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I'd be worried about mold with the wet and the heat. Do you have mold?
I don't know. I haven't been able to get up there to check. I need to buy some small plywood sheets to put up there to climb on. I am worried about mold developing though. If we do get mold I intend to use my respirator while coating stuff with Killz-- after it dries.I'd be worried about mold with the wet and the heat. Do you have mold?
I usually buy from backmarket.com or Amazon, sometimes eBay if the deals is good and the seller has a solid track record. Backmarket offers a one year warranty on all refurbished items, and they actually honor it.
I tend to stick with Intel processors in the i3-i7 range, usually 8th gen or newer, and no less than 8gb of ram but 16gb is better. I want an SSD hard drive, which is pretty much the norm nowdays, of at least 256 but I store stuff in the cloud so space is not a big deal to me. I prefer Windows 10 or 11. For brands I have had good experience with HP and Dell. Toshiba and Lenovo are okay too but feel a bit flimsier but thats also because they are thinner and lighter.
My big thing is the hinge system they use for the screen. Since I tend to buy based on specs and a picture I follow this rule: If it is two small hinges, one on each end of the screen I pass. If it is one long hinge in the middle, I buy. I have gone through enough laptops to know that is their achilles heal.
I shop in the $225-300 prince range and I don't have much trouble finding what I want in that range.
I have had good luck with Dells in the past. But that's been decades ago. I build all my desktop computers now. Can't really build a laptop yourself though. So I asked my son-in-law who is the IT tech support guy for some schools in Hawaii. Lenovo? HP? Or Dell? These are the big three in business laptops. He said first off, all the consumer level laptops, no matter the brand, are pretty much garbage. Stay away from all of them. He said to definitely go for the business models. He said they used to go for the HP EliteBooks in Hawaii, but several years ago those went downhill. Now they only use Dell Latitudes. Most of their computers are in the three to four year old range (same as the one I bought) and of those he said he always has several HP's in his lab for repair and almost never any Dells. So I took his experience as my guide. He said they have the rare Lenovo here and there, and they seem OK, but he has so little experience with them that he couldn't really comment on that brand.I hope you have better luck with Dell than I did. I boycott them. Discovered they put a kill switch on some of their PCs so that the version of windows on them would cause the computers to die right after the warranty expired. That was on top of having had problems with them screwing us over on an order and trying to charge us for a computer we never got-- someone at their factory signed for it & they tried to say we were on the hook for it. There were other issues as well.
It's against the rules!! And smoking sucks!!It ain't my country or business but...
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/japa...olympic-dreams-crushed-over-smoking-violation
Japanese gymnast banned from olympics for smoking.
Strokes my fur the wrong way.
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This is a common ploy. If they listed the VIN #, go there and demand to see it sold. I've also seen dealerships hide these marketing "bait and switch" vehicles, where I went out and found the truck listed, that they said was sold. I had the ad with me, and with my attorney on speed dial, I demanded they they sell me this truck at the stated price, or my attorney would be talking to them. It worked!The truck I wanted to get sold yesterday. Or at least that's what someone from the dealership said. It is still showing up in sales listings online.
It's a 4hr drive over so I'm not wasting my time. If they are going to try to jerk me around, I'm not going to give them any business. I will move on and look for a different vehicle. If that one remains listed, I will request a different salesperson.This is a common ploy. If they listed the VIN #, go there and demand to see it sold. I've also seen dealerships hide these marketing "bait and switch" vehicles, where I went out and found the truck listed, that they said was sold. I had the ad with me, and with my attorney on speed dial, I demanded they they sell me this truck at the stated price, or my attorney would be talking to them. It worked!
Oh so close! It got to just across the Denver metro area from me - about 30 minutes away - and then, bam! ... off to Albuquerque it went! Good 'ol Fedex. Gotta love 'em.
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We must be related!!Haertig, I hope you get your package soon.
Havasu, thanks for that info.
I unlocked a new level of derp. We went to the Mexican restaurant and while I was closing the menu up, I rested it on my arm. Looked down and realized I was bleeding. I managed to somehow cut myself with the spiral on the menu. That adds to my growing list:
Weird things ZanneJ has cut herself on:
Coffee table
Glass shelf in curio cabinet
Metal part on a paintbrush that holds the bristles
Foil on blister pack of medicine
Cardboard box
Foil on a pudding cup
Cat food can
Zipper
Toaster
Old computer chassis
Microwave door
Spiral on a menu
I know there are more, but I'm forgetting right now.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=auto+auctions+near+me+open+to+public&ia=webIt's a 4hr drive over so I'm not wasting my time. If they are going to try to jerk me around, I'm not going to give them any business. I will move on and look for a different vehicle. If that one remains listed, I will request a different salesperson.
