Alternitive title: Deep Space feels better than sex!! You'll never need a woman again!!!

Great! Now when will the EU release Google's stranglehold on ChromeOS and let me uninstall Chrome on there?

The worst part of Teams and OneDrive is they're both very useful programs that tend not to have any problems. OneDrive even lets me be logged in to both my work and personal accounts on the same computer so I can get both drives on my phone!

Then something goes wrong. Why won't Teams install? Why won't it launch? Where did it automatically install on this machine? Looks like OneDrive is installed, why won't it run? It worked yesterday, what is setting the registry setting so it won't even start? Where are the goddamn logs for everything? I found the logs, why don't they show absolutely anything?

Dropbox was very good because it Just Worked. You installed the program and it synced your files, bing boom done. If it didn't, it told you why and you fixed it. OneDrive, for all it's admittedly very nice features, sometimes just doesn't go and doesn't bother telling you why. If you're lucky you'll find a log file tucked away for Windows Installer that says "failed to install" and maybe an error code like 0x80011123: Unknown Failure. Microsoft employs more people to write documentation than live in my hometown so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect some amount of work to go into troubleshooting.

At least both Teams and OneDrive are easier to troubleshoot than Intune. Fuck Intune.

Skimming the headline made me think this was being developed for in-car VR use, and I can think of few things I want less than a VR helmet on while I try to drive. It does sound like a fun thing to put in a cyberpunk story!

That's basically what Twitch does. If you allow ads you get some that are 5 seconds, some are 60, it depends. If you block ads you get a screen saying ads are playing that lasts for usually 60-120 seconds.

You can get an Ender 3 Pro at Microcenter for $99. That's generally regarded as the "best deal" in 3d printing right now, so we'll go with that. It also has a 220x220mm build area, so about 8.5in on each side. I truly don't know where the $500 figure came from, you can buy an Ender 3 V2 Neo, the Cadillac of Ender 3s, brand new on Amazon for its retail price of $320US.

A reel of 1kg PLA, the standard filament, is about $20, also at Microcenter. You can pretty reliably get it for around $10 online, but we'll assume you want to just go pick it up in-person when you need it. 1kg is actually kind of a lot of printing on such a machine, but since you're excited we'll assume you print 1kg per month. Power usage is slightly variable depending on where exactly you put it and the temperature of the room and what you're printing, but a guy on Stack Exchange says his Ender 3 uses 0.12kWh/h. BLS.gov puts the average price for electricity in December 2022 to be $0.165/kWh. If you do a medium-long print every day and print for 12 hours per day, that is just about $0.24USD/day. We'll round that up to a quarter a day for easier math. The only other operating cost is really your time. 3d modelling software is free for a lot of stuff - Windows 3d Builder is surprisingly good for Microsoft software, Tinkercad and OpenSCAD are free, Fusion360 has a free license, take your pick. There are a ton of free models of varying quality to find and print, which really just boils back down to costing your time. We'll assume your time is free because it's a hobby. So you're looking at around $27.50 per month to operate your Ender 3, totally stock. Figure in the extra $2.50 each month for the occasional replacement part, probably a nozzle, and you're still only at $30/month with a $100 entry fee. But remember this is also a hobby, so I can't imagine anyone interested will stick with just $30/month. Nozzles are cheap, maybe try a new one for only $5! Well a Volcano hotend will let you print faster and is only $60, surely that won't break the bank. Your bed got scratched after you tried to pry a print off and a PEI sheet upgrade is only $25, and you can see where the real money sink comes in.

I'm looking for something else as well, but it should be mentioned that $50/year is less than $5/month. Is the service worth more to you than one fast-food lunch a month? That's about how much you're paying. Of course, I'm a cheapskate so I'll be looking for something else, but I'm just trying to put it in perspective.

Nothing would make the MBA better than the Surface for note-taking. I have a Surface, I don't have a MacBook, so I like what I have. It takes notes and has a pretty good keyboard, plus the kickstand makes for a much more convienient upright experience than an iPad. As for the bluetooth problems here, I have no idea why people have so much trouble. It just seems like a lot of hassle.

This is exactly what I love about my Surface. I take it to a meeting, drop open the cover, and tap the Word button. Boom, I'm ready to go, then save everything to Skydrive so I can look it up from anywhere. The people with iPads (everyone else, tbh) tend to have to fiddle with the bluetooth settings and figure out where Pages saves stuff. My Surface just sort of works. YMMV, IMO, and all those other fun acronyms apply.

Though not all USB chargers are the same. I have a charger that came with a previous phone that won't charge my Galaxy Nexus, probably because it's only 600mA.

Considering I use Windows, that's unlikely!

You're missing the only group who actually care about booth babes: 14-year-old males.

This is total horseshit on Google's part. I recently switched from a phone running Gingerbread to a Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.2 and I can pretty definitively say Android is worse for it. Bluetooth connectivity just plain doesn't work for a lot of stuff, what does work takes for-goddamn-ever to connect, the sound quality is crap, and they even took out proxy authintication for the browser. Why? Who the fuck knows? tl, dr: Fuck Google and fuck their Android "improvements"

Whoosh.

I seem to recall reading about how someone fell for a scam like this once - only the scammer came through with the cash. The guy invested a few hundred bucks and got paid something like ten thousand dollars. Zimbabweian dollars. So he ends up getting repaid $40 or so, but seemed to think it was a great experience.