[Mears]

“I learned in 1992 that one needed to have a second comouter to be able to look stuff up to fix a “broken” primary computer.”

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OMG,I do that but never told anyone because I figured they would consider it an “Old lady thing”-—and I’m an old lady.

It has been VERY helpful.

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[Paladin2]

Given the millions of computer hardware configurations, billions of lines of computer code, all the WiFi and other network variations, we're lucky that the darn things work at all.

It's worse than The Law (more laws than a single person can comprehend/learn/obey in a lifetime).

Online research is a necessity. A "broken" computer tends to inhibit that ability. Redundancy is your friend.

[Paladin2]

That’s an old skool, all-American self-sufficiency approach. Not so common these daze.