Recent content by Newtun

I was going to wait until I got my member name changed from Newtun to Gödel, but maybe it's better to do this now, so I can "hide" after that. (That reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke: "I solved my drinking problem, I joined Alcoholics Anonymous. I'm still drinking, I just use a...

And now, for something completely random. I found how to do that change. https://storageforum.net/forum/account/account-details. Unfortunately, "If you decide to change your username now you will not be able to again until Aug 2, 2025." I hope that doesn't mean I can't post until Aug 2...

I'd seen that, and I was going to try to change my member name as well as my avatar. I thought I'd seen that as a possibility, but I can't find how to do it. Oh, well.

Thanks, Merc. My main usage would be for audio; I only have a few dozen video files, and those are mostly relatively short music videos. (This is the longest [but in a little shorter variation], about the brilliant gospel performer Sister Rosetta Tharp, "The Godmother of Rock & Roll".) One...

I recently signed up for the free Plex service on my smart TV. (Aside: being free, it's pretty limited. I joined because I wanted to watch the classic Fellini film La Dolce Vita, and that was the only source I found. But there were too many ill-timed commercials, the closed-captioning sucked...

Zen to One ;)

No. 😜

I got my SSD installed and cloned; the Samsung "Magician" software didn't work, but DiskGenius did, and the new drive is working fine. (y)

Since it's NA for me, I haven't looked into it, but isn't there an "in-place upgrade" option from W10 to W11, instead of a re-install "from scratch"?

I did order a new SSD, to be delivered next Tuesday. And I also did try to get my scanner working on another of my PCs under Ubuntu, but like me, it was too dark and not pretty. But (short story long), I then checked into my non-Win11-eligible Dell PC. It came with an Intel i5-4460 CPU with...

Thanks very much for your rapid response. That inspired a third alternative for me; I'm going to go ahead and get a new SSD, and try to clone the old one onto it and get it to work at least as well as the old one on the PC. Then I won't have to worry about the old one getting progressively...

It's time for another visit from the Amateur Hour. My only Windows PC is a 10¼-year-old Dell Inspiron 3847 that I got with a big rebate. It's Win 10, and cannot be upgraded to Win 11, so I knew it would be obsolete after October. The only things I use it for are to host a Pi-Hole VM, the very...

Does anyone else here use Pi-hole? I came across it at some point, and it seemed useful, so I set it up on a little VM. But I'm not so sure how useful it really is. Thanks for your feedback.

Amen, bro! 🙏

Yeah, I'm just a rank amateur 👴🏻; I think the last time I did a BIOS upgrade, it was from a "floppy" disk 💾. But at least, I finally got this last one right . . . I hope. (So far, so good.)