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Merc, this is fascinating. I have some videos on VHS tape that I'd like to make digital and upscale. My wedding, kid crawling around, walking first time, etc. I first need a device that'll play the tape and convert to digital. I have my old VHS player from the US - untouched in 20 years. Don't...

Aww, poor thing! You're a good soul, Merc.

I'm surprised so many of us are using the + version of Samsung phones. Previously had S22+, now it's S25+. Samsung treats the + line like a step child; it's the first to stop production in every iteration. Samsung Stores hate it and you have to pry it out of them. Personally I think it's in the...

Time to install Linux in a VM and start getting used to it??

So very sorry to hear, Doug. No words can condole you. But despite the pain, I still believe it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. We don't realize it at the time, but we do later understand how incredibly helpful our companions were when we were in distress and...

So sorry to hear all that you and your friend have been through, Merc. Hope it all eventually gets sorted out.

Glad to hear your loss didn't wipe you out, jtr. $260k is nothing to sneeze at; I would not have been able to withstand such a loss. I haven't earned much in life, but have been nurturing and taking care of the small nest egg with a lot of care.

Thanks. Yes, have had good experience with Asus stuff generally. Also, the MB had the features / ports I wanted.

So sorry to hear this jtr. I hope everything works out ok for you. Scams are happening everywhere. Some extended family got sucked into one and lost some money. My wife wanted to get into the same thing, I told her it smelled of a scam and fortunately, she listened. The old are getting conned...

Desktop Fractal Design Define 7 XL case ROG Strix X570-F Gaming motherboard AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core 64 GB RAM Boot drive: WD Black SN850 500 GB NVidea GeForce GTX 1650 (I don't game) Lenovo ThinkVision P24q-20 display, 23.8", QHD Windows 11 Laptop Used very rarely, only when I am travelling...

Thanks Merc for helping with my SF pw rest. This will be my last post on this issue (for now anyway). Summary: I googled and found this problem goes all the way back to 2012! Mozilla support forums have many guys cribbing about this. Many suggestions are given; I tried them, but none worked...

Thanks Handy. I got the pw reset email, but when I clicked on the link, it went to SF where the page said "Oops! Something went wrong. Request pw reset again" or some such. So I did, and it worked this time.

How do I create a fresh user account? Just create a new user? I uninstalled as much as I could; it keeps insisting a reinstall will fix things. After uninstall, I deleted most Registry entries that had Firefox or Mozilla in their names. Re-installed. Mixed results. SF loaded fast. Other...

This started happening recently. I'll try a complete uninstall of FF and full re-install. For DNS over HTTPS, I even set it to Off, made no difference. Any time it needs to look up is when it chokes. For info, CPU is a Ryzen 9 5900x 12 core, 64GB of RAM.

32 secs to load ARS Technica. It spends most of the time "Looking up ARS Technica.... Chrome loads ARS in under 1 sec. Same PC.