Ellen Zuckerman.

I have found eBay to be an invaluable source of used parts to repair my pre-enshitification household items. I have also found it handy to purchase said pre-enshitification household goods. I purchased good, solid metal house fans from the 60s and 70s after having gone through too many Wal-Mart chinesium ones. I have a toaster from the 70s that will easily outlast me. Blenders, forget about it, again, mine will outlast me. I needed a very odd-ball brush attachment for my 26 year old 3M computer vacuum, nailed it, found one new for $11.00. I've also been having a ball purchasing off-lease business computers for pennies on the dollar and throwing Linux on them for interested friends to play with. For a while I was even buying dead GPUs and repairing them, but had to stop since some scrupulous sellers were harvesting parts from them under the fan/heatsink and them selling them as used in non-working condition. You do need to be careful to avoid the scammers.

Now as far as new items go, yeah, run away fast. It's all overpriced chinesium crap. Some sellers are even drop shipping straight from Amazon by marking the price up on eBay. READ THE FEEDBACK before purchasing from anyone.

Remember when new technology was fun and actually exciting? Yeah, I know, it's been a while. The problem with "new" tech today is I personally don't trust it. You can't repair it, you can't mod it, you can't own it, you must subscribe, etc... Seems like the enshitification train has pulled into every station.

There are a few Windows 11 tweaking utilities that enable the Digital Markets Act on your PC so you can get the uninstall option back in Windows 11 for Edge. Here is a YT video showing how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That would alleviate a lot of the high seas sailing one often has to do.

Hey Jeff, I think you need to get multiple flights per decade nailed first.

I wonder if that is Oa's star?

You're kidding right? The explanation is within the first minute of the video.

Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"China's quality"?? And you call yourself Archie Bunker? If meathead were still alive he would hug you.

LOL, yep, thanks :-)

But it's still Windows 11. Puke.

Treat that card well. Make sure to change the thermal pads/paste every few years and vacuum the dust out every six months. That's how I've kept my GTX 970 going for so many years. The last time I purchased new nVidia GPUs was for my sons back in 2019 for Christmas. They each got an RTX 2070 replacing their GTX 970s. I figured I would wait a bit to upgrade my system. Big mistake. HUGE mistake.

I agree. The "leadership" in my country has gone off the rails. Bad behavior has become the norm for government and corporations alike.

See Microsoft, your insistence on mining user data and generally being an asshole to your user base has its rewards.