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The last time I lost a PC or laptop, it took a SuperStorm and the ocean to wrest them from my grip. That, in 2012, include a box with its original Windows 98 loading (IDE) and a 51/4" floppy drive.
I don't count the laptop battery going bad as my error. Even though I unplug after it's charged and try to drain between charges - well, it's a version of planned obsolescence. At least they've not burst into flames.
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OriginalGriff wrote: goes everywhere with me
So you shower and sleep with your tablet too? What do the tablet kids look like?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: What do the tablet kids look like?
I would presume that they are a bit flat. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Phone is 2 years old and in good shape. I've got it in an el-cheap-o plastic cover, plus a screen protector. It's survived any number of drops and bangs, plus a couple 400 mile tours on the back of my bicycle.
Nexus 7 tablet, a little over 3 years old. I carry it around in a zippered pouch, but don't have any kind of cover or screen protector on it. Still looks like new. Probably because I use it for music at work and Netflix at home when Mrs. Wife wants me in the room but isn't watching something I like.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: How well do you treat your kit, out of interest?
Not nearly as well as I probably should. Still, others are doing worse--I've never purchased a protective case for anything, and my gadgets all look better than those I've seen owned by friends and relatives.
Worse off though is probably my old 8GB Zune, that I still use daily to listen to podcasts. I purchased it the week MS decided to cut their losses, and local stores were letting them go at deep discounts.
It's been dropped countless time on a hardwood floor, and a concrete patio, and I even accidentally kicked it off the patio and in the dirt in the flowerbed (found it half-buried). That thing JUST. WON'T. DIE.
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My phone is 2.5 years old, and still works and looks as well as when I bought it.
Of course now that I'v said that I'm sure it will break in the next couple days 
Tom
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I have:
- A six year old portable (now used as a desktop machine)
- A one year old portable
- A three year old kindle fire
- A five year old kindle paperwhite
- A three year old phone
The only one that has any sort of mark on it is the six year old portable - I dropped it on its corner a few months ago, and the plastic has a small dent in it.
My eldest daughter, OTOH, has:
- destroyed her first tablet less than a year after purchase
- lost her first phone in the couch cushions (found two years later, when we were thinking of upholstering the couch)
- destroyed another phone by putting it though a washing machine cycle. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OriginalGriff wrote: because it has all my bank account details and contactless payment
Why would you do that? Not even 2 minutes alone with your tab (or iPad) and crackers can suck everything off it. Only takes one time left behind at a coffee shop, or spotted in in a satchel on a seat while you go to the bathroom. No, pin, thumbprint or squiggle or all 3 put together doesn't help, adds all of about 5 seconds to the operation.
I'm sorry, that is the craziest thing I've seen for a long time, and from an IT professional to boot? No excuses.
Am I paranoid? Well living in Asia and seeing a live demo of me how fast it can be done, no I'm not paranoid at all.
Sin tack ear lol
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Is your fibula a small lie?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mine is certainly white.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Fibula, my foot!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Lye will make it smaller.
Sin tack ear lol
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You shouldn't make jokes about it.
It's not a funny bone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's tibiannounced. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not as humerus as one might image, but I've no bones to pick with you.
I'm done for now, so I'll be sinew later.
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Neophyte. Want to try explanation?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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NEO = Greek for modern.
PHYTE = sounds like fight.
A beginner is a neophyte.
Nice.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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It was charged last night and was fine this morning.
Now it won't turn on, won't boot to the recovery "Bot on it's back", and when I plug it into my PC, Win 10 complains it doesn't recognise it.
Now I'll have to get a new tablet! Any suggestions - Android preferred, no silly Apple devices! 
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Try the blue ones first: [^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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All of those appear to be the wrong shape...
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Unfortunately, this one[^] is out of stock.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's an impressive spec for the money! 
The Chinese have it shipping at the end of the month, for £20 less ... and one is on order!
Thanks for that - I never even thought of a Win10 / dual boot system. 
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I would buy it just for the name, and would be the only device with voice commands activated. Chuwi pronounces Chewie... "Chewie, activate the hyperdrive, NOW!".
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The real beauty of them is that they have two Full-Sized USB ports (one of them USB3)!
And the battery is solid enough to use an external disc for more than a short time (forever, if you plug in the charger).
That makes a Hell of a difference.
I'd also suggest one of these[^], to complete the package.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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