what tech products have you stopped using during quarantine?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

14 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

Pentium N4200 and 4GB of memory

EW

[TomvanWijnen]

I'm still using my laptop quite often, as it's convenient and has a microphone and webcam which are sometimes necessary. I have, however, almost completely stopped using my headphones, because I use them to listen to music while cycling to the station/university/home and while I'm in the train, and I haven't had to do to that much the past while.  It's not really tech that we can do something with here, but I also haven't been using my electronic travel card much.

 

On the other hand, I've started using my desktop much more, now that I'm not at university all the time.  It's really nice to be able to work from multiple large monitors, rather than a single 15.6" monitor.

[Tedstonegenious]

I know this is about what you stopped using. But I ordered myself a e-reader (kindle paper white) and have been reading a TON more. If only I could import stuff from bookwalker onto it. 

[XR6]

My laptop because I do everything on my desktop.

Sometimes I use it to play games, but for most of the lockdown I haven't used it.

 

[sub68]

1 hour ago, Tedstonegenious said:

bookwalker

hello there fellow weeb

[sub68]

I feel its weird that people stopped using there laptops I was using my laptop for school than switch to my desktop

but had my laptop near my ps4 for music and replying to this fourm

[TomvanWijnen]

37 minutes ago, sub68 said:

I feel its weird that people stopped using there laptops I was using my laptop for school than switch to my desktop

but had my laptop near my ps4 for music and replying to this fourm

It's probably because not everyone is "looking for the advantages of laptops". What I mean with that is, I like to use my laptop on my bed or take it around the house (to show someone something) and (that combined with) the touchscreen and touchpad make it often really convenient to use - but not everyone will have these same needs.

[sub68]

4 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

I like to use my laptop on my bed or take it around the house

not with mine the battery doesn't work

[TomvanWijnen]

41 minutes ago, sub68 said:

not with mine the battery doesn't work

Awh, that sucks! My battery fortunately still works, but even so, I often have it charging on my bed, works just fine. (only on my second or third motherboard (yes I'm on my fourth motherboard in less than a year, yes it's ridiculous) I had a small issue with the charger unplugging slowly)

[sub68]

28 minutes ago, TomvanWijnen said:

Awh, that sucks! My battery fortunately still works, but even so, I often have it charging on my bed, works just fine. (only on my second or third motherboard (yes I'm on my fourth motherboard in less than a year, yes it's ridiculous) I had a small issue with the charger unplugging slowly)

what is your laptop

[TomvanWijnen]

36 minutes ago, sub68 said:

what is your laptop

HP Zbook X360 G5, bought new in mid 2019. It's a decent machine, but I'll soon have to get my 5th motherboard, 4th keyboard/topcover, and 3rd screen. At least these repairs are covered by its warranty.

[ImGoneLol]

My "outside earbuds".

I have several pairs of earbuds and headsets, some I take with me wherever I go, and others that never leave my desk. However, since quarantine started, when I go out, I try to touch as few things as possible.

Cleaning in-ears every time I have to go outside has been enough of a pain that I just don't bother listening to music anymore now

 

I've barely used my Xbox, too. But my laptop has been getting waaaaaaaaaaaay more usage

And that'll probably be the trend since I'll both be upgrading my laptop, as well as starting school again soon.

[DefinitelyNotAComputer]

I mostly stopped using my laptop, except for my online "schooling" (it pretty much taught nobody anything). It can't even really run settings without almost crashing, so that's why I just stopped trying, and now I'm looking for a new one.

[DefinitelyNotAComputer]

8 hours ago, NZgamer said:

Well since school was shut down, my laptop was collecting dust for a while, but now that I'm back at school, I have to use that piece of crap again

OOF I feel that

[PhantomJaguarr]

I've been working since this pandemic started. For my birthday I had bought a Wacom tablet for digital drawing, but I lost the desire for that hobby for some reason; so it's sitting by my gaming desktop that I've been using still at least. Glad I invested in that desktop because my classes will be online thanks to fricking Covid. I bet MATLAB will look much better on it than the laptop I gave to a family member.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

9 hours ago, TomvanWijnen said:

HP Zbook X360 G5, bought new in mid 2019. It's a decent machine, but I'll soon have to get my 5th motherboard, 4th keyboard/topcover, and 3rd screen. At least these repairs are covered by its warranty.

and people call macbooks unreliable

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

7 hours ago, RileyDeraes said:

But my laptop has been getting waaaaaaaaaaaay more usage

is it your only computer though? there was a time during lockdown when i still tried to stop gaming, so i just unplugged my pc and put it in a corner as to not get tempted and i used my macbook as my only computer.

[ImGoneLol]

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[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

30 minutes ago, RileyDeraes said:

Yeah haha, it's a pretty bad laptop (Celeron N4000/dualcore @1.1, no fans, 4gb of ram, 32gb storage, 768p awful panel, touchpad is super unreliable, etc) 

I completely stopped using it for a couple months, relying exclusively on my phone and Xbox.

The Asus E203M has been my fault driver for nearly 2 years, and for $200 it's, uh, exactly what you'd expect.

Although I'm planning on upgrading soon, and I'll end up putting a lighter Linux distro on the little laptop that could

ew ew ew ew ew

 

just buy something used if you only have $200. you can buy a thinkpad or elitebook for that with a core i5, 8gb of ram and an ssd.

[ImGoneLol]

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[pythonmegapixel]

Not really much I've stopped using. I've switched from a laptop to a desktop setup, but given I dock my laptop rather than having a separate machine, the same hardware is still in use.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Gotta be my laptop, since I'm not really going anywhere and my PCs are faster so what's the point

[straight_stewie]

Facebook. Although it's admittedly just a coincidence that I stopped during quarantine.

 

By now the 30 days ought to be up and the account ought to be permanently deactivated.

[sub68]

On 7/11/2020 at 10:18 PM, TomvanWijnen said:

HP Zbook X360 G5

yeah hp is weird there new stuff is some what unreliable

my current machine is a hp desktop with a third gen intel i5 and it reliable

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

2 hours ago, sub68 said:

yeah hp is weird there new stuff is some what unreliable

my current machine is a hp desktop with a third gen intel i5 and it reliable

Yeah their older stuff used to be pretty good, not so much nowadays though