Microsoft promised that this laptop would stop receiving "updates." I looked forward to the laptop becoming a reliable storage device and not crashing every day. Hah. It's been receiving more "updates" and crashing more than once a day, and over the weekend it lost all my tabs.
So when it came back up, the computer was now displaying a new message from Microsoft: Since I'm not interested in buying a new computer or in downgrading to Windows 11, another wonderful alternative Microsoft now wants to offer is paying them to send more "updates"!
I could not have made that up.
Like you want your neighborhood to switch garbage collection services because the one you have is so hubristic it fails to pick up the extra garbage bags when somebody's remodelled a house, you go to a town meeting and persuade the council to let you sign up with a different collection service, so next the old garbage collection service sends you a letter about a monthly payment plan for them to bring you more garbage?
Microsoft employs too many young men who take drugs, and needs to be run by sober, mature ladies (I'm thinking nuns) who whack the twitchy little boys with rulers when they get delusions about trying to manipulate their customers.
"People will NOT be asked to buy new computers!" Whack!
"Every time a customer hits 'restart,' we're sending them $500 out of YOUR salary!" Whack!
"If we so much as read a customer's published blog posts or e-books, much less plagiarize them into STOLEN Intelligence or SI devices, we PAY TEN CENTS PER WORD!" Whack!
"There's no such thing as 'artificial intelligence.' You're talking about STOLEN intelligence! Get it right!" Whack!
"Of course no computer is ever 'responding.' Computers are machines. Responding is what a living, conscious creature does. Computers obey, or they function, or they run, or they simply work, but they cannot respond. Meanwhile if Microsoft is interfering with a computer's working for its owner, we owe that owner MONEY out of YOUR salary." Whack! Whack! Are the brat's knuckles bleeding yet?
Until the nuns take over, this web site is going to Linux. The question that needs to be on your mind, Microsoft brats, is whether we then ban all Microsoft products from the house, or whether we continue to allow earlier Office Suite programs to be run on computers that are completely disconnected from the Internet.
Books
This year's new books by John Scalzi's fans, a madly mixed lot, fiction, nonfiction, left-wingnut propaganda, poetry, history...:
Poem
It's free verse, pretty much, but it does show a healthy attitude toward dandelions.
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