Recent content by jtr1962

The good thing is solar panels are lower priced than they've ever been. Balcony solar is becoming a thing.

This sounds awful. Weeks without electricity in the summer is the closest thing to hell on Earth I can think of. I hope power gets restored there as quickly as possible.

I used to go to either Mets or Yankees games at least a few times a summer with my late father. He was a die-hard Yankees fan. He also may have come close to having a professional baseball career himself. He used to play in some kind of baseball club when he was in his 20s. Occasionally scouts...

My too. I'm about 20/200 uncorrected but that's adequate for almost everything, including riding my bike. I can see what I need to see. I can't read street signs until I'm much closer but I have no need to. I know the streets I ride on like the back of my hand. For the electronics work I do...

So far I've managed to keep the power on. Thank you for the offer of help. If I need it in the future I'll let you know.

Do you mean emotionally or financially? Emotionally I'm getting better a little at a time. Financially I'm still a wreck. My new business project is still in the R&D phase. I won't see real money from it for weeks. I did manage to keep the lights on so far. I'm doing some market timing now...

Me neither. They'll keep McConnell's rotting corpse connected to life support machines to avoid a special election.

Seriously???? This is legalized scamming.

Steam inflicted the train simulator world as well: https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_Classic/ That's why I use Open Rails. Maybe not as much eye candy but much better physics. When I drive a train I want it to feel like driving a train, not something else. This new sim...

That's actually good to know I can put 7 on newer hardware once I'm more flush and can afford an upgrade. Regarding RAM and SSD prices, from my reading sadly it looks like this situation will continue for a very long time. In retrospect the prices I thought were highway robbery not long ago...

So you think it's a driver problem and not something else? At this point it's more of an occasional nuisance than something I can't live with. It's just strange how everything will be working fine and then suddenly it does, roughly after the system is up about 20 something days. So far my...

Yeah, I'm at the latest and last version. And yes, when the problem crops up I just reboot. I was trying to see if maybe someone else encountered this before and had an answer.

This is a problem I've had for probably a few years now but I've never asked about it. I have my two monitors set to turn off after 5 minutes. This works fine until my computer is on 20 something days continuously. After that the displays never go off. After 5 minutes they just randomly flash on...