I had a landlord with an S10 and we would collect all kinds of things (appliances, furniture, building supplies). It was lower at the tailgate than standard pick-ups which made it easier to load and unload. It finally died at about 200k. I miss my 1988 Toyota with the R-23 engine and manual everything. It never left me stranded and was easy to maintain and when something went wrong. I bought the shop manual with the truck, so it was simple.

I have a shingle roof on the house but metal awnings over the windows so I get hear the rain until the wind picks up and then it’s beating against the glass.

I’m with you on pick-ups. I want a 90s style Toyota SR5 work truck. I guess I may have to get a Canadian Toyota Hi-Lux, as they are more useful for my needs. But I’m not ready to buy anything until the chips start flowing because the prices are absurd.

Level 1 are my kind of tech people, Kryten. The Windows 11 review is a REAL review of what a problem it’s going to be. After 10 I’m going to Linux which does everything I want down without the annoying quirks, like telling me that my drivers are up to date, when 7 of them needed upgrading to stop the recurring BSODs for IRQ problems.

US $580/month for a two bedroom is reasonable in my neighborhood, which is still middle class. A new two bedroom townhouse rents for US $1400/month.

Hayes made solid external modems that were easy to shift from the Apple boxes to the PCs and used standard commands. I used Prometheus boards on the builds above 80286s that were 64k. The phone lines are buried here, so they tend to survive hurricanes unlike the cable system.

The only tech news that matters to me right now is the chip shortage tech news. I want to buy a small pickup truck to make it easier to carry materials to fix up my house, and they are scarce on the ground here. The local dealership has four (4) Ford Rangers on the lot, when usually they have dozens, and they’re all the quad cab model which I don’t want (I want a work truck, duh, with a longer bed). They have dozens on order, but they’re all waiting for chips before being shipped to the dealership. GRRR!

I’m living in a 2 bedroom semi-detached unit built in the 50’s (double brick & a corrugated roof – great in heavy rain) Luckily I like the sound of rain on the roof, and I own 2 pairs of excellent enclosed headphones! I pay AU$180 / wk (the other 5 Units here are paying AU$220 / wk since Jan 2020.) The landlord knows me well & knows I will sue the arse off them for all the faults in the unit if they raise it so mach as $1! I ‘let it slip’ to the agent that I received some legal advice from the Victorian Tenants Association after the previous Agent that was replaced late 2019 sent ALL the Units fault reports & Tenants complains, with images, to them. 😈😏 So… I’m just keeping the inside as clean & comfy as I can for al long as I can. they is no Statute of Limitations on filing, and they will have to pay me a large portion of the rent from the time the problems were first reported & documented.

Most YT tech channels have turned into ‘motormouths’ because of the YT algorithms and viewers with short attention spans. They had to cut the length of the vid. Still a few don’t care about any of that. like Level1Tech (and they know what they are talking about! A nice bonus.) Check out the latest, has a lot of relevant news for you guys! 😉 😀 A good bonus is they understand, and use, irony and satire a lot. They are one team member down as Krista is on Hol’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxSZezOWRE

This is one from about a week ago with Krista. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To3iMd0CRGo&list=RDCMUC4w1YQAJMWOz4qtxinq55LQ&index=8

When I started at Modem Technology as R&D Manager after getting out of the Military, we sued Hays for copying our 2400 baud UDM2400 Modem. And we won in AU. They couldn’t sell them in AU.

And yeah, it’s the usual maintenance stuff. Fan went out on the air conditioner. Yay. Garage door quit opening. Yay. Blew the leaves out of the gutters and removed gutter guards that weren’t working. Yay. Just finished putting up a garden shed for all the stuff that doesn’t fit in the garage. Yay. There’s other work to be done too — the threshold for the garage side door rotted away and the previous owner’s dog ate the trim above it (yay), the toilet in the master bedroom has a leak and needs to be replaced (actual crack in the china because they overtightened when they installed a bidet, not a leaky flapper) yay, and so forth. That said, it’s no worse than the last rental I lived in, and *much* cheaper compared to living in the Bay Area.

None of the reviews I’ve seen were positive, some noting a performance penalty if you were using AMD processors. Most felt it wasn’t worth the hardware upgrades M$ wanted to run it.

Do you know anyone on the tech side who isn’t a motor-mouth?

‘Tux has been looking for a house for some time, so finally landing one in the Bay area is good news, but home ownership in California is a career on its own. I noticed he is already working on it. Well he’s still young enough, with the necessary tools to deal with the faults and problems that will keep coming up.

Sadly, it seems W10 is better than Win11! One of my main go-to YT Tech news channels is Paul’s Hardware. He put’s out an end of week Tech news of the week wrap-up. He call’s W11 the new W8!

I just tweeted the latest. He’s NOT impressed at all! By much of anything techy this week! He’s good to follow if you don’t want to wade through a dozen news sites & just want a nice summery. 😀

https://twitter.com/Kryten_42/status/1447462892446490624

Oh! Bad Tux commented on my Elders Scrolls Online tweet with my “kitties”. We chatted a bit. I really hope he’s getting ‘life’ sorted. I know what a pain that can be!