I am having issues with my main computer/laptop. Not a crypto-related article at all.

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I changed some BIOS configurations that made my computer go dead yesterday night. It was not booting up at all, so I had to leave it on until morning to make sure the battery discharged in the hopes that a battery complete discharge cycle could help the BIOS ship clear any errors that my meddling may have caused. I was changing the BIOS because I needed to enable some things that I needed for security, but the laptop decided to act weird for some reason. Because I needed to install some old software that I needed to run, I played technician with my computer.

To make the story short, I am still playing technician with my equipment because I am the kind of person that once it gets an idea into my head, I can get off quickly until I am satisfied or I have broke things up so much that now my equipment has gone wrong. Out of service, when it comes to computers, I can spend hours figuring out things, and I won't feel the time past. I could be awake all night, and I won't feel something when playing with my PC.

At least the BIOS problem has been fixed, and now I am trying to burn a Windows 11 disc image into a USB stick so that I can go and reinstall windows and have the applications that I want to run on my PC. Unfortunately, I can run the games and applications I need on Ubuntu because it seems those old applications don't like to work on emulated or virtual machine environments, so I am forced to switch back to Win environment.

At this point, I want to run my preferred applications and another software that I need for work too, and I don't know if I will go back into Ubuntu or if my system will be a hybrid system where my system has two operating systems installed. I can choose each time I start my PC. I have my old computer, a ThinkPad T400 with Ubuntu, and my new PC, a Gateway machine from this year.

As you can see I don't have the latest gadgets, but one thing is for sure if you don't feel happy with how your computer is working you can always make it worst by playing technician; I guess that is the worst part when you understand how to do things yourself if you don't feel happy you chance it right away and at times computers get crazy because you are playing too much with them. Still, I guess having computer issues is like having a good day. Don't take me wrong, and I love playing this way with my PC.

And by to way, last year I burned a PC just 30 days after I bought it. I guess ruined things are the price for having fun. And at this moment, I am using my old PC to have my ReadCash and NoiseCash homework done today.

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This can be so hard to take.. I use my PC most time but when I was traveling back to school, my PC was in my backpack and when I got to my hostel, I brought it out only to see that the screen is damage with ink all over it, it broke my heart and I haven't been able to get it done cause it cost $40 to repair..

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User's avatar FashTioluwa
2 years ago

Hello again @francis105d1! And good to meet you @TheGuy.

You have issues with your PC and I am having issues with Read.cash I already commented on https://read.cash/@francis105d1/post-79766a3c but it looks comments are not to be found in a profile and short posts as well. I suppose this is not a bug but a feature. Yet it confuses me. Might have some advantages. Not finding ones own comments without bookmarking it is strange to me. I only picked the former from my browser history, since the notification I received for finding there is gone after I opened it once. Do you know of any good Read.cash community where people share tricks and hacks to using Read.cash?

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User's avatar anli
2 years ago

I try to read all the comments that users post on my articles. Still, I do not always have the time to answer each of the messages, so what I do is leave a tip to acknowledge the user for his effort to post a reply, and today I am exhausted because fixing my PC took me all day over 12 hours to re-install everything as I like it.

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User's avatar francis105d1
2 years ago

I know where you're coming from. I love the way to acknowledge comments without words, too.

And I once did PC operating system care as a profession. I quit it twenty years ago, when I realized I don't want to solve problems for strangers who can't acknowledge me sitting there for three to eight hours fixing their windows just because M$ change their OS every six month mostly temper with the GUI and keep all the technical garbage from before in there.

They make lots of mollars with training all year and I sit there and clean up their mess for wasting my time?

Anyway, I fix friend's computers with Linux still. Best luck to you on your systems!

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User's avatar anli
2 years ago

Yeap, I used to do that as a hassle side job, but people don't appreciate your time nor your advice; it took me 23 hours to finish my PC because I installed a lot of software that I need and I make sure it is updated as well, so that later on I don't have to be waiting for updates when I am busy working, not to mention that Windows needs security and I even encrypt my SSD before starting anything.

Pretty much, it takes me a lot of time because I leave my computer in working order once I am done. I know that everything will be ready to go the moment I am done if you work like that, you will understand how much time you need to have all the updates and nonsense that Win needs to be secured.

Ubuntu is great for old laptops or any Linux distro because it doesn't need a lot of crap that Win needs, and thank God Linux exist because now you don't have to throw away your old hardware you can do many things will an old computer, and even have it as a backup.

Having two laptops is a way to ensure I am always online, and I can do the things I love online.

And I do get the pain of people not understanding the effort you put in your old job because people don't know anything besides just pushing a button and opening a browser to hit the Facebook website and can't even replace a light bulb, let alone fix a computer.

I will leave the conversation here because now I have to go back into writing crypto stuff, but I guess now I know people want to talk about other things than just crypto and there is an audience for it.

I think this could require another article but I will see what I write in the future. See you aorund.

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User's avatar francis105d1
2 years ago

I'm a bit slow on computers so I don't go all-out technician mode in Pcs . But I do wreck and fix smartphones haha.

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2 years ago
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