Good for them for standing their ground and not caving to pressure to sell.
Weird situation all around, as the ban really doesn't mean anything with over 200 days to appeal and no action taken to keep American people from using TikTok in the meantime.
I'm torrenting Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. Never thought I'd be doing that. I need it for a client who wants to keep spare computers to run an old critical business application.
Due to a slow and failing hard drive, I did a lot of work on her computer today, upgrading to an SSD. Much faster now. Fixed login issues by switching to a local login instead of a Microsoft login... you may know where this is going.
Got the computer back to her. Checking it over with her.
"Where's my calendar that I keep my entire life in?"
Months back I had helped her migrate her calendar to Thunderbird so it wouldn't be in a Microsoft product and would be easy to back up. Unbeknownst to me, she didn't keep using Thunderbird but went back to Outlook because #ChangeIsHard ... Change Is Hard.
Turns out that there were multiple Microsoft Accounts associated with her Outlook 365. When I switched to a local login to fix a login issue, it disconnect all of them. The account where we think the calendar data is stored, she doesn't know the password. Account recovery is not working.
Right now I don't want to work on computers with Microsoft products on. At all. Of course, not realistic, as the majority of my local customers use Windows.
"Last year I switched to something new. This is the Lua programming language. It's implemented in just 12k LoC, it's extremely easy to build from source and it's quite fast. It's not as popular as Javascript or Python. As a result, it doesn't tend to get used in products of conquest that try to be all things to all people."
I'm upgrading an HP EliteBook 745 G6 laptop for a customer who is purchasing it from me.
I took out the 512GB SSD and replaced it with a 1TB nvme SSD. Took out the two 8GB memory modules and replaced them with two 16GB modules for 32GB. Of that, the AMD GPU reserves 2GB and has shared memory of 15GB. So the GPU has plenty of memory available to it for a little laptop.
The processor is a Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U
I've been selling more of these HP EliteBook laptops with Ryzen processors. I hope to put one to more testing, but selling them almost as fast as I get them in.
I think an ideal model for me to test is the 13 inch version of this model, the EliteBook 735 G6, as I think the 13 inch size is ideal for how I use a laptop (currently using a ThinkPad T470s and the 14 inch screen is just a bit too large for comfort with how I carry a laptop around).
It was a good learning experience and we may use this soon for a client. We may be transferring an older version of a Wordpress website on another host to a ProxMox VM. I haven't done a migration like that before, so we'll see how it goes.
I'm not a big fan of #Wordpress now, but I did use it quite a bit over ten years ago. It's changed a lot since then!
It does have the nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics, which will probably be handled just fine by the installer since it is so old, we'll see.
Now, I usually do not work on Apple products, but this is a classic and it is for a friend. The MacBook A1278 is my favorite MacBook model. It was a long running series, so there are quite a few variants and not all their parts are compatible with each other.
Since it is long out of support by Apple, this is probably already considered "retro".
While having a repair shop open, we made quite a bit of money with the "caddy fix" as these A1278 models had frequent failures of the SATA connection to the SATA storage drive. The solution was to take out the optical DVD drive and replace it with a caddy that would hold a 2.5 inch SATA drive and put the storage drive there.
So far, this particular MacBook does not need that, as the hard drive is recognized.
