How can you afford it?

[how.about.another.slice]

After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)

My question is, how do you afford to be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?

To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?

It's all very puzzling...

[cherry*135]

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@how.about.another.slice wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

tell us about your set up?

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Hiya Joz - $1,800 for a laptop and $240 for extended warranty - larger than normal screen, I love it!!!

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How about a brand name, model number? Photo?

[monman12]

I think CM you have highlighted why some people need FTTH NBN.  Your photographs of a somewhat strange looking dektop tower PC are all around 2Mb, 2Mb for a snappy ??:-

WHY,  when the same image below is 60Kb, 1/30 of the bandwidth required to send it ?

I run an old IBM Lennova tower M57 with a plain dull grey case (current price on eBay is $130) and I can watch streaming TV/films via a  10/2 cable connection and also use a LAN  rather than WiFi whenever possible.  I have added a NVidia video card  to drive my Smart TV, and doubled the RAM to 4 Gb,  I also have a total of 3 SATA HDDs, for security and back-up in the computer.

$$1000 - $2000 for a computer  is a waste of money, in my opinion, and if you are going to buy a laptop, buy one with a flash drive and eliminate the power consumption/heating/ reliability  problems associated with a standard  laptop  running a 2.5" HDD.

 nɥºɾ

[*crikey*mate*]

dunno John, I took the photos with my iPhone and loaded them up - that's just how they turned out.

I didn't pay $2000 for my PC,

but could you please turn all my pics around? they look so much better when they're the right way up.

Cheers.

lets see what computers others are using, eh?

Lets see their specs.

[*crikey*mate*]

interested to see what set up JMk and eloi have.

[*crikey*mate*]

actually John, if you look at the quality of the pictures, mine are more clear than yours are.

[j*oono]

Monmans pictures are quicker to upload though.  If you take them with your iPhone then you can email them to yourself as large size and it will still reduce them to kbs.

That's how I do it but I'm sure there is a better way to reduce the size.

[cherry*135]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

interested to see what set up JMk and eloi have.

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Yes.

Also, so far, we have one poster that owned a laptop 10-12+ years ago and a posters family member. Assuming they were purchased with their own money for personal use at home only ( not supplied and paid for by an employer). Dial up internet days.

[j*oono]

I can't remember exactly how long ago but my first laptop was at least eight maybe ten years ago.  It was a Sony Vaio.  I'm on my third laptop now.

[freakiness]

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@j*oono wrote:

Monmans pictures are quicker to upload though.  If you take them with your iPhone then you can email them to yourself as large size and it will still reduce them to kbs.

That's how I do it but I'm sure there is a better way to reduce the size.

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I use auto online storage for phone pics. Each photo my phone takes auto uploads via wifi then downloads to all computers.  I've uploaded by phone 110 2Mb photos this month so far  😄

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I loved dial up Internet. If I didn't want a phone call to go to work, I could just go online. My conscience won't let me just take the phone off the hook.