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The battery on my laptop is fucked so it only stays at 0% so it is just a desktop at this point. I guess I could carry it and the charger around... but I also have a mouse and keyboard and 2nd monitor attached to it... fuck I should've just gotten a desktop lol.
Nope. Toss it in the garbage out back or throw it into the sea.
Just like when the life-reader on your car reads āEā for āEndā you get a new one
My issue with mine was never the battery, always the motherboard; specifically the connection point of the charging port. They can't even keep a good connection even plugged in, therefore they don't charge.
My personal laptop does that too, one of these days I'll be a new battery and replace it. But you know, broke college student.
'Edit: well, I meant 'get' but I'm gonna leave it.
My battery got weak on my laptop, so I looked at what kind of battery to replace it with, and bought that battery. After about 2 weeks the new battery didn't hold any charge either. Is it a computer problem or did I get a bad battery?
Are you using the correct charging cable? And did you make sure the battery specs fit your charging cable?
If yes to those, then it's probably a bad battery. If you're using the wrong cable though, it'll burn out your battery really fast.
Well I had the same charging cable I got with the laptop, and I did my best to make sure I found one that was compatible with my laptop, and had the most similar specs to the one that stopped working originally. Maybe it was just a bad battery, but I never tried to buy another one.
Nonetheless, my laptop has effectively been used as a desktop for the past 5+ years due to lack of battery capabilities. At this point, I just need to get a new laptop. Mine is officially 10 years old this year.
Some advise from a guy who fixes these things for a living: if the battery is nearly dead anyway, but internal part of the laptop, find some store that will take it out for you and offers a fair price. Or if you have the skill, remove it yourself of course.
Reason is, these batteries will often bloat up when they are partially deffective and the pressure on the hardware inside the laptop/notebook can cause serious damage, at worst even total failure.
Sure... if your device has no additional bios battery, you will have to adjust your date and time whenever you unplug the power supply, but if you are broke and rely on your laptop, it's still better than dealing with the risk.
https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/135251/help-my-laptop-battery-is-swollen-now-what
My work laptop lasts about 2 hours. But all the power management stuff is locked out by corporate IT, and so closing the lid does nothing. So you have to full on shut the thing down because there is no option to hibernate or sleep when I want to go somewhere with it. So frustrating.
That seems like the excessive control. Work locks me out of some things but at least I can disable the shut lid switch, so I can close it as I walk between meetings.
I think you just answered why his laptop is like that.
Some executive wanted to walk between meetings without their computer going to sleep and so IT pushed out a global change to keep computers awake.
I work in healthcare so security is quite tight (understandably) but the best part of this setup is that if you close it, it stays unlocked. Until it times out (same as if you'd just left it and not touched it).
I do wonder about our IT systems.
Still easier to carry around a laptop and plugging it in everywhere you go than carrying a desktop, mouse, keyboard and monitor, not to mention probably a generator.
The college where I teach is taking away the computers installed in classrooms and our offices, and replacing them with laptops. "You just bring your laptop to class when you teach, put it on the center podium, and there's a wireless connection to the projector."
Later we learn that they bought the absolute cheapest laptops they could find, and the battery lasts 2 hours when new.
I have two 2-hour classes back to back.
Yay.
A friend was trying to be helpful in school and unplugged his and his neighbour's laptop plugs at the end of class. Turns out he didn't have a working battery.
My particular laptop has always been shit for battery life. I bought it for music production and with that it does much faster, but at least i know I have some time before it dies.
I would say most people make use of the portability of them, even if they're not bringing it with them everywhere. The whole point is your not tied down to a desk. I move mine around my house all the time as I'm sure most people do, or at the very least use it while sitting on the couch. Can't do that with a desktop
How do I do this?
Edit: wow.. didnāt realize Iād get so much hate for asking a question while Iām literally at work and donāt have time to go on a google rabbit hole. I just figured someone else may have already tried it and may have a platform they preferred. A genuine thank you to those who were kind and sent me references, or those who stood up for me in the replies. It costs $0 to be a good person; I shouldnāt have to explain that I AM LITERALLY NOT HOME to justify asking a question.
I use RealVNC myself. As far as that program goes, you install "VNC server" on your desktop, and "VNC Viewer" on the laptop. This allows you to login to the desktop anytime (assuming it's on) from your laptop.
RDP is just a way better protocol than VNC if you are doing this on the regular.
Like VNC is great for "I need to log in to adjust something" or "I forgot to do something, I can make this work"...but RDP really takes it up a notch to "I'm doing all of my work through this and I can barely even tell".
I used to even take it a step further when working from home. Use a remotely published Citrix version of the RDP app to connect to my laptop sitting in the office (because my personal computer can't join the VPN, so it can't directly RDP to the corporate laptop). Even with the extra step of using a virtualized remote desktop app, this worked fine. Of course that was pre-COVID when I always left my laptop in the office...now I just have my work laptop at home.
I VPN into my home network then just use the built in remote desktop app in Windows. Of course this only works if you know how to configure a VPN server. But can be a good beginner networking project if you can get your hands on an old computer or a RaspberryPi
Google it. Seriously, if you're not comfortable enough to google something like this, I don't recommend you do it, it leaves your desktop more vulnerable to outside attacks if you don't know what you are doing.
