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You've never had this problem with a laptop battery. I assume you mean a swollen battery.
But do you know for a fact that the battery did not lose capacity? Or suffer other damage?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: You've never had this problem with a laptop battery. I assume you mean a swollen battery.
Correct.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But do you know for a fact that the battery did not lose capacity? Or suffer other damage?
I've never had a laptop battery that got deformed to the point where it no longer fit and had to be replaced. Beyond that - I have laptops that are 10+ years old, why would I even expect them not to have lost capacity, due simply to age?
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dandy72 wrote: I've had laptops plugged in for their entire lifetime. Never had this problem with a laptop battery.
It's happened to me twice with the same laptop (a Dell Latitude). Apparently, according to IT at work, this is a frequent occurrence (when you are managing ~1,000 laptops).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So in my statistical analysis with a sample of one I've had a failure rate of...100%. Twice. For the same phone.
I've owned/used maybe 10 laptops in my lifetime, total, and not a single one of them ever failed in that way. Granted it's still a tiny sample amount, but those still remain the facts as they are.
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dandy72 wrote: If I'm doing it wrong, I'd love to know what it is.
Have you checked the battery's gender?
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Do any of you subscribe to office 365, and if so, do you find it's actually good value for money? Yes I know it comes with a terabyte of cloud storage, but I'm wondering if anyone actually uses Office 365 or uses altenatives like Libre/Open Office and some other cloud storage solution. Thoughts?
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Please don't repost if the first doesn't appear - I deleted the spare for you once I let them through moderation.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Thank you. I had realised I'd posted it twice.
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I don't do subscription software.
Ever.
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Why not?
You probably have a phone, television and internet subscription and you wouldn't think twice about it.
What makes software that much different?
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I don't because there's typically very little value to it.
I bought FL Studio - lifetime free updates. That is the best case scenario
Standard scenario - pay money for a solid version, pay if you need to upgrade
Almost Worst case scenario - be forced to pay periodically - mainly because the company has to keep updating their software to fix security holes they introduced.
Worst case scenario: It's pay-to-play and only available online
Real programmers use butterflies
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That was before the cloud-era.
I love having some space in the cloud for my files and applications, so I can work from any computer, anywhere.
For me, that's a lot of added value that I gladly pay for.
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why don't you just use oneDrive? isn't 1TB free?
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I use OneDrive. 5GB free, 1TB for a subscription
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay for OneDrive rather than office?
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Because I also need Word and Excel and, later, Exchange.
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So isn't that the real reason you have Office?
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I never said it wasn't
I have an O365 subscription that gives me access to extra cloud storage and the web apps of Excel, Word, etc. as well as the local apps.
All I said is that it's the extra storage and web apps that you pay for periodically.
And I use them all.
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I was teasing.
TBH though, I'm glad I don't need that stuff anymore. If a different company made visual studio i might not even run microsoft stuff at all.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I was teasing. Oh, you!
honey the codewitch wrote: If a different company made visual studio I'm surprised and disappointed you don't code using Notepad(++) and then use your own compiler to compile that mess you call if-statements
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In my new code I've moved away from if statements altogether. Branching in code is so five minutes ago.
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Looking forward to your new article, if-less programming
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I've got all my documents. If I don't renew my subscription, I won't have access to my own stuff. Or if the renewal option goes away - maybe the manufacturer goes out of business, and noone takes over the license renewal function. Maybe renewal comes with a software update, the old version is no longer valid so I am forced to use the new one which may be incompatible with other software I use, or incompatible with my working habits, or some archaic fuctionality (which I am using) is no longer supported/available.
With bought, rather than subscribed, software you know what you've got. And you know that you've got it.
That's not specific to documents. The same goes for e.g. video editing projects. Or CD mastering files. Or the parameter files of the photo program that apply your edits, color/light adjustments and coppings at display time.
Obviously: You can make a PDF from your documents to make sure you have not lost the contents completely, and you can render your video to a playable MPEG4 file, to show to others. But creating copies in other, usually very static formats, is far away from having access to your original projects.
Some subscription software insist on having an internet connection to verify the license, and won't operate (or operate with severly restricted functionality) offline. I want the freedom to work offline when the work I am doing is not network oriented.
