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    New hard drive with power on hours

    In April previous year (2022) I bought a brand new 2 TB Seagate hard drive (of an old fashioned spinning variety). I installed in my laptop today. So far everything looks fine, but... when I went into Speccy, I got the following: Power On Count 38 times Power On Time 9.0 days As far as...
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    Connect an Ethernet device to WiFi

    Hello! I have a device which I want to connect to my WiFi network. The device in question is a 7 years old TV set. It has an Ethernet port, but no internal WiFi. The WiFi router is around 10m away. Yesterday I performed an experiment. I shared an internet connected through my old MacBook Pro...
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    A new HDD for a laptop

    I have an old laptop, HP Probook 4520s. Its HDD is failing. Each time on boot it displays a SMART warning message. Speccy shows which particular SMART parameters are out of bounds. I want to replace the HDD, perhaps by cloning it to a new one. My current HDD is 9.5mm thick. Can I use a slimmer...
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    More RAM or more serious upgrade

    Hello there, I tried to post just after I registered my account, but it seems my post has been discarded without any explanation. So I'm posting it again. I have a rather old PC which has been gradually updated. So some of its parts (HDDs, PSU) are decent, some more or less alright (video...