The Trials and tribulations of a sick PC….
It is official my sick PC is dead from the neck up….no saving it from the graveyard.
So I spend time on Sue’s PC to find me a replacement….I decided on an Acer I have to wait for delivery….not something I am good with.
Until I get it up and running I will still be posting from my phone from drafts I have saved (always a good idea to have non-time sensitive drafts)
I will be so glad to get back to some sort of normalcy.
Thank you all the words of encouragement….I appreciate all the support I have gotten.
“lego ergo scribo”
In Saner Thought 
Will that mean you have to deal with Windows 11? I have been stalling that upgrade, so it will be interesting to see how you cope with it. When I bought my last Hewlett Packard PC (the one I’m using now) direct from the company online, they delivered it 48 hours later. I couldn’t cope blogging on a Tablet or phone, as I like to have a really big monitor. (Currently a 24-inch widescreen)
Best wishes, Pete.
Yep but I have been using 11 for awhile and it is ok…..I have a problem with the size thing as well….new PC will be delivered tomorrow….but we will see. chuq
Win11 isn’t utterly horrible but it is damned annoying. Everytime there’s an update I have to remember to go back through all of the privacy settings because they’ll all have been changed to let MS spy on me and push ads at me. And if you do, dear sweet lord above DO NOT EVER, EVER, EVER use the abomination that is One Drive! My neighbor made the mistake of enabling it on her computer and found that none of her family photos were actually stored on her computer, they were all out in the cloud, it seemed. When she went slightly over the allocated storage space for the “free” version of One Drive she found herself locked out of all of her photos, Outlook wouldn’t let her get at her email because it kept popping up demands she pay MS money for extra storage space. I helped her get her photos downloaded to a flash drive and got her using her email through her service’s web portal so she didn’t have to deal with Outlook. It was a mess.
Thanks for the tip, Grouchy. I never use anything related to ‘The Cloud’ as I just don’t understand how it works.
Pete it is a warehouse full of servers…..the cloud chuq
One Drive, Apple’s iCloud and similar services are little more than just internet based hard drives. Instead of storing data on the drive in your computer it’s stored out on the internet somewhere. And they charge you for it. I pay Apple something like $3/month.
The advantage is that you can get at your data easily across multiple devices. I can access my photos, for example, via iCloud on my phone, iPad, multiple laptops, my main PC, etc. without having to fiddle around with transferring things with a flash drive or something like that.
The disadvantages are that you have to pay fo it, usually by a monthly or yearly fee, you can’t get at your data if you don’t have a fast internet connection, and you give up all semblance of privacy and risk getting yourself locked out of your own data if you miss a payment, if something goes wrong with their security, etc. The only thing I keep out on iCloud is photos and PDF files I’m reading, and all of those are backed up to physical drives here at the house.
These days actual physical storage devices are so cheap that any economic benefits to using the cloud disappeared along ago. You can get 1 TB drives for well under $100 these days.
I have a Buffalo 500GB portable hard drive that I use to store photos as a backup. It still has plenty of space left on it, and didn’t cost that much to buy. I think I will avoid the ‘Cloud’.
External drives are dirt cheap these days. I think I have five or six, 4TB external SSDs laying around, plus a pair of 16 TB spinning hard drives.
Wow, I just remembered what equipment cost when I first started messing with computers back in the 1980s. I did a package deal for the chamber of commerce for a small city. A IBM PC clone with a whopping 512K of Ram, dual 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, a 5 Meg hard drive and a daisy wheel printer. If I remember right the whole package came to about $15,000 including software. Accounting for inflation that would be the equivalent of around $45,000 today.
I know…I was fortunate a my friend gave me my first PC…it had a 3g hard drive….and then my first laptop, Compaq….those were the days. chuq
I don’t think I ever owned a Compaq. They were one of the better made computers out there when they first came out. Around the time Compaq came out I was selling Epson computers and printers for a business supply company part time while going back to college for programming, electronics and accounting.
I loved the Compaq so much I still have it….my very first laptop was a Tandy it weighed about 12 libs….chuq
My daughter loves Apple….plus Sue just got me an external drive. chuq