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I needed to do some hard drive management for a friend's computer and it had a UEFI boot partition.  In order to accomplish what I was after, I really needed to understand the UEFI boot process and this article helped tremendously.

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then?

Here are some additional UEFI resources:

Ensure the correct EFI boot entries are created after switching from CentOS to Oracle Linux #70
Use Linux efibootmgr Command to Manage UEFI Boot Menu

This Ford VIN decoder is helpful to determine what specific options a Ford vehicle was manufactured with.

Our patio and walkways - particularly by the pool, are riddled with wide expansion joints which generally are filled with cracked and broken pieces.  I believe that the solution is a "concrete expansion joint" such as the SlabGasket.  It's pretty expensive and not the highest priority at the moment so I'm documenting it just for future reference.

Generally speaking, Windows Defender has evolved to a point where I can now (along with common sense) use it as the only antivirus on a Windows system.  There are times, however, when it needs to be disabled permanently (for a non-networked machine.  Here is a page detailing how to do so.

How to permanently disable Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10

Similar (though not nearly as complete) as rsync for linux, I often use robocopy to synchronize Windows filesystems.  The microsoft documents on robocopy are very complete, however since there are a LOT of options, it is always nice to have a common example of how I use it.  Here is one that I use to replicate (or mirror) an entire drive to a folder on another drive:

robocopy C:\ <target drive and folder> /MIR /XJ /R:0 /W:1 /NP /NDL /LOG+:"%cd%\backup_%label%.log" 2>>errors.txt