How is everyone doing? Very relaxing weekend here. Picked some blackberries from the yard, watch a documentary or two, killed some nazis in Sniper Elite V, and spend a good bit of time watching Chunk the Groundhog eat produce.
Y’all?
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Math Guy
Back from Wyoming!
Starfish
We have had a few blackberries so far, and I can’t wait until more ripen.
brendancalling
On my way back from OldTone Festival. If you get a chance to see the Daiquiri Queens or the Rootchie Tootchie Ragtime Shepherd Kings or the Deslondes or Bill and the Belles, do not delay!
lahke
After18 months, the semi-feral Covid-time-adopted cat is finally willing to come for pets and strop herself all up and down my hands and arms. Progress! So now I find out she’s a big-time drooler.
JMG
My son, his wife and their two cats are here. On Friday night, one of them caught a mouse! Mouse played dead and the cat was actually fooled! Dropped it. Mouse had enough sense to keep playing dead and we were able to scoop it up and toss it outside. Reminiscent of the lobster scene in Annie Hall except it was vermin and not dinner.
Darkrose
Can we maybe get an FP thread for Nichelle Nichols? Even knowing that she was old and in poor health, I’m kind of gutted. She was a role model for me and generations of Black girls, and she will be missed.
CaseyL
I overnighted at my friends’ house in Ocean Shores, which is 30° cooler than Seattle right now. Took a beach stroll. A huge bank of fog had rolled in, and turned the beach into a now-you-see-it/now-you-don’t magical mystery tour. Visibility of maybe 20 yards in any direction.
I sat down by a driftwood tree, and the way the fog obscured the beach made the landscape the same color as the ocean, so I seemed to be sitting on my own private eternal shore.
Just gorgeous.
lowtechcyclist
Hasn’t been a bad weekend. Yesterday and this morning, it was actually nice outside. Later on, it got muggy and then it rained.
Finally got around to ordering a new lawn mower. Nearly two months ago now, I got a bunch of good advice on buying an electric from my fellow jackals, but crap kept on coming up and distracting me. Anyhow, I’ve ordered this model from Greenworks. Says it can run for 60 minutes on one charge, and the lawn rarely takes longer than that to mow.
Now I’ve just got to get a new HVAC system for our house, as the old one is 12 years old, and needs a $4000 repair to keep it alive. Forget that – that sort of money is best put towards a new system. Meanwhile, we’re getting by with 2 window units and one portable, but that can really only be a temporary fix. Based on the modest research I’ve done, I’m thinking a variable-speed system would be nice.
Starfish
Doug Jones is doing another live video on Twitter about what Congress has done this week. He can cheer successes and be realistic about what has been going on.
zhena gogolia
@Darkrose: my husband was just talking about her yesterday. Which isn’t surprising, since he mentions her almost every day. Lt Uhura made a big impression
Villago Delenda Est
@Darkrose: She inspired so many. Whoopi Goldberg, Mae Jemison, just to name two.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
🦁 ROOOOOOOOOOOOAR! (photo)
PaulB
I just finished setting up a new computer and I’m now wishing that I could write a rant as well as Tony Jay, as I would love to let Microsoft have it with both barrels for their stupidity and their attacks on my privacy.
Getting rid of their bloatware — the unnecessary apps and services that Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that I absolutely must have and, thus, cannot be allowed to uninstall and/or delete, even though I don’t need them and don’t want them — has taken three days and multiple trips to Google. Shutting down their collection of my personal data, in both Windows and Office, took just as long and was just as painful, as Microsoft has decided that I cannot be allowed to control my own data and that some (unspecified and unknowable) amount of my personal data must be sent back to Microsoft because reasons.
Then there’s the stupidity of running a touch keyboard service on a desktop computer that doesn’t have a touch screen. And the even greater stupidity that has tied some of the text fields in the operating system and accompanying apps to that service (e.g., the search box in Notepad), such that shutting down that service means that those text fields are no longer operational, as they will not accept text input from a keyboard unless the touch keyboard service, that I don’t need and don’t use, is running.
Or the Xbox game bar app that I don’t need and don’t want and managed to remove. Only there’s one teensy little problem: one function of that app was the ability to easily take screenshots of your game to share on social media. And when you invoke certain game APIs on Windows, they will automatically seek out that function without regard to whether the app is actually installed or not, which will, of course, lead to a system error, since the app and function aren’t there. Can this be fixed? Sure. By unchecking a setting in the app, the app that I have removed the system because I don’t want it and don’t need it.
