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[quote=sdrealtor]Yup the doomsayers are essentially winless around here[/quote]

Ha! You must live in a cave. 700,000 Americans are dead, hundreds of thousands of them because right wing propaganda brainwashed tens of millions of fools into voting for an incompetent fool who couldn’t possibly care less about the United States of America, and who somehow thought he could wish covid away. That propaganda also brainwashed them into thinking that masks don’t help, social distancing is not helpful but ivermectin is, and the vaccine should be avoided.

Nobody was predicting the end of the world, but there will probably be a million dead Americans before this is over, half of them unnecessarily, and that’s pretty fucking doomy if you ask me.

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Right wing propaganda is driving this ignorance and mistrust. I’ve been saying for years that right wing propaganda is ruining our country. It’s been a runaway train for quite some time now. Still, it just keeps getting crazier and crazier. Tucker Carlson is a raving lunatic, trusted by millions. 78 percent of Republicans think Biden didn’t win. I think we’ve become desensitized to those kind of numbers. 78 percent. That number is absolutely outrageous, and it shows the true power of the right wing propaganda machine.

I don’t see how this train gets stopped, either.

https://www.piggington.com/rightwing_media_destroying_our_country

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[quote=scaredyclassic]From the neck down, I look like a trim 35 y.o.

or better, really than I was at 35. Except for a few skin tags, and grey pubes.

Neck up however is terrifying. I can barely stand to see my face. Like the face skin just gave up. Jowly. Wrinkled. Decaying

I’m positive any future grandchildren would be grossed out. I really don’t look in the mirror much anymore.

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Same. Sometimes when I see myself in a mirror unexpectedly or accidentally point my phone camera at myself it feels it like I’m in a Black Mirror episode.

Hard work and sacrifice are all that’s needed to keep looking good from the neck down. At 60, looking good from the neck up requires either genes that I don’t have or surgery. I’m vain, but not so vain that I’d have surgery. Although I have to admit that if I were single, I’d probably do it.

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Cost, obviously. 1 tb of cloud storage is $20/month from what I’m seeing. A 2TB HDD is about $60.

If you’re aware have a cloud service that can provide a terabyte of storage for free or for significantly less than $20 a month, I’m all ears.

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[quote=gzz]That PC looks like a great value with great specs. It is only a 90W power supply which would have been way too low a few years ago but I assume is OK now.

From a clutter standpoint you can add a 2nd 2TB HD to the inside rather than get another external. The internals are usually about $5-10 cheaper too.

The specs on their website say it supports this:

Storage Storage Support Up to 2 drives, 1x 3.5″ HDD + 1x M.2 SSD • 3.5″ HDD up to 2TB • M.2 SSD up to 512GB[/quote]

Good idea. If I go this way, that seems like a tidier way to go. Thanks!

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that PC sucks… For starters it has a last generation Intel I5 in it.

This one is better, albeit less ram …

https://www.costco.com/hp-pavilion-desktop—amd-ryzen-5-5600g.product.100767850.html

CPU comparo

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_5_5600g-1877-vs-intel_core_i5_10400-1153%5B/quote%5D

Those cpu comparison stats are over my head. But if you say the AMD Ryzen is better, I’ll take your word for it. I like the 1TB SSD. What would it take to upgrade to 12 (or 16) GB of RAM? Thanks!

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I think I’m going to go with this

https://www.costco.com/.product.1487294.html

Lenovo w/ 512GB SSD, 12GB RAM, 10th GEN INTEL i5. $500.

I have a 2TB external HDD for storage, and I’ll be getting another 2TB external HDD for storage (storing the same stuff (pix/videos) on both for safety). I’ll be putting the pix/videos on M discs soon (“soon” is the plan anyway).(I have an external device to write to M-discs)

The non-pix/video stuff I need to save fits on a thumb drive.

I considered (would continue to consider if I receive further input on it) the dual-drive computer gzz put a link to. But I’ve read that as SSDs get full, they slow down. And that basic, necessary stuff might get a 256GB SSD to a point where it’s full enough to do that.

I understand that backing stuff up to 2 external HDDs is a pain, especially compared to backing stuff up to the HDD in a dual-drive computer. But it seems pretty cost-effective.

That’s the plan, anyway. I really very much appreciate the input so far, and if anybody would be so kind as to point out any flaws in my plan, I would very much appreciate that, too. Thanks again.

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In any case, the “booting” is done from the main drive on your new PC. The old drive from your old PC connects a lot like a USB flash drive. It happens automatically. So if the drive itself isn’t corrupted, you plug it in with the cable I linked to, and it shows up on “My Computer” as an extra hard drive.[/quote]

Great to hear.

