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Let's all make a thread with our most embarrassing things we've done when working on a comp. I'll start with my latest screw up. ? While I had Windows installing the latest greatest feature update to my wifes computer in the background,I noticed it still had the AMD software on it even though I put my old nvidia card on for her instead. Soo,I figured "Hey,I'll just run the AMD uninstaller to remove it while I'm waiting on the other stuff..." BIG mistake! I ended up with a hard drive with SIX partitions, Windows wouldn't recognize any password,and couldn't even boot into safe mode because it always booted to some new account that started in hibernate mode.? I ended up having to put the drive on a different comp,copy her files to an external drive,and perform a clean install of Windows on a wiped drive.? Next time I will wait and run ONE program @ a time when Windows is updating.

Ummm,I guess I need to work on getting my polls a bit tighter.?

I'm IN! (Going for the lucky # 3 extremehw contest win!) ?

Ubisoft has once again released a broken game that disappointed people when they tried to play it upon release. Not only does the game randomly crash,but some systems are being made to over heat and the whole system crashes.? Add to that insult the fact that the pre-order goodies won't be released until the new consoles are released and it's just an added slap in the face to people who pre-ordered. Here's some of the things being "fixed" so far.... https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/2285126-Planned-maintenance-for-Hotfix-Patch-October-28-(Xbox-amp-PS4)-amp-October-30-(PC and .... https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthread.php/2289326-Update-Nov-6-Bug-Fixes-for-PlayStation-4-Xbox-One-and-Stadia-TU-2-0 Notice that TU2.0 for XBOX is STILL delayed??? lol, That was the console with the most problems with the game.

Glad to hear it! Giving thought to tearing apart a LEPA AquaChanger 120 I have that up and quit on me to see if it can be saved. It was already refurbed/replaced once under warranty so don't know if it's a replacement or a repair I got back.

I give them credit,they have the debris issue pretty much covered.like 95%+ of the satellite is designed to burn up on re-entry.

HOW many do you think they plan on putting up? "The FCC approved the request in April 2019, giving approval to place nearly 12,000 satellites in three orbital shells: initially approximately 1,600 in a 550 km (340 mi) - altitude shell, and subsequently placing approximately 2,800 Ku- and Ka-band spectrum satellites at 1,150 km (710 mi) and approximately 7,500 V-band satellites at 340 km (210 mi).[37]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

lol,Amazon wants to play..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_Systems

seriously,Space-x actually offered to "provide on-demand orientation adjustments for astronomical experiments, if necessary." ?

Unless MAD releases a better card @ close to the same or cheaper price.If they DO,we can probably expect to see another episode of "Super" cards being released for a slightly lower price than the original cards came out for,ala the RTX2xxx series.

Limited reports from very early domestic beta users of the partial satellite constellation in August 2020 suggested users experienced download speeds from 11 Mbps to 60 Mbps, and upload speeds from 5 Mbps to 18 Mbps.? fune part will be trying to see past them all @ night... "On 20 November 2019, the four-meter Blanco telescope of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) recorded strong signal loss and the appearance of 19 white lines on a DECam shot. This image noise was correlated to the transit of a Starlink satellite train, launched a week earlier"

ROTFL my favorite glitch in Witcher 3 is roach. I found a great video making fun of it.

On a side note, techland shows they can keep fans happy during the delay period of dying light 2. lol,community event required 10 million volitiles to be killed,fans stepped up and killed over 20 million in 3 days. ?

It's 1 reason I am true to CDPR,the fact they put quality & the consumer FIRST! I'm so tired of other companies releasing games then having 6 months of patches("cough"Bethesda!"cough")before the game is even halfway playable(Fallout 76). (groan...)? I agree,It's 1 reason I refuse to pre-order a game. Most companies just rush the games out and let the consumers be their beta testers anymore. I grew up in the days when beta testers were the ones being paid to play the games,not paying for early access!?

Because Google is PAYING to be the default search engine on the iOs devices and those devices happen to provide a large percentage of the search result based revenue that google is making.? That's the Difference between your argument about free operating systems and microsoft being on oem computers and what's happening with Google.

I figure the cash boost might help them get through the transition to 7nm.... ?

I wasn't going to reply any further,but it seems this thread just can't die out. As to my comment "ANYTHING a public figure who IS a politician does automatically makes that action "political" because it will have a positive,negative,or neutral effect on their career. " Try telling Bill & Monica it's not true. Or maybe Jefferey Epstein & Prince Andrew? Look how many people have lost jobs because they were accused of something without ever being tried.(Chris Hardwick for example.He was later cleared by the network but still lost hosting jobs during the investigation) These are examples of PUBLIC people being effected by their actions taken in public and in private.OR in some cases even by the accusation of an action. So,you simply can NOT say her actions do not effect her political career.

Enough. Your whole basis for your argument is groundless because of 1 simple fact. Consumers CAN choose to have a different OS than windows on their pc @ the time of purchase. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/dells-top-developer-laptop-now-comes-with-ubuntu-20-04-out-of-the-box/ Microsoft gets paid to be put on OEM machines (there's a license fee for the oem version of windows also but is less then the consumer ver.)see the screen shot for the price comparisons on single purchase.There are LARGER discounts for lager license amounts but never to the point that MS pays the oem.?

