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.

If it was, and it did, I can’t imagine what would happen next. The world is weird enough as it is.

Yeah it’s ok on a static object by law, but not on a moving vehicle.

And yes, even here in Armidale we have about four of them, and they don’t seem to have night dimming so can be a bit blinding.

I think such things are banned in Australia. Clearly not safe for traffic.

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!

Through the hoof?

In other words don’t do what I did and put half a litre into a $6 pot on your new induction cooktop and set it to 2kW to see how long it takes to boil.

It boils quick.

It then boils more enthusiastically than you’ve ever seen before, and a cancerous stench fills the air as the coating breaks down and the pot deforms.

ddrescue (or gddrescue) is a great version if you have a sick drive. It’ll try to copy the good areas first then go back to hammer on the sick areas.

Not perfect as it doesn’t know about the file system so it tries to copy the entire surface, but generally a good tool.

Might be a touch screen issue? Try a drawing or paint app and see if there are any anomalies while colouring in the screen.

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.

Rustdesk, so I can remote into my main computer and the others I manage.

PWAs For Firefox.

And that’s about it.

I use Debian BTW. (Was on Fedora but killed it when there were sound issues, turned out to Rustdesk at fault. Can’t do Mint as it boots to black screen.)

Chrome OS Flex seems OK. Not sure how it manages printers.

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.