//laughs in low battery

I haven’t seen one of these in a long time

I guess how new are you talking? I think this said it was based on the 2019 release, but I haven’t heard much about recent releases. Winamp 2 was the classic one most people remember. Winamp 3 was a rewrite that was supposed to be better under the hood but a lot of people didn’t like it, mainly for the new interface it seemed. They jumped to Winamp 5 (2+3) to restore much of the old interface while keeping the capabilities of 3. I never had issues with 5 and continued to use it through Windows 7. Haven’t used Windows much since then so I don’t know how it runs now. There have been very rare point updates since AOL took over and later sold it, mostly bugfixes.

You can certainly be paid in cash legally. Finding an employer willing to do that, though, might be challenging. It would probably have to be retail or another business that regularly deals in cash.

Like, I don’t need to have TSW5? It will just put them on my account if I ever do buy it later?

I would be shocked if 65w doesn’t work at all. How much you can do with it will be variable. It should be adequate for charging at the very least.

I can’t specifically speak to the Framework, but generally with laptops and USB-C charging you can still use them with lower wattage chargers. If you’re not using the machine at all it should still charge, just slower than it’s capable of. If you’re using the machine but not intensively it might still charge, but slowly. If you’re using more power than the charger will supply they’ll usually supplement from the battery. Depending on the workload it can be a momentary surge or continuous. If you’re continuously drawing power from the battery and charger you’ll run the computer longer than you would on battery alone but you’ll still eventually need to switch to an adequate charger or stop using the computer while it charges.

I haven’t finished the book, but The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics is also a good read on the subject.

TL;DR: although this computer still ranks in the world’s top ten most powerful, Oak Ridge has a new computer delivering over 8 times more computing power while using only twice as much electricity.

I didn’t realize they were trying to detect and label AI-generated content. When I’ve uploaded things there’s been a switch to enable if I used AI, but I’ve seen plenty of obvious content that wasn’t labeled so I assumed that if someone didn’t click the button to label it then Facebook doesn’t say it.

This is fantastic! I was just trying to set up my kid on a computer and the old way was seeming too clunky and slow, and she wanted to do something else so we never finished it.

I mean, Yelp ruined their own local search years ago, but I don’t mind these two fighting each other in court

Forgot to reply Re: SSD. Yes, it’s internal. It shows up in the BIOS but I assume the drive is totally blank, not even an MBR partition table I’m guessing since it didn’t display in the Mint installer when I made it that far.

I hadn’t seen LMDE; I’m downloading Xfce now but I’ll look at that one also. Thanks!

I can look at upgrading the RAM. When I bought the components for the computer I actually bought 8 GB (4 x 2 GB). The motherboard supports dual-channel RAM, but when we actually built the computer 18 months later we could only ever get 4 GB to work. I can’t remember if we decided the RAM was the issue or the motherboard, but since there was such a gap since I’d purchased the RAM it didn’t seem like a warranty claim would go anywhere and at the time 4 GB was plenty to run the computer and record shows with the cable card.

Actually, looking at the manual for the motherboard just now I found this statement:

Due to Intel spec definition, X.M.P. DIMMs and DDR3-1600 are supported for one DIMM per channel only.

That might’ve been my issue all along (and we might’ve figured that out at the time). I guess that would mean I would need to find 2 x 4 GB sticks of DDR3-1600 if I want to upgrade? I did find a couple old 1GB sticks of DDR3-1066 in my parts drawer that came out of my old 2009 Mac Pro when I upgraded its RAM years ago, but if I’m reading the manual correctly those won’t do anything with the other RAM installed. Or if I upgrade the RAM I could drop to DDR-1333 or a slower option and use all 4 slots.

3rd, don’t run Win7 at all. It’s way past end of life, and connecting it to the internet will compromise the system almost immediately.

I turned it on just to see if the components still worked before trying any of this and to poke around what software and files were still on the computer, if I wanted any of it. I had to quickly disconnect the Wi-fi because I forgot it had a Wi-fi card; I’d left the LAN cable unplugged specifically so it wouldn’t be connected to the internet. There shouldn’t be any danger as long as I don’t connect it to the network, right?

Thanks, I’m downloading XFCE now. The live disc for Cinnamon includes Memtest86+ on it. I ran it earlier this week and it was 100% pass. Just ran it again to see what program the memory test was and it passed again. I’ll try letting this boot into Mint and wait for the DVD drive to stop spinning and see if that makes a difference.

The drives are all internal. The motherboard has 6 SATA II connectors controlled by the Intel P55 chipset and 2 SATA III connectors controlled by a separate Marvell chip. I moved the 1.5 TB HD over from the SATA III connector to a SATA II connector and put the new 1 TB SSD on the SATA III port since it could take full advantage of the speed. All of the drives show up in the BIOS, but I don’t think there’s even an MBR partition table on the new SSD; it’s blank blank.

Just to clarify, I would still use GParted to create an MBR partition table, but I won’t need to actually create partitions at that time? I can do that during the Linux installation?

Is it still illegal in Edmonton somehow even though it was legalized in Canada nationally?

I am not a lawyer but from my understanding of trademark law this is not surprising.

Caveat: Californians who add a driver’s license to their Apple or Google wallets must still carry their physical ID card as required by law.

What’s the point, then? I thought the reason for a digital ID was so you didn’t always need the physical one with you.

I still replay both every few years; finished Portal 2’s co-op with the kiddo earlier this year.