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I honestly think I would class searching for and downloading free fonts a "high risk" activity. NOT because there's anything wrong with the font files themselves (once you finally download them) but just because most of the sites that host them are pure e-COVID, filled to the gills with exactly the kind of phony-download-button malware ads that like to trap casual users and older people; and the few relatively "good" sites there are aren't SO well-known and universally recognized that a person who only downloads fonts like once or twice a decade is going to know them and be able to tell them apart from the two dozen other e-COVID sites deliberately using a variation of their name.
Google fonts are free no?
 

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And I thought the cancel button was bad.
 
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Lol, radio waves in water, in a pipe, underground. I imagine that kind of transmission power setting someone’s head on fire the minute they were inserted in the ears.
 

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The Bluetooth protocol communicates using radio waves that can be effectively read within, oh what's the max, thirty feet or so. But it does make sense that the water company spaces readers down every twenty-five feet of piping in the sewer routes. Or maybe it doesn't.
 

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I wonder about selling floating antennae for Bluetooth in swimming pools. Since 2.4 GHz isn't going to penetrate more than a few centimeters.
 
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Did you know that Intel made Core i7 processors with just two cores?

I recently acquired an eight-year-old Dell Latitude E5440 laptop to replace the even-more aging HP Envy I had been using. It's been handling pretty much everything I've thrown on it quite well, including SL, so no complaints from me (especially considering the laptop was free to me). I was just surprised to learn that dual-core i7's exist.
 

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Core 2 was discontinues in 2012, and core i7 was introduced in 2008, so it was probably fabbed some time in that transition period.
 
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Mint reports it as an "Intel© Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz × 2"

So, fourth generation. Not quite sure when that came out.
 

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