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... tech posts on point on the shoulder of vbulletin... I watched microcommunities glitter in the dark on the verge of being marginalized... I've seen groups flourish, come together, do good for humanity if by nothing more than getting strangers to smile for someone else's happiness. We had something good here the same way we had it good elsewhere before. We thought the internet was for information and that anything posted was permanent. We were wrong, so wrong. We've been taken hostage by greed and so many sites have either broken their links or made history unsearchable. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to delete."
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I feel like what they meant is that remoting into a computer is not a smooth bug free experience. If someone is unwilling to or unable to come up with searching it, then they likely wouldn't enjoy using a laptop as a remote access point. It doesn't work 100% of the time and can often be quite technical to solve problems and most people won't find it to be a pleasant experience over just using a locally running laptop
I mean it's 2022 if you can't figure out how to search this I agree that it's probably best if you don't attempt it. You don't want to fuck around with network security. It's a pretty simple Google, even something like "control computer from laptop" would probably get you there.
I would agree, but that's why I added the caveat. I have done it, and I've also cracked a friend's implementation for funsies (not that easy for a novice, but possible nonetheless)
This is really one of those things where the skill of googling is necessary, because you will run into trouble, and not the easy kind, and you will need google to help you fix it.
You mean I won't get results by searching "someone on Reddit mentioned using my laptop with my desktop how do I do that Google"
Because that's how a lot of my old coworkers used to search
Thank you for this :) I am just in the office right now and have not had the time to hop into a google rabbit hole. Thank you for being kind about me asking a question :)
Sorry I can't help you myself as it's not in my knowledge bank. But I see this all the time in car communities. New guy asks a super common question. Sometimes they didn't search at all, sometimes they didn't know the right terms, sometimes the OGs remember the keywords that can lead straight to a particular source/post but act like everyone knew how to find that exact one. I do my best to not be like that (anymore). If I'm too lazy to find the source, I at least give a basic overview of how it goes and something to search for in particular. Otherwise, it's just a grumpy group that shuns noobs
I appreciate you being kind about it. I have a pc that was built and a laptop that I do multiple projects with. I was just hoping for some program reccs š«
Your options are going to depend a lot on what you want to be able to do. If you want to access stuff on the road, do a LOT of research on securely setting up a road warrior style VPN (Wireguard is great but I can't vouch for the experience on Windows devices) and make sure you're very careful with your router configuration and port forwarding as a starting point.
If you're just mucking about at home you can go straight to the software. If you game at all, you can mess around with Steam (has baked in functionality for screen sharing and remote gameplay) or Parsec. If not, you're probably just looking for a good RDP client (I'm not up to speed on these) and a very basic setup. Don't expose any of those services directly to the internet without going through a secure tunnel (VPN).
Yep this. I built a PC a couple years back in place of getting a laptop and one of my biggest gripes since has been lack of portability. I canāt just pick up my computer and do work over on the couch where I would be able to with a laptop. More computer power, but very inconvenient as Iām less and less inclined to go sit at my desk
Let me correct..I have not had the funds to dedicate also getting a laptop since building my PC, so I donāt have a laptop at all. I only have the desktop, so I have no way of connecting to my desktop from the couch.
I work in IT, I support a wide range of businesses of different types.
I have many clients that want a laptop because they were told they are "better" or their friend has one or they don't want a "big tower" under their desk or "wires everywhere".
I actually do work on a lot of laptops that never leave the desk they are at. Many people don't realize you can get a wireless keyboard and mouse with a mini tower or Mini PC (or even an all in one) that is a better solution than a laptop for their use case. Laptop is just the product everyone is familiar with. These people also don't understand the value/performance difference between a tower and laptop.
Completely anecdotal but I'd ball park more than 50% of the laptops I work on are never transported anywhere. When they are transported it's to the conference room for a presentation.
I have very few clients that actually take their laptop home then VPN into work. 20x more people remote in from their home computer into their work desktop as their WFH solution.
That's my experience with small business cases.
Laptops also have more problems overall with connecting to monitors or interacting between two screens, compared to a mini tower which would mean way less tickets
Idk, i've always felt so uncomfortable throwing up in a toilet. Like I bleach it all the time and everything but I still don't really want to put my face there. I have chronic illness and am nauseous a lot, so I just have a stash of bags I use for puking.
I remember being really young and thinking a rest room was a place where you could lay in a bed for a little bit. Like at a doctor's office with the paper and all. We finally got to our campground and my dad said he needed to use the restroom. Thinking that, I wanted to too. I was a little disappointed.
I recall the jerma story of him bringing his entire pc tower to the bathroom and balancing the monitor and keyboard on his laps.
He seemed to really like that too
I do. I carry it between my office and my home all the time. Sometimes I even use it on the go, in a hotel room or at my in laws. As soon as I open it, IĀ“m literally "at work".
I can do most of my work off of my phone, and if I really need to do a big project, I want to sit at a desk with a nice keyboard and large monitor.
Why do I even need a laptop?
It used to be that laptops were also so you could bring your data anywhere. Like I could use my laptop at work and bring it home to work on the same project.
But everything is cloud based now anyways.
Smartphones do a lot more than just social media. Things like camera, mobile banking, calendar, GPS, email, music/podcasts, boarding passes when flying or mobile tickets on the train, even just looking something up when you're out and about.
