Any computer wizz's here?

[Marty_d]

Good luck finding something to read DVD's in the near future!

[spacesailor]

I possess " windows ",  win 1 "through to "win mellenium".

spacaesailor 

[red750]

Most laptops and some desktops don't have DVD drives, they went out with button-up boots.

[spacesailor]

But ! .

Somehow " Laces " are still with us .

Shoes tied with ' string ' . How old fashioned is that .

Zips & Velcro , how modern can we get , for shoe fashion. 

spacesailor

[willedoo]

I'm having a mixed degree of luck changing my email address in various accounts. I thought I'd successfully changed it over in Facebook, but not so. It's allowed me to add the new email address but won't let me delete the old one and they are still sending email notices to the old address. The problem is my internet plan has dynamic IPs, not static. Every time I connect I'm assigned a different IP. That makes Facebook think I'm logging in on different devices. For security reasons, they say they will only let me change the email address after I've logged in a few times on the same device, which is never going to happen.

[red750]

[Jerry_Atrick]

Hmm.. I am thinking of changing my email address. I have been with yahoo for years - long before gmail and others were a twinkle in their creators' eyes. I remember people suggesting I should change because gmail has released calendars (been using then in yahoo for ages), a messaging app (yep, yahoo had that, too), and many more features where gmail seemed ot be copying yahoo. It did go through a rough patch for aboput 6 months after an ownership change where it wasn't sending or receving email reliably and it did start to fall behind on the services offered - after all, they decided to become a content business and stop their search engine, which although older than Google, wasn't quite as good as Googles. They had fallen behind what Google offered.

 

But, I persevered as it is a faff to change primary email addresses. But now, I really am tiring of yahoo's email, because, it no longer filters spam and scams like it used to.. and it is not entirely sophisticaed email spoofing/phishing that is getting through. I have had emails from amazon.uk where if I hover over the from address field, it is clearly a naff email. Screwfix is a hardware supplier I buy a lot of stiff from and I have been receiiving scam emails from those so badly purporting to be them, that I can hardly make out it is supposed ot be from them. Yet, they appear in my inbox and not my spam box.  I like yahoo normally.. Their finance content is very good (they have an API that allows me to programatically get prices and volumes to determine my other "betting" addiction).  They no longer have all the other apps they used to, and they have even got rid of their calendar.. but their email was fine.

 

But, it is time to say see you later...

 

But, I am dreading the experience.. as @willedoo has had above. I have been searching for some utility to make it esasier even if I have to pay.. but not yet... I'll keep you posted.

[nomadpete]

54 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Hmm.. I am thinking of changing my email address. I have been with yahoo for years - long before gmail and others were a twinkle in their creators' eyes. I remember people suggesting I should change because gmail has released calendars (been using then in yahoo for ages), a messaging app (yep, yahoo had that, too), and many more features where gmail seemed ot be copying yahoo. It did go through a rough patch for aboput 6 months after an ownership change where it wasn't sending or receving email reliably and it did start to fall behind on the services offered - after all, they decided to become a content business and stop their search engine, which although older than Google, wasn't quite as good as Googles. They had fallen behind what Google offered.

 

But, I persevered as it is a faff to change primary email addresses. But now, I really am tiring of yahoo's email, because, it no longer filters spam and scams like it used to.. and it is not entirely sophisticaed email spoofing/phishing that is getting through. I have had emails from amazon.uk where if I hover over the from address field, it is clearly a naff email. Screwfix is a hardware supplier I buy a lot of stiff from and I have been receiiving scam emails from those so badly purporting to be them, that I can hardly make out it is supposed ot be from them. Yet, they appear in my inbox and not my spam box.  I like yahoo normally.. Their finance content is very good (they have an API that allows me to programatically get prices and volumes to determine my other "betting" addiction).  They no longer have all the other apps they used to, and they have even got rid of their calendar.. but their email was fine.

 

But, it is time to say see you later...

 

But, I am dreading the experience.. as @willedoo has had above. I have been searching for some utility to make it esasier even if I have to pay.. but not yet... I'll keep you posted.

Hi Jerry,

I have been agonising over this for years!

Very keen to hear your thoughts. I have a suspicion that it might be best to get my own domain but have no idea how to set it up nor how to maintain it.