Or the Microsoft Office Click-to-Run service that is always running, regardless of whether you’re actually using an Office app. And which isn’t needed to actually run those Office apps, except that the apps won’t start unless the service is running, giving you instead an entirely unhelpful error message.
I’ll be using Linux on my next computer.
I’m using my previous computer as my new media server, finally retiring the limping 10-year-old computer that was handling that task. In the process of replacing the server, I’m having to move, copy, or delete over a million files, none of which are the actual video files that the server is serving up, as those are on hard drives that I’m simply transferring from one computer to the other.
Where is a cupcake when I need one?
Mo Salad
Any weekend starting with watching LFC beat Man City at Thomas Magee’s in Eastern Market is a good weekend.
Also got my daughter back and forth from her U of M apartment in AA to do laundry at my place since her wallet got pilfered Friday.
Ended Saturday with a German Festival at German Park near Ann Arbor. German food and Deschutes Black Butte on tap for $20 a half-gallon bucket. ($17 refill).
Today. Girlfriend picks me up. Pokemon raid event until 2, Lunch is Taco Showdown at Eastern Market. More beers at Eastern Market Brewing Company, then dinner at Brew Detroit.
Now to relax, do laundry, and get some more Extraordinary Attorney Woo in (Netflix).
PS – having Act Blue one click away from your Twitter feed is dangerous. $25 to the abortion fund set up by the girl in Texas a couple of days ago and $25 to Tim Ryan 10 minutes ago.
It’s crack, I tell ya, pure crack. Don’t even need angel matches anymore.
Sure Lurkalot
@Darkrose: CNN has a column on her contributions to humanity on our earth ship. An inspiration to many and well loved by many.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/entertainment/nichelle-nichols-star-trek-dies/index.html
frosty
@PaulB: Pretty good rant, actually. I’m thinking I will continue to refuse Microsoft’s entreaties to move on up to Windows 11. Everything still works fine now.
Frankensteinbeck
Brain is goop, but my stress levels have been going down and BJ appears to no longer be Doomscroll Central, so why not actually say ‘hi’?
Hi.
Starfish
@Sure Lurkalot: Her documentary “Woman in Motion” was excellent.
WaterGirl
@lahke: It was all good until I got to the part about drooling. :-)
I feel you.
Urza
@PaulB: Your next PC is likely to be a dumb terminal at home and all your data on the cloud. No more upgrading hardware other than internet connection. Everything will be a convenient subscription. If you’re really lucky, it’ll be by amount used so you won’t need to buy a copy of Office for that couple times a year you need it at home. Same with PC usage, anyone will have access to a PC, but most people would pay less if its by use than by owning the hardware. And yes, Microsoft would allow you to have a Linux desktop.
And on a side note, I can’t wait for that so the factory lines for PC hardware can get converted over to server hardware and reduce the parts shortages on the horizon for the next too many years.
Mustang Bobby
Got my second booster for Covid-19. Aside from a little soreness at the injection site, all systems are functioning within normal parameters.
New teachers report to school on Tuesday.
wombat probabilty cloud
Finally coming out of mosquito season in the western UP of Michigan. Wild blueberries are ripening, resident loons have a pair juvies learning how to dive for fish (after the black flies drove the parents off the nest with the first pair of eggs, which thus didn’t make it). Lake water is silky and warm. Good times.
Frankensteinbeck
Test, test? I know WaterGirl must have mod privileges, so surely my first comment is not stuck in Mod Limbo. Did it just not go through?
Jay
Heatwave here, day 5, so I shaved off my unemployment beard, trimmed the goatee, and trimmed my hair down to #1.
Spanky
Sitting here musing on voluntarily passing on my 50th high school reunion this weekend. I kept up with no one and moved hundreds of miles away after college. I fear that I’d have a hard time dealing with the provinciality of those that stayed. And yet … the clock is ticking and I still feel a connection. Too late.
Urza
@Spanky: Go just to see what happened to people. You’re probably doing better than most if you moved away.
Damien
Sniper Elite V looks awesome in my library, I can’t wait to play it after I finish catching up on games I miss because of work.
