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Repair – How to discharge static electricity before opening a computer?

Before opening a computer, I often hear advice to touch something that is “grounded”  – a computer case for example, or a heating element – to avoid damaging the sensitive electronic equipment through static discharge. What exactly is true here, and what are the do’s and don’ts. Touching what objects will actually work, and what

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Repair Ubuntu installation

I accidently uninstalled (apt-get purge) lots of important system stuff, including gnome dekstop and whatever-is-responsible-for-internet-connetion, among other things. Is there any way to repair it? Without complete reinstall? I can access it via command line (terminal) more or less normally. move, copy files, etc., just no apt-get install due to no internet connection. So I

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Reset Windows 10 from USB

I have a Windows machine (laptop) that needs fixing. The current installation is really badly broken (e.g. the taskbar is unresponsive, but the Explorer windows work, booting takes literally half an hour) and when I try to access the settings app and click on the tile to access the reset settings it instantly crashes. The

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