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I can't recommend **for** anything in that price range, but I **can** strongly recommend against anything by ASUS.
Cop shows that include a 5 minute foot chase. This is usually the result of the cops shouting out a suspect's name from half a block away instead of waiting until they are within arm's reach. Inevitably the suspect runs into the path of a car or truck and the …
>"Oh wait, I should wait for Series 4!" That's what killed Osborne computers. They announced their "next" system long before it was available and everyone stopped buying their current model. With no saole their income stream died and so did the company.
I just got a new laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). I'd forgotten just how tedious it is to migrate from one computer to another. It's not just a matter of installing all the apps I have accumulated. That's not such a big deal. It's applying all the configuration/settings for each app. What …
>they are both matter and they always will Would you care to back that up with your reasons why?
One person in the group was always on 24x7 standby with a cell phone so no important calls got missed.
I don't know if this would work for yahoo, but a couple of years ago my older son needed to save a pile of work emails and attachments from his google account that was tied to his old job. I connected it via pop3 using Thunderbird and downloaded everything into …
>Improve Content Quality @Muhammed_356 - Do you not see the irony in this? You insist on making posts that almost literally duplicate what everyone else has said. This does nothing to improve content quality.
I have an email address that contains my name but I guard that tenaciously, only giving it to a few very trusted organizations (my former employer for pension and info purposes), and also a very few trusted individuals. For everything else like Meta, Kijiji, Google, etc, I have a google …
Who is to say what a sentient AI will find worthwhile? I don't believe you can narrow it down to those two things any more than you can narrow down humans to, for example, sex, power and money. If you are an atheist then you defne your own purpose. Some …
I hadn't heard of them until just now.
I've been using Python for shell scripting for years. Of course, for the longest time, the only alternative was vbscript. PowerShell is now probably better for shell scripting (in Windows) but because I am familiar with Python I prefer not to split my remaining neurons between two languages.
I think hardware has made me an angrier person. Technology was supposed to make our lives better but it seems I am suffering (not to minimize **actual** suffering) death by a thousand cuts. Nothing works well with anything else (in my experience), and many things that **do** work, work poorly.
The only software I have come across that ran on Windows 10 but not Windows 11 is PaintShopPro 9, and it is so old I am not surprised. What specific apps are not running, and what errors are you getting? Have you tried running the apps in compatibility mode?
I'm trying to create a Windows 11 virtual machine using HyperV under Windows 11 Pro and all I keep getting is  I dowloaded the current Windows 11 Pro bootable iso so I'mm assuming something in HyperV is misconfigured but I have no idea what. I've gone through all the …
You are going to get the expected answers from us dinosaurs. The glib answer is that most of my "youth" in computers predates software. At least software that you would recognize by today's standards. I'm talking about anything you would recognize, namewise. Almost all editing was done on mainframes and …
>Write functionality via our API is currently limited to voting up/down on posts I can see that being abused unless safeties are built in.
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**1) If it ain't broke, don't fix it.** The code base we got from Westinghouse back in 1983 was: 1. Horribly written (never refactored) 2. Horribly formatted (no whitespace, incorrect or missing indentation) 3. Poorly named variables and constants I had to make a minor change to the code in …
This is a little project I threw together for exchanging messages between two computers. It started as a way for my wife and me to exchange messages when one of us was inside and the other outside in the hammock. I tried various approaches involving a shared folder (a bit …
I was never one to jump on the band wagon. If a tech was useful or fun then I used it. I use it until it is no longer fun or useful. I still use my Oculus Quest because it is still fun. I use ChatGPT because it is useful. …
You probably have a Quest 2. My younger son and I really enjoyed Red Matter 2. My goto game is In Death Unchained but I still do a little Beat Saber now and then. I used to use BigScreen to watch movies but now I find the Oculus TV app …
A private reply wouldn't be of help to anyone else, and that kind of defeats the whole purpose of a public forum.
@rproffitt - Do you feel that Meta has a responsibility to weed out scam messages when we don't expect the same of Canada Post or the US Postal Service? @dani - In 2004 Bill Gates famously said that they would have the spam problem solved within two years.
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In the summer of 2022 I bought an ASUS laptop from BestBuy. It came with an internal SSD and an empty internal bay for a 2.5" drive. I didn't install a second drive until October and when I booted up it would not recognize the added drive. When I took …
>Remember that such comes with time. I don't think it necessarily does. With more and more communication being done by text/leet/emoji I think each generation's language skills get a little worse. Kids don't have to get good grades to pass. They just get moved along regardless of ability. In the …
Home networking. I don't know what it's like setting up a home network with Macs but it's a pain in the ass under Windows. Now I'll sit back and wait for the linux fans to chime in.
It's been quite a while since I worked with Sharepoint but in my limited experience the biggest obstacle was education. The people who had to create content got 99% of the training. The people who had to maintain it, at least in my group, got next to nothing.
Popular doesn't mean best, and best can depend on many factors: 1. speed of game play and complexity of calculations 2. speed and ease of development 3. available resources 4. skill and number of developers 5. type of game (first person shooter, puzzle, etc.) Years ago I wrote a 3D …
print('Hello, world') Admittedly, not very helpful, but you didn't give us anything to work with. 1. What language? Perl, Rust, Python, etc.? 2. What platform? Mac, Windows, Linux? 3. What environment? Web, local? 4. What do you want it to do? 5. Interactive or automated? In the mean time please …
I don't do enough programming to justify being proficient in more than one language. I'd rather be competent in one than mediocre in several so I just stick to Python/wxPython these days. I've always found APL the most interesting language to work with but Python has been the most "fun" …
Grammar nazi checking in. The expression is "bated breath", a short form of "abated breath". "Baited breath" means you just ate sardines. OK. Technically not a grammar issue. But I'm still a grammar nazi. Perhaps I should start a "misused expressions" thread.
>Why do adults like watching cartoons? That's all anime is -- just another name for children's cartoons. That's like judging all westerns after seeing one old episode of the Lone Ranger. I've seen many Anime that had plots that were more complex and better thought out than many adult movies. …
I miss the time when everything on the internet wasn't monetized, at least to the extent it is now. I see the parallels between the evolution of the internet and the evolution of rock & roll and computers. The days of two guys in a garage creating/revolutionizing an industry are …
@Dani - I know you understand brain fog. I've had about three hours sleep since 8:00 yesterday morning so I thought @rproffitt was downvoting the original post rather than tha AI summary. Apologies. I'm still running on empty so I'll just stop there.
First of all, welcome back to Daniweb. Not knowing something makes you ignorant, not unintelligent. We are all ignorant about many things. Being proud of your ignorance and willing to stay that way, however, IS a bad thing. Looking back at some of your posts I see that: 1. You …
Debugging by toggling in hand-assembled code from the front panel.
Several criteria come to mind. In no particular order: o Is it interesting o Is it useful o Is the effort to learn it worth the payback o Will I use it often enough to retain it
Mostly I use IDLE (Python) but if I need to do serious debugging I use vscode.
October 1968, the first time I heard Switched on Bach. I was 14.
There are certain words and phrases that drive me absolutely bat-shit crazy. Some have been around for decades and others are relatively new. "It is what it is". Not the worst of the bunch but mostly useless. Any portmanteau beginning with "bro", e.g. "bromance". "Pre-owned", "pre-loved", etc. Used is still …
>According to me Decentralized marketplaces are the future because it provides more security and transparancy. Can you back that up? How does decentralization accomplish this?
1. Rage-baiting 2. The attention economy 3. Reaction videos Although #3 is more disappointment than shock.
I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it.
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