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Like a tiny proprietary connector, not Molex, not SATA. So the power supply had a single line running to the spinner HDD (standard SATA), and then piggy backed off that to the optical drive was this little connector. Kind of looked like a 4pin fan connector size. I didn't bother investigating after my plan to just disconnect the optical drive was thwarted

Part of my Christmas gift to my father this year was getting him a SSD, and install Linux on his PC, that doesn't support Windows 11. But his Dell was very not friendly for upgrading. It has a proprietary PSU with only the connectors needed to run the one HDD and Optical drive (also a non sata connector).

I had a plan in case there were issues, and had enough spare parts to build him a nicer used PC. It's also an upgrade for him as his Dell was a 6th gen i5, now he's got a 7th gen i7 :) and more ram.

But I built it, and installed Fedora 41 KDE on it. He started setting it up here over the holidays then took it home and set it up there. He's not run into any "problems" he hasn't found solutions for. Mom is still using the Dell but Dad hopes he can eventually get her moved to the Linux box.

I used to run ESET and really liked them 'back in the day' and glad to see them looking out for people.

I was just responding to the comment about why people would pet an elephant over a lion or bear.

If I was told I had to Walk into one of two rooms, both having completely wild animals, I'd pick the elephant over a lion or bear 100% of the time

My point was a response to the comment I replied to saying he didn't understand why people would pet an elephant but not a lion or bear

Of course literally all large wild animals are dangerous and I wasn't disputing that one bit!

Ya, I'm not walking up to an elephant either.

My aunt owns a herd of Hyland cows (which have huge horns) and they are not aggressive at all but can accidentally hurt you with them.

Well, there is a pretty big difference between a carnivore/omnivore and a herbivore animal when it comes to how dangerous they are to other animals including humans.

But certainly not "safe" since they're so huge, powerful and wild animals.

Sad... I was never a huge Frisch's patron, but seems like the modern equity firm comes in and bleeds dry long standing companies.

From the wiki

Leadership of Frisch's passed from founder David Frisch to his son-in-law and finally his grandson, until 2015, when the company was sold to Atlanta-based NRD Capital, an equity fund which focuses on restaurant development

So, my current whole house audio is powered by Chromecast Audios. Unfortunately they no longer make them. But you can still get them new off eBay. I know because I just bought 5 more (unopened from Japan) as part of finishing our basement

Mine feed two 12 channel (six room) amplifiers. I've got a mini in each room whose default speaker is the associated CCA and it works great. I have speaker groups so I can ask "hey Google, play music in the basement" and all rooms play.

Previously I used casatunes. They don't do this anymore, but I bought a PCI card from them (it was a sound blaster hardware) but it was a 6 channel sound card and associated software that ran on windows IIS. It allowed both hardware and software streaming. I liked it but it never supported Google music and eventually I switched to the CCAs

Maybe, just maybe let us uncheck some of those expensive channels we don't want or need?

All we managed to do was move cables infrastructure to the Internet. Still the same BS packaged overpriced garbage.

After quickly searching saw you can disable automatic updates in developer options. Since I use AA exclusively I don't want it messing up!

I'll just keep rocking my 2008 Tundra (5.7 V8) that I bought new in December of 2007 until the wheels fall off. Been paid off since 2011.

It is a shame to see Toyota not at the top, my truck has been amazing.

I complain when it's hot and when it's cold :). The difference is, in the heat it's easy to leave the house, but the run sucks. I. In the the cold, it's hard to leave the house, but the run is good :)