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I recently finished a great biography on Alan Turing. I greatly admire the early engineering in these machines, but no thanks, I just can not get on board with wishing we could go back to this lol. I enjoy the progression of technology.

1st, he's already in the middle of the update as you see in the screenshot, so its already in the install process. 2nd, he uses the laptop he says to do taxes, which means it needs to be online. I assume he is using something like turbo tax online to file. You also cant "disable" updates in...

Must have been a LONG time ago then, because dragging and dropping like this has been a thing since at least windows 95 lol. So, Its been a "thing" for at least 25 years in windows pc's. I'm not sure about the windows versions prior to 95 (1.0 , 3.0 etc). My experience on those early windows...

You describe one of the annoyances of IT work. Id say 80% of problems that come up, if not more than 80%, are caused by user error, or just general ignorance of the end user. There are people who work years and years on PC's doing their job, but never learn the basics of computers. I am always...

Knob right under your seat on the L3901. It controls how fast/hard the 3pt drops.

Very cool idea, my parents wouldn't have known what to buy me in my case lol. They knew nothing about computers when I was building mine. I had to give them a list of what to buy if they were to buy computer parts. Building computers now is so much more interesting than it was when I started...

You seem to really hate apple lol. A lot of systems access the internet that have no infrastructure in the actual internet. I don't think that really matters. Either you like apple's products or you don't. You clearly don't. Apple do make good products. They have pioneered a lot in technology...

Well, as a kid I was admittedly a nerd. A severe introvert, I never could wait to get out of school so i could go work on MY projects I had going at home. 11 and 12 years old I was heavily into radio equipment, scanners, short wave radio, cb radio (for Christmas at 11 my parents got me a cb base...

I don't hate mac or apple, I just say its not for me personally. I think apple builds good products, I just dont care personally for their business model. I do acknowledge however that for some folks mac is a better fit - especially if they are big into the apple ecosystem already. My brother is...

Well mechanical drives are quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in laptops. You can pack a lot more storage in a small space, its drastically faster, it uses less power....There is no reason to ever buy a laptop these days with a mechanical drive. Mechanical drives are good if you...

How much did you spend on the pc laptops vs the mac? Ive seen computer newbies go from a pc to a mac and think its amazing at how fast it seems, but they spent 3 times the money on it, and upgraded to it from a very budget laptop. Mac's are not faster than PC's. PC's actually are the...

Would need to know what hardware you're running inside the laptop to know if it should be replaced. What CPU is it running? How much RAM? Windows updates, once they get to the point where you took the picture, have nothing to do with wifi or network connection - the update was already downloaded...

So you actually paid the $1,000 for them to do this "cleaning" ?

Its a safety / protection item. Removing it opens up potential safety hazards, which you should be able to easily imagine. The objective of the piece is to cover a high speed spinning shaft, for obvious reasons. The pro's and cons are very self evident here, so its up to you what you want to do...

I'm late replying to my own thread here. Been really busy. Based on some of the replies I feel I should add that I'm not new to gardening. I was born and raised in rural north Florida here and have had gardens off and on all my life, and many family members are big gardeners. When I was a kid...

Common problem with the L2501/3301/3901. Ive read of this issue with the PTO cable numerous times. Most instances of it are fixed by getting some lubrication on the cable. Its almost always a stuck cable. Its not a bad idea to occasionaly engage and disengage this cable just so it doesnt sit for...

Despite living on 13 acres of land for the past 10 years, 2021 will be the first year I finally have enough open space to put in a proper garden, which will get proper sun everyday. My land was wooded, and the ~3 acres or so we had in a small pasture was occupied by our horses. The past year I...

Oh its nothing you did. Just asking a question on these forums tends to turn into a rabbit hunt, as replies will run all around the world to answer a simple question. Its just the nature of the thing. Lot of smart folks on there though, and you can learn a lot, you just have to sift through all...

in reference to wide open as soon as the engine starts - I wouldn't personally do that. When a tractor first fires up, the engine is cold, the oil is cold, the hydraulic fluid is cold. When these fluids are cold they dont flow as easily, they are a little thicker, and thus dont lubricate as...

This is likely going to start a big debate. We cant even offer suggestions to a guy on what the best 3pt. implement is to maintain his driveway without it running down a bunch of rabbit holes and nonsensical debates. Typically though, you're gonna wanna work on the upper end of the RPM...