Computer Geeks Unite! And farging help me!

Started by Sgt PSN, November 03, 2006, 08:52:10 PM

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Geowhizzer

Quote from: Rome on July 15, 2020, 08:33:50 PM
Twitter got the rape basement treatment from some bitcoin hacker. 

Actually pretty scary stuff considering who was hacked and (I assume) the heightened level of secured passwords they should have been using.

I mean I'm pretty sure Bill Gates ain't using abc123.


ice grillin you

Is there a tangible difference btwn a phone and an iPad  other than screen size...like people basically get iPads cause they don't want to watch a movie or tv show on a phone?
i can take a phrase thats rarely heard...flip it....now its a daily word

igy gettin it done like warrick

im the board pharmacist....always one step above yous

Diomedes

Well, you can't make phone calls with an iPad... It's capable of wifi calls and all that but it's not a phone.... Right?
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

PhillyPhreak54

You can if you are set up on a data plan, yes. I never use it for that or for text's but my iPad is assigned a phone number.

Havas - yes, that's about it. People who work remotely or in the field like them for the ease of work. I have a keyboard hook up for mine and it makes when I work from home much easier. But for personal use the only reason for be for streaming or just easier on the eyes when posting on good ol CF.

Zanshin

Quote from: ice grillin you on October 09, 2020, 10:49:56 AM
Is there a tangible difference btwn a phone and an iPad  other than screen size...like people basically get iPads cause they don't want to watch a movie or tv show on a phone?

You spelled "porn" wrong.

Diomedes

My keyboard shat the bed.  A friend had an extra, made by Alienware, marketed for gaming.  The keys light up and shtein.  Mechanical.

Holy crap what a difference.  All I want to do now is write a ten thousand word post about Jordan Mailata, Nate Herbig, and Jack Driscoll, or in other words, the future.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

Diomedes

I stopped using Chrome and went back to Firefox.

I wonder how much less info Google will have on me just for that switch.
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

Geowhizzer

More a vent than a question:

Waited all day for a technician for CenturyLink to fix an underground wire on my property.  The wire had broken because of an uprooted tree in a storm, and had been patched until a more permanent fix could be done.  They said someone had to be here.  Got the normal "8 to 4" spiel.

Wife called at noon, as no one had made any communication.  Said no problem, we're on the list.

Wife calls back at 4:30.  Was told by the nice foreign lady (with roosters in the background) that they had been here and that the wire was fixed and "covered."

I went out and took a picture of the still broken wire sticking out of the ground.  Nice foreign lady still insists that the service was done, even with photographic evidence.

May be time to cut CenturyLink and DirecTV and switch to Xfinity and some streaming service.

General_Failure

Honestly, nobody should be paying for cable or dish television anymore. Figure out which streaming service has the shows you want to watch, then only pay for them the months you're actually watching. Or go back to piracy like we do for the football anyway.

The man. The myth. The legend.

PhillyPhreak54

lol at the roosters!

I had to call LG customer service once after we got out TV and the lady helping me had some going off in the background too

Zanshin

I ditched cable and got rid of some premium channels, like Showtime...but I want to check out the Ray Donovan movie without signing up for another trial (even though I heard it's meh). Where do people go these days to check that stuff out on the side? I figure there has to be an NFLbite-type site out there for that nonsense. Any pointers?

General_Failure

The last time I looked Popcorn Time was the go-to app for streaming movies and shows. Never could quite get it to work properly on a fire stick, I had better luck screen mirroring to the tv and watching stuff from an old phone after downloading it from thepiratebay.org, which is still going along just fine.

The man. The myth. The legend.

Eagaholic

I cut the cord maybe 2 years ago and hadn't paid for anything since. Last week I got Curiosity Stream plus Nubula on a 15.95/year special. Anyone else tried them? From what I've seen so far it seems fairly worthwhile even though some of their content is on Youtube, but it is a step up and no commercials.

Diomedes


I'm on an ancient desktop that needs to be replaced.  Help me figure out what to buy. 


I use the computer to browse the internet, make invoices (excel and google docs), draft contracts (Word,) drive a printer and scanner, and manage my musica and photol library (on external hard drives.)  I don't need a computer for gaming or anything heavy, but I think I still want an actual computer, not a chromebook (I use Firefox.)

I guess I could bring a laptop to work at times and that might be helpful, but it's not necessary.  If it's a laptop, I'll need to "dock" it in a desk location that allows connection to the printer/scanner, an adult size keyboard, etc.

Appreciate any suggestions. 
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yosemite Park Ranger

General_Failure

This is probably an okay time to be looking for a new machine, hardware shortages are ending and prices are coming back to normal. Anything designed to be taken on a jobsite and not break is going to run you into the $3,0000 range, and probably isn't worth it. A dock will add add somewhere around $100 to your price.

Windows 11 is somewhat of a mess, but trying to find something running 10 that won't upgrade to 11 on you is more of a hassle than it's worth. Mask up, go to Best Buy, look around the laptops there until someone comes to help you out, see if they have something in your price range that has a decent screen, a keyboard you don't hate, 16 gigs of ram, and a dock that's available in the store. Or an actual desktop for a decent price. Whatever floats your boat.

The man. The myth. The legend.