Recent content by mubs

My laptop doesn't have the space, Merc. And I don't necessarily want to keep any data there. When I need to, I'll have to plug in a USB 3 spinning external drive to access slightly old data. I've been backing up to these for years and haven't had the data reliability / integrity problems you...

Thanks Merc. Space, money constraints plus at my age, have no patience for monkeying around. I'll just live with it.

Thanks Merc. I'll have to sit on this. Reliability or speed problems or expense not appropriate for the situation. Sigh. I'll just live with what I have.

Any recommendations for an external box with a USB-C interface that can hold 2 x SSds and 2 x NVME drives? Reliability and data integrity have to be rock solid. If such a beast exists at an affordable price, I'll move my data drives off the PC into this so I have data portability. Even one that...

Why am I logged out of the forum so frequently? Firefox updates? Not a gamer, but about 2 weeks ago, turned on my PC, put in my Win pw, desktop showed up, then the PC abruptly shutdown by itself. I waited a bit and tried restarting, no go. I'm an old fart now and have forgotten most of my...

W11 had downloaded updates (2nd Tuesday stuff). I asked it to install. rebooted, and in a black screen it showed the progress. However, it got stuck at 40%. After a long time it said something went wrong and it would uninstall. Rebooted a couple of times and came to the log in prompt and booted...

Truly sorry about your situation, jtr. Keep those pills away. Things will work out.

What a cutie pie! She one of those with the tongue always showing! ❤️

You're such a sweetie, Merc.

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.