The very purpose of a phone/TV/internet subscription is to bring you new information. If you cancel them, you don't get any more new stuff - but it does not in any way affect any of your old stuff. You still have all the files you have downloaded, your memories of earlier phone conversations and TV shows. Nothing of that is lost.
I do not use streaming services, neither for movies not music. I want to have it all available if communications goes down. So my shelves are full of CDs, DVDs and BDs, and my disks are full of lots of downloaded stuff.
There is another aspect of streaming - but it may apply to a lot of rental software as well: The service very often collect telemetry data. They know how many times I have watched a given movie, which scenes I have repated etc. They know my musical taste. For software, some may even know e.g. the text I am editing, or at least the file name so that they can see how many different files I access, what is the average file size, for how long do I work on each file, at what time of the day do I work... Lots of this can be excused by "We need that kind of data to improve our product". Nevertheless: It is none of their business, neither how often I use their tools, for how long, and on which files.
Too often I discover that the software reports such data, even for fully paid software (not subscriptionware). It feels like being spyed on. It is a lot worse with subscriptionware.
So I am among those who stay away from subscriptionware whenever possible.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Some subscription software insist on having an internet connection to verify the license You mean like all those non-subscription games that do the same?
Probably lots of other software as well!
I recently wanted to play a game which has two campaigns, a single-player and a multi-player campaign, the last one could be played solo if you just played on a private server.
Even though I bought the game and I never needed a subscription, I can't access the second campaign anymore because I need to connect with the multiplayer servers, which are long gone.
I can also still use Word and Excel without an internet connection, even though it's O365, you just get the applications along with some cloud-only stuff.
Member 7989122 wrote: If I don't renew my subscription, I won't have access to my own stuff. Not necessarily true.
Your O365 documents can be opened by regular Office or even Libre/Open Office.
Member 7989122 wrote: I do not use streaming services, neither for movies not music. I want to have it all available if communications goes down. So my shelves are full of CDs, DVDs and BDs I do have Netflix because:
a) I can't buy everything I want to see (because it's not available and/or because I'm not rich).
b) a lot isn't worth buying.
c) I won't see most movies a second time anyway, even the good ones.
Same goes for Spotify.
With your logic you can't go to the movies or concerts either because you won't be able to see or listen to it later.
I still buy movies and CD's too though, not everything is available for streaming and sometimes, as you say, you just want to watch on-demand.
I've got a "little" cousin (8 years younger, but I'm 32, you know how that goes lol) who comes watch movies at my place because I've got some classics right here on my shelve.
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Sander Rossel wrote: With your logic you can't go to the movies or concerts either because you won't be able to see or listen to it later. I sure can (and do)! Especially concerts. A live concert is a very different experiencer from hearing the same music from a CD. You argue as if going on a safari in Africa is a waste of money because you can buy a National Geographic DVD with scenes from the same region.
For movies, it depends. In a movie theater, most people shut up during the movie. Play the same movie on your TV screen, and they do not. I've got a projector and a two meter wide screen in a darkened room; that makes most people shut up. So I go to movie theaters a lot less than before. If I were limited to living-room everybody-continuing-their-chatting viewing, I would still be going a lot to the movies.
As you say: A major reason for not caring for streaming services is that if your musical/movie taste lies a few steps to the side of the mainstream, there is a great risk that they don't provide what you are after anyway.
Some years ago, every few months media published lists showing that from this and that streaming service from the next month, they would no longer offer this movie, and that, and that, and ... I don't know if the reason was lack of disk space or lack of rights - it really doesn't matter, when I read through the list, nodding "But that one I still have available on my bookshelf, and that one, and that one...
I use to ask my friends with several streaming subscriptions about some of the movies I remember from the old days, if they are available. In the majority of the cases, they are not. It is the same with music. Most stuff available over the streaming services is also available on DVD/BD - and a lot more. Then I prefer to buy it on physical media, to make sure I still have access to it when the streaming service decides that they no longer can waste disk space, or possibly licensing fees, on that piece of music/movie.
Or maybe some political leader puts a creator/artist into a "false news" category. Charlie Chaplin movies was totally banned from US media for many years, due to Chaplin's thoughts about how a society should be managed. Thinking that no movie, music, nor other artistic impression would be censored today, on comparable grounds, is naive, to say the least. I do not want that censorship.
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