Point Element

Not as such really, but something was having some issues. So what happened was I went for an outing with few relatives. As usual when you go away from city, the roads get worse. And we got onto this patch of road where patch was very uneven and full of potholes. The weather being pleasant, we had windows open. Then a metallic sound was heard once in a while. I could tell that it was coming from exhaust-pipe/muffler area. It was coming from rear-right corner of the car. It seemed that when the rear-right wheel went into a dip, muffler or some portion of exhaust would rub somewhere causing the metallic sound. I surmised it as a sum of 3 factors causing this problem. 1 fully loaded car with 4 adults, 2 maybe a slightly low tire pressure, 3 hilly terrain with potholed road causing more suspension movement and thus something getting scraped somewhere. I did stop the car and took a look underside but did not find anything obvious like a stuck branch or loose stones. And afterwards I drove a ...

This nightmare started with my wife's Asus Vivobook 14. We should have gone for the SSD model, but I thought the usage being light, the HDD model would suffice. Little did I know the amount of trouble will this decision give me!! So when we received the hardware the 2 major complaints were the screen even though having FHD resolution, had abysmal viewing angles and weird color reproduction. This was overcome with a custom color profile. Its still not good for long time usage, but for her for about 1 hr a day video calls, it was enough. The second issue was slow HDD performance. I tried a few dozen things. Optimized windows 10. Optimized partitions. But it was junk slow. The R/W speeds never crossed 5-6MBps. And when windows update kicked off the whole thing would grind to a hault.  With optimized settings it worked decently for about a year.  But now with many windows updates in and also so many files in, it just could not take it. Even sad is the drive won't fail. It would chu...