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I suggest you fix the problem by accidentally spilling the coffee on the keyboard. You will then buy a new laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed~ 
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So, it's microsoft's fault that you use a flaky old laptop with a bad keyboard and never reboot or update your software? Those bas+ards!
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Why SHOULD I "update" my software? It work(ed) well with the hardware and I paid for it in full. My needs have not changed. Sure, make new versions available with additional features or "trendy" UI changes. If your system is vulnerable to attack, let me know there are non-breaking fixes available. Don't force changes - especially ones that require new hardware - on me. And in this instance, don't create software that arbitrarily changes its behaviour in an undocumented way even without an explicit update having been applied. Is that really so unreasonable??
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It isn't even clear to me that you are experiencing a software problem, but rather a cheap old flaky laptop pushed past its expected lifetime problem. You acknowledge that your hardware is failing, but blame the software.
The very first version of Windows you ran probably needed periodically to be rebooted. It's magical thinking to believe that this is no longer the case.
Try reinstalling Windows and the newest drivers for your geriatric laptop. Betcha your "software" problem clears right up. You have standing to complain if you fix your hardware and reinstall the software (to fix possible hard drive problems) and Windows is still borken.
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I want a Windows that satisfies MY preferences and needs! To h**l with other users and requests - listen to me, Microsoft!
Maybe the solution is to switch to Linux. That is a place where everyone can have everything his (or her) way. Any developer has the moral right to make a user interface exactly the way (S)HE pleases. Make yet another (Too) Simple Something Protocol. Maybe even making ones own Linux distro!
With Linux, you can roll your own, ignoring all other requests and needs. That is a Developer's Heaven!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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No, I don't especially care how you unlock the lock screen. What irks me is that having worked one way on this machine for several years, at some arbitrary point, without explanation or instruction or explicit "update", Windows suddenly changes its behaviour.
Imagine you got in your car one day and, having turned the ignition switch and depressed the clutch, the engine refused to start - unlike every other time you had ever started your car. After much experimentation (there being NO instruction provided) you found you had to do that at the same time as turning the heating to full and indicating left.
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Edit: I found a temporary workaround by setting lib_ldf_mode = off in the platformio.ini for the project
Latest Windows update nuked everyone's PlatformIO software.
Now whenever you go to build a project and it scans for dependencies it takes a really long time, making builds untenable.
I know it's Microsoft's fault because it didn't happen until the update. I know it's Microsoft's fault because it happens on WSL and Windows but not on real Linux. Finally, I know it's Microsoft's fault because many people are reporting the same problem.
What the hell is wrong with people? When people write bad software it offends me. Doubly so when they impose that bad software on my machine, which they didn't pay for. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified yesterday.
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WSL leaks horribly, running docker with WSL means I have to end the service every couple of days as it eats CPU to the point of eventually making the laptop almost inoperable.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Nom, nom, nom.
These are good chips, what flavor are they?
Memory.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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here, have a hug.
There is a strong argument to be made for small deployable tactical nukes to be shipped, armed to Redmond.
Now, I need to remember where I was in my project because MS just rebooted my machines.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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"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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modified yesterday.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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 Doh
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I saw a similar  moment on YT some months back, but I can't find it now.
A Ozzie guy's speeding defense: "The speed gun must have picked up the car I was overtaking, not me." 
There are times when the gene pool needs some considerable chlorine added.
"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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"You can't take my license away, judge, I don't have one. MWA-HAHAHAHA"
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There are just some totally dumb *ss people out there, thinking that they have just won the worlds most intelligent quiz online.... DOH
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how do you get that old and still be that stupid? Airbags, seatbelts, and warning signs need to be removed everywhere.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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