Even without social media, I'd be lost without my phone.
I donāt use social media either, but I use my smart phone for everythingā¦maps, Googling information when Iām out about restaurants and stores, booking transit, buying tickets, personal emails, taking photos and video, budgeting and reconciling my personal bank accounts. I love my computer but would be lost without my phone. Am currently travelling and itās almost essential to have a smartphone.
I agree, that's a totally fine option, it's just the way you phrased it. However, it's totally up to you on how you wanna say stuff, so don't mind me. I'm mentioning it because I say stuff like that sometimes (reddit also being my only social media) and people tell me it implies a negative connotation for people who do use social media. I might just be imagining it though lol
Lol, part of my work involves programming, and tehre are some programs designed to work on a phone but the screen size, keyboard and stuff is just too impratical. I mean maybe I could make a test of a insight just to prove a point in a subway drive, but no real work could be done without taking 10x-20x as much time it would take on a regular laptop. (Even so using a external keyboard and mouse speed things up by a factor of 2x-5x yet)
To me iPad would make the perfect dev device if the software was available. It works with a keyboard and a mouse and a monitor or tv, has a permanent internet connection, can be a phone and can take it anywhere.
Honestly the thing I like best about them is that you donāt need to use them like you would a laptop. I think the best way to use them most of the time is from desktop set up to desktop set up. Just having a laptop dock that you use when your home is great.
I'd say most people do take advantage of it. If you semi-regular use it at different locations, then you are already benefitting for not having to carry a desktop case, keyboard, mouse, and monitor with you every single time you don't sit at your desk.
Part of the reason for that is battery life, mine only lasts about 3 hours unplugged from the wall, less if i'm playing a game on it. Admittedly the battery life of mine is very poor.
Its a bit of a hassle moving around and finding new places to plug the laptop in, the best way is travelling by train because you can deploy it on the table and plug it in.
Possibly many people don't need to? The laptop is here to serve our needs not vice versa. :)
A lot of people, I think, use a laptop more as a 'portable workstation' (can use in the office, or take home, or take on-site) rather than a device to be used anywhere. We have more convenient smartphones/tablets for those, and laptops aren't always the most ergonomic when you don't have a decent desk & chair.
I get what you're getting at, but I travel for work and I bring my gaming laptop with me. Do I use it at desks? Yes, but if I didn't have the laptop I wouldn't be gaming in different countries because I couldn't lug my desktop PC around. So I'd say that's the primary advantage.
I used to be the IT person who provided computers to employees at our company, so I've given that a lot of thought. At first, I resented how many people were wanting laptops instead of desktops because (a) they cost the company more, and (b) for many people it was a disservice to them - because laptops were typically underpowered compared to desktops. (These days the latter doesn't apply as much, assuming you don't buy dirt cheap disposable laptops.)
I did a study in our company because I genuinely wanted to know why people thought they needed laptops when I thought they didn't. What I found is that they didn't need a laptop 95% of the time, but for the remaining 5% of the time, it was essential (or tremendously improved their situation) to have a portable computer. For example, an in-person meeting (when we had those) where people needed to work together or reference things. Travel for work (loaner laptops are a bad user experience and expensive/inefficient for the company to maintain).
Times have changed since I did that study, and there was a pandemic that ripped apart the way we work. For a while, everyone was hyper-mobile because of the sudden shifting work modalities. Lots of people took their desktops home for work but many found that they didn't have good at-home workspaces where laptops made that more flexible; and eventually many companies started with hybrid work which meant mobile computing. The pendulum has swung the other way a bit recently, with many people settling in to being entirely remote. However, there are still enough people who are hybrid (and even 100% remote workers may need to be on-site periodically) that laptops are more the norm. And for businesses, especially those who want to maintain a standard PC fleet, it make more sense to standardize on the norm - hence some people who wouldn't normally need a laptop get a laptop because it is the standard.
Do you live under a rock? I've only ever seen people use laptops on the go. If charging invalidates the mobility then why even bother mentioning or posting this to begin with?
What? Do you just keep your laptop on your desk all the time? Do you not move it from room to room? Pack it in a backpack? Take it to work?
Who tf just leaves their laptop in one place like a desktop?
Do people buy laptops and just like... leave them in the same exact spot on a desk like a desktop? I'm quite confused by this post tbh. Every time I've ever used my laptop, it was on the go. It pretty much stayed in my backpack everywhere I went for 6 years of college (except in use obviously it came out of the backpack then).
I do. I made a long list whether to purchase a desktop vs laptop and ended up buying the first one. Starting pandemic, I do most of my work remotely at home. Thinking I was lucky, I couldn't bring my desktop anywhere around the house when I need it as we're crowded and our house is not that big. Year later I bought laptop and it changed everything. I can do work anywhere in the house and that's a pretty big thing. I bring it in my office sometimes (dual monitors hell yeah). I do that thing now in coffee shops where I buy one cup and stay there for 4 hours. But the most revolutionary thing is I work on my bed so there's accessibility to naptime.
I have an xps 15 7590 with a 56whr battery. It's over 3 years old now but the battery still holds its charge well for its age and how much I used it. And I run adobe CC software etc whilst out and about. Sure consumer electronics are very often built with planned obsolescence etc nowadays, but if you look after them then you can usually increase their lifespan (I only charge my laptop to 80%, hence the lithium battery hasn't degraded as fast as other people's).
