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pf9000 · ‎11-27-2025

So annoying. Again and again after every third search. This is how they pester us for using the Chrome Browser instead of Firefox 115 which no longer works adequately since 10-13-25.

gurlcat · ‎11-27-2025

Yall I highly doubt the OP is just clinging to an outdated computer out of stubbornness. I'm in a similar boat and would LOVE a new (or just less-ancient) computer. But times are hard, and even if you're doing okay right now, there surely has been some time in your life when somebody said you should get something that was "only $____" and it hit you like a gut punch because they had no idea how out of reach it really was for you.

fern*wood · ‎11-27-2025

Could be gurl, but we'll see if that thought goes over well with them or not. My computer is old and was a used refurbished model when I bought it, but my husband keeps updating it for me. When we tried to see if it would support Windows 11, it came back no, but my husband was able to do it anyway at no cost. I know a new computer would run smoother and faster, though.

gurlcat · ‎11-27-2025

About 2 years ago I took my MacBook to Best Buy when I couldn't update to the latest version of Chrome, and the "Geek" I spoke with managed to upsell me to a whole year's worth of service for any device in our home, as it wouldn't be much more than the ala carte price for fixing my computer anyway. Then they had it for almost a week -I don't think they even looked at it until the last day, because the simple fact was it literally could not run any OS beyond the one I already had: 'Catalina 10.15.7'. Yeah, this computer was made in 2012, yeah I bought it refurbished in like 2019 or something.

So here's this same Geek handing me back the same, un-fixed computer, after I paid about as much as I could find a decent used one for on eBay (I know because I had just bought my teen daughter one here, exactly like mine but newer, for under $200). So I demanded a refund on the stupid Geek Squad contract. Dude looked ticked off, had to get a manger at headquarters on the phone and all, but I did not relent.

I actually figured I'd go ahead and buy myself a newer computer with that money .... then before the refund even showed up in my account, my car broke down. Cue the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' tuba, 'Bum Bum Bum' 🤣

meme6253 · ‎11-27-2025

I'm a robot so they never bother me to verify if I'm human!

roccotacodad54 · ‎11-27-2025

LOL.....................

onlinecentral · ‎11-27-2025

Can you verify that you tried the Opera Browser I suggested in Message 10?
Software Bugs Introduced After 10-13-25
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Software-Bugs-Introduced-After-10-13-25/m-p/35337591#M2631159

mustang707 · ‎11-27-2025

I bought a new HP desktop tower ($699 + tax) with the advent of the new Win because my old computer was 15 years old and slowing down on a lot of processes. So no--you do not need a new computer every couple of years.

a_c_green · ‎11-27-2025

@mustang707 wrote:
I bought a new HP desktop tower ($699 + tax) with the advent of the new Win because my old computer was 15 years old and slowing down on a lot of processes. So no--you do not need a new computer every couple of years.

I bought my current (Windows 10) box in 2019, just a basic HP desktop tower model for eBay business, mainly, but I was pretty miffed when Windows 11 came along soon thereafter (this was at the tail end of the Windows 10 retail sales) and MS declared that my machine wasn't capable of running it. I have it and the spouse's laptop (also Windows 10 but 2011 vintage, if you can imagine) both enrolled in the extended update program to get continued updates through next year, but realistically I'll probably get a more current machine once Windows 12 (or whatever they're going to call it) comes along.

This machine is fully updated and disease-free, but it's starting to get a little pokey around the edges, and doesn't always wake up properly if left unattended for more than a few hours, needing a hard shutdown and reboot to get going again. Some website videos confound its graphics card, with the screen going black while it figures out how to handle the playback within the page.

It's been a total workhorse for the past, what, six years and counting, but if I time my next purchase properly, I should be able to get even more years out of the next one. This one will go into semi-retirement at that point, getting run occasionally for updates or whatever (and as a spare tire in case of emergencies).

fern*wood · ‎11-28-2025

I bet you could update your computer to win11. My husband said MS always says the computer won't support it, I know mind did, and it is older than your model but he still was able to update.

ryry-jj · ‎11-28-2025

$109 Balck Friday deal for a Chromebook at Walmart...going on right now. It will do everything you need for eBay and web browsing, on line purchasing, cloud storing... I'm sure it sucks for video conferencing & may not be the best for stream casting, (most phones out power these for casting), but for eBay and security, it's all you need

gone.c-33 · ‎11-28-2025

I really wish Sony made their blu-ray players backwards compatible with my beta max tapes.

a_c_green · ‎11-28-2025

@gone.c-33 wrote:
I really wish Sony made their blu-ray players backwards compatible with my beta max tapes.

Well, you'll find that they are backwards compatible to DVDs and audio CDs, so there's that. I own three of them. 😁

The only downside is that a 2012 model of mine, despite being a "smart" player with Internet connectivity, doesn't have as much software support as it used to out there. The dedicated red Netflix button on its remote is no longer supported (by Netflix) as of a few years ago, and the Sony network from which it got most of its on-line content was finally shut down just a month or two back. It remains fully functional for playing Blu-rays and such, which is really all I need it for anyway.

As for Betamax tapes, I snagged a nice Sony Betamax player at a church rummage sale for $5 (!) once, and have it carefully stored in my basement in the Museum of Obsolete Technology aisle, right next to a home 8-track recording machine. I have no idea when I will suddenly need any of that stuff, but it's nice to know it's there. (I did use the 8-track recorder once, in order to record some new music onto old 8-tracks for a friend to play in his classic car.)

gurlcat · ‎11-28-2025

I used to love making killer mix tapes with my boyfriends 8-track recorder, with the ends/beginnings of songs blending together. And just weird stuff I'd make with his instruments and my CD of sound effects, things I recorded with microphones, etc.. 🤣