Order Placed! - (Your latest online purchase.)

jvickers · Oct 27, 2021

BunnyJ said:
I have parts coming in tomorrow around lunch time. Erin wants her laptop back.,. LOL.. since I signed up to Amazon Prime she wants to use it.,

We love Amazon Prime. You get things much quicker with no shipping plus movies. We more than make up our membership fee in shipping savings.

BunnyJ · Oct 27, 2021

jvickers said:
We love Amazon Prime. You get things much quicker with no shipping plus movies. We more than make up our membership fee in shipping savings.

Erin wants to watch movies and listen to music on it. I may not use it as much but it's for her and if it makes her happy it's well worth it

SmokeMe · Oct 27, 2021

jvickers said:
We love Amazon Prime. You get things much quicker with no shipping plus movies. We more than make up our membership fee in shipping savings.

Ditto
Plus w/ a Firestick one can cut the cable/satellite TV & save a tone of $$$.
Get (free) streaming movies/sports/etc. easily & only pay for the Fs measly cost.

JAM83 · Oct 27, 2021

jvickers said:
I'm in the process of composing my online order. I'll pick them up Saturday as well.

I order mine from wal-mart and have it delivered to me. . lol

jvickers · Oct 29, 2021

jvickers said:
I also picked up a USB-C splitter and two 10ft USB-C cables. Nothing worth posting a photo of.

$9.00 wasted. I bought the wrong cable splitter! Turns out it's USB 3.0 to USB-C. I just bought the correct cable. Maybe I'll keep the other just in case I need it. You never know!

jvickers · Oct 29, 2021

JMedlock83 said:
I order mine from wal-mart and have it delivered to me. . lol

I would do that, but it's the only time I drive my wife's car. She doesn't leave the house much due to her severe chronic neutropenia, so someone has to make sure her car is still running!

BunnyJ · Oct 29, 2021

jvickers said:
I would do that, but it's the only time I drive my wife's car. She doesn't leave the house much due to her severe chronic neutropenia, so someone has to make sure her car is still running!

Good idea.. I use our car everyday and Erin loves driving it.

jvickers · Oct 29, 2021

BunnyJ said:
Good idea.. I use our car everyday and Erin loves driving it.

My wife is lucky she has a trunk because I like driving my car more. Her car is faster, though. Of course, it's not about the speed, it's about the driving experience. Not to say her car doesn't have a great driving experience. My Z-car is shaped like a missile, and those are always fun to drive! Plus, when you hit the gas on my car, you know you're accelerating. She has a continuous variable transmission, so even though her car beats mine in terms of time taken to go 0-60 (hers is something like 4.1 seconds while mine is 5.4 seconds

), you don't get that fantastic gear shifting feeling.

jvickers · Oct 30, 2021

jvickers said:
$9.00 wasted. I bought the wrong cable splitter! Turns out it's USB 3.0 to USB-C. I just bought the correct cable. Maybe I'll keep the other just in case I need it. You never know!

Bought the correct USB-C to USB-C splitter this time. It will be here today.

BunnyJ · Oct 30, 2021

jvickers said:
Bought the correct USB-C to USB-C splitter this time. It will be here today.

Cool.. let us know how it works out.

Winuser · Oct 30, 2021

jvickers said:
$9.00 wasted. I bought the wrong cable splitter! Turns out it's USB 3.0 to USB-C. I just bought the correct cable. Maybe I'll keep the other just in case I need it. You never know!

I wouldn't say $9.00 wasted. Your future proofing. :) I'm sure it will eventually be used.

jvickers · Oct 30, 2021

Winuser said:
I wouldn't say $9.00 wasted. Your future proofing. :) I'm sure it will eventually be used.

True. And I have another that I just purchased. It's not a USB-C to USB-C splitter, either.

Joan Archer · Nov 2, 2021

My new Windows 11 laptop arrived on Friday, I'm still finding my way around it but have no complaints so far. :)

BunnyJ · Nov 2, 2021

Joan Archer said:
My new Windows 11 laptop arrived on Friday, I'm still finding my way around it but have no complaints so far. :)

Good to hear.. I got a load of new parts last Thursday from a member here. I love them.

jvickers · Nov 2, 2021

Joan Archer said:
My new Windows 11 laptop arrived on Friday, I'm still finding my way around it but have no complaints so far. :)

That's great to hear, Joan. I find Windows 11 fairly simple to navigate. Once you get used to it, you hardly miss the features in Windows 10 that are missing from Windows 11.

BunnyJ · Nov 2, 2021

jvickers said:
That's great to hear, Joan. I find Windows 11 fairly simple to navigate. Once you get used to it, you hardly miss the features in Windows 10 that are missing from Windows 11.

Not one lie detected.. It only took me a few hours to get used to using 11.

jvickers · Nov 4, 2021

Not the USB 19-pin to key-A adapter I was looking for, but it will have to do. I think the one I purchased ceilings at 5GBs, but they all appear to do the same. I was looking for a back panel USB-C port (the name in the order is incorrect), and this is what I ended up cobbling together. Now, if I can just find time to install it once it comes!

I thought about getting a USB-C card, but those I looked at all topped out at 5GBs as well. This solution looks a little cleaner and has less parts that can fail.

Dru2 · Nov 4, 2021

Purchased a copy Office 365 Family plan after tiring of using my school's free Office 365 suite (also requires some level of school control of your PC, though not quite sure what it was).

I was actually on my second 4 year student/teacher edition of Office 365 ($79 bucks) renewal when it finally expired in July of this year (2021). That offer is no longer available, so I was taking advantage of my school's offer of Office 365 Enterprise for students, but I'd rather have my own suite. Still using the school's suite on my laptop though.

Oh, one other thing for those using OneDrive with 1TB of free drive storage courtesy of Office 365.... don't let your Office subscription expire. You will immediately drop from 1TB of space to 5gig

That means anything over the now 5gig storage allotment is subject to be deleted by Microsoft unless you either purchase more space or renew your subscription. At that time I'd had something like 400gig of files I had to move or lose

I have a OneDrive for business account from my school (I think it's 1.5TB free space) but I wasn't using that for obvious reasons... privacy.

Winuser · Nov 4, 2021

BunnyJ said:
Not one lie detected.. It only took me a few hours to get used to using 11.

It didn't take me long to get use to the basics of Win 11. I didn't even move the taskbar. The only unofficial change I made was to add the clock to the second monitor with ElevenClock. I did have to hide it because it is always on top and I just started running Win 10 Pro in Hyper-V on my second monitor.

Winuser · Nov 4, 2021

I made two online purchases this week. My first purchase was a copy of Win 10 Pro that I installed in Hyper-V on my new desktop. My second purchase was an 8''and a 6" electric range cast iron burner covers. They arrive tomorrow.