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    From Pparker@VERT/PHARCYDE to Nightfox on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 03:43:04
    It still seems weird to me when I see a house without at least a laptop.

    These days my parents and I all have laptops and no desktops. I can still remember though when there was one desktop in the computer room in my old house when I was a kid and we had no laptops and we did all of our internet browsing from the family computer.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Pparker on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 06:59:00
    Pparker wrote to Nightfox <=-

    These days my parents and I all have laptops and no desktops. I can
    still remember though when there was one desktop in the computer room
    in my old house when I was a kid and we had no laptops and we did all
    of our internet browsing from the family computer.

    My company is all laptops. No slouches, they, we've all got Lenovo
    Yoga convertibles or Thinkpad T480 laptops.

    My team is all developers and devops people, and virtually everyone
    has their laptop on their home LAN and remote into it from a desktop.
    With the right settings you can share video and sound inputs and use
    your headset and video camera with the laptop and run video calls
    over RDP. I swear by it - I like having a clean desk. :)



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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Pparker on Thursday, December 31, 2020 00:49:13
    Re: PCs
    By: Pparker to Nightfox on Wed Dec 30 2020 03:43 am

    It still seems weird to me when I see a house without at least a
    laptop.

    These days my parents and I all have laptops and no desktops. I can still remember though when there was one desktop in the computer room in my old house when I was a kid and we had no laptops and we did all of our internet browsing from the family computer.

    I have a Desktop, Laptop, 2 thin client PC's that run various servers and 2 Raspberry Pi's PI2 and PI3
    then I also have 2 Linux VPS's.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Pparker on Thursday, December 31, 2020 14:39:27
    Re: PCs
    By: Pparker to Nightfox on Wed Dec 30 2020 03:43 am

    It still seems weird to me when I see a house without at least a laptop.

    These days my parents and I all have laptops and no desktops. I can still remember though when there was one desktop in the computer room in my old house when I was a kid and we had no laptops and we did all of our internet browsing from the family computer.


    We had a discussion about this earlier on in the year. I don't really know anyone who uses desktop PCs anymore within their homes other than one close friend who is a PC gamer and has a monster rig. Most of the people I know do have laptops but they don't really use them much instead opting for their smart phones and tablets. I think smart phones are pretty much all you need if you're a non-techie consumer type. They're great for web-browsing, video playback, podcasts, social media, e-mails and audio/video conferencing.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ANDEDDU on Friday, January 01, 2021 09:53:00
    We had a discussion about this earlier on in the year. I don't really know anyone who uses desktop PCs anymore within their homes other than one close friend who is a PC gamer and has a monster rig. Most of the people I know do have laptops but they don't really use them much instead opting for their smar
    phones and tablets. I think smart phones are pretty much all you need if you'r
    a non-techie consumer type. They're great for web-browsing, video playback, podcasts, social media, e-mails and audio/video conferencing.

    I have moved away from traditional PCs to single board computers. They certainly take up less spaces, and probably save some on power consumption.
    I do keep a PC handy in case I need to rip a CD or something.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Saturday, January 02, 2021 10:16:00
    Dumas Walker wrote to ANDEDDU <=-

    I have moved away from traditional PCs to single board computers. They certainly take up less spaces, and probably save some on power consumption.

    I've taken to an old laptop that I maxxed the memory on, and put Proxox on
    it. Virtualization with remote desktop tools, backup and a web GUI is nice, and it takes a fraction of the power keeping old desktops around took.

    With Proxmox and a router running DD-WRT and Entware apps, I've got a tidy little home lab setup. I still want a pi, though. :)


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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, January 05, 2021 23:53:43
    Re: PCs
    By: Dumas Walker to ANDEDDU on Fri Jan 01 2021 09:53 am

    I have moved away from traditional PCs to single board computers. They certainly take up less spaces, and probably save some on power consumption.
    I do keep a PC handy in case I need to rip a CD or something.


    * SLMR 2.1a * Arkansas figured out a way to get rid of Billy-Jeff.

    I see the attraction to single board computers, I have no requirement to own one myself but they do appear to be nice little space savers. I haven't had a full blown tower PC since 2005. I replaced my main PC back then with a laptop and have never looked back since. I am pretty much in the thrall of mobile devices such as my iPhone 12 Mini which is probably my main machine... I also spend some time on my iPad Mini 5 which does a great job of all the online tasks I have to carry out. I still BBS on an '84 Macintosh but it exists purely for nostalgia purposes and also serves as a nice centerpiece for my study.

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