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After watching a ton of video tutorials about "cut your own hair" I got the courage to buy an electric hair clipper set and try it. Some fails and fair rate of success.
I already tried the fake bald style, Jarhead cut, and currently I’m trying the Peaky Blinders style.
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If you uninstall/delete the Win Store from the computer, and then try to download a (free) store app from the browser (in my case: Chrome, Win Store web-page, ad-blocker off), no downlead will occur, and there will be no advisory, or error, message.
This makes sense given a design strategy of:
1) give the user what they never asked for ... lots of it
2) ignore the user asking for something their own behavior has blocked access to
3) do not inform users of the effects of their asking for something their own behavior has blocked access to because:
3a) stupid/crazy/OS-hacking users won't understand it
3b) stupid/crazy/OS-hacking users don't deserve it
4) Chrome users are apostates.
5) don't fix issues until class-action lawsuits are filed
But, wait: suppose it's Google/Chrome's devilish doings, another back-hander in the browser Armageddon ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 1-May-21 9:31am.
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Who's responsible for the silent treatment? Do you think the browser knows that the download failed but doesn't tell you? Or does the download pretend to succeed or even hide the file and then delete it?
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Greg Utas wrote: Who's responsible for the silent treatment?
Greg, I can't (for fear the demons will use the information) reveal the extent to which certain supernatural forces have permeated every current web-browser, the extent to which every minute detail of our behavior is tracked, classified, tagged, aggregated, and warehoused in vast infernal warehouses: so, it's better I stay silent on this.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It sounds like the demons aren't missing any information, so staying silent can only benefit them!
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Too late, I have your bank details. 
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I think you just put yourself in the demon category. I'd never have guessed!
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I can say, with certainty, that Richard is not a demon, and, that he is a demi-god.
I am honored that he sometimes manifests as my Nemesis 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Hmmm,
URI handlers haven't changed much since 1994 when rfc1738[^] was published. Sounds like the handler for the ms-windows-store URI is missing from your machine. I wonder how that could have happened.
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What's a reasonable hypothesis doing in a thread like this ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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That's a little bit like removing the engine from your car and wondering why it doesn't go anywhere when you press on the accelerator.
"Well it looks like a car and has doors, wheels and a steering-wheel, so why don't it go?"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'd say it's more like expecting a duplicate car-key made by a licensed locksmith to open the trunk of your car so you can finish eating the body of your latest victim 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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lol
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Bill, Microsoft has a policy of implementing silent download failures when the request is coming from a non-Microsoft browser. It's not all of their sites, but those they view as "income-critical" are on the list. For example, files from the Microsoft Update Catalog site can't be downloaded except through Edge.
Software Zen: delete this;
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What's a reasonable hypothesis doing in a thread like this ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Really? lol. Edge is quite young and the update catalog quite old. And I've been downloading update catalog files using Chrome for years.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Have you tried it recently? This started happening within the last year.
Also, this was at work where I have to live with "managed" Chrome and the corporate IT yabbos monkey with the settings just because they can. For example, I went months having to log in to codeproject.com every time I visited the site because of the bizarre crap they had in place for cookies.
Software Zen: delete this;
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No, not recently. Maybe your corporate IT yahoos are also responsible for you being able to download only from Edge.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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On this day...Today in 1964 Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny launched the very first BASIC program at Dartmouth College.
To be followed by, tada ... 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It's VB, so they probably copy'n'pasted the code from SO ...
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Which then stood for Some Other.
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Well said.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Today is the first anniversary of our positive Covid test - hard to believe that it's been a whole year already, isn't it?
Anyway, a short update on how we are a year from "confirmation":
I'm OK - a bit down on "total energy" than I was, I still get tired a lot faster than I used to; my hair is growing back, but it's in that "stupid length" phase when it won't fit in the pony yet, but I can't "tidy it up" because I want to grow back to full length!
Herself is not so good: the Covid has either caused or exacerbated emphysema (she smoked when young, but hasn't touched a cigarette in over 25 years, but had no known symptoms before the infection) and now has 6 "portable" O2 bottles, one big "Emergency" O2 bottle, and a oxygen concentrator which she used pretty much all the time she is awake in the house. Bloody noisy thing too - but I can't hear it too much in my office, unlike when I'm sharing a sofa with her ...
She's had both her jabs, I'm waiting for an appointment for my second.
I not trying to get into the "it's a bad cold" / "it's a killer" or the "have the jab" / "the jab tracks you" debate, just thought I'd let you know the view from a year after catching it.
Still wearing masks, still washing hands, still wearing disposable Nitrile glove to go shopping ... still don;t want to spread it to anyone even inadvertently!
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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