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I have been gone for a little bit but I'm back now to talk about my new phone. Several days ago I got my Pixel 7 Pro 256 GB phone for $300 from Amazon. Thanks to my money management I was able to get this killer phone. The phone itself works better than my last 2 damaged/returned Pixel 7 Pro phones. The first one was $460 and was in a worse condition, without the fingerprint scanner or facial verification. I lost this phone in liquid somehow without a way to repair it. So after I got permission from money management, I made an attempt at getting the 2nd phone. She (money manager) said I could spend up to $300, and this one was $247. It was a lovely hazel color with a black cover on the image camera bar on the back, and it had only 128 GB of space. My current phone has the Pixel 7 Pro "Obsidian" color, carrier unlocked, and the screen wasn't as perfect as the past 128 GB hazel phone that I returned. It had for sure less scratches and only a tiny one on the screen.
I applied the film I Returned it to Amazon due to flickering graphics in Google search. My current phone just rebooted and I don't know why, hoping that it is in OK shape. Hey, so like I got two Anker chargers, for rapid charge effecct during powering with my cell phone. I got myself going on GED and plan to use these tools to take on tech someday soon. For now I wait for arranging my purpose here in the Peninsula region of the Bay Area to take me away to exclusive technology approaches in some of the hottest firms/startups. I wanted to report that PERSONAL AREA NETWORKING in Windows 11 Home works with the Amazon smartphone. Here's a photo of it starting for the first time! Or how about networking professionally with this gadget? I would give at least four out of five stars because the phone mysteriously rebooted earlier.
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Chargers (2x for this) for RAPID power on your Pixel 💫
I'm on SSI so I use TruConnect.com for unlimited talk/text and 6 GB of DATA each cycle.
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Today has been pretty good. My motivation in Limitsite has tested my limits in itself, and here we are at conservator of funds replenishing my laptop screen cleaners and giving me specifics to the Pixel 7 Pro phone. This phone I had bought from Amazon had a defect and they were more than happy to allow a return, and so I provided it it to be mailed today. I'm so glad, as the Pixel 7 Pro is such - a enjoyment phone all on it's own for a quality budget price of under $300.
Also, so anyway, since we're talking about how great Amazon is:
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I'll write about the Pixel 7 Pro phone on my own, however I'll provide this now. Such great return service and a great product.
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Update on my previous post: I got Debian Linux 12 (Bookworm) to work (as in be stable) with the LightDM login manager. What I'm referring to is running Linux with a virtual machine within the Zephyrus G16 laptop (Oracle Virtualbox). You'll need to use 'service' to find it, and 'systemctl' enable feature to make it bootable. These are done as the root user.
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I really like this video recording software. I had 3 options for Windows 11 Home edition video creation. First option was "Camera" which is included. It did not process mouth-to-sound fluidness and thus was disqualified from being considered practical to use. "Clipchamp" (by Microsoft) also did not go so well for me. The problem with Clipchamp was the problem. Well, I did not even bother using it after reinstalling Windows and needing a video recorder option for the Zephyrus G16 ASUS AMD Laptop, which previously had shown graphics artifacts and instability. So my choice with the new OS install was OBS Software 📷. I will use it to generate MP4 files, if I need. Maybe I'll bring discussions to the table here at Limitsite.com. 📣 I also have tried some of "Capcut", for creating social content. I'm a beginner at that but might have it working.
Overnight reinstall of Windows 11 got me going happily along today. To open/restore my past Virtualbox virtual instances I had to copy Virtualbox VM's folder from the Sandisk Extreme 1 TB USB SSD backup. I noticed that still the USB SSD can slow to 0kb/sec @ 8 minutes, out of nowhere. Then I did what I sensed: rebooted after disconnecting the disk by the icon tray disk eject feature. The problem: the slow speed of 0kb/sec went away and upon rebooting it hits the 1000MB/sec highs again! This says that Microsoft Windows 11 is not yet perfect, and to add more I've had issues with icons locking in the taskbar.
So, Microsoft is to blame for some of this. Overall, I'm happy with my new reinstallation of Microsoft Windows 11. This mediacreationtool.exe software was rather slow, but once it was done I had to reinstall from the USB disk I made. There were problems with my ASUS laptop getting graphics artifacts, but I again, used the disk we used, which was Sandisk's 1TB Extreme SSD, which is (by shipping from Amazon) to counter a hardware/software problem. Price for this disk is at around $99, and you can also grab the case. It can get your Windows 11 setup boot disk just fine, but I haven't yet tested installing Linux setup ("Calamares") on the disk, but I plan to watch it boot. Since it seemed to get Microsoft Windows 11 working without flickering, I am assuming it is to work okay. Using the "Disk Management" utility in Windows allowed for resizing drives allowed for use.
