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Edited out in favor of missing out on yet another red face. Oops. Never mind please.

Does this mean one can have one's own VPN? Seems..... interesting.

Not good news: Just how private is that VPN? https://slashdot.org/~SonicSpike

Good question!

The 250 Gb size SSD's don't seem to be that expensive, perhaps you don't like the brands available? Funny that you have chosen a Samsung EVO SSD. I have the same one because a local retailer had nothing else. The last Samsung SSD EVO 500 Gb died after only three years, Wanted a different brand...

I really like the video, what else can I say?

A bit of an oddity from England, a US serviceman decided to join a music band with Englishmen:

I'm sure that many people think or thought he was just "being original." I'm glad that I found out that it wasn't at all part of an act.

All I know is that Mint Cinnamon 19.1 asked about video drivers both times I installed it. The first time I foolishly decided on the 3-something nVidia driver. This screwed up the entire installation. The second time I accepted the "default" choice, which was the "xserver yadda" driver. I don't...

You rock, thank you very much for your extremely kind and generous offer! Small capacity SSD's are not expensive nowadays, I'd probably faint or go mad waiting for an old fashioned round and around drive to do its thing. I'll see how much Tiger Direct wants for a ~250 Gig SSD. Looks like the...

I suppose that one can access Directory Enquiries via Smart phones. With my dumb phone it's pay $4.00 or forget it. At least they don't demand that you stuff four bucks into the phone itself. Fortunately I don't use the dumb phone very often, it's for emergencies really. Mr PC is ready for many...

Aw shucks, we will be taxed for every breath as soon as they can build a meter for it. Wait a minute, in Crony Capitalist haven we're already taxed for everything. It's a feature, not a bug.

Thank you very much for the 411 Kaitain! Have no idea what our 411 translates to in old blighty. I do know that my landline phone company now charges $4.00 for using it. Can they get ANY greedier? Not to mention that phone books are history. I had a feeling that Internet Usage "Yes. We will...

Thank you for the advice that nVidia's 340 drivers should let me use VLC, Dan. Of course I'm assuming that as you haven't said that directly. The beyond gigantic resolution capability holds no interest for me. I'm finding that inflation is trying to eat me alive, so I've been reluctant to...

Once upon a time I said I thought it was shtick to one of my music teachers. She disabused me of that notion. Glad to pass it along! He's one of the greats, contortions and all.

90 Gig drive? Where on earth did you find that? Yes, I was surprised that Mint 19.1 chose the xserver.org driver. It tried to during the first installation, but I was "smarter" and chose an nvidia driver. That messed up the installation badly. The next time I let it choose the one it wanted...

I foolishly thought that his contortions were part of a shtick. No, the guy really had to go through a LOT to perform.

Thanks for your help with this Daniel. Check. Driver Manager informs us that Mint 19.1 automagically installed "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (open-source)." I get a Terminal box with nothing in it after clicking on "Media Player." I'm 99% certain that attempting to use ANY Nvidia driver will...

Well! Whadaya know, Firefox seems to run Netflix with no trouble at all. Thank you Dan! And thank you for the clarification Kaitain. Just pining for that third, Microsoft supplied rectal probe. Oops, Win10 has two all by itself.

Read the same thing, thanks for the warning. I use Chrome to visit four sites and that's it. Will this cause the "keeping tabs on everything" problem? Netflix works fine with Chrome, other browsers? Not so much.