Currently on Skyrim, damn Stormcloaks!
grandmaBear
5 days into Covid isolation in a 5 person household. Fully vaxxed & boosted of course but not a candidate for paxlovid apparently. Finally scheduled for an infusion tomorrow. My days are all sleeping and reading, but don’t feel that bad. Watched a squirrel stripping my garden thru the bedroom window this afternoon. Didn’t even care that much. That’s the Covid talking.
Spanky
@Urza: It was last night, 250 miles away.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Waiting until just before sunset here on the left coast before I make my rounds to pick strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. Cool day (64), as usual. Parts of the country have been/are roasting and it’s usually in the mid-60’s.
Nice evening though… :)
Trollhattan
@lowtechcyclist: HAve the Greenworks 80V system, no mower (lawn retired) but the trimmer, blower and chainsaw have been fine. So much easier than gas or cords.
different-church-lady
I spent hours trying to re-protect the tomatoes from squirrels.
I have a feeling the squirrels will take mere seconds to defeat my efforts.
Brachiator
I had a terrible bout of insomnia and couldn’t get to sleep last night. Finally started dozing mid-morning, so I didn’t find out about the passing of Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols until late today. As a certified geek, I loved Star Trek, and Sulu and Uhura were among my favorites from the show. I really loved her interaction with evil Sulu in the episode “Mirror Mirror.” In reading about her passing I noted this item.
This episode recently showed up on YouTube and she gave a really great performance. As an aside, I also love Celia Rose Gooding, the actress who plays Cadet Uhura in the new series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
I have tremendous admiration and respect for Bill Russell. No matter how basketball changed, no matter what new stars came along, he was grounded by the absolute fact that he would always be noted as one of the greatest players in NBA history.
I got two more Covid test kits in the mail. I have been lucky so far, and have not caught anything. My nephew got Covid and it really slowed him down, even though he fortunately only had a mild case. He probably got it from a coworker whose family caught it while on vacation. The coworker claims she had tested negative, but she was hacking and coughing at the office. I don’t know if people don’t care anymore that they might catch it and spread it. Also, employers are not giving people paid time office and encouraging them to stay home if they show symptoms.
Another notable death.
Danielx
Spent yesterday pm cleaning out interior of spousal unit’s 184k Outback. Other assorted frustrations, ended the afternoon on the porch at a hippie bar with my brother drinking beer. Today cut grass, whacked the wisteria around the back porch – two giant lawn waste bags worth. Wisteria being one of nature’s miracles , two weeks from now I won’t be able to tell the difference.
Danielx
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Been lucking out here for the last couple of weeks – enough rain and last few days have been in mid 80s with low humidity. Where I am we get about two months of San Diego type weather a year, not all at the same time (unfortunately). If we had it all year round we’d be charging admission at the state line.
PaulB
I get what you’re saying and that will be great for some people but I doubt I’ll jump on that bandwagon. I have over 38 TB of data, which means that uploading/downloading that data from the cloud will take months, if not years, particularly if I’m up against a monthly limit from my Internet provider.
And then you get all of that data uploaded to a particular provider and they either go out of business or dramatically raise rates, the latter of which happened to me several years ago, when Amazon decided to raise my cloud backup rates from $60 a year to $1200 a year. That’s not a typo.
Not to mention the sloppiness of the security and data handling from far too many online providers of all kinds. I’ve had some limited personal data exposed at least twice a year for the past five years due to various hacks. As a result, I now have half a dozen free subscriptions to various credit protection agencies, not one of which truly protects me, since they all only come into play after an exploit has already taken place. Locking my credit reports offers me greater protection.
I’m also not a fan of subscription-based services for my operating system and applications. The previous copy of Microsoft Office I bought was Office 2013. I expect this copy of Office 2021 to last me at least that long, which will save me quite a lot of money over using a subscription-based service like Office 365 and, thanks to my due diligence, will offer me much greater privacy protection from
Big BrotherMicrosoft. Remember, it’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you(r data).different-church-lady
@Urza:
What could possibly go wrong?!?
lowtechcyclist
@Trollhattan:
I ordered the trimmer along with the mower. My wet-dry vac’s motor pops off and becomes a blower, and there are outlets handy to the few places I feel a need to use a blower on. But a corded trimmer is enough of a hassle that I rarely bother to use it, so I’m looking forward to a battery-powered trimmer.
different-church-lady
@PaulB: Microsoft has been specializing in stupidity for over 35 years now, so they really know how to do it right.
