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Does android auto work? Last I herd it did not...
Not sure but my city refuses to tear some down old buildings for "historical prosperity. These aren't even nice buildings, they're all condemed generic concrete blocks.
Price is probably #1.
Bit of speculation here with no real sources ; There was a boom in late 2022 through 2023 when people could finally reliably get parts again. I'm guessing many who wanted to upgrade already did in the past 2 years. Anyone who got a new computer in 2020 onward should be fine for at least a few more years. I think the average is around 7 years.
The market will probably see a surge between 2027-2030 as people begin replacing their "covid era" computers.The market right now is mainly seeing anyone with a pre-covid computer who bought a nice top of line machine for about 1k. They're looking at current pricing and choosing to go with today's mid-low teir, which will outclass their old 201x top of the line computer.
Another factor could be AAA gaming hasn't exactly been pumping out hit new tiles the last 5 years. People who wanted to play cyberpunk or Eldon ring already upgraded by the time Wukon came out.
With less new games requirng the latest and greatest means the need to upgrade is going drop too.
Again all speculation....
Na, that's a total valid point. In school you could tell anyone who's note book was a giant yellow soggy mess was not going to adjust well to adult life.
Must have been made by the same author of the windows file copy dialog.
I'd just play it safe, avoid anything that could remotely be considered "suspicious".
If you can bring your own media, bring a few offline shows and movies, books or what ever else you like.
Otherwise stick to nonral websites.
Survay is anonymous and takes 1-2 minutes.
~~Everyone fill it out, don't care if your on iphone (its not like google cares about your privacy), just fill out the damn thing.~~
~~Don't check everything, check a few random things to make it look legitimate.~~
Let's all be honest and not fill the survay with bull-shit data that helps 3rd-prarty launchers, that would be imoral. Remember google's old motto, don't be evil.
Ignoring the virus part, for the sake of conversion.
The programs on secondary drives might be okay. I've found some programs will survive a "system swap", and others won't. Part of it depepeds if they have any dependaccies that are also installed during installation (such as one of the dozens of "microsoft visual code" versions that always end up on an old system).
Another factor my be a programs reliance on the registry. A clean install would wipe that, so the program woundn't have the necessary data.
There's also user appdata folders, a program might survive, but if it was storing user data there, you loose what ever config you might have had.
You'll also have to manually re-add them to the start menu folder, windows doesn't scan or anything like that, the start menu is just a folder of shortcuts added during a program's install.
I'm not much of a cyber security expert, but I'd be cautious with the old files.
As other said, unplugging those drives while you reinstall will ensure no mess ups can happen (typically a misclick when selecting the drive/partition). Yes the OS drive will be wiped. For "clean" reset, I'll usually just let the OS installer wipe everything. When it asks to "keep data" say no (at this point you've unplugged your actual data drives).
What the nature of the compromise? Was it limited to some online accounts, or was there an active virus on the computer?
If the computer was infected personally I'd boot up a linux live boot and run them all drives through an anti virus or two and painstakingly only keep personal data that can't easily be re-downloaded. Yes, it'll probably take a week. The theory behind this is, if something hid it self on the other drives, you reduce the chance of coming back. I am not aware of this actually happenning, but I'd play it safe as reasonable. A truly parinoid person would just throw out all the drives and start over - but that's not practicle.
If it was only some online accounts, I'd be a less anal about copying data over, but would at least run a scan or two over it.
Finally, I hope part of your password reset included a password manager and using long random passwords on everything, as well as set up 2fa wherever possible.
If not, bit warden (self-hosted) or keepass are popular choices in the realm of you have control of the data, not relying on someone else's cloud to keep it all safe and backed up (backing up the keepass file to a cloud drive is recommended for off-site back up, and to sync between devices if you don't use something like syncthing).
Ramsey has some views that don't align with everyone. The important thing to keep in mind is that America is so diverse, your neighbor could be a different religion and most of us (despite what media will lead you to belive) don't give a fuck.
If I were to re-work the advice to be less extreme, I'd say don't put your self in a finacial struggle trying to help your parents.
Sure we lost that particular job, but we also gained the job of driving around with a cam car collecting data. Then there's who ever takes all those pictures and compiles them into street view. Sure its highly automated, but someone had to automate it..
Imgine what the hunters thought when they lost their jobs to farms.
Also rembered what community this was on after I typed all that out.....