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I had a Surface Pro 3 through work and it was loving awful. The keyboard sucked, the trackpad 'click' hardware stopped working after a couple months, and the Windows display driver would crash every couple days (luckily Windows 10 is sufficiently advanced that it can restart a crashed driver on the fly). It also got hot and didn't always hibernate, which meant sometimes I'd open my backpack to find it was 130 degrees in there and the Surface's battery was almost drained.
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They did improve the keyboard a little bit for the 4th gen, but the fabric layer on mine is peeling back after nearly four years. I had the same suspend/thermal issues on the 4 Pro for the first year or so, then they finally updated the firmware/Windows to act somewhat sane.
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My pro 3 used to do the wake from sleep thing but doesn’t any more so I imagine they patched it out
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I was doing some house-sitting for convoluted reasons in a house with no TV or internet for one weekend a month for 4 months. After the first weekend bored out of my mind, I got a reduced to clear "Windows 8.1 with Bing" tablet by some outfit called Linx - who appear to have vanished off the face of the Earth now - for £100 from my local supermarket. It does the business. Basically an Intel Atom compute stick with a screen bolted on - useful information to know when you're after drivers after updating it to Windows 10 - it does the netflix and the iplayers and the youtubes fine, and I can could distract myself by playing "What's the latest game in my Steam library this can make a decent fist of". The answer is "Half Life 2 if you turn water effects down".
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c/ping from other vintage threads around this forum Got a new power supply for the C128 from Poland to Australia under a week! Sadly the C128 isn't a happy thing  I was going to say that looks like the intro to the Guardian in Ultima VII, but he had a blue background  It appears the VIC II is playing up on it, as the keyboard is acting up as well. Going to take it to a meet next month to see if it is the chip or something else.
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Oct 26, 2019 04:12
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I loved the idea of a Microsoft Surface so I could have a PC in a tablet form factor, but then a Samsung Galaxy Tab A cost about 1/8th as much, and I can't do some stuff on it, but web browsing and YouTube are perfect 
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Tab A's are really good value for the price. Might be a bit biased tho as I'm posting on one right now, but I've had this thing for two years now and it easily powers through everything I throw at it, gaming excluded.
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Oct 27, 2019 07:22
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Disregard the Commodore screen... I see another relic in TYOOL 2019. When was the last time you saw a phonebook, let alone bring it inside your house instead of marching it right into the trash bin to clear space off your front porch?
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Oct 27, 2019 18:36
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2012 by the looks of it.
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Oct 27, 2019 18:43
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Why would you throw out a perfect good, and free, monitor stand/door stop/paper flattener/defensive weapon?
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Oct 27, 2019 20:09
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What do philatelists use now that phone books don't see print in the first world anymore?
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Jerry Cotton posted:What do philatelists use now that phone books don't see print in the first world anymore? Coffins, for the most part. Philately is dead and the philatelists are going with it. E: Or uhh vis-versa I guess. Fantastic Foreskin has a new favorite as of 22:42 on Oct 27, 2019 |
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Oct 27, 2019 22:39
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Why do stamp collectors need a phone book?
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Oct 27, 2019 22:42
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Cojawfee posted:Why do stamp collectors need a phone book? So they can look up phone numbers to dial on their rotary phones, duh.
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Oct 27, 2019 22:47
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Cojawfee posted:Why do stamp collectors need a phone book? To dry stamps.
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The good news is the philatelist Wikipedia page just gave me an unexpected laugh when I saw this hot stamp telling me to bone Penny H.
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Oct 28, 2019 00:48
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more like 🅱️hilatelist
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Oct 28, 2019 07:05
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Philanderist
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GI_Clutch posted:I ended up formatting my Eee PC netbook and installing FreeDOS on it. It boots up into Word 6.0 to let my wife write distraction free. There's a little 8GB USB nub plugged in so she can transfer to her laptop when she's done. Well, that was the plan, but after two uses it's just been collecting dust. I had a nice little USB nub I always kept to my company provided Macbook to keep my personal files on, stuck out from the edge by about a centimeter. Then my company upgraded my Macbook and now my little nub is attached to a loving dongle. Maybe a 2015 Macbook Pro isn't a tech relic, but I miss my USB type A ports (as well as the startup sound and lit of Mac logo).
