In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I still don't understand your issue with the screen size.
OK, so your All In One has detached Mouse and Keyboard, so it is not actually All In One, like a laptop is.
So why not set your monitor back a tad, if the screen is larger than you are comfy with? An extra 3" diagonally must be about and extra 2" width. I don't get the problem.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I still don't understand your issue with the screen size.
OK, so your All In One has detached Mouse and Keyboard, so it is not actually All In One, like a laptop is.
It is an All in One. All in One means that you don't have a separate monitor and tower.
A laptop is a laptop. Even if I had a laptop, I'd use a mouse because trackpads are cancer.
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So why not set your monitor back a tad, if the screen is larger than you are comfy with? An extra 3" diagonally must be about and extra 2" width. I don't get the problem.
I like the extra size.
The problem is that it sits on a coffee table in my living room. At least the old one did. This thing is top-heavy because of the design, unlike the impossible to knock over HP model. The extra size on top of the fact that the bottom of the screen is nearly 4" higher than the old one means that it will be moved quite a bit when I want to watch the TV on top of any time I'm moving it around to vacuum.
Setting the monitor back further on the table just means a bigger risk that it comes crashing to the floor if it fell over.
It's my best computer I have now, but it probably won't see much use because I'll have to put it up in a bedroom in a place where it won't be moved around much, and I'll have to get a wireless keyboard and mouse to use the desktop that's attached across the room to my TV instead.
It's fine. The one I have on my TV now is more than I need. It's just a shame that I'd already bought this AIO online first. Had I known I'd be getting such a good desktop only a few days later for next to nothing I wouldn't have bought it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and lunch. Still dry out but we shall see.
Had a pretty good morning at mah jong. I got second prize. Had a couple of decent hands that at the end netted me over 10,000 points.
Prize?
What did you get?
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Just finished a sweet harware mod on the desktop.
I had an extra 500GB HDD that I didn't want to go to waste after I swapped it out of the AIO for a 250GB SSD I'd bought years ago.
The problem was, I had nowhere to put it. There was room in the desktop for it, but no way to mount it.
I found an old metal "box" I must have saved from an old computer back in my drinking days for some reason that had tons of small holes on all sides, and using a pair of tin snips, needle nose pliers, an aluminum gutter bending tool and miscellaneous computer screws I'd saved over the years as well as some that were on the metal of the case itself, I was able to mount this 2nd hard drive in there nice and tight and triple my available internal hard drive space.
That's the type of ingenuity you need when you're not made of money and don't have yourself a 3D printer on standby.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and lunch. Still dry out but we shall see.
Had a pretty good morning at mah jong. I got second prize. Had a couple of decent hands that at the end netted me over 10,000 points.
Prize?
What did you get?
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
I won $7CD.
Been over a month and a half since I won anything playing.
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The rain is back and suppose to be around all weekend.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and lunch. Still dry out but we shall see.
Had a pretty good morning at mah jong. I got second prize. Had a couple of decent hands that at the end netted me over 10,000 points.
Prize?
What did you get?
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
I won $7CD.
Ah. I didn't know you played for prizes. Even just a little bit makes it more fun and interesting IMO. That's cool.
What's the buy in?
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and lunch. Still dry out but we shall see.
Had a pretty good morning at mah jong. I got second prize. Had a couple of decent hands that at the end netted me over 10,000 points.
Prize?
What did you get?
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
I won $7CD.
Ah. I didn't know you played for prizes. Even just a little bit makes it more fun and interesting IMO. That's cool.
What's the buy in?
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
Yeah, we do. 1st, 2nd, 3rd and a booby prize.
It does because sometimes 1st can be over $10 but that depends on how many people are playing. The last time I got 1st was back in August just after we restarted and I won $14.
The buy in is $2.
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Out for walk in the rain. This weekend is going to be a wash out. Rain all weekend.
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We never used to play for prizes at work, just points on a scratchpad. But the organizer of the bridge game (the Lab Manager, who was a bridge Master) or his designee had some small plastic animals in a table drawer that would come out whenever somebody did something kinda dumb, and we would all laugh about it. There was a lot of "table talk" and good-natured ribbing.
The only one I remember now was a small triceratops, which stood for bidding "too far, too fast" (sometimes called TF squared). It was lighthearted fun, since none of the other players (who were all VERY much better than I was!) took it seriously.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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