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MiG

10:52

drug selling account... superuser.com/users/1680509/don-charlo

MiG

11:07

poof :)

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Hennes

14:28

Jup. Only way do deal with old inkjets.
well, only two ways:
1 Throw them out of the window
2 Spent half an afternoon downloading 'drivers', then deinstall 99% of those

Including the; your inkt might be low. Lets order at a 300x premium' software

MiG

don't own one of those, wasn't planning on picking one up either :P

Hennes

500 MB 'drivers' were a lot in XP era

Usually took 5-10 hours of downloading ona bissiness line.

So it mostly camw down to 'learn IT people to never touch HP $anything'

MiG

hehehe

Hennes

I still hate my HP laptop because it is the same brand as HP printers.
Probablh not what they intended

MiG

uni had HP as their preferred supplier aeons ago I think

now we've joined the Dell Army

but to be fair, my current Dell is actually pretty well designed... My only minor annoyance is that the touch screen isn't flush with the sides of the frame, and of course the lack of a 2.5" slot for a 2nd drive... but the latter seems to be unavoidable these days unless you get a graphical workstation type slab

Hennes

14:34

2nd drive slot missing is anoying.

granted, I am used to 4 drives in the laptop option

But I paid for that

Least they coiuld offer these days is 2xM2 and once SATA

Esp on business class

MiG

15:24

exactly

definitely a 2.5", M2 is just too limited in available size

I regularly have trouble with shitty internet (including 4G roaming, which just refused to work in Belgium last weekend), so I like lugging along music and movies on the laptop... now I have to fiddle with external HDDs - which also draw extra power while off grid, also found out that still a lot of trains are equipped with limited or no power sockets

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djsmiley2kStaysInside

18:01

You can get portable hdds that power off usb tho

of course, that'll drain your laptop etc faster

Doesn't fix not having the drive inside the device, of course..

MiG

18:37

yeah, true... but it at least saves the hassle of juggling a portable HDD while traveling

they power down anyway, my trick was copying whatever I wanted to watch to the SSD

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Hennes

20:02

Power sockets in trains or planes... now that is newflagled ;)

Or maybe I just do not use those much, and in ye days of yore, when we had to walk uphil both ways when going to school. Back then, trains simply did not have any

MiG

20:27

I know, I know... we've barely left steam trains behind us :P

@Hennes :D

too many Monty Python fans here :P

bertieb

Monty Python??

DavidPostill

Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python

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bertieb

yeah, but it wasn't Monty Python who originated the four yorkshiremen

from memory, I'm not sure the line's even in the skit?

was at last the 1948 show

and had marty feldman and tim booke-taylor with cleese and chapman

if I remember correctly

so I don't see the connection

DavidPostill

20:44

That sketch inspired this: arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=64321

When I was a lad, we had to walk five miles to school - uphill both ways - in snow that was hip-deep on the giant-men that hunted us along the way. And we were grateful for the opportunity!

bertieb

unless the general complaint of "we 'ad it tougher than thee" Mandela Effect-ed it's way into T4Y

DavidPostill

5 miles? You were lucky. We had to crawl 15 miles on our bellies across broken glass, just to get t' bus stop.

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:04 am

quote:
5 miles? You were lucky. We had to crawl 15 miles on our bellies across broken glass, just to get t' bus stop.

The bus stopped for you? I had to chase it down for a quarter of a mile carrying twenty pounds of books and a band instrument that increased its mass the faster I went in accordance the theory of Relativity and Mass Energy equivalence.

etc. etc

bertieb

I'm reasonably sure that "we had to walk to school uphill both ways" predates a 2009 Ars forums thread :P

we're getting pretty tenuous here :D

DavidPostill

@bertieb “They walked three miles to and from school, uphill both ways” was printed in Tallahasee (FL) Democrat on September 29, 1956.