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Oct 29, 2019 04:12
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The lack of just 1 USB A port is the 2nd thing I don't like about my otherwise great chromebook.
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fallenturtle posted:Maybe a 2015 Macbook Pro isn't a tech relic, but I miss my USB type A ports (as well as the startup sound and lit of Mac logo). I think it's tragic how the magsafe power connector just got left in the dustbin of Apple history. It was one of those simple-but-brilliant bits of engineering.
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Powered Descent posted:I think it's tragic how the magsafe power connector just got left in the dustbin of Apple history. It was one of those simple-but-brilliant bits of engineering. Except for the crappy cords and class action lawsuit and stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe#Defects
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Except for the crappy cords and class action lawsuit and stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe#Defects
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SLOSifl posted:The connector on the piece of poo poo surface tablets I’ve used makes me want to light them on fire myself. Those do somehow manage to be more inconvenient than if they just plugged in.
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The micro USB ones, or the magsafe knockoffs?
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Oct 29, 2019 13:29
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Having broken two if them the cord was utter poo poo but that's not a fault of the connector. Magsafe was amazing and everything that doesn't need a locking cord should use it.
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Magsafe owned though it is annoying they revised it. I'm sure there's some EE reason they did it but I didn't like needing an easily-loseable passthru adapter for my home and work machines
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The micro USB ones, or the magsafe knockoffs? My MicroUSB Magnetic dongles in my headset and tablet work amazing. The way I use those two devices, in the past I had to resolder the sockets on the devices a few times.
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SLOSifl posted:The connector on the piece of poo poo surface tablets I’ve used makes me want to light them on fire myself. I don't mind the fact that the Surface connector is magnetic. What I do mind is that the cord is naturally inclined to make a 90 degree angle where the connector ends, and there doesn't seem to be any strain relief on it. Mine somehow hasn't broken yet, but I've always been consciously trying to minimize bending it.
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I bought an aftermarket MagSafe adapter but the magnet is way weaker than on the old Apple ones. Apparently that’s a common issue  .
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All this Netbook/Tablet talk just reminds me that I really wish poo poo like the MSX ever came out in NA. There are versions of that thing that still look sleek af today.
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stuffed crust punk posted:Magsafe owned though it is annoying they revised it. I'm sure there's some EE reason they did it but I didn't like needing an easily-loseable passthru adapter for my home and work machines They just wanted it to be slimmer the machines could follow suit.
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e: double
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Platystemon posted:They just wanted it to be slimmer the machines could follow suit. Oh that makes sense I guess
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Had some success this weekend with the Commodore 486SLC. Got the BIOS backup battery working on it. I connected the original Seagate HDD to my PII system and XCOPY'd it to a CF card. The PII has an autodetect mode for the HDDs, so it gave me the cylinder, heads and sector information I needed to manually enter in the 486. Now the 486 boots off a CF card instead of the old Seagate HDD, and the BIOS keeps it settings.   Rest now old Seagate 85MB HDD. You did a good job over 27 years.
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Okay, I had that The Mask game as a kid, except it was a standalone game, and the graphics were different. Same music, same sounds, same gameplay, but all the characters were robot dinosaurs. I'm pretty sure they just reused the game logic for their hastily slapped-together licensed game. Also I'm surprised this dude lifted Ashens' whole shtick but somehow never heard of the Game Child.
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https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1195969069020782592
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This is like that new sonic movie.
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Took my Commodore 128 to a Commodore Amiga meet yesterday. It appears the CIA chips in it might be faulty. I need to take it up to a mate's place who has some breadbin 64s that I can test the CIA chips in (the C64C I have has its CIA soldered, not socketed unlike the bread bin model). Looks like getting replacement CIAs isn't too hard, and the CIA used in the Amiga 500s can also work in the 128.
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