toddestan

When it comes to the UI, I guess it depends on what you're used to. The LibreOffice UI is a lot more similar to the UI used by MS Office 2003, so I've always been pretty comfortable with it. But Microsoft's "ribbon" UI which debuted back in 2007 is now old enough to vote, so I can see how there are people out there where that's all they've ever used.

Personally, while I've learned to deal with it in Word and Outlook, even after all of these years the ribbon still pisses me off every time I have to use Excel.

They actually only did a saucer separation three times during the entire TNG run. The pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", the cliff-hanger douple-part episode at the end of Season 3 with the Borg, and that one random episode back in the first season. If you count the "Generations" movie, that's a fourth and final time.

I get the impression in the Star Wars universe that technological advances have slowed to a near halt. All of the tech is really old, and very little has changed for quite some time. A brand new X-wing or lightsaber or landspeeder isn't all that different from one that was built 50 or even 100s of years ago. That's one of the reasons why stuff in Star Wars looks so used - as tech doesn't go obsolete, stuff ends up staying in service until it's completely worn out and every bit of life has been squeezed from it.

That's why you don't really see where the technology comes from - the big innovators, discoveries, etc. are long in the past. Though we do get to occasionally see factories and manufacturing facilities where things are being built.

If it makes you feel any better, from a quick scan through some of the images the vast majority of them at least seem depict the characters as older and grown up.

We also noted that the supplied key locks the power button, as it did on some ancient systems.

The ancient systems I knew didn't have a power button, and instead power was controlled by a physical switch on the high voltage side of the power supply.

The key actually locked out the keyboard, which was possible since the keyboard had a dedicated connector. So you could still turn the computer on, but you really couldn't use it.

I suppose locking out the power button is a suitable replacement for a modern case.

Out of the box, Vim's default configuration is very basic as it's trying to emulate vi as close as possible. It like if you want things like headlights or a heater or a tachometer in your family car, you got to create a vimrc and turn those features on. That was my experience when I first started using Vim - I spent a lot of time messing around creating a vimrc until I got things the way I wanted.

One of the big changes with Neovim is their default settings are a lot more like what you would expect in a modern text editor.

Generally I find many these frameworks will make some complicated things simple, but the cost is some things that were once simple are now complicated. They can be great if you just need the things they simplify - or in other words can stick to what they were intended for, but my favorite way of keeping things simple is to avoid using complicated and heavy frameworks.

Well, at least it's 1920x1200. The old 10" netbooks mostly had 1024x600 which was terrible even by standards from 15 years ago.

As a Minnesotan that knows New Prague I had a good laugh at a small midwestern town being thrown into this comparison.

New Prague isn't a bad place, but admittedly not a whole lot of touristy things to do there.

At best, I've seen a small discount and whatever is traded in is junked to keep it off the second-hand market.

I'm not saying that old hardware is useless. I make good use out of old hardware too. I have an old i5 Dell from about 2012 running ZoneMinder, a Phenom II system from around 2009 that I use a Linux server, an even older Core 2 Duo system that's a glorified MP3 player, and even a very early 2000's Pentium III that I use for a router (sadly I'm going to have to retire it from these duties soon - it can barely handle a 100 mbps DSL connection, and it's too old and outdated to run the modern router distributions).

However, for every one of those computers I have another one like it sitting in a closet plus a few extras. All the geeks and tinkerers I know are also swimming in old hardware. If I really wanted to get rid of this stuff, I'd have a hard time giving it away. Economically, this stuff is worthless. The supply greatly exceeds the demand(*)

(*) well, except maybe the Pentium III... it's old enough now that retro gamers may be interested...

If all she uses the computer for is playing Sims 4, another option is just let her continue to use Windows 10. If she's running it through Steam she's probably got another 3-4 years before that stops working.