New laptop 'bricked' by hubby ... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

CeeJay13 said:
Knoppix? Or at least, that is what I have been using for years and years!
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Just about all of them work that way now. They boot from a USB stick. Then ask if you want a permanent install.

All you'd need to get to the data on the drives is the Bitlocker encryption key. It's easy... but only if you have the key.
 
I absolutely HATE MS 365 ... I've got 5 days' free use but it's constantly asking me to buy it or do a 30 day 'freebie' trial which actually isn't as you have to sign up for the monthly payment one and then if you tell them you don't want to continue within the first 30 days you get your money back ... not my idea of a genuine freebie and I bet they take ages to refund!

It's also 'updated' so stuff isn't where it was before and I'm loathed to alter and do my own menu tabs as it takes a while and for a few days not worth the effort ... but it's driving me nuts! :banghead:
 
Minxy said:
I absolutely HATE MS 365 ... I've got 5 days' free use but it's constantly asking me to buy it or do a 30 day 'freebie' trial which actually isn't as you have to sign up for the monthly payment one and then if you tell them you don't want to continue within the first 30 days you get your money back ... not my idea of a genuine freebie and I bet they take ages to refund!

It's also 'updated' so stuff isn't where it was before and I'm loathed to alter and do my own menu tabs as it takes a while and for a few days not worth the effort ... but it's driving me nuts! :banghead:
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As Gromett said…… or just buy Apple stuff…….. Ah! Forgot you are from Yorkshire! :imoutahere:

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DuxDeluxe said:
As Gromett said…… or just buy Apple stuff…….. Ah! Forgot you are from Yorkshire! :imoutahere:
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Had an apple PC once ... the best thing about it was the googly eyes that followed the mouse pointer round the screen! :giggle:

As I've only just bought my new laptop no way am I gonna fork out for another one especially one named after fruit as knowing my luck it'd have a maggot in it! :LOL:
 
My old 2012 lenovo laptop with Intel I7 and 16gb of ram still works perfectly but only on mains at 13 years old but , cant be upgraded to windows 11 and new batteries are useless .. i will put a Linux variant in later this year and use at home and get a new laptop for travel , it wont be apple ,, some windows thing for about £400 will do it ok probably another Lenovo ....
 
jerryz said:
My old 2012 lenovo laptop with Intel I7 and 16gb of ram still works perfectly but only on mains at 13 years old but , cant be upgraded to windows 11 and new batteries are useless .. i will put a Linux variant in later this year and use at home and get a new laptop for travel , it wont be apple ,, some windows thing for about £400 will do it ok probably another Lenovo ....
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I would avoid Lenovo ... read my recent thread ... it appears the quality is crappy nowadays on some of them.

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Laptop - what adhesive to use for plastic to painted metal?

Okay, I'll admit it, this isn't anything to do with my MH itself however it is related as I use my laptop in it when we go away and of course to view this forum so need to get it sorted! I have a Lenovo Ideapad 1, bought just over a year ago, and the hinge which holds the right side of the...
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I got another HP (which is great apart from hubby's messing about with it!), I bought it for £389 from John Lewis as they give a 2 year warranty, details in post #28 on the above thread (it's gone up to £399 now).
 
Minxy said:
Having just spent literally hours - from approx 3.00pm to 8.00pm - trying to sort my laptop after hubby did some software updating which totally stuffed it :swear: I'm sick to death of all things Microsoft! The issue seems to have been that it didn't like the changes he was doing so BitWarden (Microsoft's flaming oversensitive minder!) 'bricked' my new laptop and wouldn't accept any of the restore key codes I have so I couldn't get past it!!! :banghead:

After loads of research and trying all sorts, and changing what I could get at, all to no avail that I could tell of anyway, I finally managed to get it to accept one of my restore key codes but I've had to install Windows 365 on a 5 day 'freebie' as I think it's my old MS Office 2010 it took umbrage to, fortunately I work with a split drive so all my documents etc are safe otherwise, as Taggart would allegedly say, there's "been a murder"! At one point I had 3 laptops on the go to get the info I needed including my Lenovo with the broken screen hinge which I'd propped up on the coffee table.

At least my 'brick' has now turned into a 'brickette' as I still need to set-up all the bits and bobs on it to how I like it so I've got a lot more time to spend to sort it out which is gonna take ages as it wiped out all my restore points, which I couldn't access anyway when BitWarden blocked me out. :rolleyes: I've done a new restore point for my drives so hopefully if I need them in the future I'll be able to get at them ... or not!

I was going to buy a newer copy of Office from Groupon as there are some cheap offers on there at the moment, but it's got me wondering about abandoning that idea and going with Libre Office which I've just downloaded which I'll have a play with tomorrow.

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Fortunately I remembered the recent thread (below) discussing Libre Office so got the link for it off there:

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Can the hive mind recommend.......

