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Hello lads,
Even if you avoid the idiot box, we are endlessly inundated with claims that we need the next ‘miracle’ product – a tool, a fat-free cooker, exercise machine, air cleaner, steam mop, gadget or gizmo or whatever, that will revolutionise our very existence. I’ve been fool enough to buy a couple on occasion, and was invariably disappointed.
I’m wondering if anyone ever had a good experience with such a thing? The only gadget that’s really changed my life was my laptop – being able to code my own stuff on long night-shifts at work on my own laptop massively increased my ability to get my own s~~~ done.
Anyone else got a good story, or is it all marketing blues?
Laptop = yes!
I’ve squandered many bucks on gadgets, now I’m out of the gadget buying business. They all lost their luster and got sent to a bottom shelf in an out of the way cabinet. Unless, I resurrected them and donated them to my favorite charity thrift store — that’s a win all ’round.
Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?
Solid Sate Drives they have saved me hours.
A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!
Once upon a time I bought an HP laptop without a hard drive, but with an old-fashioned disk drive.
How medieval! That’s a mistake I’ll never make again! It’s hard drive only for me for the foreseeable future.Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?
I’ve used the internet to teach myself how to strength train and it introduced me to alternative health philosophy I would’ve never reached. I use it to read books on a variety of subjects. I’ve heard music that otherwise would be inaccessible, and I can work with my band via the internet when we are too busy offline. Of course, it is also the technology that brings us together and introduced many red pill truths to us. I love the internet. Despite this, I also have a distrust of technology. Just like anything, we need to be aware of the risk when using it and not allow ourselves to be gullible. I avoid social media and try to be selective about which websites I go to.
GPS
As a boat captain and navigator.There was Loaran first but the worked near coast only.The first Gps we had to wait for 45 min to have the few satellites available to line up for a fix.On a trip to south America there were cloudy skies the kept us for from getting a celestial fix with sexton for 10 days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation
When fix was attained we were 200 mn off course as the water from the Amazon River pushing against us.A garmin gps in the wheel house/bridge saved a lot of disasters and loss of life from hidding reefs and rocky shoals.Linux.
Not only did it completely revolutionize the way I compute, freeing me from a world where every “feature” has some kind of alterior motive behind it and some tech mogul with his/her hand out, but it turned into a very lucrative career.
It also freed me up from wondering if my computer was sending my activities or opening my cam/mic for someone else to look at. You can make a linux box damn secure, and most are pretty close to that right out of the box these days.
Plus now that you can run Steam natively on Linux, the best games in the world are at your fingertips. Nevermind kickass studio gear like Blender3D, GIMP, and Audacity.
All totally free, being built and released freely by volunteers. What’s not to like? Anyone who doesn’t at least use it for a secondary/backup OS on their computer is leaving money on the table at this point.
"Data, I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know." --Captain Picard,
Linux.
Not only did it completely revolutionize the way I compute, freeing me from a world where every “feature” has some kind of alterior motive behind it and some tech mogul with his/her hand out, but it turned into a very lucrative career.
It also freed me up from wondering if my computer was sending my activities or opening my cam/mic for someone else to look at. You can make a linux box damn secure, and most are pretty close to that right out of the box these days.
Plus now that you can run Steam natively on Linux, the best games in the world are at your fingertips. Nevermind kickass studio gear like Blender3D, GIMP, and Audacity.
All totally free, being built and released freely by volunteers. What’s not to like? Anyone who doesn’t at least use it for a secondary/backup OS on their computer is leaving money on the table at this point.
Wait a second. You mention steam and three programs I use. If all games on steam can run on Linux, you have me convinced I am missing out.
Right from the horse’s mouth, here’s Valve’s guide to steam under Linux:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux
Here’s the install steps for Ubuntu:
Plus there’s lots more. Bear in mind that the new Steam game console is a Linux box when all is said and done, so it just stands to reason they would support it fully.
PS: don’t be intimidated by how big Valve’s linux site is. They’re just trying to cover all the different ways you might want to run it and that they support. If you’re new to Linux, I would just do a simple Ubuntu install and follow those steps. I personally prefer Fedora over Ubuntu because I find it easier to build things from source code, but Ubuntu will probably be simpler to get Steam running and it has a great desktop. Not that Fedora doesn’t have a kick ass desktop
"Data, I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know." --Captain Picard,
Some great stuff here. Now that Bunker Mode mentions it, Youtube has also pretty much revolutionised my life – I put my own whirlybirds on my roof and put in my own insulation after watching how-to vids. Neither of these are difficult to do (is? are?) but I wouldn’t have tried it without the how-to vids that were only a click away. Also learnt to field strip my Winchester that way 🙂
The digital camera, changed everything for me, I do a lot of underwater photography, and I was stuck with 36 exposures on a dive, to almost limitless exposures. Also I could see what adjustments I needed to make with lighting, exposure, composition on the fly.
