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However, there was absolutely no way that I could get a bunch of hot new electronic equipment without an attack from...<\/p>\n
THE GREMLINS!<\/h1>\n
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Yep, so there I was watching and reading stuff on the Internet, when BNNNNNNK my old Windows 10 desktop computer decides to die. I try CPR and all other resuscitation techniques, to no avail. I left it sitting there, downfallen. After a day or so, I remembered that I had a Linux (Linux Mint<\/a>, the closest distro to Windows that I know) computer in the back bedroom, mostly unused but functional. I swapped the two computers out, thinking I could at least get on the Internet and mess around there.<\/p>\n BNNNK. Nope. The gremlins had jumped on it as well. I cursed and ranted and went to watch some TV with the Crazy Duck & Morkie Lady.<\/p>\n She wanted me to buy a replacement, so I went to Tigerdirect<\/a> and ordered a cheap, yet decent, refurbished Windows 10 machine that was less than $300, even though it had an Intel i5, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 2 TB hard drive.<\/p>\n The next day, I figured I could get the Linux box to run and possibly save us the almost $300 that the gremlins tried to rob from us. I opened up the Linux computer box (since the freakin' CPU fan bracket broke on my Windows 10 machine) and I started trying to properly diagnose the problem. I found some sort of strange problem with one of the RAM sticks. I salvaged the good RAM (Crucial<\/a> brand, the best I've used) from the Windows 10 machine and put them into motherboard slots that I knew were working on the Linux motherboard. BAM! IT WORKED!<\/p>\n I tweaked it for a day or so, and now I have an interface that not only functions like Windows 10, but it looks practically identical to it.<\/p>\n However, no matter how much I tried, I could not get my wife to stop paying the ransom to the evil machine spirits. I hope they take their money and leave the rest of my stuff the hell alone, the little malicious bastards.<\/p>\n Well, as I said before, I got a new mobile phone for Christmas, and it's nice; works great, good sound, good cameras, etc. I also got a new stereo for my car, which is low-budget for these days but still has more features than I usually care for (CD, USB, Bluetooth, and an auxiliary socket ...continue reading \"Another Gremlin Attack… Ugh\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2019-01-03-154323.png\")
<\/p>\nDIE GREMLINS DIE!<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"