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Good morning SaddleThank you for the thought. I was told my computer was to old to fix. It is 7 years old so I don't know if it to old or not to fix. I'm computer challenged anyway and the new computers have windows 10 in them I will be lost
Winblows 10 is merely Win 8.1 with a classic start screen, and plenty of swiss cheese holes in the Microsoft cloud.
#1: Disable Internet Exploder, delete Microsoft Edge, and turn off Cortana.
#2: Partition your drive, then install Mint or Ubuntu (Linux-based operating systems). Install their versions of word processor/spreadsheet programs ("applications" for Mac, Android and Linux people) - they are in your drive, not the cloud. Protect your privacy.
#3: Turn off location and GPS, get a Virtual Private Network through your IP, or via antivirus. Smartphones, too. In Winblows 10, anything that has to do with sharing, or assigning a search engine via Cortana, or the Start menu - turn it off, disable it, ad infinitum. Install Waterfox and Firefox; then, install Ghostery, WOT (Web Of Trust) and for really unsafe places (like most social/gaming network sites), install NoScript on both browsers (Firefox = 32-bit; Waterfox = 64-bit). When in Facebook, allow only akamai.net to run scripts. With Ghostery running backup, imagine the cleanest, nearly ad-free UI from Facebook ever seen. BEWARE OF ADOBE FLASH, AND ORACLE'S JAVA (unless you have developer versions, where you have control). Google Chrome (browser), and search engine? Nuh-uh. Since they changed their Terms of Use in 2012-13, they aren't any better than AOL (OMG!) and Yahoo! - although, DuckDuckGo - a non-tracking search engine - is, interestingly enough, in partnership with Yahoo!...
4: When it becomes time to enter a name into your brand-new Winblows 10 to register with Microsoft, make it a nome dè plume... i.e., Harry Truman, or Jack Kennedy
. Even though nearly every app, program, or email account isn't completely safe - hotmail, tied with your fake name, your VPN (mine once showed my IP coming out of Oslo, Norway 
) and Bing turned off, is one of the safest free email providers out there. Especially with Internet Exploder disabled, and Microsoft Edge uninstalled.@pete67, this post is dedicated to you, and hopefully - some of this information (or, misinformation, if you work for third-party deeps that create trapdoors in banking, social/online gaming, or - Heaven forbid - investment websites that are supposed to be encrypted) may be helpful.
Oh, and another tip from LW & Liz:
Put electrical tape on your laptop camera, and disconnect your USB camera when you're online - unless, you're communicating via video with family on an ENCRYPTED connection (https, vs. http at the beginning of the video app's URL).
Freedom? Not today.
LW & Liz
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Hi Pete my friend mine's a mess so old it's on it's last legsGood evening Jimi
Yeah it's hot here too,I am doing pretty good for about a week or so except for my swollen, aching feet, they still havent figured out what is wrong with themHot... Lol but generally pretty good
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@pete67 - Liz and I hope you liked my last post; @Jimi - how are you? Liz and I have been extremely busy - they're going back into my right kidney (AGAIN!) Thursday morning, and more polyp removal next week.
Sheesh.
Nervous? Yes.
Is my faith strong? You're damned right. After all, I get to post with you, @Jimi.
Liz and I send our love - and, today - our roof was measured for the 6 kW solar setup being installed in three weeks.
Yin and yang, brothers and sisters...
LW & Liz
Sheesh.
Nervous? Yes.
Is my faith strong? You're damned right. After all, I get to post with you, @Jimi.
Liz and I send our love - and, today - our roof was measured for the 6 kW solar setup being installed in three weeks.
Yin and yang, brothers and sisters
...LW & Liz
HiYa @LOveWerks and Liz my friends I really wish I knew what all that meant but I am pretty much computer illiterate. How have you two been? Good I hopeWinblows 10 is merely Win 8.1 with a classic start screen, and plenty of swiss cheese holes in the Microsoft cloud.
#1: Disable Internet Exploder, delete Microsoft Edge, and turn off Cortana.
#2: Partition your drive, then install Mint or Ubuntu (Linux-based operating systems). Install their versions of word processor/spreadsheet programs ("applications" for Mac, Android and Linux people) - they are in your drive, not the cloud. Protect your privacy.
#3: Turn off location and GPS, get a Virtual Private Network through your IP, or via antivirus. Smartphones, too. In Winblows 10, anything that has to do with sharing, or assigning a search engine via Cortana, or the Start menu - turn it off, disable it, ad infinitum. Install Waterfox and Firefox; then, install Ghostery, WOT (Web Of Trust) and for really unsafe places (like most social/gaming network sites), install NoScript on both browsers (Firefox = 32-bit; Waterfox = 64-bit). When in Facebook, allow only akamai.net to run scripts. With Ghostery running backup, imagine the cleanest, nearly ad-free UI from Facebook ever seen. BEWARE OF ADOBE FLASH, AND ORACLE'S JAVA (unless you have developer versions, where you have control). Google Chrome (browser), and search engine? Nuh-uh. Since they changed their Terms of Use in 2012-13, they aren't any better than AOL (OMG!) and Yahoo! - although, DuckDuckGo - a non-tracking search engine - is, interestingly enough, in partnership with Yahoo!...
