There is a place in my world for an Android tablet. It can browse most websites, use this forum, handle email.
I also have the , possibly wrong, impression that Android is less hackable than Linux…not in phones but when used alone in a tablet.
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So true just till the battery recharge cycle has ended its life short due to continued recharge
I agree.
My laptop is 3yr old, used with mains power more often than not.
Battery health is now down to 71%
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More and more new laptops have the battery built in and almost impossible to separate the case to remove the battery. Had one a few weeks back and the battery was dead faulty but when removed it stopped the computer from booting. Only would start with a physical contact even if bad.
I shorted the circuit to trick it to think it was still present. But after closing the case it was too light so the laptop would not stay in place just too top heavy with the screen. Result new battery bought and fitted. But in another few years same story if it still runs.
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Android is Linux. Thing is, as soon as possible it switches to a java runtime to run everything and bends over backwards for securing the device itself.
That being said, where I device is connected to the internet, it’s hackable.
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Those are the cheap ones (run of the mill stuff) for the unknowing buyers.
There are plenty of quality machines still to be had if wanted.
I feel the frustration you have of trying to deal with rubbish.
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One of the pleasures of working for yourself (even if I have closed my business officially) is I never know who is going to call or what they will bring to my door.
I donc really care to choose one make or model over another and its seasonal in some times its a set of apple mac then acer then asus… but no real reason why.
This week has been printer week, 2 epson and 2 hp all but one sorted and back out working. Silly faults the owners did not read the manual.
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Is that you can drive on the one after 909.
Sorry guys for posting this off topic vid.
I’m still living in the good old days.
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No i decided 20 years ago that I was really bad as an employee and unmanageable so the only answer was to work for myself that way I get a great boss who says yes when I want to play out, go on holiday, … I am never late, never in trouble, no meetings, no yes sir, and if I dont like a client I dont work for them
Not an easy life but i enjoy
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No problem whatsoever then.
Begs the question as to why it’s not an easy life.
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Sorry bad english, yes its really great
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Mine is 88% for a similar age. I use it quite a bit too. Probably an average of three to four hours each day. When not turned on it is almost always plugged in.
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I had nearly 30 years as an employee, but I was fortunate to be in a research lab where one had a degree of autonomy.
Then I had 20 years of farming. It was physically harder, especially as I became older, but more rewarding in non-financial ways . The main difference was we got to live in a beautiful natural environment.
I am now in the retirement phase but we still live on the farm. It is probably the biggest struggle… I am too slow to keep up with the maintenance and still cant find time to enjoy things.
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Think I work harder now I am in this area myself. But I still set aside at least 1 hour per day for sport and one 1 hour to do nothing just after lunch
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Yes my after lunch nap is an integral part of the routine now.
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A Power nap is very important for people in our positions.
Sesta is for retirement
Sometimes hard to fit in with medical rdv…
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To date (since 2015) I never had a problem with any SSD, even with the low cost ones from China.
Some time ago I read an article about SSDs that they should NOT be fully utilised such that defective cells could be excluded and any data be automatically moved to “healthy” cells.
On all my PCs/Laptops , data I really wish to keep are moved to data dics (internal or external) It means that SSDs running an operating system are never used beyond 75% of their capacity and I only use 240/256GB SSDs . I am more conservative and use SSDs up to 50% of their capacity which is more than adequate for all the apps I use on any Linux distro ( currently LM and Zorin OS)
I have NOT used M$ Windows since AD2004
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I think how full an ssd should be depends on how active the filesystems on it are.
If it contains a OS or a mature database there would be very few writes.. I am not sure but I do not think reads count… for example flash drives ard good for write once read many times… if you put active filesystems on them they are prone to failure… I think the same applies to larger ssd’s.
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Is my big worry plus originally the size
I am not alone in my thoughts on ssd vs bard disks