Personal question: How old is your computer?

[Xist]

I wish there were something like the Crucial Advisor for video cards.

When I tried to figure out how much I have everything either told me to follow the same steps or told me to ensure that a new video card is compatible before I upgrade. To to that, ensure it is compatible and boom! I found out whether it is compatible!

[freebeard]

Did you find out how much RAM?

I wish there were something like the Crucial Advisor for video cards.

I don't know anything about Crucial Advisor, but I'd start with Tom's hardware:

www.tomshardware.com/topics/graphics

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The hardest part is picking a distribution. Have you looked at your choices?

An uncle of mine says Ubuntu was the best, yet I'm also considering other distributions. I would be interested to try Puppy Linux too, as it's a lightweight distribution and often pointed out as somewhat user-friendly enough for someone more familiar with Windows XP. I enjoyed Windows XP back in the day...

[ksa8907]

Xist, run dxdiag and it will list out the details of the video card.

I bought my desktop used 5 years ago for $200, build date is 9/4/2013. Dell Optiplex 9020, i5 4570, 16gb ram, and I added a ssd for the boot drive. The computer works great

[Xist]

This is the first apple device that I have ever bought and I have been looking at this screen for at least 2 hours:


Over 4 years ago my boss gave me my work iPad and said "This is your iPad," but 2 years ago they had us send in our devices for a "system upgrade." However, it returned without any of my communication apps, apps I didn't want were there, I cannot change anything, and it took a while to get my communication apps.
The lock screen and background are a garish logo for the company that has given me just enough work over the past 4 years that I can make ends meet--at least when I have a second job.

Apparently none of my coworkers has been able to download any apps for months.

That is nonsense. Much of the office staff are therapists. I don't have any idea if they work in the office on top of whatever caseload they may have, but they very well may have hundreds of under-employed therapists.

The app nazi quits or gets fired.
Boss tries to find a replacement and when requests pile up he e-mails everyone "Hey, we need someone to approve app requests. Is anyone available 20 hours a week for that?"
[Receives hundreds of responses]

I use my iPad with clients that don't have their own or if they are unable to use theirs, but I cannot add buttons to Lamp, which is sufficiently problematic that I just spent $280 for a jumbo child's plaything just so I can actually use my communication device to properly communicate.
It is newer and larger, so hopefully I can install Chase, and Mom can use it without a magnifying glass, which makes my brain scream.
She insists that zooming in "Doesn't work," but she says that whenever she doesn't want to use something.
Personal accounts can use Lamp on up to 10 devices.
What kind of family would need 10 devices with Lamp?!
My plan is to let Mom use the Chase app and look up the heights of Hallmark actors on the jumbo child's plaything and use hers for work, adding words to the app as necessary.
If the jumbo child's plaything ever finishes setting up!

[Xist]

Originally Posted by ksa8907

Xist, run dxdiag and it will list out the details of the video card.

Okay...

I have 32GB system RAM, 20GB shared, 4GB dedicated, and 16GB shared?

My video card is using system memory?

Hey guys, remember Task Manager?

It shows 32GB RAM, 1.5/4GB dedicated GPU RAM, and 0.2/16GB shared GPU RAM.

Apparently I could have done that all along!

So, 4GB on-board and it has access to half of my system RAM.

I updated and logged into WoW. I logged into a character in a capital city and started getting a bunch of stuff out of the mail.

in a 1,920x1,080 window I am getting 12-15hz and I am up to 3.2GB used, but it says 100% utilized.

This does not bring me joy.

Task Manager was mostly blank while I logged in, but that may have been Nvidia reallocating resources.

The only other game I really have on here is Microsoft's Solitaire suite. That brings up my utilization to about 60% and 2.1GB total.

I also have Ascendancy by Logic Factory from 1995 and Tradewars 2002 by Epic Interactive Software from 1990.

Huh.

You can play that without downloading on Archive.org, but it is the original version, called Classic by purists who prefer ancient versions of ancient games.

The server is 3.43MB and the entire game is text.

Ascendancy is 37MB and is VGA, so I am not going to see what resources it uses.

[freebeard]

I don't understand the apple cult:

It was built on their Human Interface Guidelines in 1984. Which was brilliant. It defined things like round-cornered rectangles and selecting discontiguous regions that we take for granted today.

But then they fell away from the true faith, adding prompts to coddle Windows refugees [and slow things down]. Losing Steve Jobs was the final nail in the ...coffin.

Anything running IOS is a walled garden.


CR -- I'm looking forward to Asahi Linux on the M1 Mini. It's in Alpha right now, I'm waiting for Beta or better (sound and Bluetooth is not working yet).

www.theregister.com/2022/03/22/asahi_hands_on/

[Xist]

Well, women seemingly willing to date me don't seem like the best sample group, but I have had many women tell me "You should buy an iPhone!"
"Why?"
"It's better!"
"Why?"
"Because it is Apple!"
"I regret everything."

I just want this silly thing to let me install Chase and let Mom use it--or let her use hers.

Mom is upset she cannot use any child's playthings!

I guess that I will ensure that I don't have anything sensitive on my work one and let her use that one.

[Xist]

Mom keeps complaining about the newer child's plaything with the larger screen that runs the Chase app just fine.

I am going to have my brother order her a larger version of the custom case I bought her for her birthday and I will use my work case with her old smaller iPad that cannot run the Chase app and finally have a proper communication app for work.

So, I am out at least $280, and Mom is complaining about yet another absurdity, but at least I can do my job better.

[wdb]

10 year old macbook, 6 year old desktop, 10-ish year old NAS. Most of my recent tech expenditures have been network gear.

EDIT: Oh I see you are including tablets. I have an iPad that is a year newer than the mac. It could use a battery but I keep it tethered most of the time so I haven't bothered.