I just bought a small laptop with an i5 chip, 2560x1700 touch screen, 4 GB ram, 32 GB SSD (I will use an SD card for more storage if it ever fills up) and a great build quality. I installed Gimp and VLC so far, can probably run Windows apps but have no need.
It's a refurb chromebook Pixel with crouton/Xubuntu on top of it. I admit to being a cheapskate, but what else do I need? Once you get over the mindset of "needing" Microsoft Windows, the world opens up for you.
You forgot "EVs don't work in cold weather, because the batteries don't work and there's no heat. They couldn't possibly work in Norway; petrol cars always start no matter how cold it gets."
I'm running Ubuntu MATE and Mint Cinnamon, and FF57 runs OK... most of the time... on Mint, but brings Ubuntu to a crawl after ten, twenty minutes. I usually have GMail open, and a couple other tabs, but haven't figured out what slows it down to unuseability. I switch to Chrome, and GMail runs fine. I wonder how that could happen.
They only need a few seconds to warm up the filaments on the tubes. LED TVs don't need any time at all, they can just come on after booting the operating system. Look at how long it takes your computer monitor to turn on.
The rest of the time is spent on your TV phoning home to.. somewhere.
Or if you are in a metro area, you can make one for free or get a cheap one for $15 that works fine. Or you might repair the one that's been sitting on your roof since 1997.
We're in a fringe area and get ten channels, each with 3-4 subchannels.
Well, no, you can't just flip a dial and run a million watts at ten times the frequency. It's a little more complicated than that (I did some design on the antenna tuner for a proposal once). But the Navy has a bunch of other stations with the proper gear to transmit high power at short wave frequencies.
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If you have a USB port that it will boot from, you can install Linux. Problem solved... permanently.
I just bought a small laptop with an i5 chip, 2560x1700 touch screen, 4 GB ram, 32 GB SSD (I will use an SD card for more storage if it ever fills up) and a great build quality. I installed Gimp and VLC so far, can probably run Windows apps but have no need.
It's a refurb chromebook Pixel with crouton/Xubuntu on top of it. I admit to being a cheapskate, but what else do I need? Once you get over the mindset of "needing" Microsoft Windows, the world opens up for you.
"back in Detriot,"
That slip is too soon for those of us who were there in '67.
But you didn't buy the operating system. You're just licensing it.
(Disclaimer: mine is Linux Mint.)
Funny you should write that, I'm looking at buying an EV.
And have Linux on my desktops.
You forgot "EVs don't work in cold weather, because the batteries don't work and there's no heat. They couldn't possibly work in Norway; petrol cars always start no matter how cold it gets."
... has a monorail, goes around downtown without going anywhere useful (except a casino). Doesn't go the 15 miles to the airport.
I guess there's a trend there.
If you just watch PBS, you miss the ads on commercial TV, which is usually the best part. It's like the Super Bowl.
Only if you buy a real Keurig, and buy the little plastic cups instead of grinding beans and brewing in reuseable cups.
I'm running Ubuntu MATE and Mint Cinnamon, and FF57 runs OK ... most of the time... on Mint, but brings Ubuntu to a crawl after ten, twenty minutes. I usually have GMail open, and a couple other tabs, but haven't figured out what slows it down to unuseability. I switch to Chrome, and GMail runs fine. I wonder how that could happen.
Hmph. What next, cheap fast internet? Flying cars? Yeah, sure.
There's other stuff in a phone besides the case and display.
I hope you're not talking about the Flat Earth movement. It's my best source of entertainment.
Want more tech talent?
Fucking pay them, eh?
FTFY.
And it will be boring, but the color will be nice.
It's OK, women are better.
But in the future, you can't live on a measly $350K.
That was only half-funny, so I didn't mod you Funny. Good use of Poe's Law, thoough.
That's what she said.
They only need a few seconds to warm up the filaments on the tubes. LED TVs don't need any time at all, they can just come on after booting the operating system. Look at how long it takes your computer monitor to turn on.
The rest of the time is spent on your TV phoning home to .. somewhere.
Or if you are in a metro area, you can make one for free or get a cheap one for $15 that works fine. Or you might repair the one that's been sitting on your roof since 1997.
We're in a fringe area and get ten channels, each with 3-4 subchannels.
And what TV doesn't come with a tuner??
Start with the telemarketers. I'd suggest politicians, but there's few virgins among them.
Well, it has Congo and Russia on it, so what are you complaining about? More up to date than one a hundred years newer.
Ours is the same since 1974, but now it's VoIP for $5 a month instead of $82 from Verizon.
Well, no, you can't just flip a dial and run a million watts at ten times the frequency. It's a little more complicated than that (I did some design on the antenna tuner for a proposal once). But the Navy has a bunch of other stations with the proper gear to transmit high power at short wave frequencies.