Ungoogled Chromium exists. I wonder if it’d possible to do a version of Chomium that has the benefits of Edge without the downsides.

I realize MS would still be tracking, but it’d be all work stuff, so I’m less concerned about it.

I use Edge for work and Firefox for personal. The o365 integration is nice.

PA-220s be like that.

Came with the house. Changing it out would not be fun.

I have never heard of this before. Thanks for mentioning it.

Import duties are a scam to begin with.

Back in the 80s & 90s you had to configure settings like IRQ and bad sectors.

I agree, but it was free.

I got the laptop free so a sketchy no-name drive is fine for my needs.

Ok, sketchy no-name brand it is, then. One of these perhaps?

I know the feeling. I logged into HP hoping to look up the serial number. All it would tell me is that the warranty is expired.

Turns out there are different types of M.2 keys.

The difference in keys is explained here.

Here’s more info on the types of keys.
~~I’m going to look for an adapter. ~~

sata m.2 ssd

What purpose is served by having AI built-in to the browser?

This is what I did when I had to refurb a laptop. Swap the drives, reinstall the OS, snd hand it all to the user. All your files are on this usb drive.

Thats when you find out who understands folder structure and who doesn’t.

Fellow Canuck here. How did you pull that off?

For a while, youtube was a life saver for new songs.

A DAC is definitely the better option in my opinion, especially if your phone doesnt have great audio quality.

When the controllers first came out, they’d cheap out by making the computer process the audio. My first Bherringer controller would convert the mic input to digital and send it to the computer to mix on the sound card. If the computer was disconnected you couldnt use the mic or hook up a cd player.

Some people are just cheap and manufactures will make whatever people will buy. The phone already has audio, so the controller is just that: a bunch of buttons. You dont have speakers built into a keyboard or mouse. A controller is just an HID.

Towards the end of my DJ’ing career, I was to the point of showing up to a venue (that had an existing sound system) on my motorcycle with my controller, headphones, microphone (that didn’t smell like beer breath) and laptop in a backpack. I’d just plug in and go. But even then the idea of DJ’ing from just a phone or tablet seemed weird to me. I understood the appeal of it but…

The sticking point for most people is stereo. When you throw on AC/DC, you expect to hear the guitar out of the just one speaker but when DJ’ing a large room that doesn’t work. Half the room hears the guitar and the other half just hears high hat. So you end up flipping the mono switch, ya know, just for that one song. Then eventually you’ve done three gigs in a row and realize that it’s been mono the whole time and no-one noticed, not even you.

Headphones jacks have two audio out channels. We typically think of them as left and right, but they aren’t, that’s just how most people use them. Once you get past the mono idea, you realize you have two distinct audio outputs on your phone or tablet. If the music software can do the mono summing instead of the mixer, then then you can hook the “left” output cable to mixer ch 1, and the “right” to ch 2, and play different songs out each. Make sure the same output of the mixer goes to both speakers and you’re in business. You just need dj’ing software that can play two different songs at the same time on your phone and interface with a controller, probably via bluetooth.

Now you can show up to a party with just your phone that you were already carrying anyway, plug in to their controller, and make a surprise appearance.

It still weirds me out, but modern phones have the horsepower to do this. They certainly don’t have the disk space for a terabyte library, so you aren’t going to work a six hour wedding with an iphone, but there are TB SD cards so certain Androids could certainly do this.

There’s probably also software that will do everything over bluetooth so a completely wireless phone could work.

I’ve been out of the game for over a decade. I can’t imagine how far the controllers and software have come and don’t want to find out because I’m sure my poor wallet can’t handle it.