I need to write just one document and I am looking for recommendations for a safe FREE download, it's not worth paying to do just one thing. If I need to make good use Mircro Word in the future, which I hope I will, I will then download & pay for it.
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I do a lot with Excel and Word, and occasionally Powerpoint, so don't need anything else really so would like to hear people's views of how MS and LO compare before I commit.
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I use office on my main office machine and LO on my Dell XPS laptop because I am too mean to pay for office. All documents etc work perfectly on both and I think I generally prefer LO interface.
 
Minxy said:
I would avoid Lenovo ... read my recent thread ... it appears the quality is crappy nowadays on some of them.

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

Laptop - what adhesive to use for plastic to painted metal?

Okay, I'll admit it, this isn't anything to do with my MH itself however it is related as I use my laptop in it when we go away and of course to view this forum so need to get it sorted! I have a Lenovo Ideapad 1, bought just over a year ago, and the hinge which holds the right side of the...
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I got another HP (which is great apart from hubby's messing about with it!), I bought it for £389 from John Lewis as they give a 2 year warranty, details in post #28 on the above thread (it's gone up to £399 now).
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HP and Acer are 2 brands I will never trust again

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Hubby has 'bricked' his own PC!!! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

He thinks I put a curse on it :LOL: .... he's currently trying to get it all sorted and is really, really p@ssed off with it.

Karma's a bitch called 'Mel'!!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Minxy said:
Hubby has 'bricked' his own PC!!! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

He thinks I put a curse on it :LOL: .... he's currently trying to get it all sorted and is really, really p@ssed off with it.

Karma's a bitch called 'Mel'!!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Seems your household is Jinxed when it comes to IT. :(
 
fred_jb said:
When I used LibreOffice a few years ago I found that somewhere in the settings you can select the default format for each app. If you set these to the Microsoft formats, file formats become a non-issue.

When I retired and no longer needed Office 365 for business use, I changed to a Microsoft 365 family licence for £79 per year. This gives you pretty much all of the MS apps including Outlook which I use. The licence can be shared with 5 users, each of which can install it on multiple devices.

There was a glitch with this recently when they said the price would be going up to I think £115 to include CoPilot AI. Doing some research on this I found it was possible to avoid this increase by threatening to terminate the contract. In my case I found it was even easier. I just went into my account and turned off auto-renew at which point it asked if I wanted to continue with what they now call the basic version for £79. I think it is good value at this especially for multiple users, we have 3 linked to it, but I wasn't happy to pay more.
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I now pay €99 a year for the 365 (it's just gone up), the only reason I continue to pay it is for the 1TB storage that's included. None of the others seem to offer this much storage.
 
Joining the Apple/Microsoft debate….

I joined reluctantly because my son bought me a Macbook Pro. Problem was it wouldn’t run my home accounting package Quicken. I couldn’t find anything that offered me equivalent functionality so I was “forced into” installing Parallels so I could run Windows under an Apple partition. Since then I have had absolutely no problem with updating Apple software but Parallels and Windows are a continuing nightmare.

As an ex-IT guy it doesn’t make sense to continue running Quicken when they dropped support after the 2004 release! However it has never shown a bug nor in any way interfered with operation or data. The perfect app.

I’m about to buy a Macbook Air as my old 2017 Pro has two dodgy keys on the keyboard. Once again I’ll have to figure out how to install Parallels, Windows, Office, and that ancient Quicken. Of course gone are the days of CDs/DVDs etc. I’m not looking forward to the experience.
 
Barriesimpson said:
I now pay €99 a year for the 365 (it's just gone up), the only reason I continue to pay it is for the 1TB storage that's included. None of the others seem to offer this much storage.
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Yes, that is a big reason why we use it too. Having 1TB per user means that I can set OneDrive to backup all the media and documents from our laptops. Not our only backup, but a useful addition.
 
G-RMPS said:
I’m about to buy a Macbook Air as my old 2017 Pro has two dodgy keys on the keyboard. Once again I’ll have to figure out how to install Parallels, Windows, Office, and that ancient Quicken. Of course gone are the days of CDs/DVDs etc. I’m not looking forward to the experience.
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Not sure about Parallels, but I know that there are some hypervisors that just won't work on the Apple M series chips...

I used to use Oracle's VirtualBox and last time I looked they hadn't got support for the M chips.

I've approached this the other way round as I have some old and failing Macs that have software on them I still want and need but that I can't install on newer machines.

My (theoretical at this stage) solution is to install Proxmox on a machine and then to clone the old Macs onto VMs.

I still need to figure out the cloning process, and how to setup passthrough properly, but I'm part way there!

Of course, that's fine if it's on a home lab, slightly different if you want it all on a laptop.
 
Barriesimpson said:
I now pay €99 a year for the 365 (it's just gone up), the only reason I continue to pay it is for the 1TB storage that's included. None of the others seem to offer this much storage.
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Existing subscribers can still get 365 “Classic” (without the AI features) and avoid the recent price increase. You can also get a refund of the difference if you had an automatic renewal set.
If of interest, have a look at https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-avoid-microsoft-365-price-rises-aGNYY5O92as9

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