I wonder if there are sites with vehicle auctions that have listings of what is for sale or if you have to go to the auctions in person.
I'm waiting for a woke hooker barbie to come out. You won't be able to buy her, just rent her for a while. And she could also be bought holding a can of Bud Lite.When "Barbie with Down Syndrome" is not enough:
https://www.scrippsnews.com/life/good-news/barbie-releases-new-doll-with-down-syndrome
... they come out with "BLACK Barbie with Down Syndrome":
https://www.news5cleveland.com/busi...bie-and-first-black-barbie-with-down-syndrome
Next year I guess the hot new toy might be "LESBIAN Black Barbie with Down Syndrome".
I'm all for supporting everyone, but geez, isn't this getting a little bit too woke and ridiculous?
Woke Hooker Barbie that used to be Ken!!I'm waiting for a woke hooker barbie to come out. You won't be able to buy her, just rent her for a while. And she could also be bought holding a can of Bud Lite.
I don't believe that there is a level that "some' businesses won't sink to where profit is concerned.
The laptop finally arrived today. After it's FedEx side trip to Albuquerque. Booted a couple of different Linux distros off of thumbdrives (MX Linux and LinuxMint). Neither distro saw the SSD. I opened the back of the laptop and verified that Dell indeed installed an SSD. Yep, it was there. Pulled it out and reinserted it to make sure it was physically connected solidly. Still, Linux did not see it. Went to BIOS and it was seen there. And BIOS was set to make this storage device available. I did find one setting in BIOS that I was not familiar with. The SATA controller mode was set to AHCI+RAID. The other available setting was simply AHCI. Since I don't really know what AHCI+RAID means (one can guess from it's name though), and I also will never use RAID on this laptop, I switched the setting to plain old AHCI. Bingo! Now Linux sees the SSD. I next did some Google research and found out that indeed, Linux doesn't like AHCI+RAID (which might also be called "Intel RST"??? I couldn't determine that exactly.)Well, I took your suggestion and just ordered myself a refurb laptop!
What's up? Yes, we do have an ignore button.Do we have an ignore button?
That's probably what the previous owner couldn't figure out.The laptop finally arrived today. After it's FedEx side trip to Albuquerque. Booted a couple of different Linux distros off of thumbdrives (MX Linux and LinuxMint). Neither distro saw the SSD. I opened the back of the laptop and verified that Dell indeed installed an SSD. Yep, it was there. Pulled it out and reinserted it to make sure it was physically connected solidly. Still, Linux did not see it. Went to BIOS and it was seen there. And BIOS was set to make this storage device available. I did find one setting in BIOS that I was not familiar with. The SATA controller mode was set to AHCI+RAID. The other available setting was simply AHCI. Since I don't really know what AHCI+RAID means (one can guess from it's name though), and I also will never use RAID on this laptop, I switched the setting to plain old AHCI. Bingo! Now Linux sees the SSD. I next did some Google research and found out that indeed, Linux doesn't like AHCI+RAID (which might also be called "Intel RST"??? I couldn't determine that exactly.)
So for all you Linux folk out there who might be looking at newer computers, this is something for you to check if you boot Linux and it doesn't see the SSD. This may be old news for most of you, but it was new news to me. All of my Linux computers are running older motherboards (good ones, but probably 8 years old). So maybe the BIOS from my generation of mobos didn't have this AHCI+RAID feature (which is why I would never have run into the problem before). I have built newer computers for my wife who runs Windows, and possibly those newer mobos have had this same AHCI+RAID setting defaulted in BIOS, but maybe Windows likes that as a default whereas Linux does not.
Oh, BTW, 1920x1080 resolution on a 14" screen is indeed tiny. But I can still read it and use it, even with my old eyes. I wouldn't want this for my main computer (29" monitor in that role for me!), but for a laptop that is meant to be small and mobile ... I can work with it for shorter periods of time if the laptop is within normal arm reach typing distance (wouldn't be able to see it if the laptop was across the table though).
Just passing on what I learned today, in case any Linux folks are looking at newer computers...
... and why I was able to buy it cheaper because "no OS installed".That's probably what the previous owner couldn't figure out.
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