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SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on April 12, 2021, 04:55:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 04:24:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2021, 05:30:46 am ---[...]
Now that they’ve added that feature in iOS that mostly keeps the battery charged at 80% until right before you begin your day [...]

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That is a cool feature.  I wish my laptops all had that, and that the %charge was user selectable -  ideally 40% when not planning to use the battery...

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What brand laptop? Both my Win10 Lenovo laptops have configurable limits on charging.

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I have some 10 year old Dells, on steroids with quad cores, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, etc.,  that flatly refuse to die or become obsolete!  :D

But they don't have the battery charging limit feature, so they tend to eat a battery every few years even if the battery is not used much. 
JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 05:52:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on April 12, 2021, 04:55:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 04:24:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2021, 05:30:46 am ---[...]
Now that they’ve added that feature in iOS that mostly keeps the battery charged at 80% until right before you begin your day [...]

--- End quote ---

That is a cool feature.  I wish my laptops all had that, and that the %charge was user selectable -  ideally 40% when not planning to use the battery...

--- End quote ---


What brand laptop? Both my Win10 Lenovo laptops have configurable limits on charging.

--- End quote ---

I have some 10 year old Dells, on steroids with quad cores, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, etc.,  that flatly refuse to die or become obsolete!  :D

But they don't have the battery charging limit feature, so they tend to eat a battery every few years even if the battery is not used much.

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At least if they are that old you can readily change the battery (maybe?)
Zero999:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 04:17:09 pm ---
I am actually a fan of Microsoft Office...  I recall deploying Excel v1.0 back in the day (I was the young and radical IT manager trying new fangled stuff, exactly the kind of people I hate today, LOL) -  it was just so much better than the DOS based stuff that went before.
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I used to like MS Office, before they started messing with the user interface. All versions since 2003 seemed to have gone worse, rather than better. I haven't used 365 yet, but. 2016 is installed om my work's PC and I hate it. I wish I was allowed to install something better. They can't pay me to use it. If I need to do something using a word processor. I go home and do it. I would turn down a job, if it involved using MS Office too much, regardless of the pay. I've used all sorts of spreadsheets and word processors before and they've all been easier to use than the recent MS Office versions, so it's not me struggling to learn new things. It's just really bad.


--- Quote ---I personally trained the users, too.  I remember holding one accounting lady's hand over a mouse, guiding it across the mat and seeing her make the connection between what her hand was doing and the mouse cursor on the screen...  She eventually became one of the most proficient users.  Today, I'd probably be up on a human resources violation for touching her hand...  :D

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I'm glad you had success. I couldn't train my mum to use a computer. She found double clicking hard work and it wasn't obvious to her to pick the mouse up and move it back to the middle of the mouse mat, when it went over the edge.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on April 12, 2021, 06:07:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 05:52:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: JohnnyMalaria on April 12, 2021, 04:55:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 04:24:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2021, 05:30:46 am ---[...]
Now that they’ve added that feature in iOS that mostly keeps the battery charged at 80% until right before you begin your day [...]

--- End quote ---

That is a cool feature.  I wish my laptops all had that, and that the %charge was user selectable -  ideally 40% when not planning to use the battery...

--- End quote ---


What brand laptop? Both my Win10 Lenovo laptops have configurable limits on charging.

--- End quote ---

I have some 10 year old Dells, on steroids with quad cores, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, etc.,  that flatly refuse to die or become obsolete!  :D

But they don't have the battery charging limit feature, so they tend to eat a battery every few years even if the battery is not used much.

--- End quote ---

At least if they are that old you can readily change the battery (maybe?)

--- End quote ---

Yes, they are user replaceable.  It is the only real wear item on a laptop, so changing them (something like 5 times now, LOL) means a very long service life.  It also shows how buying the fastest / best configuration can actually pay off in the long run, even if it seems eye bleeding at the time.

We are back to the discussion of whether it is better to buy cheap stuff and replace it often, vs. more expensive stuff that lasts longer.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on April 12, 2021, 06:41:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on April 12, 2021, 04:17:09 pm ---
I am actually a fan of Microsoft Office...  I recall deploying Excel v1.0 back in the day (I was the young and radical IT manager trying new fangled stuff, exactly the kind of people I hate today, LOL) -  it was just so much better than the DOS based stuff that went before.
--- End quote ---
I used to like MS Office, before they started messing with the user interface. All versions since 2003 seemed to have gone worse, rather than better. I haven't used 365 yet, but. 2016 is installed om my work's PC and I hate it. I wish I was allowed to install something better. They can't pay me to use it. If I need to do something using a word processor. I go home and do it. I would turn down a job, if it involved using MS Office too much, regardless of the pay. I've used all sorts of spreadsheets and word processors before and they've all been easier to use than the recent MS Office versions, so it's not me struggling to learn new things. It's just really bad.


--- Quote ---I personally trained the users, too.  I remember holding one accounting lady's hand over a mouse, guiding it across the mat and seeing her make the connection between what her hand was doing and the mouse cursor on the screen...  She eventually became one of the most proficient users.  Today, I'd probably be up on a human resources violation for touching her hand...  :D

--- End quote ---
I'm glad you had success. I couldn't train my mum to use a computer. She found double clicking hard work and it wasn't obvious to her to pick the mouse up and move it back to the middle of the mouse mat, when it went over the edge.

--- End quote ---


Recently, some genius at Microsoft has had the idea of messing with the "Save" dialogs in Office, so you end up clicking a million times on a poorly discoverable user interface just to save a file in a location you want.  I hate it when they try to solve a problem that doesn't need solving.   The "Save" and "Open" dialogs are standardized across Windows for a reason...  a reason that the current team of n00bs appear incapable of grasping:  it means you don't have to learn how to Save a new way in every single application...  we are back to the bad old DOS days with these clowns.

If the "Save" dialog needs improving, do it for the entire OS, FFS.
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