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I never got a laptop, they can't be modified with anything but a new laptop. I went WinTab with 7. Happy
(Course now I want to get 16G and 256SSD)

 

OOps ! I meant to say that Apple did that before in the 90s. The result was they had to come out with PowerPC. They think we'll let them forget? Long live the revolution!!

 

I will give Microsoft credit, they made the best tablet I've ever owned. It had Windows 8 on it, but that little thing was zippy; I was actually able to play a space simulator game I made on it without many frames dropped; I got to take it to work and show off my game to my coworkers, which was really fun, lol. Unfortunately, I had an accident with it and the screen broke, so now I'm stuck with the slower Android tablet I have, lol.

 

So very true!

 

Are they really throttling their phones after the warranty?

 

Oh, hey, TA are you still using hangouts & google docs? I can PM you a link.

 

I have an old Acer Aspire 5534, and I put Ubuntu on it just because it ran much better on the aging hardware. Without Microsoft constantly trying to run updates, speed is back up to, battery life is up, and I gained probably around 30GB on the hard drive after uninstalling Windows.

 

Ubuntu was my very first Linux operating system; I adore the Unity environment; it was so simple and clean compared to my Windows desktop; I was hooked ever since.

 

I haven't been on Hangouts in awhile, but I can get reacquainted with it.

 

Apple? I'm not sure if they are, but I wouldn't be surprised; they seem to be the absolute worst tech company pushing planned obsolescence now; so far as I know, Microsoft isn't messing with our hardware yet, but I wouldn't put it past them to do so in the near future.

 

Sure they are. Vista, a case in point, was driver locked, to begin with, and the Verisign process was too latent to bring certified drivers for the diverse OEM market at release. Even Dell computers shipped with unverified drivers so that quarterly sales reports wouldn't reflect the drop in the market. The ensuing fustercluck had support lines clogged and the beginning of the pissed-off consumers Linux revolt! I believe there were a couple market campaigns that boasted Linux compatibility on their PC features. Microsoft had considered abandonig its HAL and filesystem layers as punishment for the drop in 'faith', which pushed all the gamers to start writing high performance games for Linux. I suspect most gameservers in the world are Linux, cause us real humons don't like getting fcuked when we want something our way instead of theirs.

 

Ah, it seems Microsoft beat Apple's latest travesty to the punch then. It really is infuriating the kind of things they pull with customers!

I have noticed that Linux is getting better - gaming wise. I installed World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2 on my desktop not too long ago, and both work really good. Beforehand, there was so many workarounds you had to do to get them to work, but they seem to run rather seamlessly with Linux now, which is awesome.

 

I'm told that League of Legends performs on Linux better for the Gf10 Graphics Family, even after two MS driver updates. It would seem their true heart is not in the Microsoft feifdom.

 

Ummm, maybe need an OS thread?

 

Maybe I need to let go of my ill-fated past?

 

I downloaded the latest version of Gimp recently, the popular open source image-editor, and I went through a few of its filters to see how they work; I'm really impressed with the application; it has a lot more capabilities than the older version had.

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Oil Painting


Photocopy



Glass Tile

 

Well I might need to download the latest version,
it might be a bit better than the version I have.

 

I love that avatar CT.

 

CT's avatar is wonderfully disturbing!

 

Oh yes. I must be wonderfully disturbing for finding it, somehow, attractive, lol.

 

What would we call it? Clown Fet? Comic Villian Fet? Cosplay Fet?

(certainly not field effect transistor)

 

Possibly Clomicosvill??? lol.

 

Where's the Guffaw emoji!!

 

CT's avatar looks like someone I know IRL. That's what weirds me out about it.