Stan just purchased this Lenovo laptop from Costco for $1,299.99 + tax.

https://www.costco.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Laptop---Intel-Core-i7---1080p.product.100497492.html

Processor & Memory:
Intel® Core™ i7-8565U Processor 1.8GHz
16GB LPDDR3 2133MHz RAM

Operating System: 
Microsoft® Windows 10 Home (64 bit)
Drives:   
512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
No Optical Drive

Graphics & Video:   
14" Touchscreen Anti-glare LED Backlit IPS FHD (1920 x 1080) Display
Intel Integrated 620 Graphics

Communications:
802.11 Wireless-AC 2x2 + Bluetooth® 5.0
Integrated dual Microphone Array

Audio:   
Dolby Premium Audio Processing

Keyboard:
Backlit English Keyboard

Ports & Slots:
2x USB 3.1
2x USB Type C Thunderbolt with PowerDelivery
1x HDMI
1x Mini RJ-45
1x Combination Audio Jack

Battery:   
4 Cell 51Wh (Up to 16-hour total) Battery

Additional Information:
Dimensions: 8.55" x 12.74" x 0.59"
Approximate Weight: 2.65lbs

Tip of the Day...
Have you checked the batteries in your devices lately? When you grab your flashlight, which has been in your vehicle for years, and find it barely produces light. You open the flashlight to change the batteries and find corrosion throughout the flashlight which may not be easily cleaned or has permanently destroyed your device. Check your batteries in your TV remote control, emergency radio, mice, keyboard, clock, garage door opener, etc. You might be surprised to find the dating, the leaking or corrosion on the batteries.

Google – Privacy and Terms
https://policies.google.com/
 
Coinstar – Turn your coins into… Amazon gift card, etc.
https://www.coinstar.com/
 
Coinstar Locations
https://www.coinstar.com/findakiosk

Amazon Prime Day 2019
https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Day/b?node=13887280011
https://www.theblackfriday.com/amazon-prime-day.php
 
Windows 10 Field Guide - is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, or acquire Windows 10 with a new PC.
https://leanpub.com/windows10fieldguide
 
Windows 10 May 2019 for Microsoft Office users - is a focused and unvarnished look at Windows 10, especially written for the many people who use Microsoft Office. Fully up-to-date with coverage of the May 2019 of Windows 10 including new features like Sandbox, Dark Mode, Clipboard and Timeline.
https://office-watch.com/product/windows-10-for-microsoft-office-users/
 
Without Amazon, most of the internet disappears - There’s a whole invisible network of computers that makes the internet work -- and weirdly, most of those computers are controlled by Amazon Web Services. Here’s why Amazon is THE internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxCfygY1dk8

Mapping out Amazon’s invisible server empire - It’s bigger than you think
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/10/18563485/amazon-web-services-internet-location-map-data-center

Photography Cheat Sheet: Manual Mode Camera Settings (Infographic)
https://skylum.com/blog/photography-cheat-sheet-manual-mode-camera-settings
https://skylum.com/uploads/uploads/download/Photography-Cheat-Sheet-by-Skylum.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9iqx7h1q8tasf3/PhotographyCheatSheet-Skylum.pdf?dl=0
 
FREE Cheat Sheet, DSLR Manual Photography
https://www.lukezeme.com/tutorials/free-cheat-sheet-dslr-manual-photography/
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g41wfalh94pgm0h/Cheat%20Sheet,%20by%20Luke%20Zeme.pdf?dl=0

My routine is every 3 to 6 months going to the manufacturers web site and checking for BIOS and driver updates. Windows 10 will sometimes update the hardware drivers but not necessarily. My Lenovo laptop and two Intel NUCs PC's have software which checks for BIOS and driver updates. Your given the option to select one or more of the updates. My experience with this has been 100% successful.

I have attached some details of one my Intel NUC's and what it looks like for BIOS and hardware updates.

Download Windows 10
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
 
Rufus - is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
https://rufus.ie/
 
Windows 10 May 2019 Update Feature Focus:
Light Themes and Sandboxes
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14388/windows-10-may-2019-update-feature-focus-light-themes-and-sandboxes
 
Windows 10 Major "May Update" - Best New Features! (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkKBObURSu0
 
Launch folder windows in a separate process
Control Panel > File Explorer Options > View > Files and Folder
Make sure this is checked “Launch folder windows in a separate process”
The main reason for turning this on is so that if you have a folder window open which stops responding and you kill the task, it should not take the main explorer.exe with it (meaning your desktop won't be inaccessible for a few moments while windows restarts it). Windows 10 19.03 update should now enable this by default, but check to make sure.

Windows 10 1903: Windows Defender Antivirus gets Tamper Protection feature
https://winaero.com/blog/tamper-protection-windows-10/
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/tamper-protection-feature-in-windows-security-microsoft-defender-atp
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/19/windows-10-1903-windows-defender-antivirus-gets-tamper-protection-feature/

This is a very good PowerPoint presentaion on adopting and contriibuting to Chromium by Microsoft enginerers.

It's interesting to note the services Microsoft replaced or turned off.

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=40AD2A59FD334E8C!400130&ithint=file%2cpptx&authkey=!ADAerq8JH6E4yRA

2019 Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) Report

Video (5 min 44 seconds - 470 MB) of some random pictures of SCaLE 17x.
http://www.slolug.com/videos/104.mp4
It's best to right-click the above link and select Save link as... or Save target as...

http://www.slolug.com/scale2019.html

Acronis True Image 2019 for Windows Update 3 (Build 17750) Changes
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/updates/changes.html?p=41347

Acronis True Image 2019 Help
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2019/#35899.html