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Yeah, Windows' UI is a mess, isn't it. And their whole app story is poor.
But Chrome. It's slicker and Google-clever, but it's no better in that it has drunk from the same WaaS/UI/UX-confusion Koolaid.
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When I first started out writing software for Windows, I stuck to the MS "visual design guide", which specified how wide a window border should be, the order of buttons when showing OK and Cancel, the sequence of main menu items and so on. Sure, Windows looked a bit bland but I honestly didn't care; at least having learnt Windows, I could use pretty much any application without hunting around for stuff.
That first pop-up - the one with a "Close" button, that was disabled... someone had to actually set that up, then disable it... why???????
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It's probably your ISP's fault.
No, honest!
Have a look here: Using IP based Geolocation - and why it's pretty much useless.[^]
My location has come back in Germany before now!
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yeah, I know about ISP location... it thought I was in Oldham for years. (I'm not, never have been). But for quite a long while at least Google Maps started up in the right place...
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I'm just guessing, but if it looks at your IP and decides you are miles from "home" then it tries to be helpful and starts off near where it thinks you are.
If you are relatively local then it assumes you are at home and starts there?
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What? you were in the near and didn't say anything? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Only spiritually. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only spiritually.
I thought that Nagy is the one who is moved by spirits. 
If "Astral Travel" is the name for when one's perception moves elsewhere while the body remains at home, what would you call it when your perception remains at home, but others think you are elsewhere?
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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Nope... Nagy is moved by Gin  
Just in case: spirituos is a name for high alcoholic drinks over here
M.D.V.
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In the highly unlikely case anyone's interested...
I eventually ran a Windows Update. (Wasn't easy but that's another rant).
Still couldn't reinstall Windows Maps. Eventually I found the (hidden) folder where Windows installs its Apps. Each app has one or more folders (Maps had about 8) and all are "owned" by SYSTEM with just read/execute permissions for users. So had to take ownership of each folder in turn, then set explicit "full control" permissions to me, then delete (most) of the files in those folders. Some had corrupted permissions and needed further overrides to get permission to delete. After I'd deleted just over half the files, I went to MS Store and then to Downloads and Updates. It now showed updates available for Windows Maps, so I clicked "download" for Maps and this time I got an actual "downloading" message and progress bar. After that I did an Install and got a success message. Launching maps initially gave me a blank screen; after waiting a while I closed it and re-opened, this time Maps actually opened and showed me a map! I was able to set my default location, and after that closing and re-opening correctly took me to my default location on startup.
So far so good...
But on starting Google Maps, it still took me to Aberdeen...  Have cleared all google.co.uk cookies, logged out and logged back in, turned off access to actual location (so it should drop back to my default location), closed and restarted Chrome etc... but all to no avail.
I suspect I've just realised the reason. A while ago the plastic lid of my laptop started cracking. I purchased a replacement lid, and after a lot of fiddling about, managed to change the lid. This involved refitting the connection of the wifi antenna, which runs around the circumference of the screen. Unfortunately the screw holding the the antenna wires to the motherboard refused to undo, so I had no alternative but to snip the wire (with a few inches spare) and join the old and new wires. The old cable has a plastic inner sheath with a VERY fine inner conductor, and attempts to twist the old and new appeared OK but ultimately have been unsuccessful. I've re-trimmed it, tried soldering etc but whatever I do I now have a VERY weak Wifi signal; I'm assuming the wire connection is poor. As a result, I can only pick up a single wifi router, and no longer see signals from all my neighbours. My guess is that google is expecting to see a cluster of wifi SSIDs to triangulate on. Instead it's seeing a single SSID, and I'm assuming there's a shack in the remote forest west of Aberdeen that has this same SSID and no others around it... so Google thinks I'm in that shack! In the absence of any device with GPS that can see my SSID, and only mine, I can't see a way to let the Google database know that I too have just that SSID in range, and where I am. In short, I'm doomed and google thinks I'm a Scottish hermit.
It's all Dell's fault, with a badly-designed hinge/lid combination that causes it to fail after less than three years.
modified 4-Apr-21 16:25pm.
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Possible solution - rename my router's SSID to something unique. Google will then have NO idea where I am and will have to rely instead on the "default location" which I've now successfully set.
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Or get yourself a cheap WiFi USB thingy and use that - and get the benefit of better WiFi at the same time.
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My wireless AP died a month ago and I've got a new one - vastly faster and much better signal throughout the house. Although my laptop now has a very very weak signal, the quality seems unaffected, as does the speed; so long as I'm in the living room with the AP. Fortunately my office (which I very rarely use these days) has a wired connection. When I have time I'll have another go at stripping the wire in the laptop... trouble is, each attempt uses up another centimetre and it's only about 5cm now; and each attempt weakens the signal! 
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Quote: Who’s that in the mirror? While many people haven’t seen their friends during the coronavirus pandemic, some believe they haven’t even seen themselves recently. Two in five Americans say that they’ve passed a mirror and not recognized their reflection at least once during COVID-19.
A national survey of 2,000 American consumers examines the evolution of respondents’ relationships with their bodies since the pandemic started last year. Over half the poll (51%) believe the pandemic has negatively affected how they feel about their body. Another 42 percent confessed to not feeling “at home” in their bodies anymore. About one in two people (49%) say they don’t have the same level of confidence as they did prior to COVID-19.
[^] For people like me, who stopped looking in mirrors years ago, this is hard to understand: I mean who actually wants "their" body to take time off from breathing, oxygenating blood, digesting food, etc., to make their tiny bubble of illusory self feel like a safe little snowflake ?
I can tell you that for those of us who were 20-somethings in the 1960's in California ... out-of-body experiences were ... uhhhh ... cultivated.
It delights me that in the Thai language the word for mirror, gajok, rhymes with the word for liar, gohok.
Want to be "at home" in a 77.5 year old body that's falling apart ... own (or possess power-of-attorney over) a smoke/alcohol/drug free athletic body under 40 years old ... I have a hell of a deal for you. Private hospital, top surgeons, fabulous Thai food.
«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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Bill ... if you remember the 60's, you weren't there ...
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I got pictures, man, I got poetry, man 
«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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Heck, me and my body don't feel home on this planet! 
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Bless the hair of the wanderlust dog that bit you !
«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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BillWoodruff wrote: Two in five Americans - A national survey of 2,000 American consumers - Another 42 percent
I think I see a trend here.
I do take great joy in shafting the yanks and here is just another opportunity thank you Bill.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Really, Mycroft, I'd expect you to dangle better bait than that ... at least a smoked kipper ...
«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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First World problems.
If one doesn't like what one sees in the mirror, one should get out of the TV lounger and go for a walk! Doing so on a regular basis will do wonders for one's health, body, and self-esteem.
Very few adults are so decrepit that they are incapable of that level of gentle exercise.
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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but, all my friends got facelifts !
«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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Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the elephant happened!
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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So true! 
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Well, from the neck up, everything's apparently the same as it's been, or seems so, at least internally (why did my hair get so crazy - and change to gray?).
However, from the neck, down, 'er, um. + (although no thanks at all for reminding me).
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