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You Have One Hour To Internet a Week
Barmymoo:
My laptop is is eight years old, fourth hand and incredibly slow by today's standards. It struggles to play The Sims 2 and I think Skyrim would make it die. I've never taken it to a repair shop in my life. Don't include me in that statement!
dr. nervioso:
My laptop is good for browsing and just using the internet for stuff, but one of its drivers is broken and I cannot play any sort of graphically intense game.
I have another laptop which has a broken screen, so I have to do a lot of annoying things to connect to a monitor and prevent it from over heating on a desk
You know what? Fuck laptops. Once I get a house and a stable living situation (i.e. years from now when I finish up getting my phd) I will go ahead and buy a kickass desktop.
Barmymoo:
Same, my laptop is basically a desktop anyway since it only has an hour or two of battery life, it's quite heavy and I don't really want to carry it round with me even if I could. The only thing preventing me from getting a desktop already is that I have to keep packing my life into storage every eight months.
Toba:
They both have their place. I have a sort of newish desktop that can really churn out torrents and internets like nobody's business and I don't even notice that time goes by when I do things, and a pretty old laptop as well. The laptop can go places with me and stuff, and the desktop can't. I can't choose, so I keep both.
That said, if I only had one hour to Internet a week I would build another Internet. Fuck your constraints, hypothetical world!
Mister D Nomms:
I've been talking about making a new internet for years. Way back when the government first started trying to regulate it. It would be slow as hell and probably would rely on the old style dial-up modems at first.
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