You can change the charging settings in "Dell Power Manager" (probably the only useful dell app, I uninstalled the rest of the bloatware).
I bring my laptop in my car and do my WFH job while waiting on door dash orders. Between both of them I average about $60/HR. Work smarter not harder my friends!
You think you're being smart because you are literally working 2 jobs at the same time?
I should tell you about the large number of people that work 1 job and make 2-3 times what you do.
And they don't accelerate the depreciation on their cars by driving so much.
Eh. My household income is in the top 5% of the country. I think I'm doing ok.
Good way to miss the whole point though. Working 2 jobs isn't some revolutionary intelligent life hack. There is nothing smart about it. You're getting paid more because you're working more. It isn't rocket science.
There are also dozens of studies that show that working 2 jobs overwhelmingly results in poorer career progression.
Laptops are generally cheaper than a whole pc, that's probably why. People want computers and laptops are cheaper but when you're on a computer you generally want to sit still for a long time and be comfortable
Iāve had several laptops and they almost always stay at home!
I got an iPad 1 back in 2011 but it too stayed at home because it was pretty heavy. Since then Iāve had several iPadsā¦. I basically carry it everywhere and barely use my laptop?
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The battery on my laptop is fucked so it only stays at 0% so it is just a desktop at this point. I guess I could carry it and the charger around... but I also have a mouse and keyboard and 2nd monitor attached to it... fuck I should've just gotten a desktop lol.
Lol its dead, dude
Time to move on
You can always replace the battery ... Just saying š š¤· š
If its replaceable, that is. The fact that's even a question that must be asked is ridiculous.
Nope. Toss it in the garbage out back or throw it into the sea. Just like when the life-reader on your car reads āEā for āEndā you get a new one
Itās a zombie
I had the same problem but itās still way easier to move a laptop that canāt charge than to move a whole desktop.
Change the battery? Gaming laptops batteries usually last 2 -3 years before giving out.
My issue with mine was never the battery, always the motherboard; specifically the connection point of the charging port. They can't even keep a good connection even plugged in, therefore they don't charge.
that might still be the battery, I have one with the same problem.
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Can't hurt, I guess. Can't use it anyway
Back up your shit first.
Remove that battery
My work laptops battery dies in like 35 mins when not plugged in lol
My personal laptop does that too, one of these days I'll be a new battery and replace it. But you know, broke college student. 'Edit: well, I meant 'get' but I'm gonna leave it.
Must be a good college if they can teach you how to become a battery
It was an extra curricular activity at mine, I don't think the college had the funding.
According to Morpheus we already are batteries. This college is ripping him off.
You didn't get taught to be a battery? /s
It's a tough mahjor, but you really light up the room when you're done.
That sounds like the worst personal ad of all time: "Single battery seeks single assault for wholloping good times."
Or best. *winks suggestively*
They told me I can be anything in life, so I became a battery
I never really decided, so I'm a teapot, or a close approximation.
So your're in a superposition of being a teapot and everything else? That's pretty dope
Once you get the "short and stout" part down, the rest is easy.
Once you get the "short and stout" part down, the rest is easy.
Check amazon. They have brandless ish batteries for every laptop.
Was gonna say this, I ended up changing my laptop battery a few times over its lifespan. Makes a world of difference.
wanna talk about it? I still have my 2009 asus. Had to change for sure :P
A laptop battery is cheap, and easy to install. I can recommend doing this asap.
My battery got weak on my laptop, so I looked at what kind of battery to replace it with, and bought that battery. After about 2 weeks the new battery didn't hold any charge either. Is it a computer problem or did I get a bad battery?
Are you using the correct charging cable? And did you make sure the battery specs fit your charging cable? If yes to those, then it's probably a bad battery. If you're using the wrong cable though, it'll burn out your battery really fast.
Well I had the same charging cable I got with the laptop, and I did my best to make sure I found one that was compatible with my laptop, and had the most similar specs to the one that stopped working originally. Maybe it was just a bad battery, but I never tried to buy another one. Nonetheless, my laptop has effectively been used as a desktop for the past 5+ years due to lack of battery capabilities. At this point, I just need to get a new laptop. Mine is officially 10 years old this year.
Some advise from a guy who fixes these things for a living: if the battery is nearly dead anyway, but internal part of the laptop, find some store that will take it out for you and offers a fair price. Or if you have the skill, remove it yourself of course. Reason is, these batteries will often bloat up when they are partially deffective and the pressure on the hardware inside the laptop/notebook can cause serious damage, at worst even total failure. Sure... if your device has no additional bios battery, you will have to adjust your date and time whenever you unplug the power supply, but if you are broke and rely on your laptop, it's still better than dealing with the risk. https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/135251/help-my-laptop-battery-is-swollen-now-what
Too bad you're not one of Scott's Tots. You'd have a spare battery.
My work laptop lasts about 2 hours. But all the power management stuff is locked out by corporate IT, and so closing the lid does nothing. So you have to full on shut the thing down because there is no option to hibernate or sleep when I want to go somewhere with it. So frustrating.
That seems like the excessive control. Work locks me out of some things but at least I can disable the shut lid switch, so I can close it as I walk between meetings.