Mike in Oly
Trying not to die from the heat. I am so over this past week with every day in the upper 90s. It has been so miserable. It’s currently a sweltering 82 in my house. Tuesday we are supposed to go back to the 70s, but every day the forecast moves that out by one more day and ups the temps for the current day. I guess with climate change even our moderate PNW temps are gone for the summers now. May have to bite the bullet and take a out a loan to get AC installed. :(
Jeffro
Quick update: the Fro family is heading home from Maine tomorrow after a long, hectic week-and-a-half. We landed in Bangor, did some hiking in Baxter State Park (not Mt. Katahdin, alas), then went to Halifax for a few days and are now wrapping up the last few days of enjoying Bar Harbor and Acadia.
I can see us coming back to Bar Harbor/Acadia for a week again in the near future. Very cool area with lots to do!
different-church-lady
@PaulB: Not to mention when that automatic upgrade sneaks in and borks your mission-critical app at the worst possible moment.
ghost cat
@lahke: If she’s drooling while you’re petting her, it’s most likely because she’s very happy & relaxed. And by rubbing her cheeks and tail on you, she’s marking you with her scent (glands on paw pads, cheeks, and tail), which is another sign of affection. Congratulations! Sounds like she’s torn up her membership card to the Semi-feral Cat Club!
NotMax
Erstwhile actress Pat Carroll also died this weekend, aged 95.
geg6
I have tomorrow off and plan to spend a pleasant afternoon with my recently widowed sister. She has the most prolific blueberry bush that has berries bigger than marbles, ready for picking. So we’re going to harvest some beautiful berries and, if the weather cooperates, take a swim in her pool. I just found a blueberry cobbler recipe from Ina Garten and I’m going to pick up some fresh peaches from a local farm and orchard to make a peach and blueberry galette. I can’t wait. I’m not huge on sweets but fresh berries give me ecstasies.
Villago Delenda Est
@different-church-lady: After all, “The Cloud” is someone else’s server over which you have absolutely no control at all.
lowtechcyclist
@Spanky:
I don’t think my long-defunct high school had a reunion for my class after the 20th reunion. (If there had been a 50th, it would have been this year. I’m still in touch with the four or five people from my HS class and adjacent classes that I’d like to be in touch with.
OTOH, I’m not in touch with anyone from college, and don’t really miss anyone from there.
Ben Cisco
Spent the day helping Mom declutter. We talked about Bill Russell and Nichelle Nichols’ deaths; they were both instrumental in my childhood, Ms. Nichols in particular. I may do a post on it if I’m feeling up to it.
NotMax
@Villago Delenda Est
Nertz to the entire concept. Because what does a cloud do?
Release and transfer its contents on its own schedule willy-nilly to an unvetted range of locations.
Brachiator
@Urza:
Some people will always crave new hardware, which might also allow more efficient access to the cloud.
But as I get closer to formally retiring, I see a glaring weakness in the subscription model. Some automobile company even wants to offer a subscription for heated seats for a mid range luxury car. But as I look to retiring, a think I will be looking to cut back significantly to subscriptions for various services. My budget probably won’t allow it. This includes everything from streaming movie services to home monitoring services to computer software. I can see myself relying more on free software and one time purchase stuff.
ETA. I recently bought a more powerful computer for a remote work assignment. Mainly I needed lots more RAM and a faster CPU. We used AWS to make a ton of programs available without installing anything locally, but I also needed to be able run other programs locally and do some multi-tasking.
Jay
@Mike in Oly:
see what is offered for grants and rebates by the State and Energy Companies.
Start with airsealing, proper attic ventilation and added insulation.
A former client of mine, walked him through the programs here, ( technically Kamloops), where it gets to 45c in summer.
EnergyStar, Fortis and BC Hydro did an evaluation, approved the grants and rebates, cost was $3600 to airseal the house, properly passive vent the attic, bump the insulation up to R100.
We, when we lived in Kamloops would let cold(cool) air into the house at night, seal the house up during the day, (blinds closed). Dave’s wife wouldn’t do that, would have all the windows and curtains open during the day in the hopes of catching a breeze, then complain of the heat.
After the job was done, a portable $350 Samsung AC unit would keep the entire house at 20c, even with the curtains open.
