The Things People Throw Away...

There's a lot of fly tipping goes on round my way.  Usually it's stuff of no real salvage value (broken and/or half-exploded fridges, the compost and paraphernalia from a hurriedly abandoned cannabis farm) but more often than you might expect, people just dump perfectly adequate and useable things.  For example, this:

That's right: a more than satisfactory purple tub chair.  I've actually wanted a tub chair for some time; and now I have one, and it didn't cost me anything.

After a wipe down and leaving it to dry off (it was very slightly damp from the autumn perm-rain, but undamaged) it became mine, and took pride of place in the corner of my living room.

That cushion?  That's one of set of two someone threw out, too.  The things people throw away.

Related posts

Sitting on a Landfill (Waiting for the End to Come)

Composting Your Own Hair

#plantsmakepeoplehappy - Fun With Pots and Propagation

Shelf Life

******

Please consider disabling your adblockers when reading this site.  I make every effort to ensure no inappropriate, rubbish or offensive advertising appears here, and nothing that is contrary to the spirit of this blog.  So it's really nothing to be afraid of.  Cheers.

#Chromebook Love (and some moral ambivalance)

I was just cleaning my Chromebook (I use it a lot, it gets grubby) and it occurred to me I've had this device now for over 8 years, and it still works perfectly.  Could you ever say that for a Windows laptop?  Doubt it.

Chromebooks, if you just want an everyday laptop for internetting and general web-based use, are superior.  For one, they boot up in seconds.

For another thing, there's no intrusive "updates" requiring rebooting and minutes upon minutes of "configuring".  All that goes on in the background.

Mine's got some wear and tear - some of the symbols on the keys have worn off, and the battery no longer works, but neither of these things matter.  There are no bugs, no viruses or malware slowing down or otherwise inconveniencing my day-to-day internettery.

I have to gaffer tape the power cord in place to keep it from falling out (most annoying when there's no battery life to back you up) but SO WHAT?

Of course, there's the now-abandoned "don't be evil" maxim that may or may not never have really been Google's guiding principle, and they're becoming noticeably less generous with the "free" use of their services with each passing tweak of their platform, but I haven't looked into all that far enough to be able to comment any further (I probably should, yeah).

That's it, really.  Don't bother "upgrading" your laptop.  Just get a Chromebook.

Related posts

Permanent Clipboard: A very useful Chrome extension

Surfing the #Automation Sea

Sidegrading

******
Please consider disabling your adblockers when reading this site.  I make every effort to ensure no inappropriate, rubbish or offensive advertising appears here, and nothing that is contrary to the spirit of this blog.  So it's really nothing to be afraid of.  Cheers.