Still setting up my laptop today. Takes awhile, for sure.
I set up and synced my tablet and phone yesterday, and got the windows phone app working, along with the calendar, mail app, and other stuff.
Today I synced my watch (!), my razer gaming mouse, my logitech gaming pad, my Kobo ereader, my old amazon kindle, and a few other devices. Christ. Setup this, log in to that, sync this, update that, backup these things. Things were so much much faster back when we just CD-ROMs to deal with. I mean, seriously, lol. I’ve been at this for a week now.
For the sake of morbid nerd curiosity, I plan to install Palm Desktop and sync my ancient Palm PDA. Official support for the device ended at Windows Vista, and the handheld itself is actually older than Jayden Bartels is, but fuck it, it still works. Built like a tank, the battery still holds a good charge 20 years later, and it’s solid- it just works. Why not?
Installed my bluetooth speakers, synced up my TV with my lappy, and… a lot of other stuff. Christ, it never ends. Setup antivirus, VPN, installed my myriad of antimalware softwares, setup windows security this and that, installed anti-telemetry software, yikes.
For the fuck of it I also brought over my collection of old Windows screensavers. I still have some ancient ones from the Win 95 days, believe it or not. They still work just as well as ever, so why not? The Vista ones still look good, believe it or not. I also brought over my library of old portable freeware apps. Looking through them I hilariously found an ancient one that was used to chain 3.5″ floppies together to create files larger than 1.44mb, lmao. It still apparently works, so why not keep it? lel. Might have a use for it in a virtual machine someday, maybe.
Maybe, lol. Probably not.
I also brought over my collection of ancient emulated consoles, and all of their associated ROMs. I mean, the really old ones, like the Intellivision. I’ll try those again someday- I might get a kick of out it.
I still have to setup the family printer, and make sure that I can connect with it over wifi. And I have to try scanning something with my own scanner / printer, etc.
I’ll be at this for awhile, methinks.