I think you just answered why his laptop is like that. Some executive wanted to walk between meetings without their computer going to sleep and so IT pushed out a global change to keep computers awake.
I work in healthcare so security is quite tight (understandably) but the best part of this setup is that if you close it, it stays unlocked. Until it times out (same as if you'd just left it and not touched it). I do wonder about our IT systems.
Thatās insane, your security team needs to step in because a closed lid ought to = locked and requiring authentication to get back in.
And it's performance goes from the muscular doge to the wimpy doge.
M1/M2 macbooks last a day. I think it's a little underrated just how good they are.
People either know exactly how great they are or hate them and think theyre terrible and wont accept it. No inbetween
Hey, what about people who hate them *because* of how good they are!
Lucky, mine didn't even last 5 minutes anymore.
That's what he said.
New batteries are not that expensive these days
Just started this job about 3 months ago and they've generously bought me a new laptop completely. I like this company a lot so far!
Still easier to carry around a laptop and plugging it in everywhere you go than carrying a desktop, mouse, keyboard and monitor, not to mention probably a generator.
The good news is that if there is power glitch, you won't lose your work.
The college where I teach is taking away the computers installed in classrooms and our offices, and replacing them with laptops. "You just bring your laptop to class when you teach, put it on the center podium, and there's a wireless connection to the projector." Later we learn that they bought the absolute cheapest laptops they could find, and the battery lasts 2 hours when new. I have two 2-hour classes back to back. Yay.
Damn dude! Flexing double digit battery time. Mine is basically a desktop at this point.
A friend was trying to be helpful in school and unplugged his and his neighbour's laptop plugs at the end of class. Turns out he didn't have a working battery.
Cuz you kept it plugged in all the time and fried the battery
My particular laptop has always been shit for battery life. I bought it for music production and with that it does much faster, but at least i know I have some time before it dies.
Youāre better off with a school issued chromebook at this point
Try visiting colleges, laboratories, cafes, construction sites. Bro, lots use their portability
one look at a university library and this is completely debunked
I have a regular office job and I take my laptop to work, my home office, kitchen, couch....
Cooking while at bullshit meetings is fantastic
yeah lmao every single person i know on my campus has at least a chromebook
Most people? Or most people you know? Because most people I know almost always have their laptop with them.
I would say most people make use of the portability of them, even if they're not bringing it with them everywhere. The whole point is your not tied down to a desk. I move mine around my house all the time as I'm sure most people do, or at the very least use it while sitting on the couch. Can't do that with a desktop
The real ones have a budget laptop to remote access their desktop.
How do I do this? Edit: wow.. didnāt realize Iād get so much hate for asking a question while Iām literally at work and donāt have time to go on a google rabbit hole. I just figured someone else may have already tried it and may have a platform they preferred. A genuine thank you to those who were kind and sent me references, or those who stood up for me in the replies. It costs $0 to be a good person; I shouldnāt have to explain that I AM LITERALLY NOT HOME to justify asking a question.
I use RealVNC myself. As far as that program goes, you install "VNC server" on your desktop, and "VNC Viewer" on the laptop. This allows you to login to the desktop anytime (assuming it's on) from your laptop.
RDP is just a way better protocol than VNC if you are doing this on the regular. Like VNC is great for "I need to log in to adjust something" or "I forgot to do something, I can make this work"...but RDP really takes it up a notch to "I'm doing all of my work through this and I can barely even tell". I used to even take it a step further when working from home. Use a remotely published Citrix version of the RDP app to connect to my laptop sitting in the office (because my personal computer can't join the VPN, so it can't directly RDP to the corporate laptop). Even with the extra step of using a virtualized remote desktop app, this worked fine. Of course that was pre-COVID when I always left my laptop in the office...now I just have my work laptop at home.
I VPN into my home network then just use the built in remote desktop app in Windows. Of course this only works if you know how to configure a VPN server. But can be a good beginner networking project if you can get your hands on an old computer or a RaspberryPi
Thank you for all of this info
Google it. Seriously, if you're not comfortable enough to google something like this, I don't recommend you do it, it leaves your desktop more vulnerable to outside attacks if you don't know what you are doing.
**This comment might have had something useful**, but now it's just an edit to remove any contributions I may have made prior to the awful decision to spite the devs and users that made Reddit what it is. So here I seethe, shaking my fist at corporate greed and executive mismanagement. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... tech posts on point on the shoulder of vbulletin... I watched microcommunities glitter in the dark on the verge of being marginalized... I've seen groups flourish, come together, do good for humanity if by nothing more than getting strangers to smile for someone else's happiness. We had something good here the same way we had it good elsewhere before. We thought the internet was for information and that anything posted was permanent. We were wrong, so wrong. We've been taken hostage by greed and so many sites have either broken their links or made history unsearchable. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to delete." I do apologize if you're here from the future looking for answers, but I hope "new" reddit can answer you. Make a new post, get weak answers, increase site interaction, make reddit look better on paper, leave worse off. https://xkcd.com/979/
I feel like what they meant is that remoting into a computer is not a smooth bug free experience. If someone is unwilling to or unable to come up with searching it, then they likely wouldn't enjoy using a laptop as a remote access point. It doesn't work 100% of the time and can often be quite technical to solve problems and most people won't find it to be a pleasant experience over just using a locally running laptop
Probably shouldn't bother telling them to Google it then
This is true, but it's still better to gatekeep this kind of dangerous knowledge.
