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  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Merc's Useful Tools of the day.
    This web site can generate a script to turn on whichever of the Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction tools you might wish. They're...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    If somebody is using Outlook, I'm not supporting them in the first place. Outlook is right up there with iTunes on my shit list as...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Yeah, throw a copy of Outlook with a giant, uncleaned-for-years mailbox and a few instances of gen-u-ine Adobe-brand Acrobat and maybe a...
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    The irreplaceable stuff is in 3 places, offline here, offline at our storage unit (in another similar Synology) and in Amazon S3 Glacier...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    You CAN just plug a bunch of 7.6TB u.2 drives into the NAS you have right now. Just like how m.2 drives can be addressed as SATA drives...
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    Mine is also ancient (DS1812+), but I'll only replace it if I can go fully solid state for a very reasonable price. Probably still a...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Insurance agency. Systems are Beelink SER5s (Ryzen 5800/16GB). All they use are Chrome (or Edge, for one guy) and NitroPDF. They don't...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    I actually can't believe prices on 8TB drives haven't fallen any more than they have. It seems silly that a refurb 8TB drive is $100...
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    I am still keeping an eye out for a replacement of my archive cold storage 8x8TB Synology unit. The prices are getting close.
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding reacted to Mercutio's post in the thread SSDs - State of the Product? with Like Like.
    Amazon is doing a buy two, get one free sale on Silicon Power 4TB TLC 2.5" SSDs. I'm not sure if anyone needs 12TB of 500MB/sec storage...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.
    Amazon is doing a buy two, get one free sale on Silicon Power 4TB TLC 2.5" SSDs. I'm not sure if anyone needs 12TB of 500MB/sec storage...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    Hey, I was a working professional through all of that as well.
  • mubs
    mubs replied to the thread Something Random.
    Thanks a lot, Merc. You made me remember how old I am.
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    jtr1962 replied to the thread Something Random.
    It could be worse. He could have thought you were running an escort service.
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    My internet service was out most of the weekend and a Comcast tech couldn't come look at it until Sunday. Turned out that wasps had...
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