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New York Times Trump Tax Report, Part 2; since the NYT web site may have subscription limits/nagging, I'll include a few quotes: The Swamp That Trump Built A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to...

China joins global vaccine alliance, filling “leadership vacuum” left by Trump "China joins around 170 other countries, leaving the US and Russia on the sidelines." So Trump and his good buddy Vlad are in charge of the COVID-vaccine fake news (as well as U.S. election sabotage). But Russia...

And just as I predicted, he was helicoptered back to the White House Monday evening (Oct 5). He had tweeted that afternoon “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” Ref: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/doctors-still-evasive-on-trumps-health-as-he-leaves-hospital

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christy checked into a hospital as a precautionary measure after announcing earlier today that he had tested positive for Covid-19. (Aside from being obese, he has asthma as another risk factor.)

We won't ever know how sick Donald Trump has been; they'll release a few press releases, and videos of him "hard at work", then he'll go back to The White House in triumph and say "see, it was just a bad cold." But they transferred him to Walter Reed hospital "out of an abundance of caution."...

Hey, have you heard the news? Donnie and Modelia have the sniffles. But seriously, best wishes for their speedy recovery. We can't, in good conscience, wish them ill. Though they and their ilk wouldn't hesitate to wish us ill. The difference being that we have a conscience.

It used to be that not only conflicts of interest were to be avoided, but even the appearance of conflicts of interest. Times have changed . . . Tracking President Trump's Unprecedented Conflicts of Interest

A couple of days ago, I reviewed the above earlier responses, and decided to try reversing Chewy's recommendation, and turning on the "DNS over HTTPS" setting in FireFox. This seems to have worked, as I've been able to open the two problematic web pages mentioned in my original post several...

Oh, and have you heard this one: When somebody told Trump that hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria, he said "Well, if it's good enough for the First Lady, it's good enough for me." ;)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/trump-may-reject-fdas-stricter-regulations-for-covid-19-vaccine President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he may reject the Food and Drug Administration’s plan to issue stricter safety and efficacy standards for COVID-19 vaccines, calling the plan a...

Sorry, my memory is bad and I don't recall the details, but SR used to have it's own forum, which had problems, so this one was created and SR forum members transferred to it. Here's a link to an early thread of this forum, from January, 2002.

Review at Anandtech. Review at storagereview.com. ;) I like to pronounce NVMe as Envy Me; how about you? :) But oh, darn, I just realized that I should have posted this in the Computers/News subforum.

He claimed he was going to "drain the swamp"; instead, he's filled it with vicious alligators.

They do have the PCIE 4.0 m.2 slots, for maximum SSD performance, FWIW.

That party was in San Bernardino in SoCal. But there are a number of different fires in the SF Bay area that are contributing to the orange-sky effect.

And what if he had even taken a leadership role to try to set up national policies and procedures to deal with this grave crisis, instead of passing the buck with a comment like "it's not my problem"?

Lots of fires in Western U.S.: https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire From family in the San Francisco Bay area, the daytime skies are colored orange. E.g., on the University of California (Berkeley) campus: Since POTUS' main duty is to try to ensure his own re-election, and the...

Good curl-y point, Handruin. (I had tried using the Ubuntu "native" browser, but that app failed to load.) And I don't want to install the Chrome browser (FireFox is my preference), but I may do so if these issues keep popping up intermittently. BTW, I did check on the "DNS over HTTPS"...

Thanks for the response! Last night, my other Ubuntu PC started doing the same thing. But today, both web sites load fine on both PCs. Gotta love those intermittent problems. 🤪

I'm having a perplexing issue on my main Ubuntu PC, in FireFox. For just a couple of web sites (that I know of), mlb.com and nba.com, they take a while, then time out with various error messages. Just now, for NBA.com, "Request Timeout The server timed out while waiting for the browser's...

I was going to ask if an external optical drive would work, if no one else "chimed in".