"what a waste of a life, to marry, give up your freedom, just for the hope of not dying alone. Don't get married Son."
Its low tec but it scratches a big ass itch. So far Silky has outperformed all but 3 x partners.
I’ve used the internet to teach myself how to strength train and it introduced me to alternative health philosophy I would’ve never reached. I use it to read books on a variety of subjects. I’ve heard music that otherwise would be inaccessible, and I can work with my band via the internet when we are too busy offline. Of course, it is also the technology that brings us together and introduced many red pill truths to us. I love the internet. Despite this, I also have a distrust of technology. Just like anything, we need to be aware of the risk when using it and not allow ourselves to be gullible. I avoid social media and try to be selective about which websites I go to.
I’ll drink to that.
Actions have consequences and consequences have prices. Cause and effect at work.
The computer. Opened many, many doors to me. Whole new worlds were discovered.
The digital camera. I didn’t ever own a film camera, but I’m sure I would never have become involved if I had to deal with the potential problems of film. I can imagine how many shots would not have turned out and that it would’ve drove me nuts.
Internet – The ability to reach things I couldn’t even dream of before. Although I wish it was still as glamorous as it was in the old days.
Alternative operating systems – Taught me far more about computers than Windows ever did. With the exception of a certain OS that I now loathe – spent more time trying to deal with broken stuff there than actually learning…
SSDs
World Wide Internet/Clearnet
Usenet
Tor
Darknets
VPNs
GNU/LinuxThese are the technology that helped me learn and see what the world that people tried to conceal on how the world works. I now avoid social media sites like Facebook and I don’t use Google as my search engine since I want to minimize my interaction with Google adsense and search bots.
I was a blue pill moron, but at the time, I was also s~~~ testing women whenever I got the chance. I got called a asshole and a jerk with no feelings when I make some jokes involving sex, relationships, and partying. I guess the matrix failed to make me a full blown blue pill mangina with my b~~~~ in a jar.
I’ve used the internet to teach myself how to strength train and it introduced me to alternative health philosophy I would’ve never reached. I use it to read books on a variety of subjects. I’ve heard music that otherwise would be inaccessible, and I can work with my band via the internet when we are too busy offline. Of course, it is also the technology that brings us together and introduced many red pill truths to us. I love the internet. Despite this, I also have a distrust of technology. Just like anything, we need to be aware of the risk when using it and not allow ourselves to be gullible. I avoid social media and try to be selective about which websites I go to.
I’ll drink to that.
Right from the horse’s mouth, here’s Valve’s guide to steam under Linux:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux
Here’s the install steps for Ubuntu:
Plus there’s lots more. Bear in mind that the new Steam game console is a Linux box when all is said and done, so it just stands to reason they would support it fully.
PS: don’t be intimidated by how big Valve’s linux site is. They’re just trying to cover all the different ways you might want to run it and that they support. If you’re new to Linux, I would just do a simple Ubuntu install and follow those steps. I personally prefer Fedora over Ubuntu because I find it easier to build things from source code, but Ubuntu will probably be simpler to get Steam running and it has a great desktop. Not that Fedora doesn’t have a kick ass desktop
Ubuntu is a okay system for beginners, and for games it is well supported with steam, but the way packages are handled, it is sometimes a mess to deal with since sometimes the package manager on odd times does remove dependencies that you may need for your system to work If you use the GUI package manager or the CLI . And don’t get me started with PPAs. Ubuntu devs overall takes one too many risks when making projects, and their release times most certainly don’t help.
The next four links are six years, but the problems regarding Apt-get and release times still hold true to this day.
If you want a rock solid system as a backup, then I would recommend Centos or Debain over Ubuntu.
Actions have consequences and consequences have prices. Cause and effect at work.
Tech has been a serious part of my life since before I started school back in ’88 and it looks like I’ve benefited from most of it. Let’s look at different categories tech has changed or benefited my life:
Video games (NES my first system) back then when I was only a few years old, I found it very cool to being able to play a game on a TV set, which I didn’t know. I was a major gamer back in the day, and I would easily kick ass against my friends who were also major gamers. Because of my eye-hand coordination in games, my parents and teachers all thought I’d be a good driver, and I am. I’m a cautious driver, but no accidents, or tickets at the age of 33.
TV, and movies: I was highly pleasured when times get bad. Back in the 80s and 90s there as always something to watch, especially for kids. I had Ninja Turtles (1987 series), we had good parts of Disney, we had Nickelodeon during its golden times. I had good comedy sitcoms like: Home Improvement, Married… With Children, Diff’rent Strokes, Three Stooges, Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, when I was very little, I had Pee-Wee Herman.
