Yesterday's "dumb terminal" is now called a "smart phone".

On 9/23/19 12:28 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me@. wrote:
Yesterday's "dumb terminal" is now called a "smart phone".

The only time I ever wanted one ( an 80 $ Amazon Fire tablet )
was when my PC broke down, and I needed to order new parts.

Dumb terminals are far, FAR better than nothing,
and they're good enough for Joe sixpack, but they can't replace my PC,
with its Windows 10 desktop, Visual Studio 2019 compiler+editor+debugger,

Microsoft Word/Excel, Bria soft phone ( including text messages ),
DOS command prompt, WinSCP ( FTP ),
Zoom Player ( complete control over 4K, 60 FPS videos ),

OpenShot video editor, qBitTorrent, laser printer/scanner,
highly customizable browsers ( http://Jeff-Relf.Me/SearchBar.PNG ),
custom email/USENET/console app ( http://Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM ),

CORSAIR CX Series 650 Watt Power Supply,
Logitech g600 mouse ( http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MouseKeyboardLayout.PNG ),
highly advanced, customizable speech-to-text,

Ergotech Freedom Arm, Heavy Duty, 30 lbs Max, ( Tilt: 45° Dwn, 90° Up ),
360° Pole, 27" Reach monitor arm, 40" curved 4K monitor,

512 gig, USB 3.1 "Corsair Flash Voyager GTX" thumb Drive,
1 TeraByte, "Samsung 970 EVO Plus" ( 3.5 R / 3.3 W GigaBytes/Sec )
PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 SSD.


Happy you have found a set of trade-offs that work well for you.

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somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

Yesterday's "dumb terminal" is now called a "smart phone".

The only time I ever wanted one ( an 80 $ Amazon Fire tablet )
was when my PC broke down, and I needed to order new parts.

Dumb terminals are far, FAR better than nothing,
and they're good enough for Joe sixpack, but they can't replace my PC,
with its Windows 10 desktop, Visual Studio 2019 compiler+editor+debugger,

Microsoft Word/Excel, Bria soft phone ( including text messages ),
DOS command prompt, WinSCP ( FTP ),
Zoom Player ( complete control over 4K, 60 FPS videos ),

OpenShot video editor, qBitTorrent, laser printer/scanner,
highly customizable browsers ( http://Jeff-Relf.Me/SearchBar.PNG ),
custom email/USENET/console app ( http://Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM ),

CORSAIR CX Series 650 Watt Power Supply,
Logitech g600 mouse ( http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MouseKeyboardLayout.PNG ),
highly advanced, customizable speech-to-text,

Ergotech Freedom Arm, Heavy Duty, 30 lbs Max, ( Tilt: 45° Dwn, 90° Up ),
360° Pole, 27" Reach monitor arm, 40" curved 4K monitor,

512 gig, USB 3.1 "Corsair Flash Voyager GTX" thumb Drive,
1 TeraByte, "Samsung 970 EVO Plus" ( 3.5 R / 3.3 W GigaBytes/Sec )
PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 SSD.