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I have a small pile of old laptops that I'm not quite willing to get rid of just yet. Stacked them one of top of the other. Some have been in the pile for years.
The one at the bottom, under the weight of all the others, I guess started putting too much pressure on the trackpad buttons, and I recently found out they no longer work. Lesson learned. That's what you get for being so obsessed with thinness, you manufacture a laptop with so little space between the display and the keyboard when the lid is closed that they touch.
Anyway. I thought I was really clever when I instead started using those (typically) metal or plastic dividers you get from office supply places. I don't know what to call them. They're made to let you organize papers on a desk. Not just a stack of horizontal shelves. The sort that lets you place papers or small books in them vertically.
Here. This illustrates what I'm talking about...
So...I started placing my old laptops in one of these trays, "nose first" -- none of my laptops have buttons on the front that would get damaged from the laptop sitting on that edge for some amount of time. Whether the power connector is at the back or either side, that's not a problem either. Easy to grab any of them or put them back (easier than trying to take the last one from a stacked pile anyway). Takes little room. I only see advantages to this. Most laptops nowadays are thin enough they easily fit in one slot.
Nothing particularly innovative here. I just never thought of using one of those trays like this until now.
How else have you repurposed some everyday thing in a way it wasn't really intended?
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I have four laptops in a book rack. They sit in the rack on their sides (not as deep, but taller). The bottom of the rack is lined with a piece of foam, just in case the constant pressure from being stored that way might cause deformation of the plastic. Like yours, not innovative, but serviceable. Depending on the age of the laptop, I can fit up to three laptops at a time between the dividers. I figure there's room for a dozen machines in my rack.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've got a stack going now...5 laptops and a scanner in my spare office chair. Two of those were started in the last 12 months. All are at least 9 y/o and running a mix of Win7 and 10. In the closet I have my very first laptop from '99. In my outdoor garage, I have my old TI/994a in the box...now if I just had a TV with a two-wire antennae hookup I could have some fun with BASIC!  Additionally, I have every tower PC I've ever owned and a few that weren't mine. I know I have a problem. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I put my Log Log Duplex Decitrig slide rule in its leather case, in a padded drawer.
I keep the book that came with it on the bookshelf.
(no, don't remember the last time I used it)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Options
a.) Crush them and throw them away...
b.) Donate the laptops to a non-profit organization with an OS; of course only after all your personal data has been irretrievably deleted (which can then be rather critical).
c.) Donate the laptops to a non-profit organization _without_an_OS
Format all the drives
Personally I tend to a.)
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.. walked into a blood donation clinic.
The nurse asked the rabbit: "What is your blood type?"
"I'm probably a type O" said the rabbit.
I'll take the coat on the way out
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A friend of mine is so Irish, his blood type is O apostrophe.
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If you woke up today, it's a good day. May it be filled with awesomeness and low carb cupcakes. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) 
Jeremy Falcon
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I needed that. Not floating anxiety, floating agitation - may be related to the impending hurricane that is going to impact Atlanta.
I mean, how DARE the weather interrupt my schedule?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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It was going to a good day till you served low carb cupcakes 
Hogan
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: low carb cupcakes
I read that as "alcohol-free beer".
Doesn't that defeat the purpose? 
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EF decides I have properties, for example a Widget class in an entry and if there's no FK it creates a WidgetId property. This despite were Posgress (all lower case) and we say Key instead of Id. I know of no way to modify or configure this feature and asked how to turn it off. I was asked for a code sample, I said no, this is a general EF feature and I want to turn it off. I got told they can't help without a specific code sample, and they turned my question off!!!!
To be clear this happens even with auto generated code and is ALWAYS WRONG. I am happy to have an issue I need to sort out to access one property, based on auto generated nonsense, but I don't want NO ACCESS to a table because it will always invent columns in the SQL that I never claimed to exist.
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In these parts, it's known as SNARK Overflow.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have found a lot of inspiring tips and code pieces, but I agree that it is badly presented and sometimes a harsh tongue is there.
But see the Q&A section of CP - there are also big differences. I got sometimes bad critics for working solutions. 
And someone asked about his library but explicitly did accepted no redesign of his crap. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: I agree that it is badly presented and sometimes a harsh tongue is there.
As you mentioned (so I guess my post is pointless.  )... I've seen harsh tongue on CP too.
The real problem is immature devs need to go outside more and interact with real humans. I bet you can guess which ones are prevalent on the maturity scale.
Jeremy Falcon
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I feel SO has it's place in the interwebs. Both CP and SO have been useful to me on more than one occasion. I choose to ignore the rare snarky remark on account of all kinds of people free to use both platforms. I cases I can't ignore I report. That's about it.
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Yup. SO is no more or less toxic than CP, Reddit, etc.
Jeremy Falcon
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It isn't more toxic that CP/Reddit?
I must just have a knack for having trolls' channel their core sphincters. 
Or maybe pedantry type things just piss me off way more than they oughta.
I seriousness, I guess I haven't really been on SO in over a decade to know. Oh I'll steal their useful lines here and there, I'm just not joining the circus.
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I use it if results come up in Google searches. The couple of times I submitted questions were... unsuccessful   .
Software Zen: delete this;
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To be fair… the same can happen on CP.
Reddit has been pretty good for me personally. Sometimes questions are a hit and miss there too. Some nerds love to pretend to know an answer they don’t. But that’s not site specific.
Talent is hard to find in any field.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: To be fair… the same can happen on CP.
Could happen, however people are usually welcomed here.
Maybe we're not great experts, but, more often than not, try to help.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Nope. I disagree. It has its uses.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Agreed. It has helped me on so many occasions!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I’ve gotten more answers from SO Googling than any other website, bar none. Don’t see the reason for all the hate… which isn’t really helpful and compromises 90% of I see in the lounge.
Jeremy Falcon
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