Y'all we've never had this many refurbished laptops available at one time, including a couple of Macs! We've got newer, older, and a few things in between -- https://refurbs.thecomputercellar.com
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The Computer Cellar
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Computer repair shop in Durham, NC - operating since 2010, staff computer experience goes back to the 80s. Discussing technology new and old, infosec, etc.
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Joined November 21, 2022
The price history for 32GB of 7200MT/s RAM is enough to make you consider revolution.
We just checked in our 30,000th ticket!
/tech Out of all the Bojangles between Durham and Burlington, the one next to Cole Mill Road is goated: no AI drive-thru, extremely *fast* drive-thru, the fries aren't limp and soggy, and I don't think I've ever gotten something from them that wasn't incredibly hot (sometimes overly so!) Kudos to whoever manages that spot.
I’ve never seen anything like this. Lenovo put a 4mm DC jack on this laptop’s motherboard, but walled it off on the palmrest and packaged it with a USB-C charger. Why close it off? Why not give people options, especially if you populated the board with the part already?
At least when — not if — the USB-C port breaks, we can just drill a hole in the palmrest and sell the customer a $25 charger rather than sending them for a $150 USB-C port replacement!
Acer engineering at its finest. The RTC battery and left speaker connectors are next to each other and use the exact same connector. The cables for each overlap before they reach the board, adding a potential confusion factor. Likewise, the "RTC conn" labeling is inexplicably far away from the actual connector.
Every person whose car gets smashed up, gets injured, or who suffers the loss of a family member on I-85 between Durham and Hillsborugh should be suing NCDOT for negligence. This stretch of highway is inherently unsafe.
Let's all raise a big middle finger to Micron/Crucial.
The PC market is about to be a disaster.
Gonna start pronouncing the “.” in web addresses as “period” and try to convince boomers they’ve been saying it wrong.
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@reneestephen@mastodon.social A citation has since been added - but I've got a bone to pick with it since the cited material does not actually prove that the nose is not removed.
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@bradl@mstdn.social sea, water, sea!
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@securopean@infosec.exchange we’ve been recommending Bitwarden for a while, ever since LastPass went to an almost-paid-only model. What would you cite as specific concerns with them, and should we consider recommending something else?
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@securopean@infosec.exchange you’re only as secure as your master password, that’s for sure.
Amazon, are you alright?
First Huawei, then DeepCool, now DJI 😔
I just got a spam email from AT&T, asking me to opt back into receiving spam email from AT&T.
The number of people that have completely hosed their computers trying to turn on Secure Boot for Battlefield 6 is too dang high
Some of the top results when you search Walmart for "flash drive" smh
This is how the iPhone 17 Pro battery is installed; is there hope??
Just thought to revisit Calculator... they really reined it in, didn't they?