Keatah

I see.. thx

sounds like everything in high tech

Well at least it was some sort of facebook satellite that bit the dust.

RIP DAVID BOWIE......

And when the power goes out switch to the handhelds.

Awesome! How many KB Cumulative updates do I download to feel safe again? I am willing to spend the entire weekend if necessary.

Dunno. I just do them in my spare time for fun or when I encounter a problem. Soon enough you'll see XP cumulative .ISOs available on the nefarious sites.

Cheers!

Academia are close minded and have to follow their discipline's accepted belief systems or face ridicule, no tenure, no office, no office hours, no benefits package.

^ I'm in academia full-time now, and let me tell you, it's all true.

Publish or Perish.

fishsticks with attention deficit disorder?

that's right.

Since I tried Windows 10 (Once Uggg!) and it wouldn't stop making annoying noises,...I call it the Jar Jar Binks of Operating Systems LOL!

I've been using Win10 on my cheapo GOG.com laptop for a couple years, and of course we use it at work every day. Really, other than the frequent updates I haven't had too many issues. At this point I'm a long ways from a "power user" though, my needs are few.

I’m only a power user when it comes to simulations and physics modeling. Everything else we do works fine on a 10 year old rig.

Avoid the hassle. Smartphone celibacy.

@flojo... only ever use it in a case. I've got a nice UAG for my 8. The one with the trapdoor for cards and money. Still awkward due to the funky weight distribution and size, but it's easier to grip at least. As for things like the spell check and keyboard, my point is that I think they were much better in previous iOS's. But yeah, may as we'll disable it. And yeas, the last wto sentences are wha you get with special check enabled. It's that bad.

10 years of Beta Testing...I really laughed when I read that this morning or whenever it was hahaaaa....

Meh ... It doesn't bother me. That's what backups are for. I'm pretty anal with my data, so all my important stuff is on at least 2 device, with very important stuff also replicated off-site. All this costs me is 3 hours waiting for the drive to reformat (full format, not a quick format).

You don't have an uninterruptible power supply?

Sadly not on all my systems.

Imagine 20 years of music, classic gaming stuff, journals, videos, research projects, art projects, photos, theoretical cosmology papers, and novelettes and short stories all being all gone.

It's time to reformat, zero-certify, and pull out the backups. Disaster Averted.

That's weird I had a dream where I was drilling invisible holes all over someone's house.

That sounds like some weird shit my parents were watching on TV last week.

Try Dulcolax the next time you're having trouble.

Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" comes to mind.

Do you know how much cholesterol and sodium is in a White Castle burger? It's the reason I quit eating them.

No worries - Airbus says it's not in a structural component, and only the wing skin can deform. Sounds totally safe to me

1996 Honda Accord. One gallon of gas moves 4 passengers 30 miles.

There's one other difference: the baggage is treated with more respect.

There were times RT... but that was about 20 years ago.

You're parents didn't do this for you? So much work otherwise.

You're parents didn't do this for you? So much work otherwise.

You have a reading loft? I just shoot a bunch of glue on the ceiling in the corner, then grab a book, jump up, spin around in the air and hang from my butt, back, and legs until the glue can no longer hold me.

A chillout room with mini bar wall-wall shag fleece carpeting. Mood lighting. Low ceiling. 3 cozy alcoves. All my computing and gaming and space voyages happen there. Very well insulated with a few small porthole windows. 100" LCD running Orbiter Space Flight Simulator or other graphical extravaganzas.

My dad and I built a loft out of attic storage space above the garage and I put in carpeting to turn it into a (very) low ceiling art room/getaway. TV, laptop, notepads, sketchpads, mini-easel, etc. up there. It gets super-hot or super-cold depending on the season. A small heater I put up there recently shorts out the power to everything else. Sucks!

Oh and on the subject of basic materials, having bins full of misc. washers and screws really come in handy. Same with magnets to help pick up whatever you've dropped.

Hammer. Blendtec. Dustpan. Done.

Bagghhh on the bins of washers. I just use paper! And you get to make your own thickness too!

Sold my big gaming rig since now I travel a lot. Actually just bought a cheap desktop (i5 3570) but only to rebuild it as a portable retro CRT box

My MO is to get the nicest "budget gamer" thing for $150 available ... or the next best thing in a laptop. Thank goodness cheap GPUs have reached the "good enough" phase for me; I'm not chasing higher resolutions or butter frame rates or crypto mining.

I tend to go after higher-end stuff, used, a year or two old. Then watch the new features in the new tech get debugged, market-accepted, tested.. Either approach gives lower prices. One gets you the latest standards and APIs, another gets you higher performance.

Either way, staying behind the leading edge is a good thing.