Computer Thread

[solakani]

Raspberry Pi 400 would be perfect for a 11 year old for educational learning, social media, shopping.... Pi 400 is costs 100 bucks. Pair that with a 27" retina screen to complete the build. Runs a recent copy of debian arm. This is excellent value when compared to a 27" iMac.

 

[raratt]

Oh joy, laptop won't power up, now I have to sit in an uncomfortable chair at a desk instead of on the couch. I contacted my computer geek friend already. I just break things when dealing with a laptop.

 

[solakani]

Oh joy, laptop won't power up, now I have to sit in an uncomfortable chair at a desk instead of on the couch. I contacted my computer geek friend already. I just break things when dealing with a laptop.

I prefer the use of nerd over geek. Know nothing of your laptop, I will guess it is a hard drive failure or power supply issue.

Yes I am going to need a better ergonomic setup as well.

 

[raratt]

 

[neosapien]

I prefer the use of nerd over geek. Know nothing of your laptop, I will guess it is a hard drive failure or power supply issue.

Yes I am going to need a better ergonomic setup as well.

My buddy and I came up with the term "redorkulate". "I'm very sorry honey but I will be late for dinner. I need to redorkulate the hard drive back into the case.

 

[solakani]

Chance to double the mips for $350 plus extra $7 annual increase in hydro

 

[neosapien]

I'm trying to find a super cheap TV on FB to use as a monitor to test things. People are pretty ridiculous in not knowing to post what inputs the TV has. Or model #. Or anything other than a pic of the screen. I hate to tell you folks here this but… watch out cuz there's some real dummies out there.

 

[BarnBuster]

See, I knew if I sent enough emails to the IRS they'd stop this shit

I.R.S. to End Use of Facial Recognition for Identity Verification (Published 2022)

After a bipartisan backlash, the agency will transition away from using a service from ID.me.

www.nytimes.com

 

[solakani]

I got lucky with my hockey bet last night so I am going using the money for my build.

 

[neosapien]

I got lucky with my hockey bet last night so I am going using the money for my build.
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Nice. You already have a case and PSU?

I've been looking at new cases for myself but honestly haven't found anything that I like more than my 15 year old Antec nine hundred.

 

[solakani]

Personally I start my build with a use case not a computer case.

 

[neosapien]

Personally I start my build with a use case not a computer case.

 

[solakani]

Personally as to myself and not for anyone to take it personally. I am so stoned.

 

[Aeroknow]

I grew up in san jose. 6th grade we had computer class. Typing i was 65 wpm corrected freshman year. i used to have to know Dos commands. Used to build my own tower PC’s. From Fry’s.

i own a smart phone now.

 

[solakani]

I love gadgets so I just got a gimbal Smooth4 to play with. I think Squid Game series was shot with a phone camera.

 

[neosapien]

I grew up in san jose. 6th grade we had computer class. Typing i was 65 wpm corrected freshman year. i used to have to know Dos commands. Used to build my own tower PC’s. From Fry’s.

i own a smart phone now.
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Yeah. I'm still waiting for Elon to stick a chip in my brain so I can learn swahili in like 10ms.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Yeah. I'm still waiting for Elon to stick a chip in my brain so I can learn swahili in like 10ms.

He has already embedded in all your digits. LOL.

 

[shimbob]

I miss Fry's. We once found an 8bit ISA card that would take a serial port mouse but present it as a ps2 mouse, and free up a serial port.

 

[solakani]

Lol welcome to 2022, Raspberry Pi OS goes 64bit today. The Raspberry Pi contains a UART serial port on the GPIO header on pins 8, TXD (GPIO 14) and 10, RXD (GPIO 15). I use a serial port to connect to the console of network switches and routers.

 

[solakani]

Toredown my router to get access to the serial port. Mod to add external port before closing up. The serial to usb interface requires a driver in Win95. My goal is to replace the router firmware with an open source firmware.