I add comment for this USB: that you have the option of a 2 TB PRO 2000 MB/sec. version, or a 4 TB (also PRO) edition. The 2 TB does 2000 MB/sec, which is a good value because it's only about $100 more from the $99 one that is only 1 TB 1000MB/sec. Using Full-Disk Encryption from Sandisk with your Extreme and Extreme Pro SSDs with all editions of the SanDisk Extreme SSD is overall a simple process. They *really* support the product with free software disk encryption free of charge. Then, see also: inside this picture is the tmux guide (book), which costs $22, but this linked copy is the new one. For tmux 3.2 (~$33) is a newer release of this toolbook. As so, although my tmux 2.3 copy is somewhat outdated, you might be able to do better with the $33 version. I think Gemini's new AI can be useful for comparing the subtle differences in older and newer software, or give tips about books/code. Recently I sampled the portal for Google's Vertex AI, an API using the *-2.5-flash model. This API demonstration provided useful features for summarizing Reddit indexes.
Shown here: Gemini's new AI CLI
Enough with that though, why tmux is an application that allows resourceful use of a Linux terminal is covered in the respective book. I'm awaiting some skill in Python to become used when needing. I might use tmux in the future, especially with Google CLI. Also, both Python and tmux go good with Vim. Vim is this writing tool which I discovered while living in Palo Alto and doing some college. They all use this to code on their computers, the advanced AGILE theory DevOps technology utilized on a small footprint is what I am interested in. Deep dive with me if you know that's what you want to be doing, and I'll explain.
Note: The USB disk and optional case are sold separately.
Using the NIUBI Software is immensely useful for adjusting and calculating disks in Windows 11. It gives an invaluable representation through its interface. I was able to get by using the free copy, but this software probably has some features you'll need, so I wanted to help you decide to pay for it. I hope you're able to make proper use of the things I introduce.
More maintenance to come!
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Follow the instructions of this blog to consider it: with benefits that your electronics and OLED screen(s) are going to be looking brand new, fresh as the day you bought them. The metal finish of the ASUS Zephyrus G16 laptop does not give way to any transportation or weight-related screen scratches from carrying the backpack around, so far. You should use 2 wipes each time: one for the computer screen and another for the keyboard surface & exterior. I gently wipe down each key's row and the screen, following up with light-to-moderate use the using of the microfiber cloth to buffing away all the Miracle Wipes' polishing liquid. Cleaning off the laptop equipment's surfaces is a must for the every day use you put it through, and you can use our provided links to take advantage of this opportunity to preserve and feel the fresh technology effect as it was the day you bought it!
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Update - 02/22/2025
I've attempted to install Netrunner 25 Linux but ran into obstacles. I was using the virtualization of VMWare and Virtualbox to attempt at making a GPT disk that will boot off this little disk: the Samsung Extreme 1TB SSD.
Finally at last, trying with VMWare Workstation Pro (a free software) to demonstrate I've installed Linux exclusively to a disk that can boot in the BIOS with the Secure Boot feature turned "DISABLED". I have rebooted at least 45 times now, working with the Linux kernel at 6.14.0, specifically in case not correct the modern drivers for my MediaTek Wifi.
I went for about 4 hours of work trying to get Netrunner 25 to boot and load my wireless.
It needs a compiled Linux kernel with specifics to my wireless card, many .deb files. Maybe I'll automate a way to get this done. It took me several days to understand EFI BIOS and its relation to Grub. Its a Linux party, on my own at age 42 doing my runs against being Not able to install Netrunner 25 "Shockworm". I wanted a pro-grade OS that Netrunner looks like, so I am trying to put the disk's files on the 23GB Linux installation partition of my Extreme SSD.
I've been away for a little bit focused on getting my PC running this exotic Linux -- Netrunner Linux.
So far I am formatting the disk E:\ as "netrunner" isolated from an entire 1 TB Sandisk Extreme SSD (USB 3.0), hosted on my Windows 11 Home machine.
The goal is to partition and set Linux up on the drive using a Virtualbox, since I could not get the Mediatek Wi-Fi 7 MT7925 wireless device to connect
in the Netrunner Live USB is what I use to process other items under lsblk(1). "lshw(1)" is a monster sized file of information as well. There was need for chroot. To win with the partition settings you need to make an 8 MB file, unformatted, with boot-grub selected. You'll need a FAT32 partition, 1GB or less, for your EFI boot center motherboard communication in the boot process. You will need to find / -name *.efi and put all of the ones relating to monolithic inside the /boot/grub/EFI at this partition. You make a / boot area for your main disk, and the rest is simple.
Come back later and see it finished! I'll be back to talk about various things that interest, and other things shortly.
Managed to get USB drive recognized by Netrunner's installer disc (ISO), which had to be mounted virtually in Virtualbox
I found out there is no way to make a .efi boot file and loader from the Virtualbox USB (Sandisk Extreme 1TB). I decided I'm going to boot off the drive and load Linux another way, through the system controls I can make a local loader directory and import GRUB decision making to the BIOS area.