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This Lenovo Legion Tower 5, direct from Lenovo, looks like a good deal at $1300 with a Ryzen 7 7700 and RTX 4070: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/desktops/legion-desktops/legion-t-series-towers/legion-tower-5-gen-8-(26l,-amd)/90ux000cus The Legion Tower 5 line seems to have good build quality accordi...

BTW: If you want to keep the battery on an old phone from deteriorating while in storage, put it in the fridge (not the freezer!). Best to discharge them to 50% first. I have several old devices in a mini fridge, along with my alkaline batteries. Batteries will stay fresh in a fridge for an extremel...

Darmak and Jalad, at Cinncinatti, when the turkeys fell!

Happy Thanksgiving!

And, of course, I had to make my Space Rig look like the USS Enterprise, once I had enough spare resources to waste on it

Using the nacelles for the solar panels actually works very well.

I had the game on my wish list, but Josh's video convinced me to buy it. I've been playing it the past three days and enjoying the hell out of it. Kind of a cross between Astroneer and Raft. There's only two devs working on it, but they are very responsive to bug reports and comments, and the game i...

I'm not aware of any way to hide them. If you back up the .apk files, which is what that backup program I use does, you can always sideload an old version by executing it's APK in a file manager app.

I turn off auto app updates, and pick and choose. I also use RerWare's MyBackup Pro to backup all my apps before I update them. There have been times when I didn't like an update or it broke something.

I prefer Firefox. I have it configured the way I want it.

I do use Brave as my always open Google accounts browser on my workstation. I have my Google Calendar, Contacts, SMS messages and Gmail open on it all the time, but I do not do any browsing on it. That's my Google isolation system.

I've had exceptional life out of Pixels. Still using a Pixel 2XL as a spare. I have my wife's old Pixel 3a that still works fine and I keep in the fridge to stabilize the battery. That's still configured for her so it's a backup. We're both rocking Pixel 6 phones currently. I love the pure Android. ...

I've seen dead CMOS batteries witn even higher voltages. Voltage alone means little. You want to put rhe battery under load, and then check the voltage, which is what a tester does. If you don't have a tester, then I would throw out any battery that comes up less than 3.1 volts on a digital multimet...

If you haven't noticed, YT is preventing some people from using an adblocker, and even the vaulted UBlock Origin is having trouble circumventing it, without tweaking your filters every week. It's a cat and mouse game. The easy workaround, for now, short of paying for YT Premium, is to log out of you...

8GB. You have to run the video files through a converter they supply that you can download, which converts it to an AVI scaled for the display. There's lot's of room. I have 14 10 minute clips in there that are using about 400MB right now. Data transfer to the TV over USB is pretty slow (either it's...

Okay! It finally came in today!

No. I never travel with anything I am concerned about. Everything stays at home, and I just remote into my workstation. Only thing I carry on me that's important is my passwords, which are in an encrypted file on my flash drive and phone (and all modern phones are also encrypted from the factory now...