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  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread Something Random.
    We'll be following our Danish tradition of going to an Irish pub in Åarhus that serves a more than passable Thanksgiving spread. Not as...
  • Gödel
    Gödel replied to the thread Something Random.
    Or support your local brewery. They seem to have started falling on hard times, because the weird cocktail craze is taking over. 🍹
  • Gödel
    Gödel replied to the thread Something Random.
    That sounds like something from a wacky TV show like The Big Bang Theory. 😜
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    I'm not buying her anything consumer-ish, to be honest. I want it to last her and she's not terribly good about babying electronics, so...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Rather than improve overall Windows Explorer performance, it looks like Microsoft is going to set up File Explorer to preload on low-end...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    This is the first year my partner is coming to Thanksgiving. We did not talk about her doing this and I just found out maybe 10 minutes...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Here's a set of directions to switch back to OG notepad, if you don't want the increasingly stupid one Windows 11 is using now. Also...
  • Gödel
    Gödel replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    That link don't hunt. ;) Long link. Black Friday Deal $449.99 with 44 percent savings; "List Price": $799.99
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  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    One of my customers brought me this thing, asking why it was weirdly slow. They didn't realize it's a Qualcomm SoC system. Once I...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    Yes. A new Windows account. Firefox puts crap in a bunch of different places under %appdata% and it's hard telling what's left behind...
  • mubs
    mubs replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    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...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Consumer notebooks are hard. My Ideapad 1s came from visiting a Walmart and a Best Buy to see what's acceptable at less than $350...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    I'm thinking that the fresh (Windows?) user account is a good idea just to avoid the possibility that there's some accumulation of cruft...
  • mubs
    mubs replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    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...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I have the additional aggravation that my health care is non-traditional, so my meds are at least partially selected for what can be...
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