I had to jump onto a win 10 machine for a couple of weeks. Came back to my new gaming rig and I have to say... I HATE windows 11. The right click menu sucks, the task bar is shit even if it is aligned to the correct location. Actually looking back, I think the last windows I liked was 7.
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I can't say I have strong opinions on different Windows systems, but I did notice the Finnish Eurovision entry is Windows95man.
I still haven't used Windows 11. Given that I'm an IT nerd with 25+ years in the industry, and essentially live and breathe this stuff, it's a little remarkable. My computer's hardware doesn't officially support it, and while I've gone through the checks I need to disable in order to upgrade, I haven't seen what Windows 11 offers that makes me want to upgrade.
Other than turning the Start Bar into something more like the MacOS/Gnome dock, I haven't really seen anything the new version brings to the consumer. It's more of the same, but give us money please.
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Coming into the last two months of this project. Watching the "go-live" dates of different components getting nudged back and back. Six months ago, we were going to be in Production for everything by May 31 and have June for documentation etc.
We're now at the point where the last Prod deployment is June 21, and we get the last week of June for documentation. I half expect the go-live to be June 27, with one day for documentation at this point. Either that, or I'm going to be working the weekend of June 29/30.
Something about the whooshing sound of deadlines rushing by.
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I feel like the internet is getting worse for users
You've heard the term enshittification?
Oh yeah. It's turned up to a gallop though
@melbaboutown @dumblederp Yeah, it's not just you.
And it's deliberate.
This article by Ed Ziltron has a really good rundown of what happened inside Google: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Basically, in February 2019, there was a some corporate politicking going on within Google.
The search/tech experts (some who had been there from the start) wanted to improve search results.
The finance guys wanted to deliberately make search results worse so people would search more often and there would be more money from ads.
The finance guys won.
They replaced the head of the search team (who had been there from the very start) with the guy who had been in charge of the search engine at Yahoo at the time Yahoo stopped having its own search engine.
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I particularly notice it on google searches. So cluttered with ads and promotional listings. It used to be that the most useful answer was in the top 3 results. Now you’re lucky if it’s on page 2.
I often have to go to Reddit, but the shit hit there too
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I made my parents jealous with my weekend up on the border last weekend so they've taken off for there and I'm dog/housesitting for the weekend. I just rocked up with $9.95 for 24 nuggies to split with the doggo. Happy doggo.
My "boyfriend" didn't message me on my birthday.
It's time to sleep now
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Cracker Barrel cheddar is a very delicious cheese and as good as some of the fancier cheddars.
I love Cracker barrel. Also Mersey Valley classic cheese. Nice and crumbly.
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I admit defeat. My head congestion is slowly clearing but I can't hold a thought in my head. Coffee helped for about 6 mins. I am going back to sleep
So, I'm coming out the other end of this sick, my lymph nodes don't hurt as much, and I feel a bit more clear headed. Helps that the cat let us sleep last night lol.
A few days ago, when it was bad and quite painful and I was having a weird lightness in my chest and kinda heart palpitations (the night I passed out), my partner kinda rolled his eyes and was a tad dismissive.
Well, guess who's in the throes of it now and just called to apologise profusely and unreservedly?
I just said "as an afab, it's par for the course to be disbelieved, but apology accepted haha." We laughed and it's fine, but man, I don't complain for attention, I'm just telling him my symptoms in case I need to be taken to the hospital and am incapable of advising the professionals of lead up symptoms.
I love him, but he is such a man sometimes lol
No drinky-poos tonight. Got places to be tomorrow. For those of you who are, cheers anyway🧃 Back to regular programming next week.
Cheers!
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It’s Friday and I am very, very ready for the work day to be over. 7 minutes away from being half way through…
Nothing I have to do this weekend, except dinner with my sister tomorrow night. After over a month of moving, cleaning and just life in general, this feels WEIRD. I can’t wait!
RDO today, yay.... Dentist also today, boooo
Edit - lo-fi beats and Morgan Freeman narrated Netflix doc on the ceiling TV. Would recommend
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
There is manflu in the house. An ambulance and some sorcerous chicken soup please.
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We spread mustard. We spread mayo. Why aren’t they in the “ spread” section?
We have breakfast spreads such Vegemite, peanut butter, honey, jam etc, which you will usually find around the breakfast cereal aisle.
Then we have non breakfast spreads such as mayo, mustard, sauce, pickles etc.
All are condiments but can be sub divided into breakfast and non breakfast.
The only exception is Maple syrup which can be found with the pancake mixes which is in the baking aisle. That needs to change.
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Is it time for bed? Feels like it’s time for bed.
It is past my bedtime, I have work tomorrow.
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