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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?
« on: July 29, 2021, 09:21 AM »
That'll teach me to update apps at 00:20, didn't notice that K-9 Mail was in the list and now I've got it's new crappy interface.
:-\

Android play store update's scheme is not my favorite.  I use the last 2.x version of the Miami Metro Transit app.  Simple to use.  But if I do not want to spend my time hacking the version number then I have to let the 4.x update sit in the list forever.  I am sick of looking at it.  The focus of the app is all about paying for fares and passes rather than when the train is going to arrive.  I keep a copy of the 2.x apk in my download folder just in case I inadvertently update.   8)


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As with many comments it can be genuine or sarcastic depending on the circumstances.  I was a full time worker in a gas station.  It was one of the classic ones with two hydraulic lifts and no convenience store.  There were two part time guys who served in the same army unit together.  They called most people "ace."  Like how is it going ace?  But I noticed they never called each other ace.  Neither did they call the gas station's boss ace.  It was obvious they used it as a term of derision.  I guess it was sort of an "our unit against the world" type of deal.  If you did not like it then do something about it was the attitude.

Anyway once the boss got wind of it he told them to knock it off if they wanted to keep working at his gas station.  They both quit as soon as they lined up other jobs.  It made coworkers unhappy to no purpose other than to make the part timers feel dominant.

That particular boss was a stickler for detail.  But I did learn some valuable lessons in auto mechanics during my time there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced
« on: July 17, 2021, 09:58 AM »

Shades, wasn't Clippy the cause of the demise of Windows Phones?  I never owned one myself, but I heard Clippy had a habit of sticking his arm in the pinhole to pop out the sim tray just as users were about to make a call.   ;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« on: July 17, 2021, 09:45 AM »
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Microsoft unveils Windows 365, a Windows 10 PC in the cloud

Yeah, about that...


I guess if you use the term Revenue Enhancement it is not a tax increase. Likewise if you have a Personal Computer that can only function when connected to The Cloud(tm) it is not a dumb terminal.  Forget having a President of the USA.  Instead let us just elect a SysOp and make that person(or AI entity) omnipotent.  Hey!  As long as we vote the SysOp into poweer it is still Democracy(tm) right?

But just let me have my UHD TV and GB/s network, steel-belted performance radials on cool looking rims and 4 wheel disk breaks and I won't say a thing. (To update the movie Network.)   8)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced
« on: July 08, 2021, 02:42 PM »
At the same time, Linux has become notably shittier when the majority of distributions introduced systemd, a svchost.exe clone with a bizarre understanding of how Linux was supposed to work.

They even killed text log files.

The control freaks never tire.  The extension signing in browsers.  Android apps can no longer be .apk files on Play Store etc..  The pressure to get everyone into lockstep is disconcerting.   :(

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