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He left it on top of the car. It flew off into the middle of the closest intersection. We left shortly after he did and hubby spied it so I reached out and grabbed it off the road. It looked like it had been run over.
He was able to recover the hard drive, but that's it, and I consider him fortunate in that regard.
He spends $2000 on laptops, and I keep telling him, cap it at like $500-$700, and get a nice computer at home. Stuff happens to laptops.
I spent $4500 on one way back when IBM still made thinkpads, and it was their bleeding edge at the time. I used it as a dev machine.
I got out of a cab and it flew out of my (for some reason unzipped) bag and crashed onto the pavement smashing the backlights and the hard drive. This is after it had been stolen and recovered mind you.
Never again.
Don't let your relatives do this. It can only end in tears.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I only buy a high-end laptop every four years or so and use it for everything. I plain refuse to synch a laptop and desktop so that I'll have what I need when not at home. I'm lazy and don't want to spend the time to set it up to make it reasonably transparent. And I make do with my laptop's screen too! Many here may find it amusing or insane, but I don't find it all that limiting. A laptop has never been a problem, though an employer-supplied one got stolen in 1999, in Sweden of all places.
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I mean, I used to feel that way, but then I've had two stolen, and two broken, and seen it happen to way too many other people. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but if my bad luck holds I think I'll stick to the laptop/desktop combo. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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If your bad luck holds, you'll have a broken laptop and desktop! 
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Okay that's fair. My linux install is hosed on my desktop as it is. it's halfway to broke.
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Well, thanks for warning me off that! I assume Linux in a VM would be a lot safer?
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yeah that's what I'll do next time.
i'm thinking of running a hypervisor instead of a "real" OS, but failing that, I'd probably run Win7 as my primary just because it runs even if the computer its on is being dragged behind a truck.
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honey the codewitch wrote: My linux install is hosed on my desktop as it is. it's halfway to broke.
Isn't that the default setting for Linux?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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And put an accidental damage protection warranty on it so when it gets dropped and destroyed it's covered.
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Sure, depending on how much your laptop travels around. But I don't buy insurance for consumer goods that I can self-insure. After all, the insurance underwriter expects to make a profit. About the only things I'll insure are a house or vehicle.
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honey the codewitch wrote: He left it on top of the car
Made the same mistake with my phone. Twice. And came to same conclusion : only cheap phones now.
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Rage wrote: Made the same mistake with my phone. Twice.
Once is a mistake.
Twice is insurance fraud.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Twice is insurance fraud deep stupidity.
FTFY.
/edit : Is your phone insured ?
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Rage wrote: honey the codewitch wrote: He left it on top of the car
Made the same mistake with my phone. Twice. And came to same conclusion : only cheap phones now. get a convertible and leave the top down
FTFY.
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Much worse! I left my coffee on top of the car so I could move some things off a seat. It pops off to the ground and the lid disengages. All gone.
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That's really bad but just think, it could have been a beer.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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This is why the courts have mandated I can't have any more children.
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honey the codewitch wrote: He spends $2000 on laptops, and I keep telling him, cap it at like $500-$700, and get a nice computer at home
Ditto. Cap laptops around $500-$600 and phones to $150-$200.
It's easier to change them in few years. And change in these things always feels good. [Lost factor add here that would not make you feel really bad if it isn't that costly]
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People I know that have to work in the field (oil and gas and the like) use Toshiba Toughbooks.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I think you mean Panasonic Toughbooks.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That must have been it. A serial port used to be a big requirement. Now all wireless.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I used to work in embedded for automotive. I had one of these : I once drove over it (left it on the ground behind of the test car, and drove backwards wondering where I put my laptop until *Bump*), and I once dropped it in the stairs, second floor. Survived both events  . The only painful thing was to go through airport security : "Bring out your lapto...wowowow sir, what is this ? Put it down and step back".
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Last November, I bought 5 boxes of 100 each latex disposable gloves (I get them cheaper that way, and I normally use them for cleaning up cat puke / poo; handling chillies, raw meat, that kind of thing.
Of course, with Covid I've been getting through them a lot more quickly than normal - so I've opened the last box to replace the one in the car and looking to order more.
Last November, they were £24.98 incl.
Today, same supplier, same product, same delivery, 0% VAT instead of 20% (as they are PPE they have a special VAT rate for a few months): £45.98!
And all the other suppliers appear to be the same.
I think that someone is extracting the urine myself. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Atleast it is available for you. Half of the things are still not available for us, yet. Or take risk to visit supermarket (maybe more than one) to get them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I normally use them for cleaning up cat puke / poo; handling chillies, raw meat, that kind of thing.
'that sort of thing' - sure, we'll believe you
yeah, it's pretty disgusting, you see racketeering everywhere - at least some a**holes who bought the shops out of hand-cleanser then tried to sell it on ebay got their come-uppance
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