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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, June 02, 2018 - 10:05 am 
I think we trying to make a more lazy and obese Americans, Mack, instead of a computer friendly one.
I mean surely we can walk to the dishwasher, stove, fridge, washing machine and dryer and turn them on, LOL.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Sunday, June 03, 2018 - 4:27 am
My mom died in '96 at age 89. Late in life she said the best invention was the TV remote. If she could have known what was to come . . . .
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Sunday, June 03, 2018 - 7:09 pm
Mack, I actually saw a wifi enabled crock pot the other day. LOL
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, June 03, 2018 - 8:51 pm
OMG, what... you have to tell it to turn off from your office.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, June 03, 2018 - 11:06 pm
quote:Mack, I actually saw a wifi enabled crock pot the other day. LOL
Aaaaiiieeeee!!! <runs screaming from the thread>
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, June 04, 2018 - 6:57 pm
I got an Echo free with my Audible subscription this last time. So far I've used it to play music and set timers.
Here's my question: with the app, can I have tell it to play music when I'm not home? (I'm thinking this could be a fun gadget to mess with people! LOL)
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Spear
Member
08-05-2001
| Wednesday, June 06, 2018 - 3:29 pm
Researchers have discovered that the VPNFilter malware affects more router models than originally thought. The updated list is at the end of this article (and they believe this list may still be incomplete):
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/06/vpnfilter-update.html
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 10:41 am
I recently bought a new HP laptop - the one with the touch screen and a keyboard - and now the keyboard doesn't work. I went online and come to find out that's a known problem with these laptops...so why the heck are they still selling them without a fix for this problem? Now I have to take the darned thing back and hope that it gets fixed. What a beating! I hated giving up my Toshiba but it was ancient. So irritating.
And my daughter's Lenovo (same type - touchscreen & keyboard that I purchased a year ago last March) started having problems so we took it in to get repaired and I just found out today that the part to repair it will cost more than the computer is worth so they are going to give me a gift card for replacement. In a random act I actually bought a service contract on it (I NEVER BUY THEM!) so it is covered. WHEW!
My house = death zone for computers.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 10:56 am
I buy Dell laptop's and have never had an issue with them.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 11:54 am
I love HP's, I have had at least 5 different ones, but that is really a bummer Roxip. What version is it, I want to make sure I don't get it, LOL. Thanks.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 5:03 pm
Every Dell laptop I ever had had shit for batteries...never lasted.
My Lenovos (thinkpads) have lasted a minimum of 5 years each (this one is almost 6!) and I actually replaced for more memory, not because the other one died. It's still working; we just use it as a back-up. I hate touch screens, though, so my laptops are just boring keyboard style.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - 9:56 pm
I have bought a lot of Dell laptops and never had any complaints with any of them. So, why do I buy a lot of them? I buy them used on eBay for about 1/4 of what they sold for new, a couple years old, so I upgrade to the newer ones every now and then and sell the old ones. I also like to always keep a spare on hand, but then friends ask me what laptop they should buy, so I end up selling them my spare, which I know works, and I buy a new spare, which I then sell to another friend. Sigh …
I am sitting in a room with FIVE laptops at the moment. 4 wonderful (ageing) Dells and an almost antique Sony Vaio TX, which was that marvelous small 11" 2 pound, including optical drive laptop (precursor to the far inferior netbooks), Sony came out with for about $3000 fifteen or so years ago. I love that itty bitty baby to death, but I suppose it is time to part with it, as an antique.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 6:00 am
Interestingly for years and years the Federal government, at least DoD and the Army, has bought mainly Dell computers with mixed results. We have had enough trouble with our Dells at work that my wife and I have bought mostly either HP or Sony desktop and laptop computers.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 9:19 am
Juju, have you ever had a Dell where the screen went dark? I bought a used one last summer and can only see it very dimly. I'm having to use an external monitor at the moment.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 9:30 am
My HP laptop has now escalated from being fixed at the MicroCenter Store to being sent to HP for repair...another week. I have owned this computer since March 27 and I suspect I haven't been on it more than 10 times...and now it has spent two weeks being repaired and looking at least another week. So frustrating
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 9:43 am
Roxip, that IS frustrating. 
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 10:16 am
My current employer is a total lockdown on any kind of personal e-mail and I do not like peering at my tiny phone screen so I am ignoring most emails these days...no telling what I have missed!
(They also block Facebook (of course), any sports site (don't quite understand that), but I can get on Clubhouse (YEA!) and eonline (why block sports sites but still get entertainment sites??? It is random!)
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 10:58 am
My company has done the same thing. No email or social media sites allowed. But, I can still get on TVCH!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 11:39 am
That’s probably because TVCH is small enough to be unnoticeable. 
I’ve found good and bad laptop experience to largely involve luck.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 12:10 pm
We didn't have any internet at work. They expected us to.. work. I know, dark ages. We had company email and were on computers for everything but meetings and phone calls.. And thankfully, cell phones were not an issue.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 12:26 pm
Same here Seamonkey but then my most recent former employer went nuts and banned most everything. They didn't even notice Facebook until the "summer interns" spent more time on it than doing any interning.
After that they basically started banning everything, so then instead of working people spent time on their phones doing facebook, email and other stuff.
Plus everyone was afraid of all the monitoring that was going on, because the phones were internet as well and no one would talk to anyone personally on the phone so would have to leave their desks to go make personal calls, like check on their kids.
It seriously decreased actual work production.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 3:48 pm
I used to get monthly reports of time spent on line for my staff, heh, I usually warned them to stop instead of firing them like I was supposed to do. and because I was still maintaining a piece of software that went with the other branch when we were sold to different companies, my desktop was not connected to our company, but to the other company's server. so I felt fre to do what I wanted, the guy in service said it was hard to repair when I had problems because they did not have access to my history, hehe.
when I was laid off and turned my small annual program maintenance over to my boss, he was so confused, had no idea what I was maintaining, I thoroughly documented it, but I bet he threw it out, but not my problem anymore. and so ended the computer link to long island,
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 8:03 pm
quote:Juju, have you ever had a Dell where the screen went dark? I bought a used one last summer and can only see it very dimly. I'm having to use an external monitor at the moment.
No, but I had it happen with the first laptop I ever bought, a Gateway. Presume you tried holding down the Fn key and the tiny blue sun on one of the other keys to make sure you didn't accidentally bump it to dim?
Oh! And I just bought Bigdog a used Dell laptop on eBay today. LOL.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, June 21, 2018 - 7:32 am
I do work...but there is always some downtime where one has to look busy. LOL!
I never have used company equipment to get on Facebook but we can't even use company wifi to get on Facebook on our phones here. Their internet, their rules. I'm okay with it.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, June 21, 2018 - 8:00 am
I somehow got stuck with the additional duty as “Internet Monitor” for my agency. Our IT folks had a program in place that would capture and report any attempts to access prohibited websites. Anybody who did would get what we called the ‘Red Screen of Death” with this flashing border and saying “You have been reported to your supervisor.” What I would get is this computer printout of who had tried to access a prohibited site and what site they’d tried to go to. Most were nothing and mostly came from following innocent links to what turned out to be prohibited sites. Our Chief of Staff was paranoid about people participating in eBay from work and he would continually ask me who had done that. Of course eBay had been added to the prohibited site list and earned the “Red Screen” and it didn’t take long for people to realize that. The Chief of Staff was never convinced and endlessly wanted to know who was going on eBay months and years after it was banned. He’d probably be wrapped around the axle about Amazon today.....which by the way is not even today a banned site.
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