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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #240 on: January 11, 2016, 05:06:45 PM »
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #241 on: January 13, 2016, 05:07:41 AM »
I can't play Minecraft!

I saw Py's computer and mine was four years old so I bought one like hers. I also bought the warranty, so when it failed, I got another. I had a warranty on that one too and when it failed I got another. I started traveling so I got a netbook to back up the notebook. The notebook started overheating so I ditched the desktop that I wasn't using because I forgot the admin password and didn't want to keep using Linux (too many steps!), and bought another desktop.

The netbook started missing keystrokes so my father bought me another instead of giving me the money my sister who died told him to give me. That one developed screen static issues so my mother gave me another. (My sister told her to give me some of the inheritance but she decided to but ozone treatments for me and give me the netbook instead). That battery failed on that one but we were moving and the old one worked intermittenly so I didn't buy another, but it did fail after we moved. I haven't bought another because in the meantime Py bought me a notebook to replace the unreliable netbook (can't go wrong for $250 for 8G ram and backward install of W7) since we were traveling a lot (vacation weekends to Clearwater Fl and Ormond beaches) and needed a reliable portable.

A friend sent me a gift subscription so I started playing minecraft and found the video card on my desktop was insufficient to manage all the mods so I bought a new computer. But I have been too busy buying new appliances for our new two level home rental and traveling to the U.S. for Cmas (not to mention buying lots of Cmas gifts) so I haven't had time to set it up properly (and besides I hate W10, and since Linux is too hard to set up).

The result is that I can't play Minecraft because the laptop (which does have good memory and can play with some lag) is all the way upstairs in the bedroom, which means that in order to play while I am watching cartoons on cable, I would have to set up my new computer or move it, since it's taking up so much space that my recliner has to be moved to accommodate access to both. I would also have to unplug my old computer from its tiny 22 inch monitor so that the new computer was the primary input.

I suppose I should just buy another TV (don't want to move the second one)  rent another cable box and have an extension put in, but that would require shopping and phone calls, and right now I am busy playing with my ton of Cmas presents.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #242 on: January 13, 2016, 05:56:17 AM »
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #243 on: January 13, 2016, 02:55:15 PM »
Horrible, just horrible. How can you go on, WolFish?

The apartment that I'm renting includes a flat-screen TV but no remote.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #244 on: January 14, 2016, 07:02:06 AM »
Horrible, just horrible. How can you go on, WolFish?

The apartment that I'm renting includes a flat-screen TV but no remote.

  Is that some kind of joke?!  Do they at least provide staff to change the channels for you?  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #245 on: January 14, 2016, 03:02:43 PM »
Horrible, just horrible. How can you go on, WolFish?

The apartment that I'm renting includes a flat-screen TV but no remote.

  Is that some kind of joke?!  Do they at least provide staff to change the channels for you?  :'(

It's got those bloody touch controls that are impossible to poke at with a stick. My life is hell. :P
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #246 on: January 14, 2016, 06:22:11 PM »
Buy a cheap universal remote.

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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #247 on: January 15, 2016, 03:12:29 AM »
Have the strength of conviction to choose one channel and stick to it.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #248 on: January 15, 2016, 09:18:15 AM »
There were no parking spots at the coffee shop this morning and I had to park down the street by the rail road tracks and walk 
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #249 on: January 15, 2016, 09:26:03 AM »
Buy a cheap universal remote.

But I don't want to.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #250 on: January 15, 2016, 09:26:51 AM »
Have the strength of conviction to choose one channel and stick to it.

Yeah, right. BBC Two. :zoinks:
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #251 on: January 20, 2016, 07:21:39 PM »
  Too much leisure time makes me sooooooooooo sleepy.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #252 on: January 23, 2016, 02:47:41 PM »
  Too much leisure time, too little work left to do in the apartment.  :'(
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #253 on: January 24, 2016, 01:29:04 AM »
My mother got two feet of snow. The last time she did, the heat went out in the building where she has her co-op apartment, so she had to drive her Eddie Bauer SUV up to the summer house in order to keep warm. She tried to give me the car when she bought her new one, but the last time she did I ended up with two cars and had to keep one at the summer house. Pain in the neck.
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Re: The "developed country problem" thread
« Reply #254 on: January 24, 2016, 05:02:23 AM »
My mother got two feet of snow. The last time she did, the heat went out in the building where she has her co-op apartment, so she had to drive her Eddie Bauer SUV up to the summer house in order to keep warm. She tried to give me the car when she bought her new one, but the last time she did I ended up with two cars and had to keep one at the summer house. Pain in the neck.

  I don't even have a parking space for a hypothetical car.  I'd have to park on the street.  :'(
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