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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    His eye socket was shattered in a fall down some stairs a couple years ago, where he was also diagnosed with dementia, along with...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Also, the phone number he provided to his Microsoft account is apparently a land line. The only progress I've made with this is that he...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    A Windows 11 horror story: I'm looking at a Dell XPS 9320 (11" 13th gen intel, just over a year old). Its owner is in early onset...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I built an application about 25 years ago that was originally created in Object Pascal and rewritten by others to be an ASP.net project...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Until a couple years ago, I was using powershell to generate sqlcmd scripts because that was easier than reinventing the wheel with...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I don't understand this "get stumped by writing" concept.
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Probably, but it remains to be seen if Microsoft will allow them to operate. Supposedly, just renaming the impacted executables twice...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Apparently, Microsoft doesn't like end users mucking around with File Explorer. The hot new thing about the next semi-annual Windows 11...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread question Which Tablets.
    My S9 usually lasts about a week on a charge at my typical level of activity. If the screen on time is very high, for example if I'm...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    There are a number of heat resistant polymers that you can use in consumer 3D printing. ABS (good for 90+ C) is the first one that comes...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    It is apparently possible to ditch the Ugreen OS, although the 10Gb NIC they use isn't terribly well supported by BSD *nix and you have...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    Apparently, a lot can be done to lower idle power, especially by disabling USB 3, Wifi and Audio if you aren't using those things. It's...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    Ugreen's NAS Kickstarter is ALL OVER youtube right now. Might as well bring it up here as well. I feel like all the options they offer...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    I just noticed that AMD seems to have bumped power thresholds on next-gen desktop CPUs. Looks like 170W and 105W instead of 105W and 65W...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    The 7000-series desktops didn't seem that much better than the high end of the 5000s, and I still feel like I made a good choice to hold...
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