 

So I  would have email address xxxx@nomad.org

Or similar.

Please keep me posted. I  still dread having to go through advising the whole bunch of businesses and agencies of the change but on the pos side, it would reduce the liklihood of identity theft!

[Jerry_Atrick]

Just Google email hosting and let me know before you buy which ones you think are best.. 

[spacesailor]

yet Another Horrible Objectionable Operative .

Function that has seen better days .  LoL

spacesailor

 

[willedoo]

I had my own domains for quite a few years via GoDaddy.com. They were good and cheap to start with but eventually their prices crept up which is understandable. I've only got one with them now which is parked up for possible future use or sale. The problem with domain names is all the basic ones are already taken. For example nomad.org is already taken. GoDaddy has a simple search function and also lists other similar available names.

https://www.godaddy.com/en-au

[Marty_d]

I'm happy with Gmail.  The spam is pretty much non existent.  Plus easy to search up old emails, all the folder stuff etc.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I started life on minicomputers, then went to Burroughs Mainframes (which at the time were better than IBM,but yanks know marketing).

 

I did migrate to IBM mainframes at what was then Coles Myer...

 

Here is the latest generation of what, IMHO, is still the existing best corproate and AI platform..

 

But they aren't as good as marketing as they used to be

 

[willedoo]

A mate of mine lent me a spare Samsung tablet to use while recovering from a recent op, the reason being he has the full series of Deadwood and Justified on it. After being in hospital with only the smallish phone for internet use, I'm thinking of getting a tablet.

 Never had one before but it would be good for times away from home & save dragging the laptop around. He uses it when he feels like watching a movie in bed. For internet use I could use the tablet as the device & the phone as a mobile hotspot.

[red750]

My laptop has become more and more a pain in the neck. I have had to proofread every line as it either typed double characters, particularly 'n's or dropped characters. I have had to hit the 'f' key up to a dozen times to get it to register. Typing the word Falcon would come out aalconn'.

 

I have pulled out an old USB full sized keyboard,but I now find the space bar on it sometimes doesn't register. I might have to buy a new keyboard. Fortunately, they are not expensive. One feature of the laptop keyboard I will miss is the illuminated keys.

 

[willedoo]

Sounds like sticky keys. I wonder if they are getting worn or if there's some dust buildup in the keys.

[spacesailor]

Or .

Hopefully not , Michael J Fox , shaky problem. 

( parkinson ( had to look it up  )) .

spacesailor 

[red750]

Well. I went out and got a new keyboard. I was amazed that prices range up to $350 at Officeworks. I'm not looking for anything flash, and wired (vs wireless) is fine.It's not going to make my posts any more intelligent. Fortunately, I had  checked out their website. Got a wired full keyboard for $7.00. You don't have to spend a fortune. The laptop worked fine, it was just the keyboard, and the digital keypad on the right is handy. Pairing that with the $4.00 wired mouse and I'm cooking with gas.

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, red750 said:

Well. I went out and got a new keyboard. I was amazed that prices range up to $350 at Officeworks. I'm not looking for anything flash, and wired (vs wireless) is fine.It's not going to make my posts any more intelligent. Fortunately, I had  checked out their website. Got a wired full keyboard for $7.00. You don't have to spend a fortune. The laptop worked fine, it was just the keyboard, and the digital keypad on the right is handy. Pairing that with the $4.00 wired mouse and I'm cooking with gas.

Welcome back, Peterrrrrrrr

[willedoo]

Lately I've seen a lot of text to image examples that are getting very photo-realistic. The example below is from a Wiki page and was created with Stable Diffusion using the text prompt "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse". They say Stable Diffusion can run on most modern computers with a modest GPU with at least 4GB of VRAM.

 

[Marty_d]

Where's the horse's space suit?

[facthunter]

Spoils the story doesn't it?  Nev

[willedoo]

It's a Quarter Horse. Maybe one day AI will be able to draw a Full Horse.

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Spoils the story doesn't it?  Nev

Neigh.

[facthunter]

It's easy to become a little Hoarse in Winter when flu is about. Many Horses are in a Stable condition when you pick them up.. Most evidence they leave is Horse$#!t.    Nev