Go to a store in a "less" rich part of town, known for selling appliances to landlords. There will be plenty of fridges and stoves with mechanical controls.
Innovation is over-rated. The main innovation in computing over the past 10 years has been better walled gardens. These help the manufacturers' bottom lines, not the end-users.
Actually, a dishwasher wastes less water than hand-washing. I doubt a thin plastic shroud around a removable phone battery makes more e-waste than tossing the whole phone.
I have a library card with access to two of the better library systems in the world:)
You can get cheap fridges with electromechanical controls. Generally meant for rental properties where the landlord wants the cheapest, most reliable solution, but they'll work in a home as well...
They're meant for landlords with apartments putting a fridge in for a tenant. Mechanical thermostat, no fancy gizmos, easy to fix if broken. Unless you NEED two icemakers, a water dispenser, a camera, and an LCD on the front with WiFi.
To be fair -- VGA is an analogue port. Converting digital (in the computer) to analogue (in the port) back to digital (in the LCD monitor) is silly in 2017. It made sense with CRTs where the analogue signal drove the electron beams (semi) directly.
Exactly: (1) Buy a used car -- the best car, environmentally -- is one where the energy/materials used in manufacturing have already been spent. (2) Keep your appliances 10-20 years, even if less efficient. Buy simple appliances (dishwashers/washers/fridges with dial electromechanical controls that can be easily fixed) so they last you a decade or two. (3) Buy an upgradeable computer or laptop -- Lenovo and some Dells are great in this respect. Not stuff like Smurface or iPad that are sealed with glue and where it's barely worth replacing a battery. (4) Buy a phone with removable battery and SD-expandable storage. Moto G4 Play and G5 are great. Or just carry a flip phone which will last you 10 years... (5) Buy hardware that doesn't require a cloud service to work correctly. With cloud-mandatory hardware, the manufacturer can pull the rug out after a year or two and you'll have little recourse.
Can't speak to the burgers. Teslas are a good thing -- the tech will trickle down to cheaper cars until electric cars will be cheaper than gassers, and cheaper to run and maintain (electric motors and 1-speed gearboxes don't need much maintenance, and regen braking means you have to change the pads once every 150,000 miles). Can you imagine owning a car that costs 5 cents per mile to run and does 0-60 in 4 seconds? Awesome!
Range is an issue, but that's improving too. And it would be great if global warming pressure would force the railroads to electrify. Take a fast electric train from NYC to Chicago -- 5.5 hours at 150mph -- then rent an electric car (possibly self-driving) on the other end. Far better than the airport delays, lines, etc involved in flying.
The future doesn't have to be bad if the people doing the planning think of other people versus only their own dollar.
Better than spending the money propping up despotic (Saudi) regimes and murdering people in countries that are barely our enemies. Not to mention locking up 1% of our population. Bad joke.
those of us that bought homes in 2008 will be more than happy to... (1) take a HELOC (2) buy their homes at sheriff's auction when BTC crashes (3) rent them back to them (or evict them and rent to hard-working immigrants) (4) profit
Chromebook -- a cloud-centric device that even the owner doesn't control. Basically, time-share computing updated for the 2000s -- should anyone be surprised that the people (Google) calling the shots occasionally screw up and screw their users? (I won't say "customers", since Google's real "customers" are advertisers and firms that buy customer data.)
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Go to a store in a "less" rich part of town, known for selling appliances to landlords. There will be plenty of fridges and stoves with mechanical controls.
Innovation is over-rated. The main innovation in computing over the past 10 years has been better walled gardens. These help the manufacturers' bottom lines, not the end-users.
Actually, a dishwasher wastes less water than hand-washing. I doubt a thin plastic shroud around a removable phone battery makes more e-waste than tossing the whole phone.
I have a library card with access to two of the better library systems in the world :)
You can get cheap fridges with electromechanical controls. Generally meant for rental properties where the landlord wants the cheapest, most reliable solution, but they'll work in a home as well...
https://www.amazon.com/Danby-D...
Buy the simplest 'fridge possible. e.g.
https://www.amazon.com/Danby-D...
