Living without the internet
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Only ~400 email a day?! Too few for the real OG me think! :-D
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
I wasn't posting here, that usually adds a couple of hundred. :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Was an "interesting" experiment...but not one I'd like to repeat in the near future. I was surprised how reliant I'd become on Google / MSDN when coding: the data was there in my memory, but it was quicker to access via a browser. Slowed me down a lot. I was also annoyed by the devices which didn't work: Chromecast for example. No internet == no working (and slugging my WiFi channel to boot). So a quick Saturday evening "let's watch that Sherlock episode" activity became Plan A: break out the USB stick and copy it to there, TV accepts USB. Only...it doesn't like H264 MP4 files longer than 45 minutes and dies when it gets there... Plan B: assume USB stick was too slow, find portable HDD and try that. Nope, no change. Plan C: copy MP4 to old media player, play it from there. Nope, doesn't recognise MP4. ... Plan F: Transcode H264/MP4 to XVid AVI, stick on USB stick, play from there. Worked, but the lip synch was about 1/3 second out (Damn you Freemake!) But since it was now an hour and a half later, we watched it anyway... And once Outlook was available again, and it accessed all my email accounts instead of the one I was monitoring via Neighbours WiFi I had 7,124 emails to wade through :sigh: All in all, I rather have the internet, spam and all!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