Maybe another reason they went ahead with the sale of the flash memory business to Sk for 9 billion?"Intel said it will use proceeds from the deal to focus on artificial intelligence, 5G and edge computing."?

Again,look @ Sony's gaming division.They purchased Naughty Dog,when was the last time you were able to play an Uncharted game on PC or xbox? Oh,wait,you can if you stream on pc using PLAYSTATION NOW. Again,proprietary software becoming involved. In other words,Microsoft's doing the same thing others have already done.

A friend who is hard headed & NOT knowledgeable about computers asked for some help replacing his old gateway that had the old i5-650 in it. He wanted to get another used machine that would last quite a while(I wanted to just build new but he was afraid of cost)so we found an HP Z420 without the OS for about $225 with shipping. see here for most similar details--> https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-workstation-z420-cmt-xeon-e5-1650v2-3-5-ghz-8-gb-500-gb-g3e87usaba/ For the OS,We simply transferred his 500Gb drive from the gateway to the HP machine and made the blank 500Gb drive a secondary drive with the Music & Photos files being moved to it now. We ALSO went on ebay and found a refurbished Gtx 1060 6Gb from Zotacs site, and an additional 24Gb of ram for about $200 after taxes and shipping. My only issue is that I have a problem either with 1 stick of ram or 1 memory slot,so we just left 2 slots empty and he's running 24Gb of ram. On Cinebench R20 it seems to hold it's own rather nicely with the 3rd & 4th generation i-7 cpu's in the comparison list, and in the heaven bench mark it blew my i7-2600/gtx 970 scores away. I've plugged the parts in on game debates site & they say it can actually run most of the games out & coming out in medium to high with no issues. lol, He mostly web browses but now is considering getting a controller and trying some games. ? This from a man who calls me to walk him through updating CCleaner every time. The thrill of watching the frames speed by wins another convert from their phone. Oh,I also transferred the wireless card we had in his old gateway so the system is running on his wifi. If I get the chance,I'll run some test with it & put the results on a usb so I can post them here for every one.

I agree with most of what U R saying except that I feel the reason Windows dominates is because of the ease of use. Point and click made it possible for people who had no clue about DOS to be able to use a computer. (I'm 1 of them!) My first comp was Windows 95 and I STILL remember having to find updates myself before Windows Update was introduced. Now it's just point,click,& everything can pretty much be taken care of. When I started trying ubuntu & Mint 10-12 years ago for kicks,they were still difficult if you didn't have some grounding. Then you have the cost of pc vs mac which is why windows OS is dominating most places but portable(i.e. phones/tablets)

OR to bring Google BACK into the subject matter, they can install the Chrome OS. So @Diffident there's ANOTHER company making a pc operating system,and the reason I listed the consoles was because the game developer comment I made that U seem to have a problem with had NOTHING to do with the OS development part of Microsoft. It was part of the games division. YOU took 2 separate comments,1 about large software development companies NOT being punished for anti-trust in which I posted the fines & software revisions forced on Microsoft for JUST that,and the second about how the game developer purchases were more in the nature of smart business sense for the games division and showed where OTHER companies with a games division did the same. Sorry my comments don't fit your agenda. 1 final thought, have you heard of Wine? lol

Let's see some comparison. "The Steam Hardware Survey reports that as of April 2019, 0.81% of users are using some form of Linux as their platforms primary operating system." This is quoted from Forbes " Here are the top-ten best-selling consoles of all time: PlayStation 2 — 155 million units sold Nintendo DS — 154.02 million units sold Game Boy / Game Boy Color — 118.69 million units sold PlayStation 4 — 108.9 million units sold PlayStation 1 — 102.49 million units sold Wii — 101.63 million units sold PlayStation 3 — 87.4 million units sold Xbox 360 — 84 million units sold Game Boy Advance — 81.51 million units sold PlayStation Portable — between 80 and 82 million units sold Way down in 15th place you have the Xbox One with an estimated 46.9 million units sold. The original Xbox lands at 19th place with 24 million units sold, behind the Atari 2600, Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis. Meanwhile, PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 have each outsold every single Xbox system." I'm posting this since my original comment about MS buying game companies wasn't limited to them being an OS provider. Or maybe U haven't heard about Xbox Game Pass Ultimate? "With Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, download and play games directly on your Xbox console or Windows 10 PC, or play games on your Android mobile phone or tablet from the cloud (Beta) with the Xbox Game Pass mobile app." They're simply doing what Sony/Playstation and Nintendo are doing. Providing games on gaming systems.

Might I also suggest ck'n the quality of the rca cables? I had my creative speakers sounding like crap and was getting actual crackling sounds from my card/source.Turned out the jack on the end of the cable was flakey and if the wire was bent a little in 1 direction everything was ok,but if the wire was bumped(by my foot or moving the comp during cleaning)the static dropped channel would start again. Replaced with new cable and sound is great again.