Meant UPS, not USB. Sorry.
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-------- Original Message -------- On Thursday, 03/26/26 at 14:44 dep via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote: said Jim via tde-users:
| I always assumed the decision to pretend every display is 96 DPI was | some incompetent manager who wanted to exert his or her authority.
You assumed incorrectly. When GUIs came out, 96dpi was right for most monitors, which had been produced for use with text-mode consoles. Remember, VGA is 640x480 @ 16 colors. That's why GEM, GeoWorks, Windows, and OS/2 defaulted to it. It became the standard, and we were all amazed when we could get video cards and monitors of higher resolution. And even more amazed that there were places in config.sys or auteoexec.bat where we could change the dots per inch from the 96 standard. And pleased that when we pushed it beyond its limits after a few seconds it would revert to something visible.
| Blowing a fuse shouldn't have affected your laptop. Perhaps he caused a | huge voltage spike? Even then, it is curious that the SSD went | kabloouie without your motherboard also being damaged.
A brand new Crucial 1tb SSD died here last year due to a very brief power glitch. Didn't blow up the computer but did utterly destroy the SSD. Which Crucial kindly replaced. And I put a USB between the wall plug and the computer. SSDs are more delicate than you might suppose. The glitch did no harm to the machine.
| But you are decimating the performance of your laptop using only | external drives over USB, at least if they are "thumb drives". I have a | couple of Raspberry Pis which have all their files on external SSDs. | The disk performance there is quite acceptable (400 - 500 MB/sec?).
It depends on numerous factors. Some, as you say, might be reduced in performance by one tenth.
| TeX (and LaTeX and ConTeXt) are not wysiwyg systems...
LyX: https://www.lyx.org/
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