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I don't like those reviews that essentially say "I don't know, I didn't try it". But since you haven't gotten any other response, I looked up an Email I sent to my bro-in-law, on July 10: That was on my seldom-used Win10 box, on which I do keep MS security up-to-date, paranoically.

You know times are hard here on SF, when I have 2-3 of the 5 latest posts . . . ;) 🤪 ❤

I saw online this morning that > 300,000 people lost their homes. (confirmation from https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/beirut-lebanon-explosion-08-06-2020/index.html.)

Nice reflection!

So it really is the Chinese Disease. ;=)

International reflections, from the German magazine Der Spiegel (the mirror): (The caption translates to "the Fire Devil".)

From my daily NY Times Email (sorry for formatting issues from this cut-and-paste): There is now only one high-income country in the world in which the virus is spreading rapidly: the United States. Even in Sweden — which has had one of the least successful responses to the virus — the number...

TweakTown liked the 1 TB version, too.

I've even heard rumors of young "adults" holding "COVID parties", with at least one partycipant having tested positive, and a cash prize for the next guest to get it. And in a similar vein, NY partygoers get subpoenas after stonewalling COVID-19 contact tracers.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/just-10-20-of-covid-19-cases-behind-80-of-transmission-studies-suggest/

Speaking of which, this Tesla feature is a gas!

The Trump Regime: Revenge Against the Nerds ;) 🤪

In reviewing my above post from a couple of days ago, I see that I neglected to mention that I intend to run Ubuntu Linux on my prospective "minor league" build. So that could be a countervailing factor to my 2nd-to last ¶, in that I might have to wait for Ubuntu to get the necessary "drivers"...

Or is Trump lying about that, too?

This thread seems to have gone dormant for some reason. ;) I did follow The Dude's HW issues with some interest, from here in the "bleacher seats". I'm still "window shopping" . . . In the mean time, comsumer MB supplies seemed to have "dried up" a bit for some reason. 🤪 I was looking into a...

From: Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 despite FDA warnings: Trump said he was taking hydroxychloroquine – a drug approved to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis – in response to the coronavirus threat. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been...

2020 U.S. Quarters Have Bats on Them, Worst Timing Ever (Mmm, nice juicy bats - delish! - Bat cacciatore, bat parmesan, and of course those old favorites, kung pao bat and General Tso's bat.)

"Cause of Death" is open to interpretation. Suppose a patient had a cold, which left them more vulnerable to the COVID-19 that they got, but that infection caused congestive heart failure. So is heart failure the cause of death, or is it COVID-19, or is it a cold? For political/propaganda-l...

When you say you "don't have management access to the modem", do you mean you can't connect to the web interface at all, or that there's a login screen but you don't have the ID and password? Maybe it's something simple like "admin"/"admin", or you can Google and find the default ID/pwd.

My sister is getting some snow ❄ now in the Akron, Ohio area; it may not "stick", but it's going down below freezing overnight. Parts of New England may get 6" of snow for Mothers' Day. ☃⛷

The takeout was very good; there was a fair wait, but they were processing the orders pretty efficiently. It probably helped that, for some reason, there are a pretty large number of Mexican restaurants in our area, which "spreads the load".

In Linux, you might have to install traceroute; from my "vanilla" 16.04 Ubuntu install, that looks pretty easy: ubuPower:~$ traceroute storageforum.net The program 'traceroute' can be found in the following packages: * inetutils-traceroute * traceroute Try: sudo apt install <selected package>

We're getting takeout guacamole and carnitas to support our local Mexican restaurant. And mixing our own margaritas. I sure do miss their 1$ taco and 1$ margarita nights!

Ah, good old percussive maintenance! ;) Congratulations!

Out of curiosity, what's the status of your bug excavation? Do you think you might have the gumption to DIY repair? I'm guessing that, when you look at that monitor, that insect carcass takes on the proportions of a T-Rex.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/head-of-us-pandemic-vaccine-group-says-he-was-demoted-in-retaliation/ "I believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic into safe and...