Anything IT Goes
Looked back to see if we had a general thread for all matters IT-related... couldn't find one. So here it is.
Really just prompted by the next-day arrival of a new 14" HT laptop (£250). Just amazing these days how quick and easy they are to set up, stuff synched from Google/Chrome. Thought briefly about a Chromebook, but there are a few apps, not least PrintMusic 2002 (yes, really) and IrfanView that I use regularly.
Definitely a plus that it's syncing on the 150Mb/s band. And definitely a plus that I've got 9, o, L and . working normally.
Also amused myself with being so dim about my new Samsung a15 that I thought the call answering buttons on the lock screen weren't working, but seems they have to be swiped rather than tapped. Mind you, felt slightly better than a colleague who had inherited a Pixel 8 hadn't turned it off since he'd had it because he couldn't work out how to... seems you need to press the power and the volume up buttons at the same time.
Now just waiting for the bluetooth keyboard for the old laptop. These kinds of things never cease to amaze and delight me, having done uni with papyrus and quills. Well, that's what it seems like, in comparison.
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Humanity is doomed by AI tell thee.
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!! DOOMED !!
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Oh, congrats on your new laptop.
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Certainly doomed if it can't count the number of esses in 'assist'.
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Brian, I hold you personally responsible for causing Mr Zing to have another one of his turns. It will take all evening for the staff to get him settled again now.
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Is this where I come when I can’t get my bike computer to work.
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Yeah, you till him Aspect.
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Oh, and it's the first laptop I've had with USB charging, and this is USB-C, of course.
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Exactly Focus.
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What, bike-related stuff here? What do you think this is, a cycling forum or something??
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BTW, if you do want to get your bike computer to work, couldn't you just put it in a pocket and take it with you?
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That’s would be difficult as I haven’t been to work in 7 years I think.
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You also get the power button (amongst other options) if you swipe down twice on pixels.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Oh, and Bean will be happy to know that Foobar is the second app I've installed on the virgin machine. It was also good to uninstall bloatware such as OneDrive etc that have perfectly acceptable browser functionality.
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Bloatware 😡. I recently needed a new battery and since things are so easy to reinstall (as said by Brian) I decided to factory reset before sending it away. All up and running now with 867 Gb free space instead of 120 Gb. No idea where it went and don't care all apps have been tested.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.2 -
I'll be looking at the old laptop and seeing what's 'indispensable', and might just do a factory reset on that too, as anything not on the cloud should be already backed up up on removable hard drives anyway. The 'irreplaceable' stuff saved on a device is getting less and less, which I would have pooh-poohed ten years ago... before then, typing up dissertations etc, I was obsessively backing up to multiple floppy discs.
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What is the largest floppy disc you can remember? When I was starting my PhD we were using a machine built in 1986 and the system discs were like the long side of a sheet of A4 across.
They were very floppy.
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Are you sure you're not getting confused with a record player?
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I think we used a mid-sized one to boot up the BBC Micro in 1984... it was at the cutting edge, with a daisy wheel printer too. My first home printer came with five (normal small) floppy disks to install the software.
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For the benefit of younger readers the standard 3-1/2" floppy disk had a massive 1.44 Mb.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I think the BBC Micro ran on the mid-sized one, and my first PC used the small one. When I told people that that PC came with 1.2Gb HD memory, they asked why I needed so much. (Photo from Wikipedia)
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And now you can get a 4 terabyte micro SD card. The evolution/time is crazy.
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I remember our pc having a couple of games that came on ones like that red one in the middle. Would have been early 90s.
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Yeah, it is indeed crazy. I put a 'tiny' 128Gb micro SD card in the new phone for music, and it was less than £10 posted.
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I remember increasing the ram on a 386 I had and it was about a tenner per mb of ram to upgrade. I've still got a couple of 128mb USB sticks chucked in a drawer with a few pics on.
Too many bikes according to Mrs O.0 -
I've got an unknown number of back-up hard drives going back to 2005 when 256 Gb was as much as I was willing to spend that amount of money on. I have actually used some of them on occasion within the last few years.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It's not crazy: we have just got better at making smaller and smaller chips, because there was a demand for more and more storage. Just like we got better and better at making clocks from the kind of thing that fits in a church tower to the point we could make a wrist watch with a mechanism half an inch across.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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5.25” was the first I used but mainly 3.5” when I first used a PC regularly. Installing games from about 10 disks was annoying.
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