After the grants and rebates, Dave was out of pocket $600, which was paid off in less than a year with energy savings in summer and winter.
kalakal
@Urza:
Wouldn’t be that good for me. When I’m playing an instrument I need a round trip latency of less than 8ms (pref less) from eg me going Pling! on a string, through various boxes onto the pc, processing by an amp sim in a DAW and then back to my ears. I can’t see that reliably working at a constant clockrate via the cloud
Urza
@different-church-lady: Contrary to the old school stuff, the only security problem Azure has had is when users leave their own data exposed. And also your data is never getting lost from the hardware side, whether software messes up I can’t guarantee, but hardware failure I do.
Urza
@PaulB: Yea, won’t be for power users like you for awhile, but someday even you. I’m not a fan of the subscription stuff either, but your data stays around for years even when you’re not paying. And if its an on use model, instead of a subscription model that is good for alot of people. Transferring my work desktop to it soon so I won’t have to worry about updating it or the very limited space it has on my secure laptop.
Urza
@Brachiator: Don’t have to crave new hardware when you’re renting by performance level. There’s GPU servers already, and game streaming. Why buy a new graphics card every 3 years when you can pay to upgrade, or not, as soon as a new model comes out? And pay less if you’re not using that high performance.
columbusqueen
Chunk & family crack me up. Of course, my farming family believed you don’t feed groundhogs, you shoot them.
Urza
@kalakal: Its doable. You probably need something like 5G or gig speeds, and obviously the nearest datacenter to you as the host. If its not good enough today, it will be in a few more years. High end cloud has sub millisecond to get back out on the main internet, your local wiring may vary of course.
The point not being that cloud desktop is good for everyone, especially not high end users. It will be good for low end and most average users though and save them money.
PaulB
So you’re saying that Azure has no actual IT people operating/controlling it?
The #1 weakness of any security system isn’t a hacking vulnerability in the OS, it’s hacking the humans who are responsible for that OS and for the data that resides therein.
As long as people are involved, there is a potential security problem.
PaulB
Honestly, not very likely for me, personally, not just because I’m too paranoid but also because by the time it does become ubiquitous and safe, with massive speed, reliability, and low latency in the network (particularly to my semi-rural neighborhood), I’ll probably be drooling in a nursing home somewhere.
In the meantime, I invested in my own cloud, a NAS with 8 hard drives on my local network, roughly 60 TB usable capacity after allowing for RAID redundancy, so plenty of room to grow. Amazon’s $1200 a year price hike spurred me to that decision.
Brachiator
@Urza:
Again, as noted, there are severe limits to my desire to pay rent for computer services. And there may be other reasons why I may want new hardware.
I imagine that for a while VR and related applications may appeal to people who want the latest and greatest hardware.
dnfree
@PaulB: Probably a dead thread, but another chance to mention the saying from at least 25 or 30 years ago: The only way Microsoft will ever make a product that doesn’t suck will be if they start making vacuum cleaners.
Yutsano
@Darkrose: A little something I found on the Internet that you might like. Note that Star Trek not only had the first interracial kiss, they portrayed the first same sex kiss as well.
Mj_Oregon
@PaulB: Any suggestions of where to go online for info about clearing out all the crap that will be on my new laptop arriving tomorrow? I was just worrying about getting it out of S mode.
Timill
@Mj_Oregon: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307#WindowsVersion=Windows_11
Grover Gardner
We are not cat people, but two years ago we picked up an abandoned tabby kitten at a railroad crossing in the Middle of Nowhere, Oregon. Spike is a champ and one of the pack, but in these days of high heat he loves to lie on the patio when it’s 105 degress. I think our dog would die after an hour. Cat folks–how can he tolerate this? Just curious!
PaulB
Unfortunately, I don’t. I’m something of a power user, so I already knew how to handle most of this. Where I didn’t, I was searching for a specific service or specific app rather than for a generic, “how do I remove Windows 11 bloatware?” or “how do I get privacy in Windows 11?”
A couple of web searches like those is probably a decent starting point. Be careful, though, as messing around with the registry to fix some of these issues has the potential to really screw things up. And you have to be wary of unintended consequences, like the issues I noted above where turning off a touchscreen service screwed up Notepad or removing the XBox Game Bar app caused an error when I tried to play a game.
