He Was Seeing His Other, Secret Family

Win11 upgrade
You mean going from 10 to 11?

You do know what is THE MOST superior OS? The one nobody uses. The second most superior OS is the one that does the least.
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Have installed 11 on on test machine in work. It hasn’t broken anything we need, but to be fair we mostly need to access remote systems on Citrix or some sort of remote desktop… these all still work, with no more than expected poking. All the 10 boxen have felt slow for a while, which I am only half jokingly describing as a push to move them to 11.

I won’t trade reliability for a bit of additional speed though,
Smart man.

Huh?
Lianna – the browner version of Pat from the old Saturday Night Live TV show. Definitely for politics as jewelry types, as David said, because that first ad panel has zero to do with the NYT unless you’re just massively virtue signalling that you’re one of the Good people with all the correct thoughts.

under the hood it’s just another semi-annual feature update.
Don’t we have to have some hardware switch flipped? I just checked my box I built through PCPartspicker (AMD Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core processor) and W11 won’t work on it.

I won’t trade reliability for a bit of additional speed though
Every new version of every software product runs slower and requires more memory. No matter how well built your computer, eventually it will be unable to run your apps. And then there is the tendency for new versions of apps to depend on new OS features and libraries, so that they cannot run at all on older versions of the OS.

Recently drove an Audi, BMW, Ford, and Tesla in a 3 day span. Couldn’t wait to get back in 5 spd…
Hey, my BMW is a 5 spd. It is 20 years old though.

“and the positions on the gearshift”
Ahem. Where’s “park” again?

Ahem. Where’s “park” again?
I’ve never owned a car built past 1989. A couple months ago I drove my uncle’s (2017?) work van for the first time. I went to put it into gear and instead turned the windshield wipers on.

So FreeBSD and OS X then, respectively.
Well, exactly. Demand for fixes/patches is inversely proportional to the number of new bugs introduced.
I saw this day coming decades ago. The multiplicity of OS’s and their versions piled on top of the multiple versions of the multiple platforms an sub platforms increasingly complexity pretty much exponentially. Even before I somehow got cornered into being the company’s product expert on third party tools. I’m not one for literally interpreting the Bible, nor even its predictive powers, but I’ve always suspected that there was much more than metaphor in the Tower of Babel story.

Do you know what annoys me aside from shitty kerning, YouTubers pronouncing the letter ‘s’ as ‘sh’ (a la Sean Connery) and software ribbon interfaces?
People who say words like “mistakingly” instead of “mistakenly”, presumably because they think people who say “mistaken” are actually mistaken and are wrongly saying “mistakin” by dropping the ‘g’ sound.
So they verbally “correct” the word to a word that doesn’t even exist and think they’re speaking proper English, not like those dummies saying “mistakin”.

Bad kerning doesn’t bother me too much, maybe because I grew up with fixed-pitch typewriters and mainframe/minicomputer terminals and printers. More annoying and frustrating are fonts which are just hard to read. I recently had to use a government website where any text I entered was in a font was in a font which was hard to read because it was composed of very narrow strokes. (What’s the opposite of Bold? Shy? Cowardly?) And then there are the dorks who, on their personal web pages, choose combinations of font color and background color which are very hard to read. (Dark blue on black? Yellow on orange? Pale green on white? Cringe.)

The human interface problem I encounter most often is over-use of keyboard shortcuts: Some software geeks just love to implement them for just about every purpose you can think of, many of which will be used so infrequently that the user might just as well select the action from the menu. And none of the apps I use have a “disable all but the most frequently used shortcuts” option. The result is that I frequently make a typo and something surprising happens–a pane disappears, the window closes, and so on. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out how to un-do what happened, and sometimes it cannot be undone. Young software geeks tend to not understand this: I have had face-to-face conversations with these assholes whose response is little more than a smirk. (Fortunately I am now retired and do not have to deal with them on a day-to-day basis; only with their products.)

Hitler issued an emergency decree as a result of the Reichstag fire (supposedly by communists) and this allowed him to consolidate power. I bet trudeau will not suspend it once the truckers are gone. This is the flimsiest pretext for tyranny I’ve ever seen: some horn honking. The news today in the US reported it as a “siege” of the capitol. They are now proceeding to seize bank accounts, based on the protest being “illegal”. Ruining people over a misdemeanor, sure, totally reasonable.

They are now proceeding to seize bank accounts…
Freeze, not seize, I believe. But that is bad enough.
What’s more: They have not been freezing the bank accounts/suspending the insurance/etc of Antifa and BLM thugs, anti-logging and anti-pipeline terrorists and saboteurs, etc. A very telling.

Point is that some automakers have departed from the PRNDL design, making the basics of engaging/disengaging drive a learning curve.
Maybe 20 years ago or so I rented a French made car (forget the manufacturer) somewhere over yonder, I think the UK. A standard transmission with some weird quirk where in order to put it in reverse you had to pull up on some additional ring/collar device in the stick shift in addition to shifting. Actually recall now it was the UK back in 2002. It was so bloody awkward, especially as y’all reverse everything over there thus I’m shifting with my right hand and I had somewhat recently bought my first automatic in years and initially needed to relearn the process. None of that would normally be a big deal but throwing this stupid “safety” feature on top of things was not helpful…nor “safe”. Any idea whose idea that was? Was it a UK requirement? Did it go away? About 6 years ago I rented a car in Italy (don’t recall the manufacturer) and it did not have that silly device. At least I don’t remember it. Nor on the one I rented 12 years ago in Ireland.

it puts you into an accessibility mode (or at least used to) that I could never remember how to get out of.
It’s difficult to look up help for a feature when you don’t know what it’s called. And who can be expected to know the names of features they never use and have never heard of?

