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Oops, I didn't post yesterday.
Yesterday I bought a new phone and a new laptop, and it was awful, shopping for things you actually need right now is the worst, but I have them now. The phone is called 玄女 and the laptop is called 女媧, in my long-standing tradition of naming electronics after female deities/etc. from whatever mythology I'm currently into. Then I crocheted a little, read my library book, and took a long nap.
The phone is pretty much what I wanted, I think, except that I had to get a data plan, and it's not as waterproof as my last one. I think I'm going to try to keep it as just my phone and keep using the old one as my pocket computer since it still works mostly fine for that.
The laptop I am less sure of - why is it darn near impossible to buy a laptop with a disk drive anymore??
Between post-nap yesterday and this morning I think I have the phone all set up, except for getting it a protective case. (I can play pokemon go again!) and today I need to tackle the laptop, and this giant pile of half-broken backup hard drives while I'm at it. Ugh.
Somebody on my reading list a week or so back linked to a neat tool for finding duplicate files, and I could swear I saved it but I can't find it now - does anybody still have it? It will be very useful for the pile of hard drives.
Yesterday I bought a new phone and a new laptop, and it was awful, shopping for things you actually need right now is the worst, but I have them now. The phone is called 玄女 and the laptop is called 女媧, in my long-standing tradition of naming electronics after female deities/etc. from whatever mythology I'm currently into. Then I crocheted a little, read my library book, and took a long nap.
The phone is pretty much what I wanted, I think, except that I had to get a data plan, and it's not as waterproof as my last one. I think I'm going to try to keep it as just my phone and keep using the old one as my pocket computer since it still works mostly fine for that.
The laptop I am less sure of - why is it darn near impossible to buy a laptop with a disk drive anymore??
Between post-nap yesterday and this morning I think I have the phone all set up, except for getting it a protective case. (I can play pokemon go again!) and today I need to tackle the laptop, and this giant pile of half-broken backup hard drives while I'm at it. Ugh.
Somebody on my reading list a week or so back linked to a neat tool for finding duplicate files, and I could swear I saved it but I can't find it now - does anybody still have it? It will be very useful for the pile of hard drives.
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This was six years overdue, I've been limping along on a "temporary loaner". I've forgotten what it's like to have a battery that works! But windows 10 is incredibly frustrating to set up, do not recommend.
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Cool! I ran Linux for awhile and decided I needed something where everything would Just Work as my primary, but I'm planning to put Linux on one of my old-but-functional ones once this is up and running.
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Yes but my brain issues day the extra steps of plugging one will be too hard. ;P (also they aren't that cheap- I looked at the computer store and they were about the price of my new smartphone, which is ridiculous one way or the other.)
That's a bargain smartphone!
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Yeah, that was more than any of my smartphones have been. :D (If you buy the slightly-lower-end with a pay as you go provider you can usually get a pretty good one for that or less. Mine's fine, but I wanted micro-usb and standard aux because my life is organized around having enough cords I can always find at least three (which means, like, 12.) So that limited my choices to the cheap end anyway.)
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