FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

Fans almost always do a better job of localizing.

EDIT: Actually machines do a pretty hilarious job, too.

I've never had a phone actually die, but I only got a smart phone earlier this year.

Flip phones, man. Built to last.

Insert references to Soylent Green here.

Or Daikatana, if you hate yourself enough to have played through to know why that's relevant.

I currently have three laptops in the room with me.

There's a 2010-vintage Dell that has a decent enough touchpad, gets the job done. It has two physical buttons, which generally work.

I also have a 2013-era HP. It has a touchpad that, while the touch part works, the buttons are built into the touchpad, the right-click is almost impossible to find (a tiny quarter-inch segment, which is not labelled), and if you click too high you hit the touch part (which is not marked). So that's kind of annoying, but if you're careful it works.

Finally, there's a late 2015 Asus I just got. It's touchpad is totally unusable. It's twitchy, you literally cannot click the buttons (which are again unmarked) without moving the cursor, any time you touch the touchpad (such as initially putting your finger on it, or removing your finger) the cursor jumps half way across the screen.

So is this how it is? Between 2010 and 2015 the human race just forgot how to make touchpads, but still kept building them anyway? Ritualistically assembling these devices as some kind of cargo cult, even as the reason and understanding of how touchpads are actually assembled was simply lost to the mists of time?

People eat pork brains, though.