Pore Gus!
Me laptop has turned up its toes. I have a warranty, but claiming on it will be rather more trouble than buying a new one would have been. This also means no email while I’m away this weekend.
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Claim under the warranty and get a tablet to use meantime. Get a small Bluetooth keyboard as well if you have to enter lots of text.
When your laptop is back all sellotaped up, you’ll still have a perfect (extra) bit of gear, for trips/holidays And! music/radio/tv etc as well as reading eBooks.
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I don’t do closed-source software. Buy Android or iOS and you’re sharing your entire life with Apple or Google-plus-whoever. That’s not for me. I could get a cheap laptop, but it would take a few hours to get it running Linux and I don’t have time.
Going to try some field-expedient hardware repair in a bit, using that vital component a pencil-top rubber.
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A very fair point. You could of course root the android and take out all of the spy-ware, but, that would be a lot of faffing.
Good luck with the repair.
p.s. I’m also a Linux fan… If you have an indy comp shop nearby, there are some netbooks about, with linux as the OS.
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Cleaned and re-seated the DIMM, and all is well. So that’s something. And I didn’t have to call for Feral.
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And you managed to get all of the bits back in the laptop case? Sometimes 75% of the battle with taking a laptop apart.
And! The finished thing doesn’t rattle? 
Excellent!
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Oh, definitely, ducks, and to prove it I’m here, stuck piggery notwithstanding. Sources of bludd are scarcely visible to the naked eye. Pah!
Gxx
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Gus still upright? That calls forra
#yardarm!
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… with the object being to render the said Gus horizontal again with all possible speed? What very good thinking: thank you, Hedgers.
I don’t know what I want but Ia bucketful of it would be most welcome 
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That sounds like the cat of someone I know. She would stand in the middle of the floor Demanding, loudly, but it became clear after everything we could think of had been tried and rejected that what she meant was “What I want I don’t know, but I want it NOW!”
Minnow End?
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Why not, indeed? Thank you.
myessss, you are probably right; although close observation of Mrs B. Cat suggests that “What I want I know perfectly well, but you, Human, are too stupid and limited for it to occur to you” is also a possibility…
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“I pay good money for this service and this just won’t do.”
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How remarkable that a wee birdie should speak such fluent Cat
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It is a thing worth learning when one is small and, though I say it myself, delicious.
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Well, that’s good, Birdie
I was going to offer you my Little Laptop which is an Eee PC running Linux Cinnamon 17.2 which, under your tender care would, no doubt run on Gin/Beer fumes & Smoke Signals…
Carinthia.xx
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Going to be in Brum for the weekend, at the NEC. No decent beer for miles. Bringing me own smoke…
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Goodness
Should you be going ?
How will you cope ?
Carinthia.xx
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The laptop has apparently decided to right itself. I suspect it was shown the axe and had its essentially fragile nature remarked about.
Many thin biscuits are being made with garlic salt in them instead of just salt, and sausages grilled to keep for three days, and eggs boiled to make egg mayonnaise sandwiches for the first day and a half. About the beer I cannot say; furthermore I am not asking.
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Ha
The power of the Hard Stare…
Feral Techie must be having a weekend orff if there’s no Beer
Garlic Crackers sound rather nice
Sossinges are always nice
Carinthia.xx
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Last night’s garlic crackers were not rolled thin enough: edible but a little squidgey as a result. Today’s are a lot thinner and crisp, and rather delicious. Hedgers is going to have to guard them if any are to be left to take away for the weekend!
I firmly intended to pinch at least one sausage, but they are Cumberland and I don’t like pepper, and Sweet Chilli and I can’t eat chilli. Low cunning, I call it.
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