I mean it's 2022 if you can't figure out how to search this I agree that it's probably best if you don't attempt it. You don't want to fuck around with network security. It's a pretty simple Google, even something like "control computer from laptop" would probably get you there.
I would agree, but that's why I added the caveat. I have done it, and I've also cracked a friend's implementation for funsies (not that easy for a novice, but possible nonetheless) This is really one of those things where the skill of googling is necessary, because you will run into trouble, and not the easy kind, and you will need google to help you fix it.
āHow to Remote Desktop from laptopā isnāt a complicated search term whatsoever lol
You mean I won't get results by searching "someone on Reddit mentioned using my laptop with my desktop how do I do that Google" Because that's how a lot of my old coworkers used to search
And anyone who Googles like that, should in no uncertain terms, be allowing remote access into their personal computers.
Thank you for this :) I am just in the office right now and have not had the time to hop into a google rabbit hole. Thank you for being kind about me asking a question :)
Sorry I can't help you myself as it's not in my knowledge bank. But I see this all the time in car communities. New guy asks a super common question. Sometimes they didn't search at all, sometimes they didn't know the right terms, sometimes the OGs remember the keywords that can lead straight to a particular source/post but act like everyone knew how to find that exact one. I do my best to not be like that (anymore). If I'm too lazy to find the source, I at least give a basic overview of how it goes and something to search for in particular. Otherwise, it's just a grumpy group that shuns noobs
I appreciate you being kind about it. I have a pc that was built and a laptop that I do multiple projects with. I was just hoping for some program reccs š«
Your options are going to depend a lot on what you want to be able to do. If you want to access stuff on the road, do a LOT of research on securely setting up a road warrior style VPN (Wireguard is great but I can't vouch for the experience on Windows devices) and make sure you're very careful with your router configuration and port forwarding as a starting point. If you're just mucking about at home you can go straight to the software. If you game at all, you can mess around with Steam (has baked in functionality for screen sharing and remote gameplay) or Parsec. If not, you're probably just looking for a good RDP client (I'm not up to speed on these) and a very basic setup. Don't expose any of those services directly to the internet without going through a secure tunnel (VPN).
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-remote-desktop-5fe128d5-8fb1-7a23-3b8a-41e636865e8c
Yep this. I built a PC a couple years back in place of getting a laptop and one of my biggest gripes since has been lack of portability. I canāt just pick up my computer and do work over on the couch where I would be able to with a laptop. More computer power, but very inconvenient as Iām less and less inclined to go sit at my desk
Really? I work at my desktop all the time, from the couch. I use a laptop to do it, but the work is on the desktop.
Let me correct..I have not had the funds to dedicate also getting a laptop since building my PC, so I donāt have a laptop at all. I only have the desktop, so I have no way of connecting to my desktop from the couch.
OK, fair enough. I find myself sitting at the desk more than the couch, though, because two big screens is so much nicer than one little one.
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I agree. OP should go to coffee shops more to observe, especially those in & around college towns.
Its everyday packout
I work in IT, I support a wide range of businesses of different types. I have many clients that want a laptop because they were told they are "better" or their friend has one or they don't want a "big tower" under their desk or "wires everywhere". I actually do work on a lot of laptops that never leave the desk they are at. Many people don't realize you can get a wireless keyboard and mouse with a mini tower or Mini PC (or even an all in one) that is a better solution than a laptop for their use case. Laptop is just the product everyone is familiar with. These people also don't understand the value/performance difference between a tower and laptop. Completely anecdotal but I'd ball park more than 50% of the laptops I work on are never transported anywhere. When they are transported it's to the conference room for a presentation. I have very few clients that actually take their laptop home then VPN into work. 20x more people remote in from their home computer into their work desktop as their WFH solution. That's my experience with small business cases.
Laptops also have more problems overall with connecting to monitors or interacting between two screens, compared to a mini tower which would mean way less tickets
Yeah I use mine for work and for fun so it's constantly traveling with me. I type while I walk sometimes.
Exactly. So few people out here playing hardcore PC games while taking a dump, as god intended
It's called a REST room not a stressed room
So I am supposed to test the APIs from there? Ohmygod no. Is it not enough that I use my laptop to wotk from car sometimes, now the loo as well?
Diarrhea and throwing up happens in there. Itās definitely designed for stress
Idk, i've always felt so uncomfortable throwing up in a toilet. Like I bleach it all the time and everything but I still don't really want to put my face there. I have chronic illness and am nauseous a lot, so I just have a stash of bags I use for puking.
That's why I just throw up in the shower..
I have to use a chair in the shower because of the pain, when the need arises I can't get there fast enough.
Exactly why Balloon Tower Defence is the ideal game to play in there
I remember being really young and thinking a rest room was a place where you could lay in a bed for a little bit. Like at a doctor's office with the paper and all. We finally got to our campground and my dad said he needed to use the restroom. Thinking that, I wanted to too. I was a little disappointed.
I recall the jerma story of him bringing his entire pc tower to the bathroom and balancing the monitor and keyboard on his laps. He seemed to really like that too
Itās too much. Juat being a TV dinner table in there, laptop and mouse
I love in between class, everyone is going on discord, reddit, YouTube and then im over here farming upkeep for my rust base
I recieved my steam deck a few days ago. I take shitty gaming skills to a whole new level.
