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The depth and breadth of your scholarly interests never ceases to amaze me! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm still waiting for the Japs to perfect robots.
I'd love a robot me - no not to do my work, rather to deal with the wife so I can get my work done.
@OriginalGriff - may want to borrow your 3D printer to make the face for my robot.
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(Stolen shamelessly from Mad magazine - Star Wars - The Musical)
Slightly used robots with brains electronic
Self-operating with bodies bionic
Full of ambition and now unemployed
That's what you get with a second-hand 'droid
Here's a hum-dinger from Alpha Centaurus
Give him a kick and he'll sing the next chorus
Name's RK4 but he answers to "Floyd"
That's what you get with a second-hand 'droid
When your life is full of trouble
And you hate your wife
Just flip on the switch of your second-hand 'droid
And you'll have a friend for life
(Sing to the tune of "My favourite things")
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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lopatir wrote: deal with the wife
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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lopatir wrote: to deal with the wife
You don't have to have a full robot. They have these...devices...your wife probably already has one and just doesn't want you to know about it.
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I have a 2nd hand Samsung Galaxy S8 in order to test everything. It has the added benefit of having an ANT+ radio in it, meaning it will connect to my bike and health sensors during training.
I needed to plug the bad boy in to charge, and so I absent-mindedly plugged it into the USB-C hub I use for my Macbook.
And voila. I have a full desktop OS experience on my 27" screen through this dodgy little second hand phone. And it's awesome.
If only my iPhone could do that...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's not (just) a Samsung functionality.
It also works with my LG and the Huawei and Oneplus phones we have at work.
The common part between them all is USB-C.
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Probably about 7 years ago I was talking with our IT guy about how far phones have come and how cool it will be when we can use our phones as our main computer. I even discussed it on the lounge and had some say it was the dumbest idea ever and would never fly. Glad to see the rest of the world didn't feel that way.
I'm a bit ashamed that I lost track of what was going on with the desktop mode of Android phones. I notice that you can run Microsoft Office on Samsung's in DeX mode so we're pretty much there.
Now if only Visual Studio Code would run on Android. (StackBlitz is almost there...)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I wouldn't go as far as calling it desktop mode, it's rather just screen mirroring.
Which is still quite useful though, especially when you add in the mouse and keyboard.
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Mouse, keyboard, tabbed browser and a taskbar. It felt more like a desktop than a phone.
It was more of the "oh, wow. I didn't know it did that" factor than anything else. A hint of where things are finally going.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oh well. Then I have another one for you. It works just as fine wirelessly. Miracast has been around since 2012, And most TVs above a certain level have it nowadays
I'm using it for showing photos.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I was talking with our IT guy
 You need an IT guy? I'm soooo disillusioned... 
I've had the S8+ for a while now, and I'm still learning all it can do. I suspect I've only touched the surface, since I'm scared to open most of the garbage that came pre-installed from Verizon. I even used it elk hunting last year with an app called onX Hunt, and it tracked my every movement perfectly, providing topo information, and ownership of the land I was walking through. I can't verify it, but I think its accuracy is probably every bit as good as my Garmin eTrex GPS thingy. A very impressive device!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Chris Maunder wrote: If only my iPhone could do that...
Is that the new Apple slogan? 
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No, that would be: "You'll get it two years later, but more polished and dumbed down"
I'm pretty sure USB-C will come to iphone sooner or later, and then it will have Thunderbolt, just to make sure it's "Better" someway. (Read incompatible, just for the sake of it)
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: "You'll get it two years later, but more polished and dumbed down - with a proprietary connector we'll claim is better"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That would be the lightning.
They actually caved in on their laptops, where they use USB-C nowadays.
Surely it must be much better to ruin an existing standard instead of creating their own.
I predict there will be a new use for the USB-C connector within a year, that will be incompatible with existing ones. And within two years you will have it on all existing iProducts
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Harrumph. My first smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S5, my current work phone is an S5, and my personal phone is an S9+. All of them have been robust workhorse devices. They've survived traveling in my gym bag, my cycling jersey, and my belt pack while marathon training, all without the zip-lock bag that everyone else seems to think is required.
They've given me plenty of bang for my paltry few bucks.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's so sick.
I like it.
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Why anyone would want this is completely alien to me! 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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... they can save you time
I'm making the box to house mine, and I cut out the recess and mounting holes for the extraction hose / fan / DC / switch housing - but fitting it on, I realised I didn't have the six M4 washers I needed. Ten minutes later, I had a bunch of 'em.
Couple of minutes CAD, 2 minutes preheat, 1 minute printing, 2 minutes cooldown. That's quicker than I could have driven to a shop that sells 'em, cheaper than I would have paid, quicker and cheaper than Fleabay or Amazon. Renewable energy instead of Diesel too.
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Something I found really useful was when I started to order specialty screws, nuts, inserts, etc., I created a jar with screw on lid. Print as needed!
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Washers you wouldn't have needed had you not bought the printer? So what's the _real_ cost of the washers?
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Kind of like my sons justification for bow hunting.
$1600 for bow
$60 for 6 arrows with razor heads
$150 Deer Stand
$1200/yr hunt club membership
$6000 camper to keep in the woods. He bought a (very expensive) Chevy truck with intent to haul 5th wheel camper and they told him if he put 5th wheel in back of truck it would void warranty. WTF?
$?? Gas food, time off work, etc.
So how'd you do while out 5 days?
Saw 2 small bucks, to small to harvest.
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