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70-year-old mother considering the move back to Windows from Apple. Any advice? 2016-12-30 08:34:25 Post No.58245717
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70-year-old mother considering the move back to Windows from Apple. Any advice?
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2016-12-30 08:34:25
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My soon-to-be 70-year-old mother has been using an iMac for the last 5-10 years. However, she has had a long series of issues with it. I think, more often than not, it's due to user error. As you'd imagine, she's not the most savvy with technology, as much as she likes to think she may be. The problem is, I live halfway across the country and can't help her with setup and troubleshooting, and nobody else in my family is any more capable than she is, so she's kind of stuck on her own and she's looking for advice.
I'm a Macbook user myself, but looking to switch to Surface as soon as I can afford it. I've advised her she may consider switching back to a Windows 10 device as well. However, I'm only familiar with the Surface line (and the Studio is well beyond her needs). I believe she will get far better value out of a new Windows 10 desktop setup than she will out of a new iMac, but I don't know which direction to point her in.
Does anybody have any advice in this situation?
Cliffnotes:
>Mother is 70-years-old and not very tech savvy.
>Longtime iMac user, deciding whether to switch back to Windows.
>Primarily uses computer for email, web surfing, and simple games.
>Needs as low maintenance and most "setup and go" as possible.
>Must be a desktop setup and not a laptop/mobile device.
Looking for ideas for brands/setups. I haven't shopped for a PC/desktop setup in at least a decade, so I'm embarrassingly ignorant to it myself. Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
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Install Gentoo
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>>58245796
/thread
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>>58245717
What about you take her out to the park. Chat all day, remember good times, buy her something tasty and take her home after a perfect day.
She's is getting old, anon. You must cherish all this moments with her. I would have loved to have done it at the time but know I can't.
Why haven't you donated to EFF or FSF yet?
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If they want money they will have to work for it just like everyone else
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>>58245542
>go on humble bundle store
>buy game
>all profits to charity, EFF
additionnal bonus: you don't buy it from the steam store. at the very least, they lose a sale. that fat jew running steam doesn't need more snacks.
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>donating to the FSF
>>>ever
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Why is this allowed? Isn't Chromium supposed to be lightweight?
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>>58245418
It's supposed to be fast. Is is fast.
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>>58245418
protip: it's actually not
proer tip: most of that memory is PRISM
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>>58245601
Am I protected enough if my bandwith is shit? They can only download so much data...
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/g/ doesn't agree on much but can we agree Finder is the best GUI file manager? better question, is there anything even close?
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it's a fucking piece of shit
worst part about macOS
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At least it has fucking tabs. Why the hell doesn't Explorer have tabs yet?
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It's better than explorer as this guy said >>58245714, but it's the worst thing in OSX as this guys said >>58245603
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What do you think, /g/? Is the PGS real?
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gross
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if it's being crowdfunded, then it's probably vapourware.
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>>58245288
what's up with the applel like design?
>checked
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Hi, I just got a Steam Link and I'm trying to use it over wifi. The problem is, my computer is connected over wifi and so is the Steam Link, making it very laggy and unplayable. Would the option portrayed to the left in the picture work better? Sorry if this is the wrong board to ask this in but if you can redirect me to the correct one that would be great
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Just get a pair of powerline ethernet adapters from Amazon or whatever. It's basically the same as having a wired connection. They send the internet connection through the electrical outlet. Sounds strange, but it works perfectly. I'm actually using powerline ethernet myself.
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>>58245265
So I would just plug one in my computer right next to it and the same for the Steam Link? That sounds like a good idea. How much do they cost? Also do you know what these are that came with the Link by any chance?
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Whoops forgot picture
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>I am buying an i7 to future proof my PC
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>>58245079
Buy the i7 (k). There's no reason for anyone with a 2600k to upgrade, so with a current gen i7 you should also be fine for years.
I have two PCs at home, one with a 2600k and the other with a 3770k, and I see no reason to upgrade any of them.
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>>58245079
New frog for frogposting. Ty OP ama hapy.
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is the 4790k still worth it btw?
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Ram underclock problem and QTDDTOT 2016-12-30 07:49:16 Post No.58245026
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Ram underclock problem and QTDDTOT
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2016-12-30 07:49:16
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Sorry to use you guys as tech support but I can't figure this out for the life of me. No amount of google seems to help either.
I had to completely disassemble my pc and put it back together because I screwed up a critical BIOS setting and it wouldn't even POST. Now after 2 days of work I've managed to put it back together and working, recover my files and make a dual Ubuntu/Win10 installation.
The things is as long as the PC is on, it runs like a nigger, I can do anything as long as I don't turn it off, just suspend or restart to change to the other OS and it hasn't crashed a single time.
