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I think most experience is not transferable. Most people are too dogmatic and lazy. Signal to noise ratio is very low , and unusual ideas simply get discarted b
by jkot 12y ago
I think most experience is not transferable. Most people are too dogmatic and lazy. Signal to noise ratio is very low , and unusual ideas simply get discarted by spam filters in our brains. I will give two examples:
I use 5 years old HP laptop, most people call it 'the brick'. Newer laptop would reduce weight I carry by one pound, but has several disadvantages:
- no easy way to swap ssd between desktop and laptop when I do travel. With my current setup it takes 2 minutes and OS restart.
- even newest laptops have the same performance and only 8 GB memory
- IDE and unit tests kills battery life, even newest machine lasts only a few hours under modest load. No improved battery life from new CPUs. Replacement batteries are must.
- it costs peanuts, I can take ssd with me and leave heavy laptop at hotel room
- because its cheap it can take a lot of abuse. Expensive components (batteries, ram, ssd) can be transfered to replacement laptop.
Second example is way more controversial. I criticize over-vaccination. For most people it means I am conspiracy nutjobs, but in reality my country (Czech Republic) has 3x more vaccines than Germany a few kilometers away. There is simply no opposition to medical industry. Even our doctors are now refusing to get vaccinated. (my children have all shots recommended by EU)
- johnchristopher 12y ago> - no easy way to swap ssd between desktop and laptop when I do travel. With my current setup it takes 2 minutes and OS restart. Could you share your setup and OS ?
- jkot 12y agoLinux and any laptop with removable DVD rom (extension bay). In my case elitebook 2540p with i7 CPU
- johnchristopher 12y agoYou are booting your OS from the SSD right ? If so, which Linux flavor are you using and did you have to tweak the kernel, drivers or anything like that to get it working ? Are you using the same laptops and desktops ? Am I right to suppose you sometimes have to set up the BIOS so it boots on your HDD or does it somehow automagically work ?
- jkot 12y agoKubuntu 14.04 64bit with no tweaks. I just selected boot disk in bios a few years ago. No magic, no problems.
- szatkus 12y agoMost Linux can do that. Even Windows (at least Vista and laters) are able to work on two different PCs almost without teaks.
- johnchristopher 12y agoWhat happens if I plug my win7 main SSD into another friend's secondary SATA port (the one in the disc bay of a laptop for instance) ? Does the BIOS/(U)EFI act as bootloader ? If not: does the original win7 detects another win7 on a different partition and then triggers a bootloader ? If no bootloader are involved, what mechanism is in place to detect the other bootable disc ? It's all BIOS boot menu ? (replace win7 with any linux)
- szatkus 12y agoI'm not sure what happens if there another disk with Windows (also I've never tried with UEFI). I think that changin boot disk at BIOS should be enough. At worst you will see black screen/BSOD, but your system will be perfectly fine, so you can plug it back to your computer. If you succeded probably you would need to install some missing drivers. Linux are more flexible. Few (about 10?) years ago I had to change xorg GPU driver manually, but today autodetection is much better.