Tuesday, July 15, 2025

10 July 2025 - "Bob's Bytes"

Random Thoughts

Topics for the Day:

  • Senior Surfer Board Notes
    • Memberships now due 
  • SS Board Notes - Budget and going ons
  • Freebies & More
    • We've got "Stuff!"
    • From Donations, some free, some cheap, one good computer
  • What to do in case a bad advertisement locks up your computer? 
    • Windows: <Ctrl><Alt><Del>, Task Manager, Select browser, End Task
  • Amazon: I bought a new TV
    • Shipping free, unpacking free, check power free, removing packaging free!
    • Didn't include assembly (had to add the stand) or setup 
    • Actually $100 less than buying it on "Prime Day" 
    • OLED is beautiful!! 
  • Project Hail Mary
    • Wonderful book by Andy Weir
      • Author of "The Martian", this is even better
    • The trailer for the Movie is now out, but don't watch it - Spoilers!!
    • Read the book first - ask me to lend you my Kindle copy 
    • The are reveals/spoilers in every chapter 
  • Space News
    • A Static Fire test of SpaceX Starship 36 went Boom!  <link>
      • A COPT tank went RUD, it wasn't the engines. 
    • A Test fire of the NASA's SLS Solid Rocket went Boom!  <link
      • The Nozzle fell off! 
    • Reminded me of "The Front Fell Off!" <link>
      • And although that video was funny, it did happen and was bad <link
    • WhatsApp Banned from the US House of Representatives
      • Apparently it's not secure in storing Texts 
      • But better than the terrible "TeleMessage" which Mike Waltz used <link>
  • A Blast from the Past - My presentation from March 2018 <link>
    • Interesting to look back what was new then 
  • Great site to find where Movies & TV shows can be found <link>
  • Windows 10 Lives!
    • Win10 goes "Out-of-Support" after 14 Oct 2025.  But:
    • You can buy a year of updates for $30, or ...
    • Pay for the updates with 1,000 Microsoft Reward Points, or ...
    • Enable Microsoft Backup w/OneDrive for a free year of updates. 
  • OneDrive Backup
    • (We don't recommend this)
    • A explanation of what it is and what it does
  

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