I see the last time it was changed was August 2022 so not that long ago compared to the previous Samsung Netbook.
(the weather station) was running on a Toshiba laptop but it was not without problems.
It took about ten minutes if it had to reboot but the worst thing was having no battery power remaining at all if the power went off it just cut off and this often messed up the data.
I'd replaced the Toshiba as my main one with a much faster Dell refurb but that barely has enough capacity on its SSD for general use so decided to get a similar but newer refurb with more space.
So after 2 or 3 weeks getting that fully set up the older Dell was available to be used for WX station and running webcam and security cameras.
It mostly went quite smoothly. There is now about 5GB of stored data which took a while to transfer.
The only thing that needed manually setting up again was webcam uploads.
I wouldn't mind but I only had to make major changes there a couple of months ago but I'd forgotten one or two critical things to turn on and set up so it took a while.
All there now though.
I have a feeling the Dell SSD laptop will use less power running all the time though SSDs are known to just fail totally without warning.
Conventional hard drives are likely to start making funny noises giving you a crucial opportunity to back things up.
Monday, 23 December 2024
New laptop time again
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