Creative solutions
My laptop only has 3 USB ports. I use one for the external fan, to keep it cool. Another for the mouse. That usually leaves the third one available, but today the third one is being used by my old 2 GB MP4 player, because I'm putting something in it that is taking forever. Which wasn't a problem until I wanted to use the ergonomic keyboard. I tried looking for a USB hub. The one I could find doesn't work, and I cannot locate the other. Of course.
But I found a solution: I plugged the fan into a USB extension cable, and the extension cable into a USB charger plug thing, so it's running power directly from the power strip, LOL. Which freed up a USB port for the keyboard. Which was annoying because bloody Windows has to download drivers for these things every bloody time they're plugged in, because it can't remember this shit from one day to the next, and the driver download for the keyboard took a whole five minutes at least. I never had to put up with this shit on Ubuntu. Damn, I miss Ubuntu. (I still haven't found the time to take it to someone who can unfuck it for me.)
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But I found a solution: I plugged the fan into a USB extension cable, and the extension cable into a USB charger plug thing, so it's running power directly from the power strip, LOL. Which freed up a USB port for the keyboard. Which was annoying because bloody Windows has to download drivers for these things every bloody time they're plugged in, because it can't remember this shit from one day to the next, and the driver download for the keyboard took a whole five minutes at least. I never had to put up with this shit on Ubuntu. Damn, I miss Ubuntu. (I still haven't found the time to take it to someone who can unfuck it for me.)
This was cross-posted from http://fayanora.dreamwidth.org/1260182.html
You can comment either here or there.