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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Jun 22, 2015 12:03:14 GMT -4
chonies, I share your pain on that one. I have songs I want to delete and the usual ways of deleting don't work and answers derived from google don't work either. Sometimes, when I try about 27 times to delete doing the swipe and delete method, it'll work. This is exactly why I've been hesitant about DL'ing podcasts. I'm afraid I'll never be able to get rid of them. I would love to listen to them when I'm walking, but it's not worth the hassle until I can figure out how to delete stuff from my Itunes without it taking several hours and much frustration.
My tech woe and gripe is that my internet has been so spotty and unreliable for weeks that I'm not even posting much because I never know when it's going to go out in the middle of a post. I ordered new service and specified that I wanted WiFi but they installed the wired kind. They'll come back Wednesday to do the WiFi thing, but until then I'm tethered to the router on my desk. It feels like the 90s and early aughts up in here. It makes me feel like I should be on old defunct websites and have my Motorola Razr sitting by my side. A very petty gripe, I realize, but I can't with ethernet cable. I just can't.
I'm pretty sure this is how Laura Ingalls Wilder had to surf the Internet.
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Post by chonies on Jun 22, 2015 12:51:05 GMT -4
Argh! Humanity! I'm sorry about your internet woes, KE! I hope that gets sorted extremely soon.
I wonder if there's a thing with the podcasts--it only happens with the Stuff You Should Know cluster of 'casts, and a few of the NPR ones, although Sawbones hasn't updated itself in a while, and I know for a fact that I haven't listened to every episode.
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Post by pathtaken on Jul 26, 2015 11:17:31 GMT -4
I'm going to go back through and look if this subject has been discussed but going to ask now also. Any recommendations for a laptop for a college student? Would rather not have a touchscreen, needs to be durable due to klutziness plus under $400.
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Post by kateln on Jul 26, 2015 11:56:16 GMT -4
Toshiba has some good Chromebooks, that are reasonably priced--and Google's office suite of products, is actually pretty good. I split my work between a MAC and a Lenovo (both from the office) but am looking at getting a Chromebook for personal stuff as it's pretty handy.
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Post by chonies on Jul 26, 2015 12:39:56 GMT -4
I've personally had bad luck with Toshiba products, but I don't know if it was me or just lemons. Tech radar has a list that might help figure out what you're interested in.
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Post by divasahm on Jul 26, 2015 22:16:35 GMT -4
A lot of college towns have computer shops with secondhand/refurbished laptops near campus--you might check in there for for suggestions and possible deals.
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Post by chonies on Jul 26, 2015 22:27:05 GMT -4
There's also pawn shops! I would also recommend checking things like Best Buy's closeout section.
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Post by sumire on Jul 27, 2015 19:40:52 GMT -4
I'm going to go back through and look if this subject has been discussed but going to ask now also. Any recommendations for a laptop for a college student? Would rather not have a touchscreen, needs to be durable due to klutziness plus under $400. I've dropped a few of my laptops from desk/sofa height, and I've never had one physically break or crack as a direct result (thank god). However, most of my laptops have eventually died due to physical deterioration from age and wear--hinges breaking, or the socket for the power cord jack coming loose, and I figure all those drops contributed to that. For that reason, I'd be leery of buying a refurbished/secondhand laptop. Based on vague internet gossip that ASUS is "good," I've bought cheap ($350-$450) ASUS laptops as my past two computers, but I'm not sure if any major brand is really more durable or reliable than any other. When I was reading Best Buy reviews, it seemed like every model of every brand was mostly satisfied customers and one or two who bought a lemon and had to take it back right away. I didn't want a touchscreen, but it seemed largely unavoidable when I was buying my last laptop, and now I don't mind it. Windows 8 was also largely unavoidable, and unlike the touchscreen, I haaaate it, but there's a piece of freeware called Classic Shell that makes it behave like the "normal," older versions of Windows that people are accustomed to.
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Post by putch on Jul 27, 2015 20:17:10 GMT -4
I have an ASUS laptop that is 5 years old and still going strong. The IT guy where I worked recommended it, with Sony being his 2nd choice. It fell off the table once and one USB port got damaged but other than that, I'd buy another one when it's time to replace this one. Mine is a 17" which is probably a little bigger than a college student would want to carry around. I was working a lot at home when I bought it and got the bigger one for all the things I needed to see. I got mine through BJ's and used Fatwallet. I think it was around $500 back then.
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Post by americanchai on Jul 28, 2015 12:09:28 GMT -4
Just came here to bitch about the cloud, itunes, iphones, Apple in general. Contacts - they are gone. Where? No idea. The "backup" is useless because it backed up after it deleted all my contacts. Now I'm having to go through email, Facebook, twitter, begging friends to send me their phone numbers. This happened completely randomly - I changed no settings, wasn't syncing or anything like that. I was actually not home when it happened. I was in the middle of texting friends and all of a sudden their names disappeared from my phone. Gone.
Hate iTunes and the library and the bullshit ways to "delete" or update or build playlists where you end up with five versions of the same song on the phone, thus taking up valuable space. Hate.
ETA: Good God, I don't even have my parents' home number (they've changed it in the past couple years so hadn't memorized it).
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