Yes. But if Trump carries out his threats to impose swingeing tariffs on China they might well respond by imposing similar tariffs on goods from American companies, wherever they are produced. Or they could just put a ban on the import of such goods.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

Yes. But if Trump carries out his threats to impose swingeing tariffs on China they might well respond by imposing similar tariffs on goods from American companies, wherever they are produced. Or they could just put a ban on the import of such goods.

Yep, tariff wars are never good. Lets hope its more bluster, or the Congress doesn’t end up supporting all his ideas (not all his party like him).

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Someone asked me to have a look at their HP laptop as it kept shutting down after a repair attempt, now i have looked at this laptop twice before, I said on the second time that the drive was on it's way out. It is a 12-year-old machine. I told them it needed a new hard drive, but I rescued one out of an old laptop I have here.
I wish I never started it, the amount of screws that have to be removed and then the palm rest and ribbon cables and I hate ribbon cables.. Got the drive in, connected it all back up, and it seems to work, at least all the keys, the power button and the touchpad works, I just hope the hard drive is fine,

With my eyes and my hands, I was not sure if I could do it.
I just hope I don't have to do it again with a new drive.
Is it really worth spending out on a new hard drive for a laptop so old? All she uses it for is to watch catch up as she don't have a TV and listen to radio, maybe a bit of browsing, to be honest, she may be better off getting a tablet if the machine does go belly up.

Windows is installing and seems to be going okay at the moment, still wondering if I should put Windows 11 on it. Linux would be fine as well for what she uses it for as long as I can get one that feels like Windows.


Coffee time, to steady my nerves

I gifted an old 24-inch iMac (June 2008 vintage) to a friend back in May 2022, but before doing so, decided to give it a fighting chance in the modern world - so chucked in an SSD drive in place of the old spinning rust 750GB 3.5" Hitachi drive.

That was a bit of a chore to fit...both physically (see typical disassembly video) and also imaging the drive, as I documented here at the time.

Still going strong!!