Family

The other day my girlfriend’s father briefly mentioned he was considering buying a new computer, because of Windows 10 being end-of-life soon, and his current computer’s specifications would be too low to upgrade to Windows 11 (I suspect the lack of TPM 2.0, but I’m not sure). The man is in his mid 70s and regularly uses his computer to browse the Internet, communicate using social media, reply on emails, play solitaire, et cetera. I therefore suspected he wouldn’t really need to buy a brand-new computer for his use cases, only to satisfy the income of a Big Tech company. ...

This article has a personal touch. Sure, it’s a (somewhat) technical article, but I mainly did this for my girlfriend. I never documented this, but now that I made a personal website with Hugo, I decided it’s worth a post. This took place somewhere in late spring / early summer 2023. Me and my girlfriend only knew each other a couple of months and we were just getting steady. We didn’t live together during this time yet. ...