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HVAC (AC) question

Have you tried a duct fan, especially leaving it running continuously? In that case it will pull/push cooler air from the evap stack even if the AC isn't running, but I mean one in series on round pipe, not knowing what access you have. You can get vent fans that you slap onto the room...
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- Post #4
- Yesterday at 10:43 PM
- Forum: Home and Garden
Question USB devices "flapping" during disk activity.

I have one system with a bay mount pair of USB3 ports. Over time, the port I used more often developed weak contacts in it, and it works fine with one USB flash drive, but not with another that I'd used on it for years. Same USB flash drive works fine in the other port right next to it, that...
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- Post #10
- Yesterday at 10:19 PM
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of twitter...update.. will soon be the sole owner as Board of Directors accepts his purchase offer

Wow you still don't get it. The majority of US citizens hate the liberal agenda so much that they would even elect Trump, even if he is guilty of sexual assault and other things too. No sane person thinks that Trump is fit to be president, but any random low life degenerate is better than the...
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- Post #12,777
- Jun 7, 2025
- Forum: Politics and News
Deactivating user account and visibility of posts

Can you elaborate on what you feel the risk is in having a fairly non-identifiable username associated with posts from a long time ago? If you're looking to purge posts and pre-2014 are no longer visible, how is that even a bad thing for your agenda? Have you been up to something that makes...
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- Post #2
- Jun 7, 2025
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
Fire Pit

Not convinced unless you can point to some kind of alien technology that other chainsaw manufacturers didn't know to use. If it's metal on metal, it needs bar oil. If it has some kind of (teflon?) bar liner, or nothing, then you'll just end up replacing the bar more often, but if that's what...
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- Post #18
- Jun 6, 2025
- Forum: Home and Garden
Fire Pit

Might not have an oil reservoir but it needs oil. https://images.thdstatic.com/catalog/pdfImages/03/03c4daaa-214a-4bf2-afb1-876bdc29bea8.pdf
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- Post #16
- Jun 5, 2025
- Forum: Home and Garden
Tell me about Macrium and other backup software when you don't have an optical drive.

Throw another SSD in the system, boot your rescue media (USB flash drive, etc) and see if you can restore to that SSD, boot it, and use as if it was the original. Might want to disconnect the source SSD when booting the Win11 clone as the OS will be looking for it.
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- Post #15
- Jun 5, 2025
- Forum: Security
Discussion When was the first time you realized people were stupid en masse??

Grade school, when I saw so many students excited to "know" the answer to questions that the teachers asked the class, then they're wildly wrong and I'm like,
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- Post #44
- Jun 2, 2025
- Forum: Politics and News
Are kids these days seriously overworked?

Internet -> Short Attention Span -> Can't Plan Life They are only overworked mentally, because their minds haven't been trained well to do complex tasks that require multiple actions, taking over 30 seconds... unless they're trying to find their phone. ADHD, anxiety disorder, suicidal...
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- Post #30
- Jun 1, 2025
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Question Anyone still have a scanner?

I primarily use my Brother AIO scanner, as a network scanner to push scans to any system running their app, but also have a station with a Visioneer Onetouch 8100, which will just work with Win7 if you do something to finesse the driver, so hooked up to the win7 box. Another system has a Canon...
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- Post #10
- Jun 1, 2025
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
‘End of 10’ Campaign - what are the benefits of Linux Transition?

If it won't do what you need, time to update, but I keep OS partition images (including offline copies) and can be back up and running in ~10 minutes, carrying on, on a different system in the mean time. It might be even more important for Win11, to keep it from imploding from some MS update...
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- Post #23
- May 30, 2025
- Forum: Operating Systems
Question Bottlenecked @ low speed w/new Internet

^ Or fiddle with network settings, even reinstall newest driver and then OS on the same system. It is not hardware limited to <=600Mb.
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- Post #27
- May 30, 2025
- Forum: Networking
‘End of 10’ Campaign - what are the benefits of Linux Transition?

One of my non-gaming boxes runs Win7. I surf the internet constantly with it. Not a single infection or other problem. Nobody has been able to name an exploit that I'm vulnerable to, just the same old vague implications that the sky is falling once MS stops support for an OS, yet here I am...
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- Post #21
- May 30, 2025
- Forum: Operating Systems
My computer boots fine, but after I log-in, the stuff on the taskbar load slow and surfing the web is very slow as well. What could be the problem?

Did it have a thermal pad that you removed when you applied the thermal paste? On a laptop, some of them will have an air gap if there's only paste replacing the pad, and need a metal shim added to make up the difference, or put a new thermal pad on, of the same thickness as the original. The...
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- Post #4
- May 29, 2025
- Forum: Laptops
Question Anyone ever have this display problem? Monitors go black/restart every 5 seconds.

Agree about the cable, but first I'd unplug and plug it back in on both ends.
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- Post #3
- May 29, 2025
- Forum: Displays

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