If it’s a prebuilt and it’s the SSD that’s the problem then taking out the SSD probably won’t be an option. OP never said what PC it is, but I know some manufacturers will be ok with shipping just the ssd. Assuming you can narrow it down to just the SSD.

IDK OP, just contact their support and see what they say to diagnose it. Just wipe the drive before you send it off. They’re not going to do data recovery on your SSD just to decline the warranty, it’s not worth their time or money. They’re just going to replace it.

There’s no reason why Linux would be immune to this. If anything you’re probably not running any AV on Linux so if you did get infected you’d probably never notice until it starts being a pain.

eBay, FB marketplace, any other equivalent sell old junk site.

No, not really. Business stopped using machines not capable of running windows 11 almost 5 years ago. The end user who cares about it being EOL will install Linux. And the average user who doesn’t even know what EOL means won’t care.

You don’t have to quit cold turkey.

I mean as long as you’re not being too stupid with your PC, and not like doing your taxes on the computer the risk is pretty low.

School is a great place to meet people organically. Talk to your class mates. Even if they’re not a girl you want to talk to maybe they know someone.

Outside of school sadly dating apps are the only way to meet people. And they’re not good.

This is a lot funnier to me than what the actual photo was supposed to be.

They’re random people I most likely have never seen before and probably won’t ever see again.

And why do you think that? Have you paid attention to the people around you? If you and another person get to work at the same time, and live in the same area then odds are you will encounter them again. There might be a million people in your city. But how many of them have the exact same commute as you?

Also so what if you never see them again on the train? What if you end up really liking them, get their number, and stay in contact?

but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10?

Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that’s more just because hardware has moved on.

I mean no shit? Isn’t that why they emphasized by how these are the “free” ones?

If it’s anything like their windows driver support then also awful. Maybe things have improved in the last year or so, but has Qualcomm ever put real effort into making ARM Windows laptops good?

5 has long overstayed its welcome.

Their passwordless login system is annoying as hell. I think I’d rather an actual paywall for all articles and a normal password over that system.

Especially when you returned a car.

My Thinkpad P1’s is soldered :( At least that came with a good Intel Wireless card.

But somehow on my T14s (a much smaller machine) it wasn’t soldered.

But then on the bigger T14 it is soldered. So I have no clue what is going on at Lenovo. At least the machines with good wifi cards are soldered, and the shit ass ones are

There’s no drm on band camp

105c is the max operating temperature. It’s not going to run away the second it hits 106.

Your CPU starts throttling at 104c so that way it almost never hits at 105c for long If it can’t maintain clocks then it drops them until 104c can mostly be maintained.

Seagate has more than bad batches. When every single one of their 1tb per platter barracuda drives have high failure rates then that’s a design/long term production issue.

Why? It’s designed to run up to 105c.

I think it was when AMDs 7000 series CPUs were running at 95c and everyone freaked out that AMD came out and said that the CPUs are built to handle this load 24/7 365 for years on end.

And it’s not like this is new to Intel. Intel laptop CPUs have been doing this for a decade now.

AMDs 7000 series CPUs were designed to boost until they hit 95c, then maintain those temps. 9000 series behaves differently for boosting, but the silicon can handle it.