Back in the days this even happened after a couple of months if you bought the cheaper brands.

It depends on the type of CD you used. The older ones with a Gold layer didn’t degrade as much.

If you are in the US the onn 4K Streaming Device from Walmart.

You don’t. Unless you want your hobby to turn into a 24/7 support job.

Installing Chrome… since Edge is already there. If anything they would have to install Firefox to make a difference.

The sad thing is that Edge is actually decent, and Bing is also not terrible… E.g. as an user there is absolutely no reason to use Chrome instead, but Microsoft managed to make it seem so annoying with shit like this.

Then I’ll start looking for another job… What kind of absolute dead end jobs are you guys working, that you have to be completely spineless? No wonder that conditions are getting worse and worse.

If you are in a similar situation… remember that you don’t have to say “yes” to everything at work! It’s the professional thing to say “no” when it’s appropriate instead of overworking yourself and lowering the quality of your work.

connect it to a 5 TB hard disk (initially) and dump all my data into it

Don’t forget about backups! That 5TB drive can die at any random moment.

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