Have you tried Safari? It's supposed to be compatible with many things. I use Waterfox myself (a low memory variant of Firefox).

Ah, I forgot all about Safari. :biggrin: Never heard of Waterfox. So that's two ideas I can look into. Thanks!

If Firefox didn't work for you, Waterfox won't work either. Like I said, it's the same as Firefox, only uses a lot less memory.

You could also try Opera and Midori.

This post has been edited by Lena Wolf: May 26 2022, 03:17 PM

You could also give Opera a try. It is my backup browser for sites that Firefox does not work on.

Thanks you two. I will look into Safari, Opera, and Midori. Never heard of Midori, but that's a good thing.

I bought a 2TB M2:NVME drive almost a month ago, but couldn't drum up the enthusiasm/courage to install it. Until today. I was a bit apprehensive, as it replaces my boot drive. My PC has only two M2:NVME slots, both occupied. The plan was to:

...Remove the second M2:NVME drive
...Place the new drive in its slot
...Clone my current M2: NVME boot disk onto the new drive
...Remove the clone
...Restore the second M2:NVME to its slot
...Swap out the original 500GB book disk for its clone.

I own EaseUS Partition Master, which makes cloning boot disks simple and theoretically foolproof. This proved the case today. All went like clockwork. My difficultly was with the physical aspects of the operation. My computer ain't lightweight. Manhandling it, twice, to add/remove drives, as well as the video card (to reach M2:NVME slot 1), bordered on more than I can handle these days. But handle it I did.

That done, I tackled a long postponed storage disk housekeeping chore. My physical hard disk's H partition, where I keep permanent file downloads (like Train Simulator payware locomotives), was all but full. EaseUS Partition Master handles this too. I was able to resize/move three partitions, shrinking one while expanding another, without damaging stored data. Being an old-style physical drive, the process was molasses slow.

My PC now sports the new 2TB M2:NVME, the 500GB second M2:NVME, and a 2TB physical drive.

The new 2TB M2:NVME is last gen. Current gen equivalents of its size were, at time of purchase, more than I was willing to spend. In any case, my PC sees no benefit from the extra speed current gen M2:NVME drives provide.

Horrors of all horrors, my vaunted 6-year old Plextor DVD drive has bit the dust. There will be a slight interruption in game play until I get a replacement. It's been so long since I messed with the internal devices that I'm a bit apprehensive about it.

Good luck with that! DVD drive replacement is usually straightforward, although one must never take computer issues too lightly... (Definitely not talking from experience here. Who - me? Never. Nope.)

If it doesn't work, I have a 5 1/4" floppy drive that will fit the slot perfectly!

I haven't seen one of those in ... gosh I don't know how long, must be 30-years.

I too still own one. It's housed at the back of a cabinet drawer along with some old teeny-tiny hard drives from former PC bulids, too small to be worth transferring when the time came to assemble newer machines. I also have one 8" floppy disk, given me by a long-ago acquaintance, despite my never having owned an 8" drive. I've no idea where it's stored.

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Finding a suitable LightSribe capable opti drive is near impossible these days. All i see are used and refurbished. Got one on order but it may take a week to arrive. Oh well, hope it gets here before I go to Florida for the Fourth.

My new Blue-ray and DVD writers have arrived. I broke down and bought a Pioneer R-XD07B external Blue-ray writer (looks good and works good too) to compliment a reconditioned LiIE-ON LightScribe capable DVD writer. That should last me for a while, hopefully.

The Nvidia RTX3070, 3070ti and 3080 are at last becoming almost affordable, though far costlier than they ought to be this far into their production cycle, with RTX4000-series cards not terribly far off. I originally toyed with acquiring an RTX3080, but even its SRP is too rich for me, much less its absurdly high asking price, thanks to 'mining'. Even the 3070 has been far beyond my means. I'm keeping my eyes on the RTX3070ti. If the price drops enough, I just might take the plunge. Then again, maybe not. I'm a bit worried about the RTX4000-series predicted power draw, which is said to be substantial (compared to equivalent 3000-series cards). With energy prices (among other things) what they are now, I don't know that I want to invest in something that will eat me alive in utility bills. Assuming the power rumors are true. Truth is, I don't know that I'm gaming enough at the moment to justify a GPU upgrade. My GTX1070 remains a decent card at 1080p, though I do need to reduce a graphics quality slider every now and again.

Yes, when I saw that the whole crypto balloon had finally burst, my first thought was that at least now video cards ought to get cheaper, not to mention easier to find. I was told that even weeks ago prices were already falling.

But like you, I don't see myself replacing my gpu any time soon, or doing any major upgrades on my PC. It is actually a decade old now. I have no done anything major to it since my old video card died about 5 years ago and I had to replace it.

I just turned off the auto-correct on my iPad. The last straw was “correcting” the word guildies to “guiltiest”, although maybe it just has access to more data than I do?

I allow computers to occasionally check my spelling, but never to correct. I mean, they don't know common words like Mzulft or Irknthand, or even Chorrol or Skingrad for that matter! One should not listen to illiterates like that.

I too don't use autocorrect, though goodness knows it can't do a worse job than I do at catching errors. I wish my word processor's (LibreOffice) spell checker worked as well as my browser's.

Lena has the right of it. I don't mind if puter gives me blue or red squiggles to help but don't change what I write! Silly puter doesn't even know what puter means! And who doesn't know what bugloss or nirnroot are?

Speaking of... Whenever I try to write your name properly as ghastley it removes the e.