The one thing to avoid is any site that tells you that you can “download our app to fix all of these issues!” 9 times out of 10, the app they want you to download and run is a trojan horse.
The Oracle of Solace
I attended an anime convention this weekend, the first since my regeneration, and what I noticed is that I really am an entirely new person. Confident, outgoing, pleasant—and modest. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that my modesty is the quality of which I’m most proud.
Brachiator
@dnfree:
It’s weird that people keep saying this, but Microsoft keeps making money.
PaulB
@Timill: Windows 10/11 S Mode? Seriously? Good grief. I had never even heard of that.
Thankfully, I never had to deal with that in Windows 10 or on the new system with Windows 11. If the vendors I work with had been foolish enough to install that version of the operating system, I wouldn’t use them again.
S Mode would be something of a problem for me, as one of the first things I uninstalled was the Microsoft Store app. So if my system only ran apps that were obtained from the Microsoft Store and I didn’t have the Microsoft Store, well ….
Liminal Owl
We spent the weekend, and several previous weekends, apartment-hunting, as the place where we’ve lived for the past 13 years has sold. Today we looked at 3, liked all of them, will make an offer on one—but almost certainly will have a lag between the closing here and being able to move in there. So we are considering moving into a tiny monthly rental for a short time, hoping to figure out storage for most of the furniture in the interim. The cats are going to be even more miffed than they already are.
The Up and Up
Truthfully I’ve been better. Hot out. Missed communications meant my sole activity of the day was going to the library and eating ice cream. Elderly family member had a story I helped edit picked up by news.
Urza
@PaulB: Just locked down the last ability for people to access a customer’s data. Need VP approval now which will require some incident with a good reason, usually customer initiated like something they deleted and want back.
Jackie
@Starfish: I love his plain, matter of fact, home spun chats. I wish he was still in office, but he’s a great spokesman for the Democratic Party.
He’s promised another update chat soon!
Mj_Oregon
@Timill: Thanks! I’ve heard some horror stories about S mode and that’s the first thing I intend to get rid of.
Mj_Oregon
@PaulB: Thanks so much. I wouldn’t touch the registry for any reason because I only know enough to be dangerous. I’ve refused to put Windows 11 on my other computer but didn’t have a choice with this one so it’s new territory for me.
StringOnAStick
First smoke of the summer started yesterday, a fire near Crater Lake NP. Husband broke his wrist in a mountain bike accident Tuesday and tomorrow we get to see an orthopaedic surgeon to see if it needs pins and to get a better cast than the urgent care behemoth that is surely overkill. The week of 102-105 is over and it’s back to low 90’s thankfully since I plan to start work on the very dead front yard landscaping because I worry that the guy who was going to do it is never going to show up. Labor shortages here are insane right now, which is why I think all the recession doomsayers are nuts. I quit watering the front yard grass back in May because it was going to be removed in mid June supposedly and now it’s crispy and dusty and a couple of fussy geriatric neighbours are getting pissy about it so I guess I’ll do some stuff to make it look like something is happening.
Kelly
@StringOnAStick: High smoke colored the sunlight today over here on the west side. Most likely the McKinney fire in California.
Matt McIrvin
@Urza:
Yeah, I remember that from the 1970s when it was called “time-sharing” and I also remember it from the 1990s when it was called “NCs”.
Booger
@lowtechcyclist: I recently got the 80v model from Costco, and holy crap, that thing is a beast! Never going back to ICE tools…in fact, the next time I was at Costco I saw the Greenworks string trimmer and grabbed it. They’re both game changers as far as I’m concerned.
Light weight (about half the weight of the trimmer is the battery), great battery life, only noise is the sound of the blade. So much less stress to use!
Miss Bianca
@Mustang Bobby: got my second booster and was wiped out for most of a beautiful weekend. Oh well. Have to keep telling myself that it was worth it.
J R in WV
@PaulB:
First thing I did after retiring from the IT shop I managed, which had huge windows-based systems with an Oracle DB back end, We at my house abandoned MS for Ubuntu and have never looked back. Updates happen when you approve them to run, can run in the background while you keep busy, never break anything so far in 14 years.
And there’s a local computer shop here, those guys are deep into Unix for support if I get in over my head. Plus my neighbor uses Linux and runs our network.
ETA: Your rant is worthy, equal to a Tony Jay rant!!!