However, when it cold boots, it seems to roll a dice and has about a 50% chance not even POSTing. Sometimes it displays an error about a failed boot and tells me that my ram is running at 1333 Mhz. My ram is designed for 1600 Mhz so I figured this underclocking is causing the issue, but for the life of me I can't get the BIOS to just use the fucking 1600 Mhz. I've tried manually setting the base frequency and multiplier and enabling xmp, neither worked.
Any ideas? The board is a gygabyte one. The ram sticks are kingston ddr3 8gb @ 1600 mhz blue ones. The bios only displays "UEFI dualbios".
Also, let's turn this into a QTDDTOT.
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Looks like you're fucked m8 should've installed Gentoo
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try BIOS reset (default settings)
then try switching RAM around in those four (two?) banks
then try BIOS update, if available
if nothing helps, maybe RAM or motherboard are faulty
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>>58246841
haha le memes xd
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Need some wallpapers/g/
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>>58245015
Tiled wallpapers are great.
This is what I'm using right now.
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>>58244983
my folder
https://mega.nz/#F!JQRmiYhI!FO-jRHSFcyt7RKyz_Runhg
Also >>>/wg/
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What's the greatest hack you've ever pulled?
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>>58244926
Some guy forgot to password encrypt his .ssh/id_rsa key on a server I had root access to, so I used that key to ssh onto his workstation and forward X and kill firefox and restart it with an active session to his online bank account and an active facebook login. Transferred a small amount of money from him to my own bank account, just to be a dick, and face raped him just to throw him off.
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Injecting packages in ur mum
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>>58244973
How much money?
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So... I bought a X201 tablet for 120 european pesos, unlocked BIOS, didn't come with an HDD.
Slapped a blank 120gb SSD in it, replaced thermal paste, what would you do now? Asside from installing gentoo of course
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Sell it for 150 and pat yourself on the back for being a true hacker
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im pretty sure you can run civilization V, its runs on linux through steam and its so well designed for a touchscreen
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>>58245102
Was thinking about bringing it to class, any good program to take notes? Also this thing can run matlab right?
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Battery brag thread
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>>58244889
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>>58244889
>>58244896
>2 days
>4h 40m SOT
whoopdifuckingdoo. probably not even doing anything since Android System and phone idle are topping it out
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Not too bad considering I'm on LTE, screen is at 50% brightness, and I've been browsing 4chan for the past few hours.
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What are some REALLY good music players for Linux?
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>>58244794
Spotify
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ffplay
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cmus
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What a cutie.
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>>58244777
>Zotac doesn't exist in my country
REE~
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>>58244777
still not as cute as R9 Nano.
>checked
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Apologize.
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/fpt/ - Functional Programming Thread
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2016-12-30 07:31:00
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Next-level programming thread.
Let the New Year bring you pure and immutable joy and happiness! May anger, despair and sorrow never be evaluated!
Happy New 2017 year!
Last one: >>58212017
Resources:
>Erlang
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
>>Elixir
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001642/index.html
http://elixir-lang.org/learning.html
>F#
http://fsharp.org/learn
>Haskell
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
https://0x0.st/pbp.pdf
>Lisps
>>Common Lisp
http://gigamonkeys.com/book
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf
Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp
On Lisp
Common Lisp Recipes
Land of Lisp
An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus
>>Clojure
http://www.braveclojure.com/foreword/
The joy of Clojure
>>Scheme
SICP
Essentials of Programming Languages
How to Design Programs:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
Art of the Propagator
Little Schemer
The Seasoned Schemer
The Scheme Programming Language by Kent Dybvig
Realm of Racket
Lisp in Small Pieces
>OCaml
https://realworldocaml.org/
http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/
>Scala
Functional Programming in Scala (Chiusano and Bjarnason)
Atomic Scala (Eckel and Marsh)
Programming Scala (Wampler and Payne)
Programming in Scala (Odersky, Spoon and Venners)
>Web languages
>>Elm
https://guide.elm-lang.org/
>>PureScript
http://www.purescript.org/learn/
Feel free to add more.
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>Lisp girl
Please use a functional programming related anime image next time
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>>58244751
Haskell was created because a lot of people had a lot of similar FP ideas that they kept incorporating into their own languages, but it's a lot better if it's consolidated into a single language.
Haskell's extensions make it a great place for language designers to experiment with new language constructs, typing mechanisms, syntax, etc.
Besides, it's by far the most popular purely functional language. Languages like OCaml just don't have that much going for it.
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>>58244837
Homotopy type theory is always presented as Martin-Loef type theory, not as a pure type system.