u/Chuu

Literally more than a decade ago I installed Office16 on my parent's PC with a valid retail key. It's been working fine since then.

Then all of a sudden today it's asking to either login with an account, or to enter the product key.

I have no clue where that key is, or why after 10+ years it cares now. Is there some way to retrieve the key? I've tried looking in the registry where a couple articles suggest with no luck. Any idea why it's asking for this out of nowhere?

I bought an iphone recently from a 1st time seller. Everything in the listing looked good and I trust swappa's return process a lot. The phone was advertised in good condition.

So I get the phone, check the settings to see if the battery and screen match. Battery doesn't match -- was advertised at ~88%, actually around ~86%. Strange. But a bigger concern was that the phone reported the screen was replaced with a genuine screen.

I asked the seller about this. They mentioned that they do not remember swapping the screen, but if they did it would have been at an apple store.

This to me is a giant red flag. Much moreso than saying 'I forgot about that' even if they're lying. Who doesn't remember a $400 repair? By everything I can tell though, the screen does seem to be genuine and works fine, but I don't have another iphone of that gen to compare it with.

This on top of the fact it was a zero feedback seller is just making me so nervous to keep the phone.

Any advice? If I didn't get such a good deal on this phone (~$50 less than comparable phones on swappa) I think it'd already be sent back.

I am trying to research some treatments for a specific health issue my parents have, and keep running into the issue that the articles I want are paywalled by Science Direct or Elsevier. At $35-$40 an article it's just too expensive to do the research I want.

Is there any way to access these for free or cheap in the city? I already checked if CPL has access and they do not. Does the City College of Chicago though? Can ILL through CPL get them? How about a paid membership to a University Library? I remember I paid $300/yr. a long time ago to DePaul for access to their Library including their research desk and wondering if something similar might exist.

From the r/mtgfinance thread it appears most (all?) Microcenters apparently got hundreds of CBBs and most to all people in line could get one. A huge change from previous desirable releases where most people waiting in line could only get 2-3 boosters.

If anyone was interested in the set it's likely your local MC still has stock. Although it makes me wonder what the print run of Collector's Boosters is for this set relative to previous sets.

No Omegas until next week.

A while ago there used to be a Beef Shack on Belmont a couple blocks from the 'el that did a Cheesy Beef on Garlic Bread. It's been a very long time but I've just had an incredible craving for it recently, but am having trouble finding this in the city.

Anyone know who makes a good one, preferably on the North Side?

I am looking for a modern case which will house a fairly power hungry system. The catch is though it needs to have a solid top. I keep my case under my desk and there have been spills over the years where a mesh top would have been an absolute disaster.

The only one I've found is the Fractal Design Torrent which is an excellent case, except that I have two 3.5" drives and there are threads about drives overheating in this case due to the placement behind the motherboard.

Are there any other modern cases with a solid top I could consider? Note I do not use an AIO.

When I first started working in the late 2000s I was at a small company for about a year and had a 401K there. I left the job after about a year and the company has long since dissolved.

I just realized I have absolutely no clue what happened to that 401K, but I'm fairly certain I never rolled it over. I also haven't received statements from it in at least a decade, and I have no clue where the last statement would be.

How would I attempt to search for this account assuming all my personal records from that era in my life are destroyed?

I am looking for a cheap router that basically is primarily going to be used to segregate part of my wired network from the rest. Wifi performance is a very distant second concern. I also ideally want it to be well supported long term by vanilla OpenWRT, which it sounds like the Slate likely will not.

The big catch is I really want three ethernet ports, or the BerylAX would be the no-brainer.

Is there any current router that meets these specs? If I went one generation older, would there be?

I have two packages sitting in the Buyee warehouse right now, both with ~$80 shipping to the US and large enough that EMCS and Buyee Air are my only options (17x12x9 inches, 6kg each).

Ordinarily I combine packages to save on shipping, but I've seen posts about how combining large items could actually increase shipping costs because over a certain threshold you get charged extra. I don't know where the breaking point is.

Would I save by combining these, or would it likely make it even more expensive to ship?

I have some inked beta cards I've wanted to sell and I'd loved to get them slabbed if only to guarantee authenticity to the buyer.

The problem is though they've clearly been touched up with a sharpie.

Would this still be considered 'TAG Authentic,' or would the submission be rejected?

I am looking for a case with a solid top and the torrent seems to easily be the best case in that category. The problem is I have two 3.5" drives in my main system and from my research the default 3.5" mount points are terrible for thermals in the torrent.

There is just so, so much room in the case between the MB and the Front Fans, plus all those mounting points for a radiator and random other holes, that I have to imagine *someone* has found a relatively easy way to securely mount* a 3.5" drive cage there that can hold 2-3 drives.

(*I've seen the picture of someone using the pci-e slot covers to mount two drives. That would give me nightmares. But if I had any talent with 3D printing I am sure you could 3D print an adapter that would fit right into that giant hole and be able to mount a cage to it, so it might be heading the right direction.)