Recent content by PGHammer25

ProtonVPN is the only free VPN I recommend - I have two - but only two - quibbles with it - it doesn't support Microsoft Office e-mail accounts - and it's overkill for true home use.

I have two VPN recommendations for personal use - ProtonVPN and NordVPN. Both use the Swiss no-log model,- but they have different back-end implementations. both also support multiple OS clients-inclug Android,Apple, and consoles - and Windows. While Proton costs nothing, it has a truckload...

Before I discovered MicroCenter, I did as ell - again - two locations - Alexndria VA and Rockville MD - the Rockville MD location was a former Safeway in Federal Plaza Shopping Center - amazingly, MicroCenter would inherit the space when CompUSA closed.

Why didn't you move to the 48 GB USB sticks when they became available?

Best Buy is facing the same threat - Amazon Shopping - HQ2 is across the Potomac River from me - and they have Thurgood Marshall BWI that helps keep their shelves stocked - in addition to their fleet of Amazon Prime delivery trucks.

In my case, it was MicroCenter - actually -two different locations - Vienna VA and Rockvlle MD - that lost business due to Covid and three tumors at the same time as Covid during 2016.

I moved to the bigger USB sticks when I realized I had multiple i5 and above desktops and laptops. - I ban use the same USB sticks for them all. I use 48 GB UB USB sticks as my default now - Rufus 4.6 and above has no issues with them.

If it doesn't, Rufus 4-9 does..

Because I have the larger USB sticks, I used Rufus 4.9 to automate the process and Free Download Manager to download the correct SO image to my i7 USB crafter. So you can use the ISO image or the method I used - both work.

In my case,I am now down to only my laptop being a laggard - and that is fixable today. I am catching the laptop up by building the SB stick for it now - that way - as soon as GA ships I can do both desktop and laptop simultneously.

Grabbing now - for all in the testing pool.

While the full Copilot+ set may come to laptops, it would be rather spendy -I am not looking to go there- even in a desktop.

What SSD- and how old is it?

NPUs - Neural Processing Units - are auxilliary processing units mostly based on GPU technology - NVidia was first out of the gate - based on the GeForce technology from their GPUs. However. both AMD and Intel have followed suit based on their respective GPUs - Intel and AMD have deployed NPU...

Desktop as a Service is not new - even in Windows - the germ was way back in Windows 2000 Professional. Conair (the hair products company) and Comcast (the cable company) were the original participants in the Gartner Group study - and I was at Comcast during the initial deployment - and one of...