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[Sucking gums]
The youth of today have it easy! In my day, we spent months locked up in our houses with our families, and actually had to talk with them! Our children were stuck all day at home, because the schools were shut down! And even if you did go out of the house (wearing a mask that made you look like a bandit, keeping "social distancing", etc.), there was nowhere to go!
Oh, and get off my lawn!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hell! In my day we ran out of toilet paper. We had to drag our bare butts across the lawn! In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!!!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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It's been pretty good to me so far 
Also, what's this "pandemic" I keep hearing about?
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I was thinking the same thing; to a large extent, I'm surprised (and more than a little concerned!) at how little quarantine/stay home mandates affected my life. We were already ordering groceries online for pick up at the store, I was only going into the office 1 or 2 days a week and rarely went anywhere other than Saturdays for board games with my friends. That's actually the only thing I'm really missing, getting together with friends for board games; aside from that, life's mostly serene. Even when the public library shut down, I could still borrow ebooks through their website to read. At this point, I'm thinking that when the office attendance becomes mandatory instead of optional as it is now, I'll just tell them either I work at home, or thanks for the opportunity, I just retired.
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If a Priest, an Imam, and a Rabbit walk into a blood bank, is the Rabbit a Type O?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Ain't this one recycled from a few weeks ago ? Déja vu !
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Sanguine humor at its worst - a vein attempt at humor. Some may even be apt to see red.
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Because my Surface 3 Pro pen works fine with the GO 2.
That's a relief. 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm certain that they'll get it out of you some other way. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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... and they probably won't take him for a dinner and a movie first.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's the consolation for the trouble they caused. 
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I wouldn't have expected any different.
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The keyboard hasn't, not yet - but you can't have everything as my mother used to say...
And it's updated itself - I think - and I'm trying to get rid of the Office 365 trial.
Start with "Uninstall" from the start menu. That gets rid of teh Fisher-Price square, but that's about it. The Word icon on the task bar still bring up the damn thing. OK, "remove Apps".
Lok=ng list of 365 components "ar-sa" and so forth. "uninstall". UAE.  an uninstall dialog in Arabic ... 
Close it with the "X" and assume it's by countries. Try "US". Ah! It's the Pink button for "OK". Dump US.
Back to the first one - arabic dialog - tap the Pink Button. It's going, but this could take a while ...
Why make this so hard, Microsoft?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sounds like they DID give you an uninstall, it isn't their fault you can't read arabic.
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My BIL once installed a printer driver in Polish language (yes, even drivers had languages back then) instead of French on the PIL's laptop. This caused unbelievable harm to the installed French WinXP version, to the point that I even had to reinstall the computer anew. Lessons learned : Do not mess up with languages.
I truly believe that he probably did other things wrong on that computer that eventually caused havoc, but the Polish was the most obvious sign of mistreatment.
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The last entry on this page shows a few PowerShell commands to remove so-called store apps. I haven't yet tried to use them, but tinkering with those commands is probably the first step towards having the whole thing automated.
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Typical DoNotSolveMyProblemButSuggestsSomethingElseTotallyNotUseful answer : Get a tablet from another brand.
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I thought about it, but ... I wanted Win 10 rather than Android. I'm kinda used to having access to the same apps on desktop and Surface now, so ...
I wanted touch screen, I didn't want Chinese Electronics Syndrome.
It's really handy having a pull-off keyboard and a sketch pen that works smoothly - I'm surprised how used to both I got so quickly. To the point where I stab the screen on other peoples lappies to make things work and swear when it doesn't!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Chinese Electronics Syndrome.
Is this a real thing ?  You are scaring me.
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I've bought quite a few things with Chinese Electronics in them over the years, and ... the number that are still working is ... one.
They can make things very cheap, but when they design and build them they seem to have a half-life measured in "guarantee months". Stuff designed outside but built (under I assume a lot of supervision) seems to work OK, but ... my car head unit, the WookieTab, ... all die far too quickly.
Chinese Electronics Syndrome.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Chinese Electronics Syndrome.
This applies even to simple appliances like light bulbs. I just bought some CFL light bulbs, and used three of them (I wanted brighter light in the lounge). One of the three burnt out in less than a week! 
OTOH, my daughter's Lenovo portable has lasted her almost 5 years. I replaced the HDD with an SSD, but otherwise - it's all original parts.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Windows to become emulation layer on top of Linux...
It already is for me: I run Ubuntu 18.04 exclusively and simply Remmina (RDP) to Windows OS only when I have to. MS Teams runs natively on Ubuntu as does VS Code. I have not missed the painful update cycle at all. Just hope no one screws up Linux.
modified 29-Sep-20 10:22am.
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raddevus wrote: I have not missed the painful update cycle at all
Is it just me that never has those problems?
Maybe because I always shut my computer before going home.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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One of the absolutely stupidest things they do is they will start up a laptop with the lid closed and have it update itself and then stay on, even with the lid closed. Apparently the idiotic morons in Redmond think that is acceptable. IT IS NOT!
Stupid stuff like this makes me seriously question whether they know a damned thing about computers. That behavior indicates clearly
they do not.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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