Computer Builds & Upgrades – Part 1

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I’ve been building my own desktop computers since 2004, and have gotten better at it over the years. Currently have a main PC – ‘Apevia‘ and two main Test/Secondary PCs – ‘Rose‘ & Frankenstein (AKA – ‘Frank‘). Their parts are listed at – Buy Low or BYOC – ‘Build Your Own Computer’.

Two more PCs are sitting in a shed – listed as not needed or retired, and a homemade Test Bench. 🙂 Parts can build up over time, e.g., a few years ago I finally threw away a gallon ziplock baggie full of old desktop memory. Now I try to better manage memory in new builds and/or upgrades, but eventually even that memory will become too old to use in a modern PC.

For about 7 years now, I have been using a case I like to build a new computer in – this time it’s a Apevia X-Qpack3-NW-BK, taking the MoBo from that case (left pretty much intact), and moving it to another case as an upgrade. Switching memory and other components around, upgrading an older case #2, and then building a ‘New‘ computer in case #1 from there.

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PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 2

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PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 1 covered ‘Setting up PorteuX 0.3‘ & ‘Post Setup‘ – and you’ll need to refer to it for some of the info on using GParted to prep the Target device ‘n etc. Part 1 also covered how to set up the different PorteuX 0.3 (github) desktop environments—KDE, GNOME, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, and XFCE in either stable or current options.

Part 2 will be on how to set up the porteux-v0.3-xfce-4.12-stable-x86_64.iso wid a Cinnamon DE. The Developer says: ‘Xfce 4.12 is the recommended version for the best balance between performance and flexibility. Many patches have been applied to this Xfce version to improve the user experience.‘ You can use another version, but the xfce 4.12 stable version had the Screenshot app in it ‘n not all versions had that app. PorteuX 0.3 is very new ‘n has some minor bugs and/or slight differences in app options of various DEs.

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PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 1

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I love testing new Linux Distros that show lots of potential ‘Right Out Of The Gate‘ – and PorteuX 0.3 certainly does that!!! 👏👌👍

Am all over the place wid this one – testing this DE ‘n that DE, testing the Stable ‘n the Current, etc. whilst also trying to put a review together!? 🤯 Put together a bunch of pics, and then discover something new that makes those pics sorta old. 🤔

It is going to require at least one more ‘Part‘ – since it is still new, am trying to keep it to just two ‘Parts‘ for now. 😉

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Russia’s Victory Day Parade — ‘One old T-34 Tank & Zero Aircraft’

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Russia's Victory Day Parade

Russia’s Victory Day Parade, today on Moscow’s Red Square, was a true reflection of Russia’s devastating Military losses—in ‘Paper Bear‘ Putin’s unprovoked war again the sovereign nation of Ukraine.

Russia’s losses from this reinvasion of Ukraine – as of May 9, 2023:

  • 1) 195, 620 dead Troops — 586.860 wounded.
  • 2) 7,257 Armored combat vehicles.
  • 3) 3,734 Tanks.
  • 4) 3,031 Artillery.
  • 5) 308 Aircraft.
  • 6) 294 Helicopters.
  • 7) 18 Ships and boats.

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Reset this PC – “Factory Reset a Windows 11 PC”

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Windows 10 Home & Pro reach end of support on 10/14/2025 so I won’t go into how to reset those PCs. Most Windows 10 PCs can be upgraded for free to Windows 11—those that can’t be upgraded still have almost 30-months left. Reset this PC is a little different for Windows 10, but basically the same ‘Steps‘ wid slight differences in some terminology.

This is the third part of ‘Sorta a series‘ on ways that Microsoft offers Windows users different options to refresh their PCs and/or recover from various PC issues that can happen—issues usually caused by the users and/or an OEM software/hardware issue.

I’ve built most of my own computers (‘BYOC‘) ‘n haven’t had any issues wid them; however, the SupportAssist on my Dell XPS 13 9310 recently started acting up after some updates—that also included BIOS & Firmware upgrades.

‘XPS13‘ is about 19-months old, but I still don’t want to do a lot of ‘Experimenting‘ on it just yet – hey, it’s my first purchased Dell lappie!!! 😊 After pondering the issue for a while, during which time I decided to write this ‘Sorta a series‘, a Reset this PC seemed the better solution:

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