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  1. How do you clean dirty charging cables and keyboard?

    I make my own cleaner. It's a 50/50 mix of distilled water and 70-90% isopropyl alcohol. ( I simply use whatever percentage I have in the house). I clean tons of my electronics stuff with this mixture. Keyboards, Mice, monitor screens, laptops, cell phones, etc. It's cheap and easy to...
  2. Planning A New Build in late January.

    Why run Windows on a RAID 0 array with NVMe? I can only assume it's for speed, but you probably aren't even close to maxing out the speed of a single NVMe for booting and basic Windows operations, so I don't see the value in having multiple drives in a stripe. I could see it for a data...
  3. Microsoft announces Office LTSC 2024 and Office 2024

    Generally, the stand alone license for $149 gets you Word, Excel and Powerpoint. If you buy the $249 version, you get Outlook. These stand alone versions are either for PC or Mac and they allow you to install to 1 machine.
  4. What's your favourite productive app/program to install

    WSL (Ubuntu) and Visual Studio Code.
  5. Planning A New Build in late January.

    I went back and found my cinebench score from my 12 core AMD that I built 3 years ago.
  6. Planning A New Build in late January.

    It was introduced with Server 2022 and Windows 11 for AMD CPU's. I wasn't aware of that. https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/09/hyper-v-nested-virtualization-for-amd-processors/
  7. Planning A New Build in late January.

    I'm in the same boat. My current build is a Ryzen 9 5900x and this was a bummer. But, when I built the machine, AMD supported PCIe Gen 4 for my storage and Intel did not. I knew I would use that faster storage every second that computer was turned on, but would not use nested VM's...
  8. Solved Windows S Mode Computer Bought in Error

    Yeah, that's pretty much the truth. It's also part of the reason that I still maintain that a lot of these starting Apple laptops aren't that terribly priced when you look at the full picture. Apple doesn't offer a fabulously low spec absolute piece of crap barely works machine. You get...
  9. Laptop has Windows Education installed

    You don't have very good luck buying all of these fairly cheap/used spare laptops.
  10. Ms - your security and activation servers --BIG flaw here on Cheap W11 Licenses

    I agree wholeheartedly with you. I too have worked for almost 20 years for software companies. I'm not into piracy. I feel there is a lot of great open source software available and when those tools are not sufficient and a closed source application is a better fit, I'm willing to pay for it...
  11. Ms - your security and activation servers --BIG flaw here on Cheap W11 Licenses

    I just kinda wish that Microsoft would just make licenses for these OS's more affordable for people. I'm sure the OEM's don't pay much at all for a license, so why should consumers pay $149 or $199 for a retail version of the license. Years ago, we had technet and for a pretty small price...
  12. Solved Windows S Mode Computer Bought in Error

    And they are eMMC drives, which are horrendously slow. It's basically a flash memory card.
  13. Solved Windows S Mode Computer Bought in Error

    Probably something like this, at $169.
  14. Backup - OneDrive Issues

    Yes, your life is #1. But people are very sad when they lose all of their pictures/videos and other data they store at home. It's usually from the people who firmly believe "cloud=bad". They jump through hoops to try to remove it and it ends up causing them problems. Honestly, I think...
  15. Backup - OneDrive Issues

    In addition to files accessible from multiple machines, phones, tablets, or web browsers....it's also that it's a second copy, always up to date in real time. I also make images and such to external drives at home so that I can completely recover the machine in the event of drive...
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