Millions of 3-year-old laptops get blamed for being "slow" when the hardware is barely the problem тАФ it's almost always what's silently running underneath.
A student was about to spend $900 on a brand new laptop because hers took 4 minutes to boot and constantly froze mid-assignment, right when deadlines mattered most.
Her older brother, who builds PCs on the side and has fixed dozens of laptops for friends, sat down with her laptop for 8 minutes on a Sunday afternoon.
He didn't reinstall Windows.
Didn't add RAM.
Didn't recommend an SSD upgrade.
Didn't suggest buying anything at all.
He changed 8 settings.
Boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds. Chrome stopped eating 90% of her CPU in the background. Word stopped freezing mid-sentence while she typed.
Same laptop. Same specs. Same age. Same everything.
"Your laptop was never actually slow. It was just never cleaned up past the day you bought it тАФ and nobody, not the store, not Microsoft, not tech support, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."
ЁЯз╡ Here are the 8 settings he changed:
If this story of Marvan Atapattu dosent motivate you, nothing mightЁЯСЗ
Making his debut in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, Marvan scored a duck in his first innings & again, in his second innings.
They dropped him. So he went back to the nets for more practice. More first class cricket. More runs. Waiting for that elusive call.
And after 21 months, he got a second chance. This time, he tried harder. His scores: 0 in the first innings, 1 in the second. Dropped again, he went back to the grind & scored tonnes of runs in first class cricket. Runs that seemed inadequate to erase the painful memories of the Test failures.
Well, 17 months later, opportunity knocked yet again. Marvan got to bat in both innings of the Test. His scores: 0 & 0. Phew! Back to the grind. Would the selectors ever give him another chance? They said he lacked big-match temperament.
3 yrs later, he got another chance. This time, he made runs. He came good. And in an illustrious career thereafter, Marvan went on to score over 5000 runs for Sri Lanka. That included 16 centuries & 6 double hundreds & he went on to captain his country. All this despite taking over 6 years to score his second run in Test cricket.
How many of us can handle failure as well as he did? 6yrs of trying & failing. He must have been tempted to pursue another career. Change his sport perhaps. Play county cricket. Or, oh well, just give up. But he didnтАЩt. And that made the difference.
The next time you are staring at possible failure or rejection, think of Marvan.
NEVER GIVE UP!
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF ЁЯШК
@MIB_India
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Today is June 19 ... Rahul Gandhi's birthday
See how NDTV used to cover this day back in UPA years
Remember this was considered the best and most fearless journalism in the world.
Today we have godi media.
Back then, this is how media would speak truth to power.
I am standing with my country in any situation. But I am not ready to buy fake News of media. Because nobody is more clever to fool me. Koi Mujhe Chutiya Banaye, itтАЩs not possible. Therefore, I request to Media to stop giving fake news. #IndiaPakistanWar
Warren Buffett eats like a 6-year-old:
- 5 Cokes a day
- McDonald's every morning
- Ice cream for dinner
At 93, he's worth $120B.
Here's his INSANE daily routine that doctors can't explain: ЁЯз╡