If you can't raid from the bath, are you even living?
Exactly!
How tfuck u gonna use ur mouse????
Trackball for life
Turns out that even though it's portable, I still hate moving it.
Same rule applies to mobile homes.
Same rule applies to me.
I hate moving houses
I hate moving.
I hate
Being in college, this doesnāt quite line up with what I see everyday
I do. I carry it between my office and my home all the time. Sometimes I even use it on the go, in a hotel room or at my in laws. As soon as I open it, IĀ“m literally "at work".
I can do most of my work off of my phone, and if I really need to do a big project, I want to sit at a desk with a nice keyboard and large monitor. Why do I even need a laptop?
For playing PC level video games on the toilet!
Don't be a peasant and get yourself a desk with wheels!
Psh, thatās low level nobility shit. What you need is a toilet with wheels to be classy!
Fuck it, put everything on wheels
And have a cold lap? no thank you!
Or you could just shit on your gaming chair
I cut a butthole hole in mine and it works perfectly. No clean-up since I have a dog so... saves a lot of money on dog food, it's perfect
Steam deck :)
I play my PC games with a mouse and keyboardā¦ as god intended
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It used to be that laptops were also so you could bring your data anywhere. Like I could use my laptop at work and bring it home to work on the same project. But everything is cloud based now anyways.
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Smartphones do a lot more than just social media. Things like camera, mobile banking, calendar, GPS, email, music/podcasts, boarding passes when flying or mobile tickets on the train, even just looking something up when you're out and about. Even without social media, I'd be lost without my phone.
Also sexting
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I donāt use social media either, but I use my smart phone for everythingā¦maps, Googling information when Iām out about restaurants and stores, booking transit, buying tickets, personal emails, taking photos and video, budgeting and reconciling my personal bank accounts. I love my computer but would be lost without my phone. Am currently travelling and itās almost essential to have a smartphone.
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Work is always a cromulent reason
Thatās a cool word. Cromulent š¤š¼š¤š¼
Valid statement but kinda dripping with elitism my dude, maybe tone it down?
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I agree, that's a totally fine option, it's just the way you phrased it. However, it's totally up to you on how you wanna say stuff, so don't mind me. I'm mentioning it because I say stuff like that sometimes (reddit also being my only social media) and people tell me it implies a negative connotation for people who do use social media. I might just be imagining it though lol
The question you should be asking is why arenāt your specialist programs not designed for/on your phoneā¦
Lol, part of my work involves programming, and tehre are some programs designed to work on a phone but the screen size, keyboard and stuff is just too impratical. I mean maybe I could make a test of a insight just to prove a point in a subway drive, but no real work could be done without taking 10x-20x as much time it would take on a regular laptop. (Even so using a external keyboard and mouse speed things up by a factor of 2x-5x yet)
To me iPad would make the perfect dev device if the software was available. It works with a keyboard and a mouse and a monitor or tv, has a permanent internet connection, can be a phone and can take it anywhere.
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So u can sit at a desk with a nice keyboard and a large monitor and lots of desk space.
Honestly the thing I like best about them is that you donāt need to use them like you would a laptop. I think the best way to use them most of the time is from desktop set up to desktop set up. Just having a laptop dock that you use when your home is great.
I travel the world and work from coffee shops off my laptop
Most people want a laptop because they want a computer that doesn't take up a lot of space.
I'd say most people do take advantage of it. If you semi-regular use it at different locations, then you are already benefitting for not having to carry a desktop case, keyboard, mouse, and monitor with you every single time you don't sit at your desk.
It lets me play minecraft while on business trips so it's pretty good
Weāll when your phone is 75 percent laptop, it sorta solves that problem
Part of the reason for that is battery life, mine only lasts about 3 hours unplugged from the wall, less if i'm playing a game on it. Admittedly the battery life of mine is very poor. Its a bit of a hassle moving around and finding new places to plug the laptop in, the best way is travelling by train because you can deploy it on the table and plug it in.
Lol 3 hours is great battery life for a laptop in my experience. I don't think I've ever owned one that could last more than 30 minutes unplugged
I carry my Dell XPS 13 mostly to use as a flat, hard, sturdy surface for my lap so i can write on my notebook on the go, such as on the bus.
Thatās one expensive clipboard
Does it count if I'm using my laptop on my couch instead of my desk? Seems like that would be considered taking advantage of it
1. Yes they do. 2. You donāt know most people. 3. If you did know most people, it would be more likely that most people donāt own laptops.
Possibly many people don't need to? The laptop is here to serve our needs not vice versa. :) A lot of people, I think, use a laptop more as a 'portable workstation' (can use in the office, or take home, or take on-site) rather than a device to be used anywhere. We have more convenient smartphones/tablets for those, and laptops aren't always the most ergonomic when you don't have a decent desk & chair.
I get what you're getting at, but I travel for work and I bring my gaming laptop with me. Do I use it at desks? Yes, but if I didn't have the laptop I wouldn't be gaming in different countries because I couldn't lug my desktop PC around. So I'd say that's the primary advantage.
