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HoneyNut said:
I'm back from my trip to Italy.

It was beautiful (flowers blooming everywhere, trees laden with oranges and lemons, gorgeous statues, etc) and the weather was perfect the entire trip (except for a few minutes of fat sprinkles one time when we were all waiting to get on a boat).

I ate a lot of pizza and gelato!
It wasn't too crowded (mostly). I particularly liked Rome, Florence, Venice, Amalfi, and Pompeii.

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@HoneyNut

Wonderful photos! .. my brother & his wife, took a similar trip to Italy, a couple of years ago. He sent us some pasta, that was excellent.
 

Capt Lightning said:
David777, you seem to be having a hard time of it - a far different experience to the one I had, though admittedly, I was in my 60s. I was encouraged to get up and exercise gently and by day 6, I could walk down the garden, have a short rest and walk back again. Climbing stairs needed to be taken slowly. I was given waterproof antiseptic patches to cover the operation scar, enabling me to shower as I pleased.

The operation, using a local anaesthetic, was like a Monty Python sketch, but I couldn't laugh about it till the incision healed up.
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Somewhat depends on the size of the incision, scope of internal repairs, and method of surgery with robotic least invasive. My surgery was "Direct Open" . If a hernia is caught early, there may be little tissue cutting. In my case, I waited 4 years so the herniation was large.
 
David777 said:
I'm uniquely have the technical background to break ground doing so.
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Perhaps, but there are a lot of reasonably-priced and powerful mini-PCs that do that right out of the box. After all, you're talking about display of still pictures, right?

Not even any "Lego" to snap together. It's already installed.
 

dilettante said:
Perhaps, but there are a lot of reasonably-priced and powerful mini-PCs that do that right out of the box. After all, you're talking about display of still pictures, right?

Not even any "Lego" to snap together. It's already installed.
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True, some newer models can, however most consumer motherboards can only drive at most 4k displays, not 8k even though they made be using graphic components that could. So even powerful 8k capable graphic cards require motherboards in that pipeline also 8k capable lest they revert to 4k modes. Most of the better gaming enthusiast systems can. And I will also need at least displayport 1.4a , not HDMI that is primarily video, for newer cabling and connector use. I went through some Dell custom builds and it looks like this will cost me at least $1.5k not including added app software.

Easy for me to purchase whatever, though need to understand the specific components that will work and are future proof. I can use my current expensive Dell UHD 24" 4k external USB monitor until large 8k pc displays are available that have been close to release the last year but not yet available. Manufacturers like Samsung and Lenova are all still focused on the two 800 pound gorillas, 8k video and 8k gaming, both of which only have media for 4k with media advisers telling users to yet stay away until content is available.
 
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HoneyNut said:
I'm back from my trip to Italy.

It was beautiful (flowers blooming everywhere, trees laden with oranges and lemons, gorgeous statues, etc) and the weather was perfect the entire trip (except for a few minutes of fat sprinkles one time when we were all waiting to get on a boat).

I ate a lot of pizza and gelato!
It wasn't too crowded (mostly). I particularly liked Rome, Florence, Venice, Amalfi, and Pompeii.

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Nice photos, pleased you had a good time, . Was it a cruise because you seem to have been only in the high tourist areas
 
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
 
-Oy- said:
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
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I am so sorry @-Oy- devastating news! 😞. Hugs to you and your sweet mom
 
David777 said:
Thanks for your thoughtful input @hearlady . Could be useful to others herein.

Initially that was what I expected to do. However was not able to even boot into the OS, Operating System, from the Bios that first runs from firmware when a pc is powered up. On my now decade+ old expensive 2014 Dell, if the bios cannot boot, unlike with cheap pc's, it automatically runs sophisticated diagnostics and tries to repair whatever including possibly automatically entering Safe Mode with a list of Restore points. Since that ended with an unrepairable "No Bootable Device" found warning, it was a bad sign.

I thus had to from the Bios enter some Advanced options where I brought up a cmd.exe Command Prompt window that is a command-line text input interpreter first generation computers decades ago all used. While online researching hard drive repair info on my moto g6 smartphone, I ran various chkdsk and diskpart commands that showed my MBR master boot record structure had attributes errors and was stuck in Write Protect mode. I ran chkdsk /f twice on the drive that each time took about 15 hours to chug through, without improvement.

The internal hard disk can probably still be repaired as the physical media is probably fine with only data value errors. But that requires use of special software pc repair services only use and only have adequate experience to use. So at some point will bring it over to such a service, one of which is just 3 blocks away. Although even if found unrepairable, I may just lose some recent months files like GoPro video recordings, and some daily logs, files of which are only of minor value. The more valuable photography work I've done on 3 trips so far in 2025 and web site HTML code, are all on a backed up on a 4TB external USB WD hard drive.

Instead this forces me to now buy a new powerful desktop with a high end graphic card that I've been procrastinating to do for more than two years that I need to do before starting to publicly exhibit my photography using large 8k displays, something no others have yet done. Uniquely have the technical background to break ground doing so. I like the simple, ignored, out of social media and public awareness life I've been living, with being in the public eye scary. :)
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I can tell you will love your your new desktop and will be glad for the trouble that led you to the purchase.🖥 👍
 
-Oy- said:
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
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Oh no. So sorry Oy. I dread this may not be of solace, however, at least she will be kept very comfortable throughout her days.
 
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-Oy- said:
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
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@-Oy-

I'm so sorry to hear this. My mother had inoperable cancer in her early 60's. Hopefully, your mother can be kept comfortable with meds.
 
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I'm here.....sort of.
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I still don't feel good, and I'm still napping a lot. The eye pain makes it hard to read everyone's posts, or to even think straight. I hope everyone is doing well.

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It's a really beautiful day. I'm hoping to get out to the garden later this afternoon. I probably won't get much done, but at least Goober and I can enjoy listening to the birds, etc.
 
jujube said:
Well, it's over. The machines were shut off and he passed away about an hour later. Family is doing well. The Spousal Equivalent is very sad; he's the only one left, having already lost the 2nd brother and a sister. The S. E. was the oldest.

Now just the funerals and the burial.
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My condolence to your family Jujube. May happy memories of his brother be of comfort to your husband and may his brother R.I.P.
 
-Oy- said:
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
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I join the others in wishing the best for your mom and wishing you strength and health while coping with the situation.
 
-Oy- said:
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
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Oh God... I'm so sorry to hear your news Oy.... this is bad, bless her....🤗

What a day it has been today for bad news..... :(
 
-Oy- said:
Crappy day. I was on day 2 of a road trip to photoghraph Puffins in the North East when I got a call this morning. Mum has been in hospital for a week having every test known to man done. Call was from the Oncologist who said he needs to speak to me TODAY. So - 3 hour drive home and then hospital. She has Liver Cancer. At 85 it looks like they're not going to treat it.
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Crappy day to say thr least. Sending good vibes.
 
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