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Keyser Soze

On 7/13/17 11:44 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:34:12 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 7/13/17 1:20 AM, wrote:

They make some tiny little "thumb drives" these days that barely stick
out of the port. My mouse is blue tooth that talks directly to the
laptop with a 30' range. (same as the 2.4 gz RF devices)

Gosharoonie, you have a bluetooth mouse? Whatever will they think of
next? But wait, isn't that a bit too *modern* for a tiki-bar dwelling
troglodyte like you?

Blue tooth is over 20 years old, right in my wheel house

I just load up a mem card with a bunch of movies and stick it in my
laptop. Nothing sticks out to catch on the computer bag, and less drain
on the laptop battery. We've found that you can't really tell how fast a
hotel's wi-fi availability might be by the price of the hotel, so having
some flicks on the laptop is a good deal when you just want to flop around.

Those shortie USB drives are not an issue when you are putting the
computer back in the bag but it is not that hard to plug in a large
form factor thumb drive once you take it out of the bag. You are
plugging in cables and such anyway unless you really like watching
movies on that tiny screen or listening to music on that tinny speaker
in a laptop.
Most big screens have a VGA port but if they don't, I have a VGA to
HDMI dongle. I just prefer the VGA because it is not as picky about
resolutions. It is plug and play. Sometimes you have to diddle with
screen resolution to get the HDMI going depending on what TV you are
dealing with.

We don't spend enough time while on a vacation looking at television to
worry about it. Besides, most places have cable.