Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.

'Dirty Girls'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2011 6:29:26 am PST #18669 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Battery life is supposed to be 4 hours, so it's about right. Although one time it somehow only lasted under 2. But most of the time, it seems to last for a few hours.


§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 7:04:32 am PST #18670 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

AT&T's position on why they should be allowed to buy T-Mobile. Fairly sure the writing's biased, since it's Gizmodo, but it's still interesting.


§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 7:59:21 am PST #18671 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

T-Mobile is sending my G2 messages telling me I should restart my phone periodically (every week). In fact, it's telling me I'm 25 hours past due. Anyone else get that? WTF?


Consuela - Nov 30, 2011 8:02:01 am PST #18672 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

In fact, it's telling me I'm 25 hours past due. Anyone else get that? WTF?

That's weird. I have a T-Mobile MyTouch and it certainly benefits from a periodic re-start, but I don't ever get any messages on the issue.


Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2011 8:20:51 am PST #18673 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I get that on my Exhibit as well, ita. Even after I have just restarted my phone because Angry Birds froze yet again.


Strix - Nov 30, 2011 8:26:14 am PST #18674 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

But I thought AT&T dropped it?

No iPhone for me. What's a cool smartphone that smart but not superexpensive, supergenius that uses T-Mobile?


brenda m - Nov 30, 2011 8:29:56 am PST #18675 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

T-Mobile is sending my G2 messages telling me I should restart my phone periodically (every week). In fact, it's telling me I'm 25 hours past due. Anyone else get that? WTF?

Not me.


Maria - Nov 30, 2011 9:03:24 am PST #18676 of 25501
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I'm not getting it either.

Erin, when are you looking to upgrade? Right now, T-Mobile has a lot of their 4G Android smartphones for free.


Gudanov - Nov 30, 2011 10:31:01 am PST #18677 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

Daaaaaamn. I run my Lenovo Ideapad plugged in all the time, and I get about 3.5 hours battery life, give or take.

I spent a little extra to get the biggest, baddest battery Lenovo had available for it.


§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 1:26:57 pm PST #18678 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

People who use Windows password vault service/etc--which would you recommend? LastPass or Keeper? No need to bother with KeePass, since it's for my sister, and the complexity would turn her right off.

If there's another easy option I'm missing, I'd love to hear it.

I initially went with LastPass because LifeHacker spoke highly of it, but it's highly browser integrated, and it took forever and technical support for me to make it even open up with the Wi Fi connection dead. However, it natively supplants the password manager on IE, Chrome, and Firefox (poor Opera!), as well as providing a lookup feature. It just doesn't seem to cater much towards passwords that *aren't* for websites, either.

Now I'm exploring Keeper on Windows. It's what I have on my Android devices, so we'll see.