My experience is that only folks who've only ever had the cheapest crap "fleet-use" monitors designed to be bought by the 100s for a lot price really have complaints about fuzzy monitors. Those of us who've been buying state-of-the-art monitors for either content creation or "PC Master Race" class gaming rigs know that monitors come as "Cheap/Good/Large: Pick any two."
Same, honestly, is true of digital cameras. However, there is about 100x as much marketeering BS withe cameras as there is with monitors... mostly because it's easy to see a shite monitor on the demo shelf; much harder to know if the shite pics from xyz camera are actually the camera (honestly, they usually are, no matter what the sales-weenie sez) or the operator... but at this late stage of the game, IMHO, any digital camera that doesn't have a "Point & Click" mode that USUALLY takes awesome pictures... no matter what the price point... needs to be stuffed up someone's arse.
There simply is no excuse for letting any such camera get to market; the technology is beyond mature at this point, and has been for almost 2 decades.
Vince, search locally for a Sony DSC-H2 or H5. You should be able to find a working one around $25-35; they are tougher than leather and they just work. They use AA batteries; run great on NiMHs. The only real weak point is they use Memory Stick Pro Duo media; micro-SD adapters which work awesome cost like $5.
Other than that... honestly, some of your comments make you sound like you're still stuck in the "Windows XP is still plenty!" mentality, and quite frankly... today's computers actually do so much more than that; even a confirmed "old is still okay" nerd like myself won't run it willingly, or any computer of similar capacity. The difference between those old boxes and even my old gaming rig on Win10... just light years ahead.
You need a certain minimum amount of machine nowadays if you're going to be on the intardNet at all. You need sufficient processor and at least 8GB RAM, preferably more, just to run Windows Firewall/Defender (it's still in there, and it's still pretty decent) and your browser (or the equivalent of those two in other OSes) so you are even marginally safe.
The fact you run *NIX tells me you can't possibly be that ignorant of modern OSes... there is so much wrench-twirling under the hood required to even get it running that you pretty much have to have some knowledge of what makes a modern OS tick, and what they can do if you feed them adequate computer power. So I really don't know what to make of those ignorant-sounding remarks. ![Confused :-//](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/confused0024.gif)
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Gee....could you make that response any more arrogant and condescending? Who died and left you the "expert"? I swear I think you like tweaking our resident Frenchman's nose and when he reacts negatively you tell him to chill. No, it's you that needs to chill and tone it down several octaves. You know as soon as Vince wakes up in the morning and sees your response the shit is gonna hit the fan. And I don't blame him. Talk to me in the tone of your response and I'll tell you to go fuck yourself. There's a right way and a wrong way to educate and spread knowledge. Your bully pulpit doesn't cut it.
Guess I'm gonna have to make more popcorn.
Papa Smurf, you have already had too much pop-corn, that's not good for you health... too much of anything is not good for health in general so... no, I won't even reply to him, it's not worth it.
Just about everything he said is non sense, stuff I never said, nor even meant in the slightest. Doing so is his usual tactic to force me to correct him so I get into the fight he wants, needs, lives for. He is not a dragon for nothing. He did choose his avatar appropriately, I will give him that. This is 5 year old level social media BS and I run away from that. He can have it with someone else. I am done with him. 12+ months of that shit, I am just bored with it.
I shall now ignore his posts and provocations advitam eternam. I like TEA and want to stay here, it's my ray of sunshine and I got to like it over the months, I must admit. But this dragon shit is killing me. I didn't come here for that shit. It does not add to the TEA experience, it just puts me off of it rather. It's truly toxic, on a psychological level. I don't need my mind to be messed up more than it already is !
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Some might find it fun and like it, good on them. To each their own.
I shall ignore all of his posts from now on and certainly never ever reply to any of them. It's just asking for trouble and I can do without it.
I will investigate the technical possibility of filtering his posts automatically, so that they don't even appear on my screen. Maybe there is some Firefox plug-in that can do that, I don't know. I will have a look for that at the very least.
Then he will say I am a drama queen I am suuuure... he is the one causing the drama, not me. I am only reacting to it to preserve my mental health. He can go fuck someone else's mind now, won't be me any more. I would love to tell him to fuck off but I just can't resort to insults.
Whatever he replies if anything, I won't even know about it, won't read it.
All I care for today is how to organize all the parts I have sorted the past few days. I still can't decide on the best way to organize them in my drawer cabinet and/or small plastic bags and/or plastic bins in a large drawer. That, I care about
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Oh, and also plant the baby strawberries, raspberrries and tomatoes in my garden, that I bought yesterday. At the super market these are horribly expensive yet taste like shit.. but growing your own is easy, costs bugger all, and they taste orders of magnitude better, and you are sure they aren't soaked in a million different chemical products. It's a no brainer.
So I will do that today. That's all I REALLY care about !
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I hope you have not yet eaten the entirety of the pop-corn bag, it was way too much for a Smurf or even a human being !
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