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You can upgrade from 7 Pro to 10 Pro, however, 10 Pro is basically the standard version only with the ability to join domains, Remote Desktop functionality, the ability to have Group Policy restrictions applied to your machine if joined to an Active Directory domain and BitLocker encryption...

I don't have to worry about Windows 7 being EOL, because I use Ubuntu Linux. My wife uses macOS Catalina on her MacBook Air. I haven't used Windows (personally) since college, if you don't count the ancient copies of Windows I run on my vintage PC collection or a seldom-used Windows virtual...

My wife works tomorrow and Christmas Day and I'm on call on the few days off that I have, so I'll just chill and have some French dips with au jus. Haven't decided on a side yet, I may have baby red potatoes sauteed in olive oil, parsley and thyme. Simple, quick and easy. I don't want to make a...

Is your washer newer? Did you just buy it? The reason I ask this is because the rubber door boot of front load washers tend to smell strongly of rubber during the first couple of weeks or even a month or two of ownership. I've never used a combination front-load washer-dryer but I'm guessing...

So far I've had a great experience with Amazon through my 12+ years of shopping with them, but I've noticed that a lot of what appears to be a lot of third-rate products showing up on their site over the past few years with funny-sounding names (e.g., "Happygood" or "Donewell") and suspiciously...

Accidentally bumped my KitchenAid into my sink (thank God, no water) but had chipped the enamel off of the bottom part of my base. The sink sustained no damage. It's about a quarter-sized chip. Can this be fixed?

The graphic designes who put this ad together (someone likely around my age -- mid 20s to early 30s) probably doesn't even know the history behind the name Westinghouse. Probably either thought that it was a name made up amongst some marketing execs at a meeting or thought that it was a silly...

It's sad how far GE has fallen... If GE had better management with a vision, I bet that Samsung, LG and other conglomerates wouldn't be as big as they are now. As far as Jack Welch changing the logo, that's just absurd. Certain logos should never be changed for the history of the company...

if I ever get a vintage refrigerator... ...I'd love to get a big, old commercial McCall or Koch, with a matching freezer. Of course, even the smallest units (single section) are as wide as a residential French door fridge, as well as much deeper and taller. A double or triple section could...

This is what it should look like with the dial: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1970s-Waring-Solid-State-Blender-Futura-1000-14-Speed-w-Timer-Avocado-/302861972891

Was browsing at a thrift store and noticed an old 1970s avocado green Waring blender. It was missing some kind of dial (think it was a timer dial IIRC), so I didn't buy it as I have no clue of I could even find a dial for it. I looked on eBay and they had nothing. If I could source a dial for...

That range looks like the one my parents had from the first few years of my childhood, except it was coil instead of solid. It was a Kenmore original to the house, as it was built in the 80s. We had that until my parents replaced it with a KitchenAid range in 1997-98. I believe these Kenmores...

Gross... I wash everything after wearing once or twice, including jeans, which I guess the CEO of Levi's said you are not supposed to do. I've always washed my jeans after the second wear and none of them have ever worn out. I do try to line dry them when the weather permits, however. Even...

Cool! I've been in HVACR for six years and have never seen anything this old on a call and don't think I will ever. Just the usual ~7-20 year old condensing furnaces. Lots and lots of heat pumps. The caveat with something this old is the heat exchanger (inefficiency is secondary). The...

It smells great and is very good at removing stains My wife and I have been using it as our primary detergent for clothes. I know that liquids aren't a front loader's best friend, but we use about two tablespoons and that works well enough. I do switch it up and use Arm and Hammer powder for...

I'm surprised that GE didn't get into the IT busines ...making enterprise IT hardware and possibly software. I suppose they did (in a way) in the 50s/60s as they were in the mainframe business for a brief amount of time but they sold that off to Honeywell IIRC. They could have reentered the...

The Accelerated Reader program was at my grade school too... I was a nonfiction reader (well, I liked the Hardy Boys series, but only a few of those books in the series had AR tests IIRC). I hated AR because I was a nonfiction reader and there wasn't a whole lot of tests on nonfiction, so I was...

Bosco Sticks! Also: salisbury steak w/ mashed potatoes and (homemade) gravy, Mr. Rib on a bun (BBQ rib sandwich), spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, chili and cornbread (made from scratch), chili dogs, chicken parmigiana, super nachos, tacos and teriyaki beef dippers. The Uncrustables PB&J were...

I do HVACR, so I go to grocery stores quite often Lots and LOTS of Hill-Phoenix refrigerated cases. Evaporators, line sets (not necessarily the fault of the OEM) and condensate leakage (delayed defrost) are problems on those, in that order. Lots of calls for walk ins too. Grocery stores often...

My wife and I were given one for a housewarming gift It's the thought that counts, but I knew by prior visual inspection from one of my aisle-browsing expeditions that this was not something I'd want because it looked so darned hard to clean. My wife didn't want it either. Needless to say...