Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
I can let most stuff wash over me but when I ask if a person has a PC and they reply... NO, I have a laptop.
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
Kind of dumb. Most laptops are PCs anyway.
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
Personal computers? Which ones aren't?
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
People who don’t respond. It used to be something of a moody kid’s trait, but seems to be a hell of a lot of alleged adults, these days.
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
The computers you don’t see.ItWasntMe wrote:Personal computers? Which ones aren't?
Cloud server farms, where all your stored informations goes to. Netflix, Amazon, etc. Sparc stations which provide all the graphics for games and movies. Chat GPT.
There’s always a trade off with laptops. Portability vs power consumption and heat production. Tricks like shutting down computing cores, reducing processor power, and others. Email and general web surfing doesn’t push the limits usually.
Of course it’s Asinine. All computers are personal computers. Alexa says so and so it must be true. Alexa laughs, Siri laughs, Cortana laughs.
Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
those computers are very rarely "PC's"newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:26 pmThe computers you don’t see.ItWasntMe wrote:Personal computers? Which ones aren't?
A server, mainframe, minicomputer or even a supercomputer is not a PC
The OS a Personal Computer runs is irrelevant... a mac is a Personal computer, a Linux box is also a Personal Computer....
and while we're on it a tablet PC is all tablets including iPads!! No matter what Apple would like you to believe.
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
I recall that PC was to reference a Windows desktop. The Mac was, well ... a Mac. Tablets are tablets, and mobile phones are, getting more expensive with silly features.
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
When chicks talk using emoji ... that really grinds my gears.
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Re: Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances
I believe the term PC was somewhat co-opted, and became synonymous with Microsoft based, home computers, even though not strictly correct. But at a time in the home computing evolution, MS probably held a significant share. And this before the PC was small enough to carry with you.
The term almost successfully making itself obsolete if it’s now recognised by many as the big box, big screen, multi component thing otherwise known as a desktop, rather than as Personal Computer. I wonder how many of those who fit this
Even know what PC means?but when I ask if a person has a PC and they reply... NO, I have a laptop.
iPhone, in some ways could almost do the same with respect to smart phones. I know a few folk who use the term iPhone, but mean their Samsung. A western, English product name that’s been adopted as a term.
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