And in real life too. Trying to parallel park that rental the first time...

Pay what? Hah. I think you missed a zero. Or three.

If y'all make it to Seattle, be sure to make a stop at The Living Computer Museum.

The first serious thing I saved up for was a four color CGA monitor. Cost $400 and took me multiple years to save for, but it was SO AWESOME. Okay, it didn’t beat the Amiga down the street, but I still though it was all that.

What's the opposite of missing something? That's how I feel about the Gateway 2000. ;)

You should check out the LTT sleeper build that they do in a similar setup.

The problem is, when you improve the torque of an electric motor, you can easily end up needing new mounting, a new battery to keep up, new wires to carry more power, maybe a new power converter, and if you don’t the result may not be less than peak performance but smoke and busted parts. And just like with an ICE,…

Exactly. My phone and laptop battery aren’t swappable with other phones or laptops (okay, my laptop has a removable battery, but that’s 1) pretty rare and 2) still not compatible with another brand) and car batteries, that are substantially heavier and more dangerous, are not going to be less tied to manufacturer.

I agree that it probably will take enthusiast to mechanics to make modifications, but it doesn’t have to because “voltage matching is hard”. Even the 8086 had a more complicated standard than voltage matching, which by the way is also part of pretty much any digital I/O standard (aka parallel, usb, sata, 10 base T).…

I think the computer industry is already an excellent argument against exactly what you are saying. First, standards can be updated. You may still be using serial cables, and a CGA monitor, but the rest of us are in a world of HDMI 2.0, USB 4.0 (aka firewire) and PCI express. Standards needed updating, but all along…

I went from an original Pixel to a moto g7 power because 1) my original Pixel has not turned out to be enough better than my LG G5 (which I kept around for giggles) to justify double the cost, 2) Google support was hit or miss, where plenty of calls with me reporting a genuine issue ended with “well, why don’t you try…

Uh, you get it unlocked, pop in an AT&T sim and boom, set. There are lots of reasons for not going Pixel, but um, you just got tricked by VZW marketing on this one. Sorry. 

I mean, there’s a lot of space between “another Kingsmen movie with Larson and Jackson” and “not worth watching”.

Honestly, what is the potential gain in this? If you can't identify a turd with your hand in it, what will rummaging around gain? People either know that Walker and Trump are lying, backstabbing con men, or they are probably beyond rational argument. 

Yes! It’s a subscription too, so you can continue to extend the warranty each year until a week before anything goes wrong! We’ll even throw in some exclamation points! Please just post your name, address, credit card and social security number, and our friendly Nigerian staff will be with you shortly.

Ah, you mean like the guy who felt the need to tell the world that he wants to like something but doesn’t as a response to an article sort of but not really about that thing? QF deserved the snark. He should have just taken it at face value instead of deciding it was some deeply personal jab and getting out his…

You could get an Android TV (and use chrome remote desktop). It’s maybe not ideal but might help.

You care to share some data with that opinion? I read a lot of these articles on these sites and, I’m sitting here wondering what universe you came from. Maybe it’s your Google Feed only showing you a very small number of articles because you are more inclined to click on these, or maybe I am not sensitive to it,…

Heh, because if we did, we would just read a history book. Or watch the WW2, er, History channel. I mean, what could be greater than the story of how a country that codified racial slavery in its creation soundly defeated a some other white men who invented chemical genocide? /sarcasm

Awww. You poor thing. So sorry you feel bad.