware is the used cell phone I bought for my diabetes monitoring and the pods. It was the only way that I could use both and have them work in tandem with each other. (The fucking nerve of them to require me to have my own cell phone to do the heavy lifting with the fucking prices they charge for this bullshit).

It started acting jenky about 6 months ago and now the battery with a full charge will die in about 8 hours. I blame that on the software though. The damn insulin pod software won't even run unless you give it a ton of control over your phone, such as not being allowed to turn off notifications or turn the volume down or only have it vibrate when you are high or low. Nope. It's got to SCREAM at you when you're not in range. I absolutely hate it.

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I took yesterday off. Aside from making b'fast and dinner and walking the dog, I crawled into bed and napped, or put my feet up and watched TV. I felt guilty bc there's so much to do, but I needed it. Gotta say, I made creative use of leftovers for b'fast and dinner. For b'fast I made hubby a bowl of leftover albondigas soup (no meatballs) and a wrap using locarb tortilla, mayo, swiss, a strip of hot pepper cheese and strips of leftover roast beef. For dinner I had a salad and leftover oven "fried" chicken, dear daughter had albondigas with meatballs, and hubby had meatballs that I turned into 'spaghetti and meatballs" with leftover tomato sauce and seasonings and no-cal "noodles", and a salad on the side. So we all had our veggies and the frig got cleared. Yay!

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Sometimes you need a break. Don't feel guilty about it.


Thought I was going to my friend's today to get his computer situation taken care of. Ended up working with him until 9PM clearing shit out of his mom's basement that flooded with all the rain we just got.

That was fun.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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How high was the water? Would shelving have helped?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We have a couple of old dinosaurs built of server grade stuff. They've got to be at least 12 years old by now, and in that time we've tossed a three or four laptops and four cell/ smart phones. We currently have a tablet and a laptop for casual use. The keypad on the tablet stopped working two years ago and a critical area on the screen (the one that displays all open windows) stopped responding to touch. (Fortunately it still responds to the special pen they included.) The laptop, which is only a year old, needs to be rebooted at least once a day, not sure if it's crappy software (memory leak) or something hardware, but it's a PITA to use.

Anyhow... glad you're able to cobble together working systems for yourself. Most people are hostage to the ready made junk that's sold today. If you ever wanted to go into business for yourself you could do repairs and upgrades and recoveries.

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I can imagine the problems you have. My only piece of relatively "new" hardware is the used cell phone I bought for my diabetes monitoring and the pods. It was the only way that I could use both and have them work in tandem with each other. (The fucking nerve of them to require me to have my own cell phone to do the heavy lifting with the fucking prices they charge for this bullshit).

It started acting jenky about 6 months ago and now the battery with a full charge will die in about 8 hours. I blame that on the software though. The damn insulin pod software won't even run unless you give it a ton of control over your phone, such as not being allowed to turn off notifications or turn the volume down or only have it vibrate when you are high or low. Nope. It's got to SCREAM at you when you're not in range. I absolutely hate it.

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I took yesterday off. Aside from making b'fast and dinner and walking the dog, I crawled into bed and napped, or put my feet up and watched TV. I felt guilty bc there's so much to do, but I needed it. Gotta say, I made creative use of leftovers for b'fast and dinner. For b'fast I made hubby a bowl of leftover albondigas soup (no meatballs) and a wrap using locarb tortilla, mayo, swiss, a strip of hot pepper cheese and strips of leftover roast beef. For dinner I had a salad and leftover oven "fried" chicken, dear daughter had albondigas with meatballs, and hubby had meatballs that I turned into 'spaghetti and meatballs" with leftover tomato sauce and seasonings and no-cal "noodles", and a salad on the side. So we all had our veggies and the frig got cleared. Yay!

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Sometimes you need a break. Don't feel guilty about it.


Thought I was going to my friend's today to get his computer situation taken care of. Ended up working with him until 9PM clearing shit out of his mom's basement that flooded with all the rain we just got.

That was fun.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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How high was the water? Would shelving have helped?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Most of what Trump says or posts is cringeworthy and some of it is downright grotesque.

It seems to me that Trump can't wrap his brain around the idea that being President of the USA does NOT make him Master of the Universe. It looks like he keeps trying for leverage on China and Russia, and can't figure out that while he can bully and/or bribe Qatar or Israel or France or Venezuela, it's not going to work on the other big powers.

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It seems to me you can’t either. First, he could end Russian aggression in a week.

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If Trump could, then so could Biden*.
So why didn't Biden*?
I bet you never answer that question!

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He doesn’t because Putin has something on him, and or, he doesn’t think it benefits him personally.

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I see Q-anon's representative is posting.
Again.

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And he didn’t bribe Qatar, they bribed him. Why did he crack down on Israel? They bombed his business partners, Qatar.

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Glad he cracked down on Israel.It's nothing but trouble and we should dump them altogether.

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THGR: I see no references in your posts expressing how he is acting like a dictator and destroying American institutions. Which shows your ignorance and biases regarding all matters, here and abroad. Isn’t that right comrade?

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The institution that counts is the Constitution. Everything else is a growth on that fundamental document, and not necessarily a good one.

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You are on board with the Alex Krainer's of the world. He likes dictators like Putin and believes Putin being a strong man benefits the masses. You think the same. Which is why you always come off as a Russian troll who never gets, how and why America is what it is and the promise only it offers. And, it's why you are all in for tearing it down.

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Alex said something interesting. He grew up in Communist Croatia, but came here as a foreign exchange student when he was 17. When he got here, everyone said "So aren't you happy living in a free country?“ or words to that effect. And what he said was that people ASSUMED we were free with only one frame of reference, without anything for comparison. But he felt freer in Croatia.

An additional point that Glenn made was something along the lines of "virtue by identity" ... you ASSUME you're virtuous, or free, or civilized, or advanced, not because of what you do but bc of who you are (American, in this case).

Also, quotes from de Tocqueville about democracy.
It was an interesting conversation, which I'll try to find for you.

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Trump’s Qatar military deal is historic — for all the wrong reasons

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For a while Saudi Arabia and Qatar were competing to see who could find their preferred faction of head chopping jihadi extremists who were, strangely, our proxies in our "wars“ against Assad and Qaddafi and Putin.
Now that Assad and Qaddafi are out of the way, are they done with the head chopping stuff?
We've been buying their oil and gas for decades. I can understand that. But we really REALLY should be more careful who we partner with! So, no, I'm not a big fan of buddying up with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the "mujahideen", and our many other unsavory proxies.

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You never speak of any of this because your agenda is Anti-American comrade.

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I've posted MANY times about that, stupid. Something's wrong with you.

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Trump is a Putin ally.

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One of us is confused. I thought he was a Qatari ally!

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blah blah blah ...

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Just consider this a friendly gesture ...


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