Posts by jelabarre59

Re: Built into a keyboard?

I have one of those Acer AspireOne netbooks (Atom CPU N270) that a former tenant left behind, which I had bumped up to it's maximum 2GB memory. Perfectly functional for when I needed a basic word-processor (LibreOffice under Linux) away from home. But I had wondered if U could fit some newer 64bit SBC like the rPi4 into the housing. It would involve un-soldering the on-board ports and relocating them to where they are placed on the netbook.

But then once I picked up a cheap Lenovo Chromebook (which I can run Android and Linux apps on anyway) it didn't make any sense to do it (other than for the giggles, like our friend who put a V8 into a Dodge Colt on a bet). So now I'd probably just use it as a DOS retro-gaming machine.

Re: Built into a keyboard?

Only real downside was the Dell battery quality of this era..

Did you use "Dell" and "quality" in the same sentence?

Re: Lame excuse for no full fat HDMI

There's heaps of spare space along that back panel! One full size and one micro would have been nice and you are 100% more likely to have the right lead.

And I don't see using more than one screen with one of these. Sure, I can see with the regular rPi4 that you could use it for digital signage. But if I'm working at something that needs more than one display, I'd more than likely going to want a full-size mechanical keyboard. (Which I suppose goes back to my idea of fitting it's system board inside of a Model-M)

Re: The keyboard is everything

Well, thinking of keyboards, I've wondered if you could remove the rPi board from the keyboard-case it comes in, and modify an IBM Model-M to take it (the hardest parts would be providing the extra power the Model-M likes to have, and making a conversion for the cable on the rPi400 board to whatever adapter you use for the PS/2 KB controller board)

The government should give one of these to every school kid for tele-learning during Covid lockdown.

That presumes you have an HDMI-capable monitor lying around. I know in my household, the only options are the 42" TV in the living room, and the 32" one on the top of the tall dresser in the bedroom. Neither of which is a usable solution for a computer-in-a-keyboard. Plenty of VGA/DVI flat-panel monitors, but that still brings up the additional need for adapters to connect to a display (and can you see your local council being able to handle that?)

Re: Corporate derangement syndrome

in addition there could be:

3: maybe the complaints have something to say that could be USEFUL to learn from, and maybe you could make a better company that would attract MORE customers.

But implementing #3 usually takes more work than a lot of corporate execs want to do, or are even capable of doing.

Re: Tactics

Somehow, to the laissez-faire capitalists that we now must endure, government and laws are an 'impediment' to 'advancement'

Far too many people are misunderstanding proper "laissez-faire". It's supposed to work in BOTH directions; a company is supposed to be able to run their company as they see fit, but they **ALSO** are not guaranteed a profit, or laws/regulations favouring them. If they can't survive on their own, tough luck, step aside and let someone ELSE do the job.

Re: I hope they throw the book at them.

There's probably something on tvtropes.org, and the content is freely available. Just don't expect to leave the site for 2-3 hours.

Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?

Thirdly, the origin of "fuck" is generally believed to have been derived from middle-German "fikken" rather than the pun above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04_rIuVc_qM **NSFW**

And if you're in Brazil, be careful how you say "OK!"

Re: after you purchased ... login compulsary

When are the so called Tech companies going to be reigned in? Apple and Microsoft are Tech, but really Google, Facebook and Amazon just leverage technology.

Don't know, but when US Senators start working towards this, El Reg writes whiney articles complaining about it.

Re: why or how

Notably, it's useful if a thing you want to use requires (or has) dependencies incompatible with your existing installation, or some already present program; the snap thing, being more self-contained, might be a convenient solution.

Isn't that what containers are for? And you can actually access the filesystems of those.

Re: Move to Wayland?

yes, the Wayland folks keep trotting out the same excuse that "well, these features *could* be enabled, we're thinking of looking into them sometime in the future, they don't work anymore, and just **why** are you asking for them? NO ONE uses THOSE anymore... Oh, you do? Well you shouldn't".

Just love it when someone can't be arsed to make a replacement even close to feature-compatible, then insult you when you point that out.

Re: You don't get it

She lost more than money. She lost face.

Hey, she backed Obama and Biden too. She's going to lose even *MORE* face.

Nope, I'm a full card-carrying hater. I hate both Microsoft and Google. And I despise Apple so much I will not use their products.

Nah, I'll use Apple products... When it's a uesd MacBook Pro I picked up for $75 at a flea market, and just grab the latest MacOS updates for HighSierra for free. (and the rest of the software on it is FLOSS for the most part).

Why can't we just have a Minecraft that doesn't actually fucking require any login if not playing online. Like all the old CD games from the 90s.

https://www.minetest.net/

Re: Too funny.

Seems you clearly didn't catch Hunter Biden's corruption story being blocked on FB and Twitter.

Seems that everything you and others accuse Trump of doing... The Dems are doing.

ElReg probably blocked it too,.

Re: Burn it down to the roots

The GOP Democratic Party is enamored with power, that's all they care about. Anyone, or anything, damaged or destroyed for them to gain or keep that power is irrelevant

There, FTFY, just had to correct your factual error.

Re: we are talking about people being killed

I am all in favor of allowing crackpots to spout off their ideas in public, it makes them easier to spot and subsequently avoid.

As the saying goes, "Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt".

Re: Tide going out is good?

Except that these days you'd be better off custom building that "desktop" machine yourself. Your bog-standard consumer desktop is more likely to be a laptop-derived motherboard in a big box. And then there's those flashy-expensive "Gaming Desktops" with the lights, plastic side-windows, monster fans, but ***NO*** optical drives, or even a place to put them. At the exorbitant prices they charge for those showy boxes, they should have AT LEAST one BD Writer in them, maybe a DVD writer as well.

(I also think the lights and windows are stupid, but without the optical drives, I wouldn't be buying one anyway).

Re: $750

Don't agree - we burn your business.

Boy, I wish I could give you 100 upvotes there.

Re: Parallels

Government interference in the healthcare system **ALREADY** destroyed it. So how do you think *MORE* interference will make it better?

Re: Parallels

Stupid McAfee. if only he hadn't run for President as the Libertarian candidate, he could have quietly laundered his Bitcoin money and lived out his life in peace.

He never actually ran AS a Libertarian Party candidate. In his dreams maybe, but his own wet dreams don't make him an LP candidate.

Re: is he still a US citizen ?

That's not the question. The US will consider him a legal citizen regardless of how many other citizenships or passports he holds unless he renounces his citizenship, in person, at a US Embassy or Consulate.

I don't know. Bill Clinton did that once, yet he still got elected President.

Re: Go back and look at the formation of the USA

...strained the Constitution to its breaking point. We'll soon find out if he gets to destroy it.

Nope, that only happens if we get President Harris and her ventriloquist dummy Biden.

Re: 4GB is plently enough RAM

Smoke signals? ==>

If you tried running MSTeams on the Surface Go, you'd probably have plenty of smoke signals emanating from it.

Re: Apple prices without the desirability

Because given that the SL-Go would likely be bought by Millenials with more money than sense, they'll probably turn it over for the next year's shiny, and can't be arsed to try to get their money back out of it. As in " 'ere, take this ancient smelly thing of my hands. You can have it for a tenner..."