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ervaqre schreef op 17-11-2016 8:00:
>> Oh, I'm fine talking to people. If only they did better on the answers.
>
> You could try talking to MegaHAL instead. Despite showing his age, I
> have always found his answers to be delightfully insightful. And he's
> a much better conversationalist than Cortana on my phone who doesn't
> make sense most of the time and just steers me to commercial results.
> But seeing as that you don't have a very smart smartphone, you might
> have no idea what I am talking about.

Cortana is the Windows Alexa-like alternative to Google?

Hmmm, it could be funny to have these assistants strike a conversation.

>> Ironic if you're buying an app to make screenshots, especially since a
>> phone can do that without an app. You don't even need to bend the phone
>> to point the camera at the screen.
>
> Now if there would only be a way to take a screenshot on my e-reader,
> then I could share what I am reading with people on my smartphone.
> Though I doubt they'd be interested.

With the state of copyright protection they might cc a copy to the FBI. 
Only to have that become public by Wikileaks.

>> And we'll be here to steer them wrong. See? Being an old fogey can be fun.
>
> Or we might tell them about all the embarrassing details their parents
> did during the Old and Glorious Days of Aglami. Good thing I don't
> have children.

I'm sure you have files on them. In case of you ever having children: 
make sure you have files on them too. So you can threaten to update 
their Wikipedia with nasty info.

>> These days you run the risk of playing against a 13 year old at that
>> hour who swears like a sailor and claims to do unspeakable things to
>> your mom. All shouting through his 150 dollar headset he got from his
>> granny because he's such a sweet little kid. So you're not missing out
>> on that. Gaming has become social...
>
> According to a similar thread on WAAglami, it's also the unemployed
> who drink beer and play computer games all day long.

That's an unfair stereotype. The guy from Classic Game Room on Youtube 
does that for a full time job.

> Perhaps I should look into gaming that's not social then. Nintento
> just released their NES Classic which sounds fun. Too bad the cords
> are too short for my living room.

There are extensions. Just an USB-extension cable for a few euro's can 
stretch the power cord to 5 meters. I don't need a Nintendo though. I've 
got an Atari.

-- 
Danny.