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I'm looking for a Royalty free photo of Queen Elizabeth II but, I don't think there are any.
They've all got the Queen in them!
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I think that needs some work.
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He'll pay for that joke.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That's what I was trying to avoid!
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In certain regimes, a joke to die for. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have a fairly beefy laptop (16GB ram, Ryzen R7) but only 256 GB m2 drive.
I only have 18GB disk space left.
MS is offering Win11 to me and it says "download & install" and I'm wondering if :
1. the download for upgrade is going to fit?
2. once it upgrades, if I'll still have about as much space left (or if win11 takes a lot more space)?
Any hints, suggestions, comments or warnings?
Thanks 
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I personally would not upgrade anything to windows 11. If you have win 10, keep it at win 10.
if you are not too poor to get a new laptop, then get a new laptop with win 11 already installed.
that is my 2 cents.
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Very interesting. Why are you saying it is better to buy a new laptop with win11 than upgrade to it?
As I said, my laptop is fairly new and quite beefy.
Thanks very much for taking your time to comment. 
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I have heard and read success stories and horror stories of upgrading win 10 to 11. I, personally have not had good luck with upgrades in the past.
I think there were some threads on this about a month ago.
Griff had recommended in that previous post and most agree that if you are going to upgrade do a full backup of the important stuff, etc.
I have a brand new computer with Windows 11 installed and I had a real headache getting one of the big win 11 updates to work correctly, and that was win 11 to win 11.
those are my thoughts, you asked. 
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No, afraid not: Windows 11 requirements - What's new in Windows | Microsoft Learn[^] says: Quote: Hardware requirements
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with two or more cores on a compatible 64-bit processor or system on a chip (SoC).
RAM: 4 gigabytes (GB) or greater.
Storage: 64 GB* or greater available storage is required to install Windows 11.
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Oh wait! it's going to take 64 GB just to install the dang thing!!!!
Holy crap!! My desktop is a Ubuntu 22.04 and I installed it from an 8GB flash drive.
I honestly cannot believe i need 64GB of free space. Sheesh.
Thanks for commenting and helping.
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I'd suggest that getting a bigger SSD sooner rather than later would be a good idea - clone the existing one over and then upgrade. That way if you have problems the old SSD is sitting there as a backup ready to run in minutes.
18GB isn't a lot of free space nowadays ... AOMEI Backupper has a clone feature that works pretty well.
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As others have said, the best way to handle the upgrade is not to perform it. If you have to upgrade to Win11, I would perform a clean upgrade:
- Make a backup of everything on your computer, including the O/S
- Validate the backup - ensure that it is readable by your backup software
- Install Win11
- Install any required additional software
- restore your data
Personally, I intend to wait with Win11 until (a) Win10 goes out of extended support or (b) I have reason to buy a computer that comes with it. I am quite happy with Win10 at the moment, and don't see any need for the bells and whistles that come with Win11.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thanks very much for taking your time to comment.
What everyone has said has helped me a lot.
I'm going to ignore the upgrade to win11 until I cannot ignore it any longer.
At that time, I'll probably upgrade my Win10 to ubuntu -- just like I did my main desktop.
Windows has less and less draw for me all the time. The only reason I really ever still wanted it was for WinForms development. But that is a dead technology now. (Been developing WinForms since win3.1)
Thanks again.
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Obituary - The Wrong Time[^]
I've been pretty busy yesterday, but better late than never!
Obituary is a legendary death metal band, and as such I've known their name for about twenty years, but never really listened to them.
Their new album got good reviews and one magazine even called it their best release in their nearly 40-year history, so I decided to give it a listen.
Since they're from Florida I expected it to be like Morbid Angel or Cannibal Corpse, but I was pleasantly surprised!
I certainly did not expect mid-tempo and groovy death metal.
The album's been on repeat ever since.
Sound of the week! 
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coldest day here in upstate New York in a long time.
My boiler at the house is working its butt off to keep us warm at 65 degrees F.
Fireplace in the game room is roaring.
Old house with base-board heating - ugh.
I just noticed that the brass front door hinges are frosted over completely white on the inside of the house. Some of the windows where the seal is not so tight is frosted over as well inside the house. One can only guess how much energy I am losing to these poor seals and cracks. You win some and you lose some - it could be a lot worse.
modified 6hrs ago.
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The wind chill here in Ottawa was -40 yesterday. That's the temperature at which C and F coincide.
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yeah, I don't even want to think about temps in areas north of me. No thank you. You can have it. 
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In Montreal area, we currently have -30 (wind chill -41). But cheer up: in Resolute is "only" -34 so it cannot get much worse 
Mircea
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ahhh 'nother Montréaler...
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Move to Florida. You will be welcome here! As thousands of your fellow New Yorkers can testify. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 4hrs 15mins ago.
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In New Orleans, when it gets down to 42:F We all freeze to Death. 
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