They're meant for landlords with apartments putting a fridge in for a tenant. Mechanical thermostat, no fancy gizmos, easy to fix if broken. Unless you NEED two icemakers, a water dispenser, a camera, and an LCD on the front with WiFi.
Salesman? What? Buy on Craigslist or from a car parked outside someone's house with a F/S $3000 sign.
To be fair -- VGA is an analogue port. Converting digital (in the computer) to analogue (in the port) back to digital (in the LCD monitor) is silly in 2017. It made sense with CRTs where the analogue signal drove the electron beams (semi) directly.
Exactly: ...
(1) Buy a used car -- the best car, environmentally -- is one where the energy/materials used in manufacturing have already been spent.
(2) Keep your appliances 10-20 years, even if less efficient. Buy simple appliances (dishwashers/washers/fridges with dial electromechanical controls that can be easily fixed) so they last you a decade or two.
(3) Buy an upgradeable computer or laptop -- Lenovo and some Dells are great in this respect. Not stuff like Smurface or iPad that are sealed with glue and where it's barely worth replacing a battery.
(4) Buy a phone with removable battery and SD-expandable storage. Moto G4 Play and G5 are great. Or just carry a flip phone which will last you 10 years
(5) Buy hardware that doesn't require a cloud service to work correctly. With cloud-mandatory hardware, the manufacturer can pull the rug out after a year or two and you'll have little recourse.
Yep, "accredited investor" translates as "little guys can't play" at least if they're under US law.
A strict money-for-work exchange for most employees would lead to a clamor for gov't to pick up things like health care. Which might be a good thing.
Can't speak to the burgers. Teslas are a good thing -- the tech will trickle down to cheaper cars until electric cars will be cheaper than gassers, and cheaper to run and maintain (electric motors and 1-speed gearboxes don't need much maintenance, and regen braking means you have to change the pads once every 150,000 miles). Can you imagine owning a car that costs 5 cents per mile to run and does 0-60 in 4 seconds? Awesome!
Range is an issue, but that's improving too. And it would be great if global warming pressure would force the railroads to electrify. Take a fast electric train from NYC to Chicago -- 5.5 hours at 150mph -- then rent an electric car (possibly self-driving) on the other end. Far better than the airport delays, lines, etc involved in flying.
The future doesn't have to be bad if the people doing the planning think of other people versus only their own dollar.
Better than spending the money propping up despotic (Saudi) regimes and murdering people in countries that are barely our enemies. Not to mention locking up 1% of our population. Bad joke.
Not that simple -- flooding of industrial infrastructure along the coasts would be environmentally catastrophic. Think Fukushima and Bhopal x1000.
Pick and choose where you buy rental property off of former Bitcoin squillionaires ... wisely.
Stole. You mean "legally bought at foreclosure auction?"
Then castle doctrine applies :)
those of us that bought homes in 2008 will be more than happy to ...
(1) take a HELOC
(2) buy their homes at sheriff's auction when BTC crashes
(3) rent them back to them (or evict them and rent to hard-working immigrants)
(4) profit
Every future crisis is just a path to profit.
Dusty? Please. This is not a hard drive or a chip fab.
The screens are sealed to the digitizers in modern iPhones, so that's not an issue either.
But it will be expandable/upgradeable and thus a better "Pro" machine than the Mac "Pro."
This is actually about Amazon UK, not USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Merry Christmas!
All exchange firms do either or both. Same deal with forex.
Why not run without a phone? Being disconnected for an hour isn't gonna kill ya.
Not really -- all it needs to do is measure temperature. When temperature suddenly goes up, load is dry. It can then signal via a buzzer.
Weight and initial dampness are largely irrelevant.
Does a Chromebook have a driver/support for such a dongle?
Chromebook -- a cloud-centric device that even the owner doesn't control. Basically, time-share computing updated for the 2000s -- should anyone be surprised that the people (Google) calling the shots occasionally screw up and screw their users? (I won't say "customers", since Google's real "customers" are advertisers and firms that buy customer data.)