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    Question What do these terms mean in BIOS? Should I open it? Should I leave it closed?

    A websearch should return something. At least from Wikipedia. Granted "PXE" is ambiguous abbreviation. Here it means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment Actually, most of these are in the short "Network booting" paragraph...
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    Which Linux based firewall would you recommend

    The actual "firewall rules" are in the Linux kernel. The kernel has had "netfilter" a long time. The "iptables" was a low level tool to interact with the netfilter. (Before iptables there was "ipchains".) Since 3.13 the kernel has had also "nf_tables" that supercedes-or-something the netfilter...
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    Wayland development - will it completely replace xorg?

    Wayland tends to have subsystem "XWayland" that looks like X11 server for (some) X11 clients. Haowever, that is for applications. Wayland is different from X11, so there is no need nor possibility to tweak it just like all the X11 server implementations. Obviously Wayland implementation should...
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    Question Dual boot W10 with a second W10?

    UEFI has a "Boot Menu". Depending on motherboard (UEFI details), the key to show it is something like 'F11' or 'F12'. (There may be instructions about the keys during boot -- "BIOS Setup", "Boot Menu", "Network boot". Briefly.) The Boot menu has both set and auto-detected entries. The latter...
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    Wondering if C Programming Language is still alive?

    I stumbled on a lengthy debate on that topic: https://cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/285902/
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    The Northman (2022)

    A rose by any other name ... would still be Shakespeare.
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    My phone broke

    I always buy the same set of items. With item not every time, particularly if I forget. So yes, a list could help. Anyway, what does shopping have to do with phones?
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    Question AM5: number of PCIE lanes question

    16+4 = 20 < 24. Your example does miss 4 lanes. There seem to be two "TUF Gaming B650": "B650-PLUS" and "B650-PLUS WIFI" . Both list: x16 4.0 expansion slot x4 5.0 M.2 slot x4 4.0 M.2 slot from 7000-series CPU. That adds up to the 24 PCIe lanes. The chipset of those boards seem to offer 10...
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    Trump probably shot at a rally -- Still a jerk

    What a waste. Even if it were Bud Light.
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    Trump Bat Sh!t crazy thread

    Vision sets the truth? I have bad news for you. My vision differs from yours and since both cannot be true simultaneously, my vision trumps yours. That is the truth.
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    Trump Bat Sh!t crazy thread

    Perhaps one should not use direct comparisons and absolute values? Take Trump crowd and compare it to his sanity. Huge. Take Obama's crowd vs goodness. Not that big.
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    Jesus's middle name is Hume! Caution: Some NSFW images within!

    Then you are not old yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Frontiers
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    Why is Harris disgusting?

    Golden shower aficionado has no more gold than his putative sneakers. How is that for an idol?
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    Why is Harris disgusting?

    Your 'you' was a MAGA. Not all MAGAs are assassins though. Besides, everyone knows that Trump the turncoat supports Harris. No wonder MAGAs have mixed feelings about him.
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    Seriously consider moving to Linux

    Look at configuration management systems. E.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet. Some of them work an Windows and OS X too. You describe desired setup (in their syntax). That is easy to backup. They install listed packages and deploy config too. When things change, you update description and redeploy...