Recent content by whynotme

I appreciate the advice. I've decided a firewall is not necessary for my purposes of keeping unwanted actors out. Sounds like my router and Norton combo does what I want.

Understood. You've saved me $500 from buying a firewall.

I guess protection from the ever-increasingly complex cyberattacks powered by AI. I know the likelihood of me being a target is slim to none. Sounding like I don't need an extra piece of hardware sitting in my office for very little advantage over what I currently have. Thanks for your thoughts.

Work from home, have about 30 devices connected to my wifi network, both primary and guest. Using a Linksys mesh system with primary router and 2 satellites. What is your opinion on the age-old question - would I benefit from having a separate hardware firewall like a Firewalla or Fortinet...

Well that's depressing. I was hoping I could just pop off the key cap like I seen in so many videos. Oh well. I'm not up for a total disassemble. New ThinkPad in my future? I like my X1 Yoga though so maybe contemplate having a Lenovo authorized repair shop give it a shot.

5th gen Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga - spilled something sticky on the keyboard, thankfully only on the right shift key. It's really sticky to press and it doesn't pop back up right away. I've seen lots of videos of fixing on random laptops but none on a ThinkPad X1 series. Can I just pop off the...

What kind of speeds do you get now?

What is the reason for your upgrade?

What would be your recommendation here? Two drives not using RAID at all or is 1 drive enough for backup plan?

Geez, I'm pretty sure I have around 2TB.of total data to store. You have much more. Anyhow, do I even need a 2nd drive in there given that I already have it in two cloud services and on the devices themselves? Maybe I'm going overboard.

I will use MARS to backup the family's google photo albums, integrate with OneDrive (that has far more than just media) so that gets stored on the NAS as well. My intent is to have 3 copies. 1 copy on each of the phones, 1 copy in the Google Photos cloud, 1 copy on OneDrive cloud, and 1 on the...

Have a new QNAP TS-216G delivering tomorrow, and must admit I'm pretty excited to set this thing up and get it running and backing stuff up. I bought a Crucial MX500 4TB SATA SSD for the primary storage, and now am thinking I want a second to fill that second bay and run RAID 1. Can I throw in...

Is it maybe time for a whole new PC? I mean, 9 years old? It was never meant to run that long, and certainly not meant to be able to handle today's computing demands. I'm not surprised gaming crashes your pc. And for all that is holy, please make some backups!

I think I'm going to try Norton's PW manager. I'm already a Norton customer, for kid's and wife's AV and mobile protection, so I think the PW manager is a free add-on.

Do password managers work in mobile apps? I've really only seen them work on mobile websites, not the apps. Specifically looking at 1password. Thanks