Re: General discussion chat I just got my arm twisted around my steering wheel because a plug came out, I plugged it back in. I had my arm through one of the gaps in it. I didn't expect it to do anything, but it turned on and did it's little spinny self orientation thing. Before I even knew what was going on I was tangled up.
Re: General discussion chat That happened to me when I was messing with the drivers to my old logitech racing wheel for the ps2. I didn't know what I was doing and I hit a button that "simulates" the force feedback in different scenarios. I wasn't expecting it and got my wrist quite twisted in ways it shant twist. Rather funny though.
Re: General discussion chat Yeah I was laughing as the wheel twisted my arm around. Quite funny indeed. I love fail compilations.
Re: General discussion chat Well, my Chromebook apparently does have overheating protection. I regret "modifying" the heatsink now.
Re: General discussion chat When I read your comment about removing the fan the first thing I thought is "why the hell would you do that, it's there for a reason...".
Re: General discussion chat Once I had an old shitty AMD sempron around. I didn't have any thermal paste so I decided to just slap the cooler on it and start up the PC. Not good.
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Re: General discussion chat Made the switch from iphone to a Nokia Lumia 1020 running windows phone a few months ago and ill never go back. Once you look at what others have to offer instead of buying another iphone (like I used to) There is a lot to choose from. Android was just not appealing to me, too messy and not simple enough. Anyone else had experiences with windows phone? what did you think? If you run Android, what do you think of it?
Re: General discussion chat I have a lumia 710. Generally loved the device, maybe it would have been nicer if it was a fraction larger (not iphone 6 large, certainly not that big, hell a galaxy s3 is too big even) with a higher res screen to match but it was a nice shape and extremely well built. Quite liked the curved back and the material the back panel was made of, had a grippy rubber feel to it rather than rock solid cheapy plastic which is what I think when I hold a samsung device (sorry samsung owners, but I do not like the feel of that samsung plastic especially on what is meant to be a premium device). The processor within the device, actually not very powerful at all and that generally goes for most windows phones, less so now than back then on windows phone 7 (which only supported a single core anyway) but the windows phones generally don't have ridiculously high specced processors, but then neither does an iPhone (enjoying your PowerVR GPU guys?). They don't need it though. That operating system, damn its quick, everything was just silky smooth, the UI looked great and overall I felt that the system really just worked great. I loved it. Except 1 thing. Restriction. I like being able to plug my current android device into the PC and being able to use it as a USB storage device. I like being able to hook up USB storage devices to my phone too actually. Windows phone had a decent version of office on it, pretty much identical to the 365 app now on android and iOS, that was great, but I couldnt just plug the phone into a PC and use full blown office to edit the document directly off of phone storage, I had to send it through the cloud to the PC and back. My android device, I now have office 365 on it. I can save a document to my SD card. I can plug a USB cable into the PC and choose to either go into MTP mode (which allows the PC to browse both internal storage and SD card without unmounting the SD card within android, however not every OS supports that, works great on windows though, doesnt work at all on OSX which is hilarious considering iOS identifies as an MTP device too) or in mass storage mode in which case the SD card disappears within android and just appears as a standard USB storage device on the other device without issue (tends to work on all OSes or devices supporting USB storage, can even get backups from my CCTV system that way). Edit the document on the PC, save, its straight on the phone where I can view it again or take it to another machine. My phone supports USB host too so with a file manager app I can browse the contents of another USB storage device to copy documents too and from. More importantly to most people than office. Music. Windows phone 7 I had to use Zune to sync libraries to the windows phone media player. iOS you need itunes. Android. Plug phone into PC, dump some MP3 files into a folder. Done. No need to use fancy software to sync audio libraries (although that can be done), just dump the files onto the device or pull them off the device or whatever. You have a file manager on the device, you can move the files around to and from SD card or retrieve music from bluetooth or USB storage devices. Something few people use, but I do. Serial. Android fully supports bluetooth serial which I use. I can also use my FTDI cable through my USB host adapter with a certain app. That is a niche application, but not really possible on windows phone or iOS (well, there is now a way to get bluetooth serial on windows phone, there is also a way to get it on iOS but for bluetooth 4.0 only, still screwed on the wired front). Even more so, some android devices do have onboard serial ports which can on rare occasion be accessed on a rooted device. A very common one is to break out TX and RX on the left and right audio channels of the headset connector while using a resistor of set value between mic and ground to signify that the device connected to the jack is serial not audio, also very common is to use D+ of the micro USB connector as TX and D- as RX with a fixed value resistor between sense and ground to trigger disabling of USB and enabling of UART, then on some devices a different resistor will trigger display output on D+ and D- and another resistor or a dead short signifies USB host, have even heard of one which had a 2nd audio output on D+ and D- with yet another resistor value, or test points in the battery area may also be UART, its common for the chips powering these phones to have multiple UARTs so any combo is possible, usually at least 1 is reserved for a geany session on the linux kernel itself. iOS devices used to have a serial connector, it wasnt usable by the consumer without jailbreaks (and most of those ignored its existance too), it was probably similar to android having one reserved for geany on the linux kernel and used for debugging new iOS versions, was one of the many many functions on the 30 pin connector. So, not everyone has same usage cases as I do. But for me, only android fits my requirements. I like windows phone, but it doesnt work for me. Android does.
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Re: General discussion chat Well. It's kind of like a rental car. It's not mine so.. Eh.. Anyway, I swapped the heatsink in my Chromebook with the one in my brothers. It's not like he's gonna be folding on it anyway. I didn't think that it had overheat protection since I was able to use it for awhile with no heatsink at all. (But I guess it wasn't under very much load when I did that.)
Re: General discussion chat Thanks for the comment, you know alot more than I do when it comes to phones. One of the reasons I chose the windows phone was for the drag and drop feature, this came with windows 8 so I think I missed the pain with Zune and got in at the right time, I understand where your coming from with what you need from a phone and its OS. Glad that there is at least options available for different people.
Re: General discussion chat May be going to look at a Skoda Fabia on monday, its not a felicia, but close enough I suppose.
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