Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for September 19, 2021

Did we act like this when our computers crashed?

Maybe it’s just the screen?

Yeah, that’s a bad feeling.

That’s how I feel after beginning to see notices about Windows 11.

You KNOW you are in big trouble when your computer literally speaks the work “CRASH” when it fails.

Is that an iMac? Good luck getting that repaired. Hope Adam backed up his data to an external drive.

Adam, I can recommend a nifty program that I use which backs up my entire computer to an external drive every 3 hours, and incremental backups every 15 minutes. I even have it in a slot on top of my computer for easy removal in case of (God forbid) a fire.

You did make that backup… righhht?

I get a bit frustrated when my internet gets stupid, not at all thrilled about the thought of my tablet crashing

Those darn Crapple computers.

On the plus side, I had a client with a Mac desktop and a laptop. He used time machine to back up his desktop. It crashed, and he said “all my work is on the desktop. I can restore from the laptop from time machine, right?” I said “sure” skeptically. It did.

Put on the steel toed shoes. It’s time to reboot that machine.

What 10 is not bad enough?

Scary!

You’ll love Windows lebenty-seben, then give up and switch to Chrome.

The feared “blue screen of death” arises.

DAMN but I’m impressed!! When did everybody learn Greek!?!

The BSOD, otherwise known as the Blue Screen of Death.

That just happened to me trying to update to Big Sur… sigh…

Most definitely YES……..

It’s hard to play taps for an old monitor friend, but it is amazing when you get the new one.

Hope it’s just the monitor, but likely it’s the hard drive below.

This sends chills down my spine. I don’t have anything all that important on my PC but I shudder to think of starting over again. Heck, I can’t even stand it for one minute if it just doesn’t work for a bit because of some silly update. Yes it’s an addiction and it’s the only one I’m keeping. Must think about that CLOUD option though.

Triple backup…. external drive, chrome drive and one drive. I should be safe. Right??

Backup everything immediately before you even shut it down again.

Just yesterday I had one of those fake hijack popups appear on my screen (they’re fake if can clear them away with a hard boot). It was a good reminder to back up everything onto a separate, disconnectable, hard drive.

Unfortunately, you don’t know loneliness until your laptop dies.

Looks an awful lot like an iMac. Which would have Time Machine. Which by default would do nearly continuous backups making it essentially impossible to lose more than an hour of work. But, hey, if you don’t use backups, you get what you deserve.

During 2020 my computer monitor started to die. Granted it was an old analog monitor, but I don’t like digital screens and we were not going out of the house due to the pandemic, as well as we have so MANY problems with deliveries, we try not to order anything unless there is absolutely no other choice.

So husband checked out which Walmart near us had the monitor which would upset me the least and also was cheap (which we are in general plus I was barely working due to the pandemic). He didn’t find any he liked, but we went to Walmart in person to look. For some reason our local, very small, Walmart carries items not listed on their website at all. He found a usable monitor which had not been on their website and we bought it. It did what it needed to do, that is the best I can say of it. He since found and ordered a different one for me due to one feature it has – I can turn it from landscape to up and down to help me read pages when I have to (saves paper in not having to print out IRS manuals for me to be able follow reading them) – plus it showed up when ordered and was not left by the street nor in the rain and was intact and worked.