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(Answer requested by Julian Diep) If you can’t just blow the dust from the port before each use, and if a phone-enclosing case is overkill, try a plastic or rubber “USB Port Cover;” a malleable, nonconductive plug that fit snugly into an unused USB socket, preventing debris from entering. They’re available by the gazillions online…
When you first set up a standard smartphone (I’ll discuss burner phones later), you almost surely signed in with some external service — if not, the phone wouldn’t do anything! That sign-in information probably exists somewhere online, and can be recovered. For example, if yours is a standard Android setup, you probably created or logged-into…
Um, online? A basic search will show you that there are numerous commercially available HDDs in the 10TB-15TB range, with 20TB drives out fairly soon. Here are some preconfigured Google searches — just click the size you’re looking for: 16TB drives 15TB drives 14TB drives 13TB drives 12TB drives 11TB drives However, these high-capacity drives…
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( Answer requested by Elynn Quirk.) This works almost anywhere — not just Boston: Open Google Maps. Click the three-line Menu icon in the corner. Select Bicyling from the left-hand menu. That’s all it takes. Google will then superimpose a color-coded layer atop the normal road map showing you the area’s (1) dedicated bike lanes, (2)…
Oh, baloney. Macs aren’t magical. It’s an easy mistake to make: For example, in your mind’s-eye comparison, you may picture “a PC” as something like a $200 Lenovo laptop; and “a Mac” as maybe a $2400 MacBook Pro. But that’s hardly a valid comparison. When you compare roughly equivalent hardware you’ll see that Macs and…
It’s odd: Questions about the physical weight of data get asked fairly often — I don’t know what’s prompting it. Perhaps the move to SSDs? The most recent iteration phrased it this way: “Does data have physical weight? If something is 10 gigabytes, does it actually weigh whatever system you have it installed on down?”…
Sure. You can also start your day with 0% charge in your phone; or leave on driving vacation with 0% fuel in the tank; or start a scuba dive with gauges showing 0% air…. There are many things you can do. It might even work for a while. A “0%” phone usually has at least…
The silver lining, when you have to reformat a PC, is that it’s chance to start over with a 100% clean rebuild — to set up everything afresh in a like-new, pristine setup. For that, a simple “files and data” backup can suffice: After the repair, reinstall the OS from your official setup/install medium, add…