Computers in general: I was real far behind when I got my first computer back in 1998. It was an old DOSHELL computer, and even though it was a relic when I got it, I still enjoyed playing the games that were on it. My second computer was an early 90s MAC, and again I had fun with it. But my first PC with internet came in February 12, 2001 (senior year in high school) was a Compaq Presario Windows ME, and that is when my love for computers started to take off. I learned how to makes soundtrack CDs, I learned how to burn movie DVDs, I learned how build my own Resident Evil, Ninja Turtle, NeverEnding Story fan websites (Ninja Turtles still being fixed, and Resident Evil taken down by those crooks at Webs.com). I learned by asking around and tinkering with the inside of the computer how to fix PCs. I also learned how to build computers to the point that I some day will running my own online PC/eBay business and maybe a PC repair online business. I taught myself how to rip DVDs and Blu-Ray movies, convert them to MP4 files and put them onto my flash drive and play all my movies and TV shows on my Blu-ray player. All those DVDs on one tiny device and all selectable on the player; HD and 5.1 surround sound still there.
YouTube: I learned how to put all my video files onto YouTube so it doesn’t take up drive space and at the same times have them show up on my web pages like pointing out trivia facts, game/movie bloopers, video game walkthroughs and it not take up a single byte of storage space on my Webs.com accounts. I also use YouTube for learning how to do things that I want to take interest in such as workout, how to install brick onto room walls, how to install liquid water cooling for CPUs which I never had to do before, and I learned some computer assembly things I didn’t know before.
As you can see, the tech world has really been a major part of my life, and it looks like it will go from being from entertainment, to a learning tool, to something I’ll be making a living off of. The best part about all the tech I’ve used from the NES to the current PCs; no one taught me how to use them, I self-taught how to use the PC, how to burn soundtracks, movie DVDs, how to rip them and transferred them to a flash drive, to writing my own Resident Evil-like books on Word, how to build 4 major websites on a free site like Webs.com, and more. So I went from a curious 5 year old with his NES to a grown man who’s going to make a self-employed living off it soon; all was self-taught and I became an expert at it all.
Seriously, how says you need to finish college to do anything?
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T But my first PC with internet came in February 12, 2001 (senior year in high school) was a Compaq Presario Windows ME, and that is when my love for computers started to take off.
My first personal computer was also Windows ME on a handed down Pentium 1 Compaq ~2001. I couldn’t understand the hate for Windows ME until years later trying to get it to work like Windows NT. Constant instablity, DOS command prompt, trying to use Windows 2000 concepts in it was hell on earth.
Learned alot from that computer. It was perfectly capable of playing the older games I wanted to play at the time too.
I don’t get the hate for Windows ME either. It served me well. I learned how to use the Net then, I learned how to burn soundtracks (not always worked on the first try through), I learned how to save images to the computer instead of just using a printer, and I learned how to download music and videos on the ME. Granted the XP for about 12 years was my favorite, and then I got Windows 7 Pro last year for my birthday and this computer behaves a lot better than the last one I had. After seeing Windows 8/.1 and 10, I’m in no big hurry to end my relationship with 7 pro. I’m sticking with it until I can’t. If I had Windows 8, then I might upgrade to the 10 just so I can have the half of it that is part Windows 7, even if the other half is still like the 8.
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For my work, the much better notebooks that have come out over the years, especially the last 8 or so.
A nice dual core chip is all I really need. I like to get a lot of RAM, since that seems to help on certain projects involving graphics / sound software and multitasking which I am very big on.
Modern laptops, well under $1000, allow me to do so much more on the road. Better battery life has been as much a help too.
I paid cash for a $3,500 Thinkpad X series with extra battery and other addons 15 years ago. Now I do far more on a $500 model and the battery time is longer.
Frank V.
I don’t get the hate for Windows ME either. It served me well. I learned how to use the Net then, I learned how to burn soundtracks (not always worked on the first try through), I learned how to save images to the computer instead of just using a printer, and I learned how to download music and videos on the ME. Granted the XP for about 12 years was my favorite, and then I got Windows 7 Pro last year for my birthday and this computer behaves a lot better than the last one I had. After seeing Windows 8/.1 and 10, I’m in no big hurry to end my relationship with 7 pro. I’m sticking with it until I can’t. If I had Windows 8, then I might upgrade to the 10 just so I can have the half of it that is part Windows 7, even if the other half is still like the 8.
Didn’t have internet on my Windows ME. Most middle class people had dial up. No USB. Had to import everything with floppy disks from the family Windows 98 SE laptop.
I imported my first porn pic and pinup girl pics that way and my first warez download.
Since driver files were bigger than floppy disks, I had no sound on that computer until I was given a copy of Windows XP.
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