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Cool. The artist who draws that comic (Mike Peters) got his start in Dayton Ohio. He gave the commencement address when I got my bachelor's degree. I loved a story he told about a teacher who told him "Mister Peters, you will never get anywhere drawing funny little pictures!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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We were in Jerusalem at this time two years ago. I don't think the temperature ever dropped much below 20 during the day. And even warmer down around Tiberias.
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I would call this average 
+ rain and snow every other day...
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two days ago we had almost 20°C during the day and 11 during the night and tomorrow we will have around 4 during the day and -3 during the night.
It is just April... (here in germany April weather is crazy)
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You've got nothing on Denver. Two weeks ago we were close to 80 (F) on one day and the next day we had three inches of snow. Four days later we were back to the low 70s.
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Well, we'll have to ask the UTC[^] about that 
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[major rant alert]. I use Google Maps a lot - for lots of reasons. Until earlier this week, it always opened to my home location, near Watford, UK. A few days ago, it started opening at a remote location - not even any roads - about 20 miles west of Aberdeen, Scotland. This is running on Chrome, Windows 10. After a lot of searching and googling, it transpires that it used to be possible to set your default location via Google Maps itself, but this is no longer the case.
Instead you can do this via Win10's settings. First you set "allow access to location", then you click "Set Default". Sounds hopeful. Except I get a non-standard, non-draggable, pop-up error that says "You'll need a new app to open this ms-default-location link". First off, I didn't click a "link", I clicked a button. Next, it doesn't tell me which new app I'll need. Further, there's a "Close" button on the dialog, but it's disabled. Clicking it does nothing. The only way to Close the pop-up is to click anywhere on screen other than the Close button.
So it seems that "Set Default" is pretty useless, at least without some "app" that MS doesn't tell me about.
Lots more googling. Seems it needs to use Microsoft's "Maps" app. So this is a Windows 10 setting, accessible and used by 3rd parties, that can only be set via Microsoft's own application. I thought that sort of thing was ruled inadmissible back in the IE vs Netscape wars?? Anyway, I uninstalled the Maps app years ago, shortly after getting this laptop. The default location has worked fine for at least 30 months, and certainly without putting me somewhere in forests of northeast Scotland.
So I google Microsoft Maps app, and I get a page that tells me it's Free, and has a big GET button, which I click. That opens (eventually) the Microsoft store "app" which has the exact same layout as the webpage, same info, and the same "GET" button - which I click. That gives me, eventually, the one word at top-left of the store screen, "Error". No diagnostics, no different options, no help, just "Error". I close MS Store and re-open it. Now instead of a "GET" button and the word "Error", I have "Install" and "You own this app."
I click Install. The "You own this app" is replaced by "Error" and intermittent circling dots (like the ones at Windows startup). Checking in Task Manager, there's no activity on the network, and CPU and disk are effectively idle, so it's not like anything's going to happen if I wait.
Eventually I close and restart the MS Store. Again, click "Install", get "Error", but this time "Install" is replaced with a button that says "See Details". Now it tells me that Windows Update is disabled, but that I can "repair" it by running the Windows Update troubleshooter in Settings. If it's disabled (which is it), why does it need "repair"?? I've been trying to disable Windows Update for years, following every piece of advice I can find. I still get nagged about updates, and I still actually get updates, usually at the time I least need them, and often end up with something no longer working that worked fine before.
I'm guessing that Windows has eventually decided this "version" is "no longer supported" (whatever happened to Win10 being the last version ever...?) and that as part of that lack of "support" it's now shutting down previous functionality (like supplying the default location to programs that ask for it). It's like MS have banished me to the Scottish woods as punishment.
Remind me how many billions of copies of this crap are running worldwide? How many trillions of man-hours wasted by people just trying to do the stuff they used to be able to do... How have these people escaped being locked up and the key thrown away...   
(P.S. In the old days, the default location would have been squirrelled away in some Registry setting. I'm guessing it's not so straightforward as that any more, but if it is, can anyone tell me where??)
modified 4-Apr-21 15:45pm.
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I would pack up and move to the location outside Aberdeen. Go on; MS knows that you really want to... 
Seriously, it appears that your version of MS Windows/MS Maps/Google Maps/... is seriously broken. EDIT: It is quite possible that your (out of support?) version of Win10 cannot install the current version of Maps. It may be time to bite the bullet, update your system to an in-support version of Win10, and try again.
I use the Pro edition of Win10 on my machines (with updates enabled), not because I need the additional features but because MS drafts Home version users as their QA department. MS's real market is the business market, so they don't usually release changes to the Pro edition before bugs have been ironed out on the Home edition.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 3-Apr-21 23:14pm.
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Windows was still telling me that my version will be out of support "soon". Good point re Pro edition (if that's really the case).
Anyway, I re-enabled and left Update running overnight, and the update now seems complete. Nothing obvious is broken, and I've yet to retry installing Windows Maps. But I did note that one of the updates was actually removing the support for Flash. Now we all know Flash was a security risk, and it's years since I've needed it. But I do have some very old .SWF files that did NOT pose a security risk (I'd created some of them myself) - yet now I can't run them. How can that be right?
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Re the Pro edition, I can confirm that my daughter's computer (running Home edition) gets updates long before I do.
Adobe has now stopped supporting Flash, and therefore MS has decided to remove it. How-To Geek has a page on running Flash in a standalone player How to Play Adobe Flash SWF Files Outside Your Web Browser.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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VMWare with a WinXP SP3 and another one with Win7 SP1.
And a folder in the USB Drive with many, many of the installers I have used in my systems.
Just in case I want / need to recover the old good times for whatever reason.
And you would be surprised by the how many times they get used 
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yep, I have an XPsp3 in VMWare for talking to my scanner. (It's a Brother all-in-one; there are Win10 drivers for printing to it, but can't get any scanning to work. It's a real pain having to fire up VMWare just to scan a document...)
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I can relate to it.
But my old scanner died and I had to buy a new one, so now... I am not needing that VM for this reason anymore.
Still being used though as my in-law likes a picture editing software that was in the Office 200 package. So I installed it and gave it to him.
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It's the onset of a pole shift. Not magnetic, but actually the Earth's crust. You're now in Aberdeen's former location, so prepare for a longer spring than you expected. Your crocuses will not be arriving on time. 
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Yeah, Windows' UI is a mess, isn't it. And their whole app story is poor.
But Chrome. It's slicker and Google-clever, but it's no better in that it has drunk from the same WaaS/UI/UX-confusion Koolaid.
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When I first started out writing software for Windows, I stuck to the MS "visual design guide", which specified how wide a window border should be, the order of buttons when showing OK and Cancel, the sequence of main menu items and so on. Sure, Windows looked a bit bland but I honestly didn't care; at least having learnt Windows, I could use pretty much any application without hunting around for stuff.
That first pop-up - the one with a "Close" button, that was disabled... someone had to actually set that up, then disable it... why???????
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It's probably your ISP's fault.
No, honest!
Have a look here: Using IP based Geolocation - and why it's pretty much useless.[^]
My location has come back in Germany before now!
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yeah, I know about ISP location... it thought I was in Oldham for years. (I'm not, never have been). But for quite a long while at least Google Maps started up in the right place...
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I'm just guessing, but if it looks at your IP and decides you are miles from "home" then it tries to be helpful and starts off near where it thinks you are.
If you are relatively local then it assumes you are at home and starts there?
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What? you were in the near and didn't say anything?
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Only spiritually.
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