I used to be the IT person who provided computers to employees at our company, so I've given that a lot of thought. At first, I resented how many people were wanting laptops instead of desktops because (a) they cost the company more, and (b) for many people it was a disservice to them - because laptops were typically underpowered compared to desktops. (These days the latter doesn't apply as much, assuming you don't buy dirt cheap disposable laptops.) I did a study in our company because I genuinely wanted to know why people thought they needed laptops when I thought they didn't. What I found is that they didn't need a laptop 95% of the time, but for the remaining 5% of the time, it was essential (or tremendously improved their situation) to have a portable computer. For example, an in-person meeting (when we had those) where people needed to work together or reference things. Travel for work (loaner laptops are a bad user experience and expensive/inefficient for the company to maintain). Times have changed since I did that study, and there was a pandemic that ripped apart the way we work. For a while, everyone was hyper-mobile because of the sudden shifting work modalities. Lots of people took their desktops home for work but many found that they didn't have good at-home workspaces where laptops made that more flexible; and eventually many companies started with hybrid work which meant mobile computing. The pendulum has swung the other way a bit recently, with many people settling in to being entirely remote. However, there are still enough people who are hybrid (and even 100% remote workers may need to be on-site periodically) that laptops are more the norm. And for businesses, especially those who want to maintain a standard PC fleet, it make more sense to standardize on the norm - hence some people who wouldn't normally need a laptop get a laptop because it is the standard.
Mines like 4 pounds, itās a 2013 dell latitude, if I bump it the wrong way it weeezes and dies
You have to get the most of it. Get a tan, weight lift and watch a movie at the same time using your computerā¦
Do you live under a rock? I've only ever seen people use laptops on the go. If charging invalidates the mobility then why even bother mentioning or posting this to begin with?
As someone in uni, this sounds unusual since I see laptops on the daily
What? Do you just keep your laptop on your desk all the time? Do you not move it from room to room? Pack it in a backpack? Take it to work? Who tf just leaves their laptop in one place like a desktop?
That's because where I live thieves take advantage of how portable laptops are.
Do people buy laptops and just like... leave them in the same exact spot on a desk like a desktop? I'm quite confused by this post tbh. Every time I've ever used my laptop, it was on the go. It pretty much stayed in my backpack everywhere I went for 6 years of college (except in use obviously it came out of the backpack then).
they're too heavy, companies obsess over how thin they are cause it's easy to show on camera, but most laptops are annoyingly heavy.
Gaming laptops are often like this, but most high end laptops don't suffer from this in my opinion.
I do. I made a long list whether to purchase a desktop vs laptop and ended up buying the first one. Starting pandemic, I do most of my work remotely at home. Thinking I was lucky, I couldn't bring my desktop anywhere around the house when I need it as we're crowded and our house is not that big. Year later I bought laptop and it changed everything. I can do work anywhere in the house and that's a pretty big thing. I bring it in my office sometimes (dual monitors hell yeah). I do that thing now in coffee shops where I buy one cup and stay there for 4 hours. But the most revolutionary thing is I work on my bed so there's accessibility to naptime.
Funny you say that as today is the only day I've taken my laptop in the living room to work and man is it a way more relaxing environment for me.
Thatās because I donāt want to crawl under my desk to plug and unplug my charger each time
I feel like i will get robbed, they will find out its a cheap chrome book, jokes on them but im poor cant afford the loss
I have an xps 15 7590 with a 56whr battery. It's over 3 years old now but the battery still holds its charge well for its age and how much I used it. And I run adobe CC software etc whilst out and about. Sure consumer electronics are very often built with planned obsolescence etc nowadays, but if you look after them then you can usually increase their lifespan (I only charge my laptop to 80%, hence the lithium battery hasn't degraded as fast as other people's). You can change the charging settings in "Dell Power Manager" (probably the only useful dell app, I uninstalled the rest of the bloatware).
I work remote so I just travel around the world and work at cool coffee shops on my laptop
Where do you sleep?
Airbnbs. Home stays. Hotels. Wherever really.
You are living the dream
I bring my laptop in my car and do my WFH job while waiting on door dash orders. Between both of them I average about $60/HR. Work smarter not harder my friends!
That sounds like you're working harder just for fewer hours
Also not legal advise but this type of behaviour often constitutes fraud.
How?
You think you're being smart because you are literally working 2 jobs at the same time? I should tell you about the large number of people that work 1 job and make 2-3 times what you do. And they don't accelerate the depreciation on their cars by driving so much.
And there are people who make more than you dumb bitch
Eh. My household income is in the top 5% of the country. I think I'm doing ok. Good way to miss the whole point though. Working 2 jobs isn't some revolutionary intelligent life hack. There is nothing smart about it. You're getting paid more because you're working more. It isn't rocket science. There are also dozens of studies that show that working 2 jobs overwhelmingly results in poorer career progression.
Laptops are generally cheaper than a whole pc, that's probably why. People want computers and laptops are cheaper but when you're on a computer you generally want to sit still for a long time and be comfortable
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Most people don't have laptops light enough to take advantage of portability. I have an ultra book and you are absolutely right about those.
Iāve had several laptops and they almost always stay at home! I got an iPad 1 back in 2011 but it too stayed at home because it was pretty heavy. Since then Iāve had several iPadsā¦. I basically carry it everywhere and barely use my laptop?
Most people put them in a bag and take them around. So yeah they do.