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Applied this month's updates, 10 ltsc & 8.1, went smoothly & everything still works :O)

Also, O&O shutup. Tested and working.

Update Day ! Did my 10 ltsc (& the trusted old 8.1). Initially all looks good (but as always, Reflect image 1st). This time allowed drivers updates etc, to investigate what WU would imagine what was intelligent to do... & of course, example, proposed and installed some older intel graphics than what was already there. Useless idiots. The list of stuff to be updated (or surely downdated), how immensely informative to see 'software component', 'system', 'extension'. Useless idiots 2. Thinking about how vastly superior the update setup was before 10\11.

Witchcraft · Legend

Dreaming Cooper "Mysterious Places"

^^^ KB5016623 & KB5012170 done shortly after release date (reflect image 1st), everything behaving fine here.

ZZ Top 1st album 1971

Maybe a topic for interesting tech innovations would be of interest. So starting with this: MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel. Their prototype generates drinking water at a rate of 0.3 liters per hour, and requires only 20 watt-hours per liter. https://news.mit.edu/2022/portable-desalination-drinking-water-0428

King Buffalo - Orion

Monsoon, nice!

King Weed - Game Of Thorns

The Doors - A collection 6 CD

A nvme - usb box, works perfect, good construction.

3 euros to add 100 GB (national use) on top of my normal 200 GB, knowing well I'll probably never make use of it = 3 euros\month right in their pocket for nothing (hoping like 10 millions of their customers would accept the offer = 30 millions euros\month without needing to give anything in return :0). For the international, very low margins when incomes divided between the countries the sim is used in, thus no special offers in that dept.

Time to leave this troubled planet for a while... Dreamstate Logic - Era³

'Vocals' are a problem, but love the drummers (and guitarists) and arrangements in many of these melodic black metal bands. INSOMNIUM - Heart Like a Grave

https://www.androidpolice.com/nothing-phone-1-kernel-source/ C. Pei aims to create an active community around his brand, like he did with oneplus. Now needs to fix production defects and get OS bugs ironed out. https://www.reddit.com/r/NOTHING/new/ Personally, am always using very solid wallet covers, so that phone won't be for me whatever of interest the rear 'glyph' lights could do. I do like the iphonesque design.

Samsung Note 10 Lite, a trusted companion for 2 years. Nothing about it is amazing super, but everything is good+++. 3 good cams, headphone jack, good display (& flat!), good battery, monthly updates (will get A13), microSD, and the pen sees lot of use. Still love it as much as in the first days. https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note10_lite-review-2063.php

Their pre-release campaign & design leaks worked very well, created lots of buzz on all social nets and tech sites, the name suddenly popped up 'everywhere'. Then when it arrived looks like it's not deemed just an interesting gadget, the reviews are seemingly all positive, holding it's ground vs many of the best of the midrange class. Example https://www.gsmarena.com/nothing_phone_1-review-2453.php Am positively intrigued, something new & fresh among the otherwise stagnated design of all other brands.

Some fun testing SharpKeys, it works! Now got PgUp & PgDn working 👍. And made caps lock open calculator. Once getting to know the app, seems there is much useful to be done. Thanks for the tip.

No more china batt testing. Will keep the original Dell battery until really unuseable, it has lost capacity but never fails in ridiculous ways like the x-brand batteries tested. Ordered an original Dell 56wh, to be fitted when needed, + the cable needed for connecting a sata 2.5 in addition to the nvme. Staying with the smaller size batt saves the space for the sata disk, a 2TB hdd will be fitted for backups and storage etc while the 1TB Samsung nvme will take care of daily routines.

From Oceans to Autumn - Ether/Return To Earth Dept. of wall of sound :O)

False Horizon - Lights in the Distance

^^^ or could simply be (some, many of) these batteries (or the elctronics\sensors) are bad quality :O) Latest entertainment after posting my above post, refused to restart from sleep, like no \ flat battery, although around 50% charge. Again, plug in the power cord and it started, and battery re-worked. Old 56 wh (now 35 wh) Dell batt back in place. Amazon gets another return. Thanks for the audience at this topic, hoping it's been useful for those in need of batteries... 😄

Acid Dad - Living With A Creature