Came with the house. Changing it out would not be fun.

I have never heard of this before. Thanks for mentioning it.

Import duties are a scam to begin with.

He has a license plate reader, he has facial recognition, he can read IP addresses from your cell phone or watch,”

Uhhhh… How is it reading the ip addresses of people’s phones?

This is a great way to motivate the developement of hovercars and boards.

Back in the 80s & 90s you had to configure settings like IRQ and bad sectors.

I agree, but it was free.

I got the laptop free so a sketchy no-name drive is fine for my needs.

Ok, sketchy no-name brand it is, then. One of these perhaps?

I know the feeling. I logged into HP hoping to look up the serial number. All it would tell me is that the warranty is expired.

Turns out there are different types of M.2 keys.

The difference in keys is explained here.

Here’s more info on the types of keys.
~~I’m going to look for an adapter. ~~

sata m.2 ssd

Also has (or had) a cli interface.

I create /data and mount my 2nd drive there using fstab.

I then mount /data/downloads under my user downloads folder so everything goes to my 2nd drive. That way I dont have to redownload anything if I redo my main drive.

What purpose is served by having AI built-in to the browser?

Skip the ssl error message. I log into IP addresses all day and that flag is sanity saving.

What about un-Googled Chromium?

This is what I did when I had to refurb a laptop. Swap the drives, reinstall the OS, snd hand it all to the user. All your files are on this usb drive.

Thats when you find out who understands folder structure and who doesn’t.

Mobaxterm is your friend.