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I said "Happy 30th anniversary!" to my wife.
She replied ""6 of the happiest years of my life!"
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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When we were in university, my ex and I worked at the same pizza place. Cops sometimes came in. One of them, a Constable Morton, was young and fairly new on the job.
Ex: Is bestiality still against the law?
Morton: It should be! You should see some of the dogs I've gone out with!
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Any critical remark at all to SWMBO puts me on the couch!
Good thing it's comfy. 
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OK, so this morning MS decides to let me update to Win 11.
So it let it, and it all goes smoothly.
A new glitch pops up with the new taskbar: you can't drag it to the side or to a different monitor in a multiple setup. Apparently the only way to move it is to change which monitor is the "main" one which means that boot problems will come up rotated 90o on my landscape monitor, and all games will play on the wrong one. No, thank you ... Another MS decision that degrades usability. 
I'll learn to live with it even though I keep trying to check the time in the wrong place.
So I'll create a Win 11 installation USB and off we go.
Nope, it decides "this PC cannot run Win 11" even though it's just upgraded to it ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nope, I'm going to leave it a week or two and try again. It upgraded to Win 11 when MS prompted me to, so I'm guessing it's that the media tool hasn't been updated yet ...
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Well,
You also don't need to reinstall Windows to set the main monitor. Or you can think outside your box and simply swap the cables.
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Nope, I want a clean install - I suspect this installation still has Win XP code in there somewhere, it's been upgraded that often ... 
And changing the main monitor affects loads of things - notably games which I don't want to play on a tall, thin landscape monitor.
In Win 10, you could "Unlock" the taskbar, drag it to the side, or a different monitor and then lock it there. It just worked. This new one isn't centered properly, so I have to have it over to the left or it'll be like staring at the mirror that isn't level and my eye will start to twitch again!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: my eye will start to twitch again!
Is that a twitch in your eye or are you winking at me? 
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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
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OriginalGriff wrote: I suspect this installation still has Win XP code in there somewhere, it's been upgraded that often ...
Good gawd, man. How old is your PC, and how did you get it to run Windows 10? 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I *think* the mouse is original Logitech Trackman Wheel, but it's possible that was replaced ...
It's a bit like the old saying: "best axe I ever owned: only 7 hew handles and 5 new heads since I bought it!"
Slowly but surely, over the years, it's had a new case here, a new PSU there, here a motherboard, there an SSD, "oh, the CRT monitor died - I'll get an LCD" over there.
If I'd saved all the bits, I'd have a bigger pile of dead or redundant computer parts than I do now ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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In other words, you haven't done a clean install of Windows since XP? That's an admirable feat.
I built my current rig just after Weven came out, and I did a clean install then. I'll have to disable the fancy CPU security thingy before I upgrade to 11, 'cause I'm not about to try and build a new machine with today's prices.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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It's not that surprising, Microsoft recycles code like a student that has just discovered Stack Overflow ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: A new glitch pops up with the new taskbar: you can't drag it to the side or to a different monitor in a multiple setup.
My understanding is that this isn't as much of a glitch as it is a limitation. Apparently they're aware of the "problem" and proper functionality will be restored "in a future release". No ETA (that I'm aware of) that they've committed to.
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Waiting and not seeing it; they currently move in the other direction:
There has already been a registry trick to restore left/right taskbars (with an occasional Explorer crash), however they now have disabled all of that.
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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I see the clowns are still at it. This is a clear example of left handed clown not knowing what the right handed clown is doing.
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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Yeah, the taskbar thing is rather irksome to me too - we've all been using these super-wide monitors for, what, over a decade now? And have a look at most websites: content in the middle 1/2 (or even less!) and whitespace all around. This phenomenon isn't exclusive to the web either.
I used to tack my taskbar to the right of the main monitor (where I have a browser open) and no taskbar on other monitors, because I want all the real-estate for code. Now I have 5% less vertical space (that I could have actually used) and all this wasted horizontal space. Good one, MS.
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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When I want to travel back in time I follow Mr. Steven Wright's advice and put instant coffee into the microwave - Cheerio
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... and now I really want them to make Series 7, 8, and 9.
So much foreshadowing, so short a series ... it deserved better, even if it was good right to the end.
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It's too slow though (both specific seasons and the release of them). I have been following and watching them. Have forgot past seasons 
Current one too has so many threads and all of them moving at slow pace.
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That's because it's close to the original books - and most novels are abridged heavily to make it to the screen to "keep the action going". The Expanse wasn't (except for the last season which lost a lot of material) - if anything it added stuff to "deepen" the characters in ways that wouldn't work in the books.
If you haven't read them, do!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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also, common sense will dictate that if you speed up the story line, then there would be fewer seasons. Fewer seasons on a hit show like the Expanse would be well, stupid.
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Except that in the streaming world a hit show brings in a bunch of new subscribers for the first season. A few more for the second, and very little new revenue after that. After the show ends only a small percentage will drop the service. So spending a bunch of money on a show after the third season provides very little uptick for the service. This is a much different business model from mainstream TV.
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