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Brad

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Some days I hate technology
« on: January 17, 2022, 12:57:12 PM »
I got the BSOD on my Windoz laptop yesterday and automatic recovery ain't working.

The only thing as bad as computer failure is trying to find a replacement on Amazon.  I've got one on order so I hope I remember how to keep Candy Crush from reinstalling itself all the time. 

In the meantime my only connection to the internet are phone and a tablet.  Blech.
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Re: Some days I hate technology
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2022, 03:01:13 PM »
Sorry for your loss.

Losing a primary machine always produces high anxiety.  Most of my 'custom' work nowadays is in Tampermonkey, hubitat, curated bookmarks, & quickbooks.    These all produce decent backup files, TM doing the best job (will easily export a copy to G docs).

Second on the hate list is a router.  Then EVERYBODY in the house has high anxiety.
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Re: Some days I hate technology
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2022, 06:38:28 PM »
I hate switching primary machines. I'm fortunate that my last one was failing in bits and pieces, not catastrophically all at once.

I have taken to a full cloud backup of all documents. It's the software installation/settings/customizations that are a hassle.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2022, 06:38:00 PM »
It's in, an Acer Swift 3, 14 inch, with some sort of AMD chip.

So far this setup has been fairly painless, but then I kinda knew what to expect.

The first thing was uninstalling Norton which was easier than it ever has been in the past.   Win 10 prompted me to start Windows Defender. Did same and I'm good for now.

Then install Vivaldi browser.  Fast.  Easy.  Activated Vivaldi sync so everything is imported - this saved a huge amount of time.

This is my first Acer computer, while there is some pre installed software there is a lot less than my old ASUS computer came with.  Most of the Acer stuff is fairly no nonsense.  Firefox was pre installed which is a nice touch giving users something other than Edge or Chrome.  So some points for Acer in my book.
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2022, 08:20:52 PM »
> first Acer computer

I've had a couple. I liked them a lot.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2022, 10:11:28 PM »
Amazon was awash with HP laptops, but I've never been impressed by HP's.  Most of the Dell's were refurbished.  That left Lenovo, Acer, ASUS and a few no-names.  I've been hearing gripes about Lenovo's build quality going down, specifically the hinges failing.  So Acer it was.
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2022, 10:31:18 PM »
>Lenovo's build quality going down, specifically the hinges failing

Can confirm. Lost one Lenovo to that.
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2022, 11:31:40 PM »
This Acer Swift laptop is not working out very well.  Last night I tried to use it on an important Zoom meeting and the darn thing could not find it's own microphone.  This left me unable to talk during the meeting.  Indeed I spent most of the meeting listening, and trying to get the microphone working plus diagnose, was it hardware, Windows, the browser, Zoom or some driver?   Admittedly, prior to the pandemic and these Zoom meetings I've never used a microphone on a computer much but when I have it always just worked.  Prior to it's BSOD death, I never had any problems with my ASUS laptop.

Previous to this I've had the audio just quit several times.  Windows diagnostics updated the driver and that fixed it after a reboot.

I've also had the keyboard quit responding and the wifi just quit.  I'm not real happy with Acer right now.

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