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🙂 Sorry, I only intended to paste as far as “Author: (you)”, not the entire code….

@Reg

I’m sure I’m not alone in saying my eyes glazed over. What I did was ask ChatGPT this: Recently the President basically took over the agency that issues monthly job statistics, presumably so he can meddle with it and provide only favorable data with little regard to accuracy. So, I’m wondering if it’s possible to basically derive the same…[Read more]

Yes, there are numerous sources of good data and methods to do this. I used to be involved in economic forecasting for a university “thinktank” in a previous career.  Individual States can offer labor rates from jobless claims and job openings from Linkedin etc. MasterCard and Bank of America track credit card spending. The varied sources allo…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The worst thing that Trump did was to fire Erika McEntarfer as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The damage to the reputation of the trustworthiness of US economic data, used by financial forecast organizations around the world, is now undermined, thanks to the guy who insists he is 6’3’’ and w…

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The worst thing that Trump did was to fire Erika McEntarfer as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The damage to the reputation of the trustworthiness of US economic data, used by financial forecast organizations around the world, is now undermined, thanks to the guy who insists he is 6’3’’ and weighs 215…….

I finally found the video showing how much smoother it is to set up a Chromebook vs a Windows machine.

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:
This video lays out the scenarios in which a Chromebook won’t work for you, though you may still want a Chromebook as a second machine.

Did you mean to start that vid halfway in? If not, I can fix it. Either way I’ll delete this post of mine, and your response to it if that’s ok.

Changed to a direct ink because it won’t display the thumbnail.

11 Countries Are Replacing US For Canada as Trade Partner! How Bad Is This?

PopeBeanie wrote:
confident, and into it <iframe title=”The Warning Drum Battle.” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/0wciXNR-QRQ” width=”417″ height=”741″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=””></iframe>

Cool, but not really a “battle.”

confident, and into it

Unseen wrote:
This video lays out the scenarios in which a Chromebook won’t work for you, though you may still want a Chromebook as a second machine.

Did you mean to start that vid halfway in? If not, I can fix it. Either way I’ll delete this post of mine, and your response to it if that’s ok.

6 minutes

I build several Windows laptops and PC’s each month. I use USB boot disks with all the latest updates and software on them and all the bloatware from Windows removed. Average time to get ready for clients is 12 minutes each and I do 5 at a time.  So usually takes about 30 minutes to unbox, build and re-box, all 5, ready to use.

@Unseen – You should be able to recover everything from your laptop. DM me the make (HP, Lenovo, Dell) and the s/n. If it has an SSD or an M2, all you need is a cable and a screwdriver…..and you can connect it to the Chromebook. Most of the time the hard disk is fully recoverable. Even if it is dead, I can still recover data from it.

I’m grieving over some of the stuff I no longer have access to because they were on the now-dead PC. I’m fairly sure I can get a technician to go into the machine and retrieve it for me, but that will cost me, obviously.  Had it been a Chromebook, as soon as I logged into another Chromebook, it’d be like nothing happened.

I’m having trouble…[Read more]

Chromebooks aren’t for everyone. I recognize that. This video lays out the scenarios in which a Chromebook won’t work for you, though you may still want a Chromebook as a second machine.

On the other hand…

About 7 years ago I replaced a MAC with a Windows pc for a client. The Windows pc died last month. While waiting for the new pc to be setup, I discovered the MAC was still in storage in a back room.  I powered it on and it worked first time.  Good enough to log into email online and print. I checked the s/n and it is almost 17 years old. The s…[Read more]