What Are You Doing Right Now
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@popester said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
Why the Fuck would we purchase something that can't be used ?
Your laptop has HDMI, your monitor does not. I'm assuming your employer is just playing at being at business. It's insane to have monitors that are VGA only. . . that's at least 8 year old equipment.
Our PC's we sell to customers dont' have HDMI so why would we need HDMI?
What does that have to do with the conversation about a recently purchased laptop and the technology that is in it?
The business purchased a laptop (have you ever looked at the current market for laptops, almost none are going to have VGA ports). Thus the business should purchase (it's employees, fuck the customer at this point) modern equipment to be used with their current laptops.
you're completely and blatantly missing the point.
The company wont buy anything they wont use to sell to a customer unless it's specifically asked for. because unlike 85% of ML - i work in a Customer Driven Industry.So the business ends up selling their own employees computers to customers after they've been used? Holy crap this place is bad. .
where did you come up with that?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The company wont buy anything they wont use to sell to a customer unless it's specifically asked for.
wtf does that have to do with upselling employee computers to customers after use?
Because it's practically unheard of to sell equipment to a customer after it's been used for production for another business. Is the equipment sold as "Used" at least?
equipment isn't sold used.
these PC's came from inventory - as they were supposed to be sold to a customer.For "My" clarity and sanity, are they dedicated POS (no pun intended) systems that you sell?
we Sell Dedicated POS - Yes.
The PC's come from the vendor, we image them and then add the Terminals.
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and we have snow!
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@scottalanmiller and I just got my first Chromebook. Picked up one of these with a gift cert I got for Christmas:
https://www.newegg.com/poin2-lt0301-01us/p/1TS-006U-00001
So far linking it very speedy does everything I need it to do. -
Tornado sirens everywhere here. Had a touch down in Ft Worth.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller and I just got my first Chromebook. Picked up one of these with a gift cert I got for Christmas:
https://www.newegg.com/poin2-lt0301-01us/p/1TS-006U-00001
So far linking it very speedy does everything I need it to do.When I click the link I got a page that said SAM bought the last one!
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The latest virtio-win driver, virtio-win-0.1.173-2.
Now provides a virtio-win-guest-tools setup installer.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?
There is no tree, the argument that was being made is that VGA is some magical technology and that @WrCombs was surprised the laptop his boss bought (within a few months) only had HDMI.
It's a recent consumer device, why in the hell would any hardware manufacturer build a consumer device TODAY with VGA?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?
There is no tree, the argument that was being made is that VGA is some magical technology and that @WrCombs was surprised the laptop his boss bought (within a few months) only had HDMI.
It's a recent consumer device, why in the hell would any hardware manufacturer build a consumer device TODAY with VGA?
How was that even remotely close to what I said?
Who said anything about VGA being some magical technology?
I said ; "My Laptop doesn't have a VGA port" So by default I can't run my 2nd Monitor off the laptop without a) getting a HDMI compatible monitor or B ) using a VGA to HDMI adapter to run the monitor (which I have one).you made up the "some magical Technology" - I have another question though - Is being Right really that important to you that you have to make up information that was never said?
This started cause you asked "what was stopping me sic from using my laptop as my main device" and I told you.
You're telling me you run HDMI to all of your End user Devices?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?
There is no tree, the argument that was being made is that VGA is some magical technology and that @WrCombs was surprised the laptop his boss bought (within a few months) only had HDMI.
It's a recent consumer device, why in the hell would any hardware manufacturer build a consumer device TODAY with VGA?
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You're telling me you run HDMI to all of your End user Devices?
Yes, because VGA is a tech that is reserved for specific use cases today. Literally 0 consumer devices come with VGA today as the norm. HDMI, DP or USB-C are what is used.
Servers and terminals (like what you support and sell) may use it, but that is because it's old stupidly cheap tech.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Are you serious?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Nothing comes with VGA.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?
How the heck are you finding these laptops? I can't remember seeing VGA on anything. How much extra are you paying for these crazy custom devices just to get fuzzy monitors?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?
There is no tree, the argument that was being made is that VGA is some magical technology and that @WrCombs was surprised the laptop his boss bought (within a few months) only had HDMI.
It's a recent consumer device, why in the hell would any hardware manufacturer build a consumer device TODAY with VGA?
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Extremely few. They do exist, but super rare. Nothing we buy or consider buying offers it. Literally the only place I've seen it in years is on do it yourself motherboards.
Modern video cards haven't offered it in years, the SBC market doesn't use it, laptops of normal size can't fit the connector!
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Nothing comes with VGA.
Entry level ASRock motherboards still include it as a tertiary factor as of two years ago. But I was pretty shocked to find it there.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Nothing comes with VGA.
Entry level ASRock motherboards still include it as a tertiary factor as of two years ago. But I was pretty shocked to find it there.
I'm sure low end crap might. but hello. low end crap.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Nothing comes with VGA.
Entry level ASRock motherboards still include it as a tertiary factor as of two years ago. But I was pretty shocked to find it there.
I'm sure low end crap might. but hello. low end crap.
Still a bit amazing as including it as an extra feature isn't free. Almost free, but not actually free. LOL I couldn't believe that $50 mobos would waste the money on it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Nothing comes with VGA.
Entry level ASRock motherboards still include it as a tertiary factor as of two years ago. But I was pretty shocked to find it there.
I'm sure low end crap might. but hello. low end crap.
Still a bit amazing as including it as an extra feature isn't free. Almost free, but not actually free. LOL I couldn't believe that $50 mobos would waste the money on it.
Did it have HDMI or DP also? I would assume that they know their likely market is small time shops that break/fix repair crap for consumers that never upgrade anything.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It would be very interesting to go to BB and see how many consumer devices have VGA on them - I'm thinking most if not all desktop consumer devices still do. laptops - well that would depend - super thin, nope, won't have it - fat cheap ones - very likely could because there's no license fee that I know of for VGA.
Nothing comes with VGA.
Entry level ASRock motherboards still include it as a tertiary factor as of two years ago. But I was pretty shocked to find it there.
I'm sure low end crap might. but hello. low end crap.
Still a bit amazing as including it as an extra feature isn't free. Almost free, but not actually free. LOL I couldn't believe that $50 mobos would waste the money on it.
Did it have HDMI or DP also? I would assume that they know their likely market is small time shops that break/fix repair crap for consumers that never upgrade anything.
HDMI and DVI, no DP.