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along: Jeffrey Epstein’s pimp Jean-Luc Brunel dies in prison ‘suicide’. And there was no security camera.

Brunel: looks like the Left has brought back the gallows.

Coastal gaslink: antifa for sure but RCMP won’t catch anyone because the Left wants gas and oil destoyed.

Was a different make, right?
Someone decided that a better place for the gear selector would be sticking out of the dashboard.

Steering column, I should have said.

Coastal gaslink: antifa for sure…
More like a coalition of Anarchists, Antifa and “Native Warriors.”
Oh and natives are conveniently exempted from action under the Emergencies Act being used against the Convoy.

and then carry on a 60 second conversation w/the system and presto, change fan speed/temps/heated seats/etc.
I wonder how much that adds to the cost of the truck.

“I can control the temperature with my phone”, “Can’t you just do that on the control panel?” “Sure, but I can do it with my phone”, “OK, but why would you?”, ” “.
They have all the judgement of teen girls.

I have a sinking feeling that this fridge will last only a fraction as long as my parents’
My fridge is 23 y/o, the washer & dryer, 20.
Each have only needed minor repairs over the years that husband was able to do with a few parts and a couple of YouTube videos.
And when they finally are beyond repair, I’m loath to replace them because I do NOT want my appliances “smart”.

And when they finally are beyond repair, I’m loath to replace them because I do NOT want my appliances “smart”.
There was a dubious claim a teen tweeted from a ‘fridge.
However…

After reports emerged questioning Dorothy’s account, LG confirmed that some of its fridge models have social media capabilities, but the company could not confirm whether Dorothy’s tweet was sent from one.

Why the hell would anyone even think a ‘fridge would need “social media capabilities”?

They will take everything you own.
I have lost track of the number of liberals I’ve known who hated conservatives with a white-hot hatred, but who sympathized with communists and communist regimes.
Remember the old joke that liberals (naively) think communists are just “liberals in a hurry”? More accurate would be that liberals are “communists (and fascists) in less of a hurry”.

Finally caught up. Been away for a bit. My employer expects me to work to get paid. Down with capitalism! Anyway, does anyone know of a safe way to donate to the truckers? Oh yes, ping!
In other news, I have become a volunteer firefighter with my local department. I was in the army and have previous law enforcement experience. This is a whole new world for me. I’m enjoying the training even though it’s kicking my “29” year old butt.

I lurk frequently but try to donate regularly. I haven’t even lurked much the past few months.

Sure. It all starts with lurking. Then maybe comment once a month or so. Then you tell yourself “Only on weekends. On Friday Ephemera posts”. Then just when you get home from work. It was a tough day after all and you deserve some time to unwind. Before long you’re up to six, seven times a day. You “forget” to shower. Your loved ones clamor for your attention but you don’t notice them. You go months without trimming your toenails. Squirrels take up residence in your attic but you don’t notice or care. Then the voices start. Quietly at first so as you don’t notice. But slowly, every day, starting as just a whisper but they get louder and louder, “David. Daaavid…Daaaaaaavid…David, David, David, David”. Then the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, up to a final consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; per chance to dream…

Well doing so on Windoze it puts you into an accessibility mode
This is an excellent example, because in certain versions of windows this allows you to access a computer for which you lack the password. The source of the weakness is that accessibility mode is enabled by running an .exe file before the user has entered the password. If only you can replace the accessibility .exe file with another one, you can run whatever you want. Fortunately, this is easy to do if you can generate an error message (I’m fuzzy on the details). You view the detailed error message in notepad, where you can do ‘save as’, which opens a Save File dialog, where you can navigate to the location of the accessibility .exe file, and rename it to something else, and copy or rename a more convenient file (like cmd.exe) to the name of the accessibility .exe file. They you restart the computer, hold down shift for five seconds, and have full access. I did this once with an old family computer whose login we had forgotten. You can find instructions on youtube.
In ten years we’ll be paying McAfee yearly subscriptions of $0.50 per appliance, because otherwise some hacker will lock them up and demand a $10 ransom in bitcoin.
And you have to wonder – how many people actually use these accessibility features. I get that some people have difficulty using their hands, but I suspect the vast majority either find a solution themselves, or still can’t use a computer effectively even with the accessibility features.

God shave the Queen.
— Sean Connery
I see Biden has extended his emergency powers under COIVD. According to his letter to Congress, he did so because . . . come on, man – COVID!
I always feel comfortable when my government feels it unnecessary to produce any rationale for their decisions.

Ha! Similar to the way Sean Connery often pronounced the letter ‘s’, not how the name ‘Sean’ is pronounced.
Huh. Was he a secret Igor? (“Walk thish way” and “Yesh, marshter”.)

Mom obviously couldn’t figure out the radically new UI…
A heartbreaking illustration.
But the engineers and executives at Microsoft (and essentially every other IT company) do not care. Do not give a rat’s ass.

This is beautiful.
https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1495412605669810180
If it’s important context (it isn’t) I’ve had 3 CV19 jabs – I’m just acutely aware of the amount of bollocks being talked by various Doctors, and Public Health people (who tend to be hard-Left megalomaniacs)