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Today’s POTD features a beautiful scene from a horse farm in rural Wythe County, VA. I hope you like it.
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In this post I’m going to explain what Linux is, and more importantly, what it can do for you as the owner of an older PC that’s running a version of Windows that has been abandoned by Microsoft (i.e. they have stopped supplying security updates for it).
As you probably know by now, Microsoft is no longer releasing security updates for many versions of Windows, which means computers that are still running them are wide open to hackers and malware.
But an awesome free operating system called Linux can make using that unsafe computer safe again.
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Have you ever read a Facebook post and wanted to link directly to it for some reason?
Sure, Facebook makes it easy to share a post with your friends, but what if you’d like someone who isn’t on your friends list to see it?
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Question from Kellie: I was messing around with the network settings on my Windows 11 laptop last night.
While I was in there I noticed that my WiFi network is set to “Public” instead of “Private”.
I’ve always heard that public networks are dangerous.
Is that true? And if it is, how can I change it to private? [Read more…]
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If you’re like me and your eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be, you might be interested in hearing about a large print backlit keyboard that I’ve been using for a long time now.