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Technology (Not Science)

Slap Shot said:
You can dl from Spotify to your device. I do it with podcasts, audio books and I have just enough music for the very rare situations when I don't have service. Plus I have a thumb drive in my car with over 1,000 songs on it.
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Given the choice of downloading spotify or any other streaming service (which costs money for a subscription) or my own CDs that I already paid for....

(and downloading any streaming service means you always know when you won't have service. Which you really don't)
 
I do need to get back to the UP more... :D I misunderstood and thought you were looking to use it mostly around the house.


But, the gaps you mentioned for cellular service, plus the lack of streaming at the time, is why I went with XM Radio. Never had any issues with it in the UP or midwest, and it scratched the itch of familiarity of music but not the same sh** I have on my iPod. (Even in shuffle mode, it felt like I knew the entire library and was bored with it).

Plus, I got the portable version that had a car and home kit. So no matter where I was in the UP, I had XM wherever I went.

This September will be 19 years I've had the service.
 
I had it for a long time, too. Lost the value of it a while ago. We travel a lot, but not so much that paying for Sirius/XM is really worth it.
 
Clearly everything that goes wrong with technology is the fault of "DEI". When wimpy white dudes with pocket protectors built our computers, they famously never released bugs into production and never caused global outages.
 
Delta says they should resume normal ops by tomorrow

whew

someone in my family is an ops lead there and after working sat-Tuesday, took a deep breath and went up to a cabin with no internet

how they even got home from Atlanta I dunno
 
I need help

my laptop is a Microsoft surface pro, served me well but it’s now 8 years old. Can’t run windows 11.

my zoom meeting ended early today when it just froze and crashed. Not sure if I can fix or not but 8 years old is a long time for a laptop. Memory is only 8 and processor is intel i5

so- I need something new. I don’t game. I want it to run excel, zoom, teams, all that crap.

what are brands and models to avoid?
 
Kepler said:
That's not a problem, it's a blessing.
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Sadly, it’s not. My laptop came preloaded with Windows 8.2, and is a little older than DGF’s. My browsers won’t load all their updates, and thus many sites aren’t accessible to me anymore. I need my web browsers to work for my side gig.
 
I've been waiting a long time for an ARM based Windows laptop, seeing how the Apple M1 started and has evolved. But there hasn't been nearly the change in windows to get away from the x86 chip that Apple did. Which really sucks because the Apple is powerful enough and really doesn't use energy, and having a windows computer that runs like that would be nice.

In theory, the Windows Surface machines should be exactly that. So it's really curious that Windows has not really forced the development of windows for ARM.

Or maybe Windows doesn't want to pay a license fee for it, and are waiting for the RISC-V chips to fully develop. But even that doesn't make sense- as windows has more than enough coders to make RISC-V work pretty quickly. The real problem is that it's a dedicated open source chip. Still, it's still better than paying a license fee for ARM.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I need help

my laptop is a Microsoft surface pro, served me well but it’s now 8 years old. Can’t run windows 11.

my zoom meeting ended early today when it just froze and crashed. Not sure if I can fix or not but 8 years old is a long time for a laptop. Memory is only 8 and processor is intel i5

so- I need something new. I don’t game. I want it to run excel, zoom, teams, all that crap.

what are brands and models to avoid?
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Get one with a good processor, and mid-level RAM that isn’t soldered (integrated, they often call it) directly to the motherboard as RAM is relatively easy to upgrade if you eventually have the need/want.

Also, I would check out Micro Center for prices. They’re usually really good.

As to brands, I need to start researching that myself because the old reliable makers seem to keep jostling around in the rankings.
 
St. Clown said:
Get one with a good processor, and mid-level RAM that isn’t soldered (integrated, they often call it) directly to the motherboard as RAM is relatively easy to upgrade if you eventually have the need/want.

Also, I would check out Micro Center for prices. They’re usually really good.

As to brands, I need to start researching that myself because the old reliable makers seem to keep jostling around in the rankings.
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Planned to head to micro center today actually
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Planned to head to micro center today actually
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I have gotten 5-7 years out of cheapish Dell laptops since college ($500-1000). Usually something stupid fails like the power cord and I end up upgrading. Now that I have a real job, I considered spending a lot more on a laptop but could not really see the benefit after reaching a certain point with memory and processor speed since I really do not do anything crazy on a laptop. I would much rather upgrade sooner than spend 1500.

I currently have a latitude with a 13th gen i5, 16 GB memory, and 250GB harddrive (I have a large backup harddrive run through my router for all our household computers). I think I spent ~700 a year back.
 
If you're looking cheap, there are some decent Chromebooks out there that may get you what you want for a couple of years.


If you aren't looking cheap, check out an iPad or iPad Pro.
 
I ended up getting Microsoft surface laptop - so I still have a touch screen and all my old peripherals will work on it (from my old surface pro). Snapdragon, 16 instead of 8, i7 processor
 
St. Clown said:
Sadly, it’s not. My laptop came preloaded with Windows 8.2, and is a little older than DGF’s. My browsers won’t load all their updates, and thus many sites aren’t accessible to me anymore. I need my web browsers to work for my side gig.
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There are numbers between 8 and 11.
 
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