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It's not just recruiters. I answered a craig's list ad for musicians the other day and received a reply : "sounds great, I'll call you tonight." Of course, they never called and it's been weeks now. I chalked up to just another flaky musician.
This has happened to me with recruiters and HR types also. It seems rudeness is running rampant.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I requested information on a possible mortgage refinance on my mortgage - including from my own mortgage company via their website. They said they would contact me within 24 hours to discuss it. So far I have had about 17 calls about refinancing - none of them from my own mortgage company.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Chairlift - Bruises[^]
An old favorite of mine.
Maybe it's been SOTW before, but I'm not sure.
YouTube recommended it to me this week, so I listened.
And then again and again and again, just like old times 
The easy electro-pop sound is quite addictive.
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Catchy tune! Here's a new take on an old one you may like, that might get this out of your head: White Rabbit. Don't think it's been posted before. Or maybe you pointed it out - don't remember.
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Celebration with a beverage as white as milk. (7)
modified 9-Aug-19 4:41am.
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Galatea
Galatea is greek for "she who is milk-white"
Gala - celebration
Tea - beverage
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Yep. Monday is yours.
Just to point out the theme, Galatea is one of Neptune's moons.
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I was trying to shoehorn "Calypso" in there ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Won't turn on, won't charge, does nothing at all. I'm just guessing here, but I think the charge circuit is dead.
It's only two and a half years old! I guess that's what you get with Chinese cheapies ...
Now what do I replace it with? I've got really used to having Windows 10 available, and capable of running my apps, so I'm reluctant to get a big Android tablet, and Linux is a waste of disk space if you want to do anything serious as you end up with everything running in VM anyway...
There's the Surface, but that price! Ouch!
I've also got used to touch screen, so lappie with a touchpad is not really much use either (I don't get on a those - and I keep hitting them when I type).
Suggestions, anybody?
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OriginalGriff wrote: There's the Surface, but that price! Ouch!
What about "that price"?
I've purchased 3 4 Android tablets over the years, and today they're all pretty much abandonware - still open to vulnerabilities that have been known and patched on other platforms years ago. Would I dare make a credit card purchase online or my banking using one of them today? No, and hell no.
Given the amount of money I've spent wasted on Android by now, I could've bought a Surface. In fact that's exactly what I did, and even my first-gen Surface Pro is still to this day getting every single last update MS is producing, so it's not any less safe than any other instance of Windows 10.
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Seconded. The Surface is a solid product, and it's not like the price is in iThing range.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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It's still the most I've ever spent on a laptop (let alone a tablet), but you've got to hand it to Microsoft--it's not "just a tablet", unlike everything else out there.
A coworker had won a first-gen Surface RT in roughly the same timeframe, and I also bought it from him on the cheap. Even that is still getting monthly updates. If nothing else, at the very least, it's still useful as a web browser and PDF reader.
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Oh, and my Lumia is also still getting the occasional OS and security update. So much for being the dead platform. I wish the manufacturers of my Android tablets stood behind their products the way MS does.
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Buy two more (of the bigger ones!), then, if one breaks, you've still got a spare, and you'll still have paid only half of what ms demands for a tab-thing, and you'll still have full-sized USB ports (unless the latest versions have USB-C).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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how about the leno yoga? seeing as you don't use the android anyway and comes standard with a simpleton app launcher.
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Dead battery that can be replaced?
I have a Note 10 tablet that when it's charge runs out won't charge at all. It needs to be opened and I need to apply some voltage from a usb cable directly to the battery to jump start it.
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Hi Paul, my Wookie died about 18 months ago, same scenario wouldn't charge etc..., I now own a Surface Pro 4, I7 , 256gb SSD,16gb Ram - a brilliant piece of kit, all the fanboys want the latest Surface Pro 6 so Pro 4's ( just as good in my opinion ) are going for ~ £700 which should include the type case and the pen. I wouldn't pay £2000 but can accept £700.
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I just ordered an ex-demo Surface Pro 3 with the keyboard / cover thing for £220: 128/4 GB, Win10 Pro which should be fine wfor what I do with it.
I may just dismantle the Wookietab since I can't sell it (if I can't reset-to-factory it, I'd have to change every password on every system I use just in case). If I dismantle it, I can put a drill through the eMMC memory to be on the safe side if I can't see anything immediately obvious. Or I can't get it back together afterwards ... 
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Good luck with that - maybe write an article on the stripdown ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was really easy - four T4 screws, 8 plastic clips.
Unfortunately, the batteries, speakers, and what look likes an earth wire are soldered direct to the one-and-only PCB, so I can't even stick the display up on FleaBay as I'd be relying on someone else's soldering abilities to say the LCD and digitiser work. And FleaBay always seems to side with the purchaser so I'm very likely to end up out of pocket if they solder it in with a brazing torch and burn through the PCB ...
Surprised now neat it all was in there though - all the flexi connectors were even wax sealed down after assembly. Pity the digitiser one wasn't fitted even close to straight, but it worked fine! Might explain why some areas always needed a "harder press" than others though.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The eMMC in there turns out to be a good one - SanDisk 64GB - but I don't think that's readable any more; my blowtorch and I had a "die in a fire" party!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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