[quote=gzz]There are some easy software fixes for a slightly bad hard drive, which you can run by just hooking it up to a new working PC.

If those don’t work, you’re looking at costly data recovery services that will be $2,000+.
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[quote=Coronita]
Not worth the cost of doing this unless the data is absolutely must save because often times what these people do is very painful and tedious. (Disassembly your hard drive, finding an identical drive, physically move the platters from your drive to one that is working, etc.) I’ve done this myself one time. It was painful and time spent versus the importance of the lost data, ended up not being worth it… [/quote]

When my new computer arrives, I’ll try the easy methods. I backed up all my pix/videos (several hundred GB of family pix/vids but, sadly, none of Evelyn Lin) a few months ago. And google photos should have a lot of the more recent stuff. Whatever else was on there was backed up recently enough, I guess. It would save some hassle to have it back, but nowhere near 2k worth of hassle, so I won’t bother with the expensive options if it comes to that. I wasn’t aware that those were my options so thanks for the info, gzz and flu.

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In my view the best system for regular PC users is to have an SSD as their windows C drive and use a regular HD for large seldomly used files plus as a windows backup. There are other backup options for even more important stuff, but most failures will not hit both drives at once so this will be a good setup for most people.

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For your new system, besides getting an SSD as your main drive in your computer, I would also an external USB RAID drive (with 2 disk redundancy at minimum) and setup a backup schedule to regularly backup important files like pictures/videos/media to it….

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Seems like good (and similar) ideas. Thanks to the input here, I’ll definitely go with something like that. If there are particular pros/cons to those different setups, I’d love to hear them.

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In addition to the raid backup, I also backup my photos to Google Photos. if you run out of storage, create a new account each year and segment the photos per year… And for video, I upload them to YouTube private and Google Photos. Pictures and videos are backed up to the cloud and to the raid drive…… [/quote]

New account every year. That’s a great idea! Definitely doing that.

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Turns out I have a bad hard drive.

So instead of asking for recommendations for computer repair, I guess I’m asking for recommendations for a guy/ place that does data recovery from a bad hard drive. Thanks.

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[quote=gzz]If it is more than 4 years old, buy a new one. If there’s anything you need on the hard drive, just take it out and either put it in the new PC, or put it in an external enclosure.

You can also salvage your data with this cord if you have a normal sata drive which I’d guess you do with 90% confidence:

Thanks, gzz. I will definitely be getting a new computer. This one is three or four years old.

I know next to nothing about computers, so I wouldn’t know how to transfer the stuff I need from my old computer using that cable without booting up my old computer. Is that even possible?

I also wouldn’t know how to connect my old, unbootable hard drive to a new one.

I’m getting the “your PC did not start correctly” error, and I have tried all of the available options that that message gives you (and that I understand and have the equipment to perform) to no avail.

Thanks for any info or recommendations you may have.

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[quote=gzz]Bet you all thought this would be a scaredy post.

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Ha! My eyebrows actually shot up when I saw gzz instead of scaredy. Then of course I laughed when I read the line quoted above.

Seems just a tad pricey, so between being cheap and being old (and maybe thus resistant to change), I’m not sure I can get on board. I’d be interested to hear how you like them as time goes by, though.

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To be conservative (today’s typical American conservative, anyway) at any age is to have no heart. And no head, for that matter, given that most of them believe that trump won the election.

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[quote=sdrealtor]To the contrary I think RE is as interesting as its ever been. The run up has been huge and no one knows what is coming next[/quote]

I didn’t mean real estate is less interesting now. I meant this forum is less interesting now.

I do read some of the real estate stuff; I like to keep up to date in case an opportunity that I can’t resist presents itself. And it is certainly an interesting time in real estate. But, overall, this forum is still less interesting than it used to be. The non-real-estate conversations on a variety of subjects with intelligent, interesting people were lively and stimulating, and as those have waned, so has the fun of this forum.

I mainly show up to see what scaredy is saying. He’s a very rare talent, and we’re lucky he posts his wildly original, frequently fascinating, usually funny, sometimes thought-provoking thoughts on this forum.

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[quote=sdrealtor]welcome back zk. We are talking about real estate again:)[/quote]

Yeah, definitely not as interesting as it used to be. Scaredy always has something fascinating to say, though.

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[quote=sdrealtor] In life it’s the road less traveled, the ripples across a pool from a pebble dropped in on the other side. Take that scaredy![/quote]

7×9=63. Take that, Einstein!

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