I recently built a new PC and forgot the obnoxious advertising, invasive content, and poor privacy settings enabled by default in Windows 11. Below are settings to change to mitigate that as much as possible. Privacy & security > General Folder Options > General > Privacy Privacy & security > Diagnostics & feedback Privacy & […]
For about 2 months I’ve been struggling to install the Windows 11 24H2 on my main PC. Initially, I attempted to install the update through the default built-in Windows Update utility, but eventually the update disappeared. Later, I downloaded the ISO of Windows 11 24H2 and even launching that repeatedly failed. It wasn’t very critical […]
GNOME is included as the default or as a installable desktop environment for most of the popular Linux distros out there such as Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro, and more, but I find it lacks expected basic functionality and polish for users accustomed to Windows and macOS. One can argue that GNOME is trying […]
I had quite a few Windows 7 installation discs that I was about to throw away, but it then hit me that there would be some buyers and/or collectors who were into this stuff on eBay. It surprised me that within three days, I sold all five of my Windows 7 discs which were four […]
The family of my friend Patricia was moving and needed to offload about thirty-five years worth of items. Since liquidating stuff on eBay, Craig’s List, OfferUp, and Amazon is a hobby of mine, I couldn’t resist taking all of that stuff. The experience was very eye-opening to say the least, and I had to make […]
CPU Coolers/ Fans Corsair Scythe Cooler Master Deepcool Thermaltake PSUs FSP Super Flower Seasonic EVGA Corsair Cooler Master Cases Corsair NZXT Deepcool Cooler Master Thermaltake Inwin RAM Corsair G. Skill Patriot Crucial/Ballistix Kingston/HyperX SSDs/HDDs Samsung SK Hynix Western Digital/Sandisk Micron/Crucial Seagate Motherboards Asus Asrock MSI Gigabyte Graphics Cards EVGA […]
This was a small project to remedy some of my boredom due to the Covid-19 lockdown/shelter-in-place order in Washington which started on March 23, 2020. Compared to my previous computer builds, I took the aesthetic details up a notch with some magnetic blue LED strips. I had a Samsung SSD, MSI video card, and an […]
The Fry’s Electronics of Renton looked very dismal to say the very least. From my take on it, it seems like the business as a whole is about to go out of business. From walking through most of the store interior, it seemed like that they had little to no new merchandise and this was […]
Today, I went to pick a pallet of twenty-four computers that I won an online auction for the City of Everett. The batch of computers was comprised of Dell Optiplexes and Precisions manufactured from 2010-2013. My Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was able to fit all the units snugly to the point that I had to place […]