Your PC Medic

02/21/2025

If you receive a message like this. IT IS A SCAM. Do NOT follow the link provided. For that matter, NEVER click on a link that arrives via text or email unless you specifically requested it and are expecting it.

12/12/2024

This is a scam. Never follow a link sent in an unsolicited text message.

05/02/2024

03/05/2024

The problem with this reporting is that it leaves out some important details. The circuit boards in a graphics card and other computer components are multi-layered static sensitive boards with surface mounted components that cannot be safely re-soldered outside of a manufacturing environment with an industrial wave solderer. The long and the short of it is that even if you have the schematics and the part, you do not have the tools required to make a good repair.

02/12/2023

Selling off surplus tech accumulated over the last 20 years from my IT business and collectibles from the last 45 years of my personal obsessions :-) . I am now retired and taking care of my disabled wife full time. All proceeds go towards her care.I would like to keep her home and out of a facility...

09/17/2022

02/01/2022

If you think using Duck Duck Go is the answer to your privacy concerns, get a straight answer from them about how they make their money. We are pretty sure it has something to do with data collection, but they aren’t saying. Bottom line…if it’s online, if it costs money to create and maintain, and if it’s free…..there is an almost certain chance that it is monetized through data collection.

02/01/2022

PLEASE. If you need service or have an urgent question : CALL US. 716-583-0529. Facebook does not notify us that there is a message if you leave us a message on their platform. It can therefore be days, weeks, or months before we see your message.

01/28/2022

If you value any degree of privacy, well, I guess you can just forget about that.

The Crisis Text Line’s AI-driven chat service has gathered troves of data from its conversations with people suffering life’s toughest situations. What happens next raises complex ethical questions.

12/22/2021

More community stuff:

10/12/2021

https://apple.news/A7WI5Cg4hQGi53oadaI5uTQ

Carrying your physical license or state ID with you is still a good idea, but soon, you may not have to worry about the consequences of forgetting it at home.

09/24/2021

https://apple.news/AnpZY6g7GSY-8NOvA_rWovg

To test Apple’s newest privacy protections, we watched the data flow out of 10 popular apps. Some appeared to be “fingerprinting” phones, a more invasive form of tracking.