4: When it becomes time to enter a name into your brand-new Winblows 10 to register with Microsoft, make it a nome dè plume... i.e., Harry Truman, or Jack Kennedy
@pete67, this post is dedicated to you, and hopefully - some of this information (or, misinformation, if you work for third-party deeps that create trapdoors in banking, social/online gaming, or - Heaven forbid - investment websites that are supposed to be encrypted) may be helpful.
Oh, and another tip from LW & Liz:
Put electrical tape on your laptop camera, and disconnect your USB camera when you're online - unless, you're communicating via video with family on an ENCRYPTED connection (https, vs. http at the beginning of the video app's URL).
Freedom? Not today.
LW & Liz
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Oh man I an sorry to hear that my friend. You are, and always be in my thoughts and prayers. I hope it goes smoothly for you brother. Please keep us updated.@pete67 - Liz and I hope you liked my last post; @Jimi - how are you? Liz and I have been extremely busy - they're going back into my right kidney (AGAIN!) Thursday morning, and more polyp removal next week.
Sheesh.
Nervous? Yes.
Is my faith strong? You're damned right. After all, I get to post with you, @Jimi.
Liz and I send our love - and, today - our roof was measured for the 6 kW solar setup being installed in three weeks.
Yin and yang, brothers and sisters
LW & Liz
Night Jimi!
Night Pete
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This medical stuff of the 'warm and brown' variety, with all of the stress, in concert with all of the good stuff (my hitch and carrier for my power chair have been ordered - I only have to buy the clevis pin/cotter key kits - three of them, to take care of the carrier AND the 1.25" to 2" converter/receiver) at Ye Olde Walmart (gosh, I intensely dislike that place - Sam Walton is rolling in his grave...) - I'm flustered, confused...
Stop the world - I wanna get off...
Yet, Liz and I have purpose. We're going to get through this DREK.
LW & Liz
postscriptum: say some prayers for Liz; she is being thoroughly mishandled by her primary care provider... she is out of nearly all of her meds, and is in a stressful, out-of-control situation. She is disabled, as I am, due to PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I just have the screwed-up spine added on. I can take pain, but her pain is different from mine (go figure - I got my psych meds - how unfair is that? LW)
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Good night, @pete67, and @Jimi - @celticluvr, how about Ireland getting Silver Medals for rowing in the Rio Olympiad?
Those guys were really cool on Irish tele...
G'night, all...
LW & Liz
Those guys were really cool on Irish tele...
G'night, all
...LW & Liz
I'd have to look that up.. i haven't been watching the OlympicsGood night, @pete67, and @Jimi - @celticluvr, how about Ireland getting Silver Medals for rowing in the Rio Olympiad?
Those guys were really cool on Irish tele...
G'night, all
LW & Liz
Mornin' Miz Whiskey 
I have been up since 2:30am. Bad nightmare last night. Yesterday some asshole posted on facebook about how terrible Islamic citizens are to dogs...they consider them dirty and unclean. Then they posted a video of those people running over the hind end of dogs as they screamed in pain. I was super PISSED OFF It popped up on my news feed and before I realized what it was it was too late. Some things you cannot unsee. I was heartbroken for those poor dogs. Yes, I am a bleeding heart and super sensitive...but I do t want to be any other way. I know things like that happen every day but that doesn't mean I want to see it. One less friend on Facebook now.
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It was posted on Facebook. I reported it for all the good that will do. I can message you the name of the person who posted it if you want.
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It was terrible. I was literally crying. Heartbreaking. But things like that make me appreciate my furbabies a little bit more. They have a good life and I am proud to say that.No , I don't need it, if it was posted here , I would be able to remove it, as it is a rule violation on the forum. That is so damned sad
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It's a sad SAD world we live in today. Cruelty to animals equates to even greater cruelty to fellow man. I fear for the future of our children.
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Morning everyone ! Getting ready for work. Have a good day !
Good morning PeteGood morning Whiskey
Sorry you had to see that. I love the fur babies as well. They use to dump dogs and puppies on or country road until I told the law that if I catch them doing it I would shot them. Now they don't do it here any more.
Good morning GingerGood Morning all. Just dropped into the corner to thank @Whiskey for suggesting the Bachelor. I now have two of them mother and baby size, came this morning. Can't wait to use them. Loving the top fill just like my Smok.
Good morning Pete although it is approaching the afternoon in the UK and is rather hot again today.Good morning Ginger
Morning Pete.Good mornin RR
You dump coffee on your 'puter this morning? It seems very cooperative today.
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