In Australia it won’t save card details. And it can’t natively create app shortcuts for things like Gmail, keep, whatsapp etc.

I put up with it but it’s a pain compared to chrome and edge.

Coma did you say?

Right turn Clyde.

A smart switch that turns off the power when the battery hits 80% and turns it on at 78%? Dunno if that would actually work.

It’ll probably work. Biggest issue will be recovery after power failure as laptops generally stay off.

Next most likely is CPU fan failure, exacerbated if CPU usage causes the fans to run high and nobody is there to blow the dust out.

Other than that I’ve had multiple laptops that run as servers over the years and generally they’re fine. Streaming audio for our community radio station, or shoved behind wall mounted TV’s for updateable PowerPoint displays.

Wise guy huh :)

Where is Phaelan?

I read your comment and hit back while still processing it.

More input Stephanie. More!

I didn’t know that was a thing…

I tell a lie. You can print from USB sticks, but not from a computer via USB.

It’s already happened with the Anycubic Kobra 2 Max - no way to connect directly, everything must go through their cloud to print, via their slicer only.

Righto :)

I was thinking of usb3 hard drives. No need for internal storage if using spinning rust.

On older laptops with optical drives you can sometimes replace the drive with a sata tray and add a second drive that way.

But yes, a server that looks like a server and can recover after power loss is useful.

A cheap laptop might also be worth considering? Built in UPS that way, and sometimes UPSes have a large standby power usage. Would support a couple of bus powered drives as well.

Main drawback is no recovery if the battery drains fully.

I remember the sound. Also, it was on a three wheel table, and the whole thing would shake when defragging.

So was mine, but the controller thought it was 10mb so had to load a device driver to access the full size.

Was fine until a friend defragged it and the driver moved out of the first 10mb. Thereafter had to keep a 360kb 5¼" drive to boot from.

That was in an XT.

Sometimes I set the Eudora xylophone sound as a mail notification on my phone. Nobody has noticed though.

Windows Live Mail still living on with occasional repairs needed.

Outlook Express has died though.

So has incredimail I think.

Lan sync is their only killer feature.

Partly why I use Voyager with page numbers. Gives you a clear stop point.

I’m still banned from there after saying, regarding Eneloop batteries, the white ones are better than the black ones (if you need slower self discharge.)

Aah the joys of 256 color video cards.