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...something completely different. Time to take a holiday from this troubled planet humanity. Bansuri Flute Music - Feeling Calm

10 ltsc 1809 march update, all well as always.

The Age Of Truth - Threshold

The Hellecasters - Passion

A few months now with the Pixel P8P, it works fine (unexpectedly!), great display, excellent photo abilities from great macro to good zoom. Can live well with the 'slow' chip and relatively lack of batt time. But the Doodle OS, damn, desert island, coconuts only. Samsung oneui + addons is a 5 star mega-restaurant in comparision (with nothing to pay for the meals). So carrying 2 phones (no problem + using many sims): Pixel for it's great photos (+ hotspot use), Samsung for all the rest :O)

Valkiria - blood on blood Continuing to check out 'melodic black' metal stuff, came across this, liking the 'atmospheric' sound.

Feb. update 10 ltsc done, and (have I mentionned this before?) zero problems, zero changes, zero plagues. Great OS.

Been very happy with the 5 Dell ever owned, 2 active. Always win clean install + then adding the absolute minimum of drivers, 'Dell original' (network, audio, display, touchpad etc). Zero of the myriad of Dell special-extra stuff, total available 81 (!!) drivers\apps for the Precision, am probably using 8 or so?. Maybe why there's no lags or strange hiccups here. Memory use after startup 2GB and everything peaceful. Never seen any Dell name appear in task manager.

Surface test shows the 7mm Seagate is ready for replacement. Gave good and long service. CrystalDiskInfo correctly warned about drive degradation.

Ref https://notebooktalk.net/topic/1036-the-end-of-windows-81/?do=findComment&comment=55211 Seagate 2TB, 'Caution' in CrystalDisk, after approx 7 years of loyal (ab)use in the E7440. No symptoms so far, wondering if the marked 'Sector count' means imminent carnage or continue use (for a while). Got backups & will run surface tests. Any recommendations (continue use ...or scrap asap) ? Thanks

Quite amazing, 10 years heavy use with the Dell E7440 wo any problems. Even the battery is still useable. Even better, still got the original 8.1 install from 2015. Never ever any bluescreen or OS related problem. And the old msata 256gb is doing well, should last until approx 2125 :O)

Time for a small journey away from this disturbed planet :O) Aurora Borealis - Atlas

No problem at all 😮 Demon King - And He Shut His Eyes In Anguish, Drum Playthrough

Neil Young - Cortez the Killer

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