Welcome to the 21st century!!!

[stompandgo]

That's not necessarily true. I was very into the latest tech 20 years ago and even built a handful of high end HTPC.
But the older I get the less I have a need for the latest tech and now I can do most of what I need on my tablet. I still have a handful of PC and laptops around that can easily handle what I need from them.. well that is, except for Windows 11 update. Kinda bothering me that I may need to buy a new machine that will probably get less than 6 hours of use per year.
I never leave machines running so no bot takeover going on here.

You'll have to decide how much it's worth to you.

 

[kevinmccune]

Is Linux "plug and play" windows XP started off like that click on your subject( pictures anyway) a menu appeared,send to Email recepient click on address done,haven't been able to that for ages

 

[Gionnirocket]

XP was probably the most user friendly ever.
I still have one machine running it and 10 on separate hard drives.
Then a laptop with 7 and 1 more PC and a laptop with 10

 

[Chargeride]

win10s file explorer is utter fruckin garbage, XP used to search almost instantly even on a platter drive, now it takes minutes to search even on a high end ssd.
That stupid green bar crawls across, opening a jpg takes twenty seconds, it was instantaneous on XP even with a low end processor.
Every OS is more bloat, spyware, gigabytes of trash code, tracking, scripting, and win 11 is running client side scanning.
Its an abomination, the most hideous privacy stealing, monitoring pile of malicious junk for the masses to interface with.
Its fundamental purpose is state access to every corner of your interface with the web, every click, every pause, every miniscule facet of your computer interaction is being used to build a presumption of your character.

The power has intoxicated them, they are just as exposed as their victims, the deluge of humanities secrets are there for anyone to corrupt.
This is a billion times more horrific than anyone seems to grasp.

 

[Gionnirocket]

I didn't realize all that.... but is it still safe to download porn?

 

[kevinmccune]

XP was probably the most user friendly ever.
I still have one machine running it and 10 on separate hard drives.
Then a laptop with 7 and 1 more PC and a laptop with 10

I was informed Bill Gates designed XP while these other abominations were created to justify the jobs for staff.( what if Bill Gates were one of us?)

 

[kevinmccune]

has anyone tried "Wintergreen"( does it still exist?) I downloaded Firefox on my old computer on the advice of my Librarian friend,little did I know what she was setting me up for.

 

[GMA52]

Welcome

Just remember you get what you pay for, when not if the battery dies good luck finding a replacement and ultra cheap bikes come with ultra cheap components

We all have to learn sometime. I know I did with a previous E-Scooter purchase.

 

[Hewholaughslast]

We all have to learn sometime. I know I did with a previous E-Scooter purchase.

All things considered, all bikes are disposable. The price of a new battery can cost nearly as much as or half as much as an entire bicycle. So, I kind of figure I could run my entry level bikes until they die and then just buy a whole new bike. I have seen replacement batteries for a lot of "name brand" ebikes that cost more than my whole ebike. I saw a short video, on either YouTube or on Pinterest, where they show a guy in a bicycle graveyard taking bikes off of a truck and stacking them somewhere in Asia (maybe China) and it looked like there were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of discarded bicycles stacked row after row after row. Maybe destined for a blast furnace to be made into new bikes? Same story for automobiles and trucks and so on. We live in a disposable world.

 

[GMA52]

All things considered, all bikes are disposable. The price of a new battery can cost nearly as much as or half as much as an entire bicycle. So, I kind of figure I could run my entry level bikes until they die and then just buy a whole new bike. I have seen replacement batteries for a lot of "name brand" ebikes that cost more than my whole ebike. I saw a short video, on either YouTube or on Pinterest, where they show a guy in a bicycle graveyard taking bikes off of a truck and stacking them somewhere in Asia (maybe China) and it looked like there were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of discarded bicycles stacked row after row after row. Maybe destined for a blast furnace to be made into new bikes? Same story for automobiles and trucks and so on. We live in a disposable world.

Yeah, they are high in cost. A new 20AH 48V battery for my E-Bike is about 1/3 the cost.