#laptop
I have a proposal for #Laptop manufacturers.
The "Fn" key should be placed randomly on the keyboard, it should be different for every brand and type produced, so users can not easy switch between two laptops without activating unwanted actions or fucking get insane!
I broke my old laptop and bought a similar one that came with the surprising touchscreen.
Tried to sell the old one for repair, but the highest bid I got was 70 euros
Decided to sell it in pieces, sold the NVME SSD, External battery, internal battery and french Azerty keyboard separately and they are all gone, I have got 78 euros and still have the screen and couple of other pieces for sale. So I am guessing I will end up going even and got my memory upgraded to 32GB and dual front camera and touchscreen as bonus.
It's amazing how happy people are buying them at "low cost" compared to new specially the guy who bought the international battery andi helped him replace the old one for free (got a cup of coffee for the work), he even sent me a tank you note after he left for family vacation with the my 2 old batteries that last about 6h on his laptop (compared to less than 2 that he was getting before.
And for me, I no longer feel bad about breaking my old computer:) I really wish the guy who bought the keyboard had a QWERTY keyboard so we could exchange. But his keyboard was German which is harder for me to use than the Azerty one I have right now.
Gab es nicht hier jemand, der günstig secondhand laptops verkauft? Ich brauche ein paar, beziehungsweise unsere Geflüchteten.
#frage #laptop #gebraucht #refugees
Will you spray my laptop for me?
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a9q9M0o_460svav1.mp4
1 min #video w/sound
#art #spray #laptop
The end of #Windows 10 support could turn 240 million PCs into e-waste
source: https://www.canalys.com/insights/end-of-windows-10-support-could-turn-240-million-pcs-into-e-waste
Canalys estimates that in the nearly two-year period until #Microsoft’s official end-of-support date for Windows 10 – 14 October 2025 – roughly a fifth of devices will become e-waste due to incompatibility with the Windows 11 OS. This equates to 240 million PCs. If these were all folded laptops, stacked one on top of another, they would make a pile 600km taller than the moon.
#pc #laptop #computer #update #upgrade #problem #waste #pollution #news #environment #software #OS
wonderful world of IT
I have got three (3 !) #olympus #digital-camera (all 7 - 10 years old)
one doesn't work any more - the „tough model - haha !... I use it as a loading station for the batteries
always getting on my nerves that every single model has another #USB conection cable
after some 15 years the #EU at last decided some standarrdization of this cable mess
15 years - hurray !! (don't mentiion #transaktionssteuer #transaction-tax - perhaps in 1200 years ?)
now I wanted to reload these batteries (also especially designed flatt batteries for Olympus) via USB
didn' t work properly - not on the broken one nor on the other #camera s nor with other batteries
so trying to do it via my #laptop
BANG ... or just .... nothing - laptop dead/destroyed
by chance the laptop only served as „ersatz“ - I got my data back-upped from the pc... but anyway...
as some guys recommended me a cheap laptop due to the endless ... sorry .... shit installing cups in #linux
https://despora.de/posts/c81947b09f60013b806a543d7eeced27
I had one ordered.
so I put out the hard disk from the dead laptop and installed it in the HP Windows laptop
(funny: did t find the hard disk in the HP ... no 2,5 inch hard disk - just a tiny SSD one ... how small they are nowadays... I know: I am getting old ;)
after some trying in the BIOS I managed to get #Ubuntu started in the HP notebook in secure mode and could rescue my data...
I 'll install linux mint now (and buy another monitor from #lapstore (also broken...) - don't rely on #ixsoft any more...)
and what should I do with the cameras now ? did these old, flat Olympus batteries kill the mainboard or the USB cable
I only found pages on internet about a USB kill switch for #jornalists and #whistleblowers wjen the police storms ths house...
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/buskill-kill-cord-self-destruct-laptop/?guccounter=1
or was it a bad USB cable ? but I had three of them (every Olympus model another one LOL)
https://gizmodo.com/cheap-usb-c-cables-could-kill-your-phone-or-laptop-1757115350
#Apple says #8GB of #RAM on #M3 MacBooks is similar to #16GB on #Windows PCs
source: https://www.techspot.com/news/100784-apple-8gb-ram-m3-macbooks-similar-16gb-windows.html
Apple's new M3 products push the emerging #Arm #PC sector to the next level, but the cheapest #MacBook in the lineup is a $1,600 #notebook with only 8GB of unified memory. Many consider 16GB the current standard and arguably the minimum for intense workloads, but Apple thinks its RAM is different.
I'm also wondering why 8GB of RAM on a MacBook costs as much as 32GB on a non-Apple #laptop?
#workload #memory #computer #economy #price #hardware #question #technology
Wenn sich eure Laptop-Tastatur plötzlich seltsam verhält und z.B. die Medientasten (auf den F-Tasten) oder Dinge wie Alt+F2 nicht mehr funktionieren, schaut mal, ob der Laptop eine Fn-Lock-Taste hat, die vielleicht gedrückt wurde. Jemand...äh...ein Freund von mir hat gerade eine Stunde mit der Fehlersuche vergeudet. Der Depp.
