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Nope. Pro only. You can use Vera crypt: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html Just be aware, it will take a while to initially encrypt the part of the drive that has data on it. Everything on the drive has to be read and then saved encrypted. It could take several hours. Best done over night. Make s...

Steve's also come across non scam flash drives that just aren't very good quality.

I tend to buy good sticks, but some stick I have are pretty old so I tested them all.

They are all over Amazon. Usually silly shit like a 6TB USB SSD for $30. People have bought them knowing they were scams, cracking them open on YouTube, and finding nothing inside but a 64GB SD card connected to a USB card reader, with the firmware hacked to make the card look like a 6TB drive. It w...

After a few days is actually bumped up to 950 down on it's own and stayed there. No one ever showed up. I had to contact tech support via online chat to get the phone line enabled, but I only use that as a fax line.

Rest in Peace.

The wall climbing drives me nuts. Haven't been able to finish it because of that.

Well this makes i t even easier...

https://www.techspot.com/news/100453-wi ... using.html

It's officially dead now. Activation servers for 10 & 11 will no longer take a Win7 key.

I will mention that I had an issue with this and uninstalled it. It was causing a stutter in games when looking up quickly.

Their videos are very cool to watch.

https://www.tiktok.com/@dem_bruddaz/vid ... 2672981280

The back story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/arts ... cters.html

Steve's been talking about this a lot on the podcast lately. In the process of working with beta testers on Spinrite 6.1, testers were discovering a lot of defective, or totally fake USB drives. So he decided to spin off a utility off that. Going to run this on my drawer of USB flash drives. I don't...

Steve Gibson developed Windows freeware app also scans for read/write errors

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-f ... d-capacity

Another great video by Josh...

Wait for it... When the driver gets out...

Another update. My third play thru. I am now very near the end game again. I have gone totally OCD, replacing all the haphazard belts with a more organized system, and labeling and color coding everything so I can figure out what's what if I return to the game later when 1.0 is released, which will ...