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In Reply to: RE: "I wouldn't want to be in the "PC business"." posted by rick_m on August 7, 2014 at 14:53:35:
> Toy is good. From my experience all great tools also have a high toy
> factor and the converse is also frequently true.
I'm having trouble with the idea of dentists' drills and colonoscopy cameras having a toy factor.
> Have I mentioned more than a thousand times how much I like not
> having moving parts?
I still have a few moving parts and don't want to give them up yet.
> And just to make you gloat, I totally screwed up my PC last week by
> innocently buying a 32GB USB Flash drive as an interim backup whilst
> scanning photos. Apparently it loaded some driver that was incompatible
> with my oldish system and I bet that my effective clock rate is now a
> historic 4.7MHz. Maybe not even that...
Sort of a flashback.
> I now do essentially all of my "computering" on a fondleslab and it's
> almost a perfect fit for what I do these days.
Now, this sounds more like a sex toy.
> And you know, it works pretty good as a terminal wirelessly SSHing into
> my RPi.
SSHing into a RPi seems wrong. The computer you connect to should be bigger.
> A lot more comfy on the lap than a VT-100... Or if you'e really old, a
> model 33.
I can picture an ASR 33 on a lap and it seems pretty painful.
Just to inject some audio content, a question. Are you using the fondleslab to play audio or as a remote control device?
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