The power garage door opener went in-op the day before yesterday. The diagnostics went quickly. The root-cause was deduced to be the wipe-seal at the top had walked downward over the +twenty years and was now in the path of the bottom of the door as it traveled out-and-down. The motor current went up, signaling an obstacle and it reversed.
I applied a hammer to the tiny box-nails that attached the wipe-seal to the frame and it went up easily. Knowing that it happened once and that the nails had lost some of their grip, I added three, pole-barn siding screws.
Mrs ERJ showed her appreciation and my name is once again engraved in the Hall-of-Heroes.
Super-secret video of ERJ performing a task around the house, showing the high-level motivational patterns common in bloggers.
Mac-and-cheese
Based on input from you guys, I am sorting through the various brands of squeeze-pack cheese M-n-C available in the area.
So far, all offerings Quicksilver and I tried have been acceptable.
Thanks for the feedback.
Running notes
4.18 miles in 60 minutes yesterday. No drama.
Moved the chicks to a larger box
They are now in an "apple box" from the local grocery store. They grow quickly.
Spring comes slouching in*
A turn of phrase so excellent that I had to steal it. I stole it from True Blue Sam
Windows 11
Apparently, the super-nerds are competing to see who can load-and-run Windows 11 on the "smallest" platform.
Microsoft is a great seller of new computers as each release of their operating system seems to demand ever-greater speeds and memory resources.
One of the keys to hugely shrinking the resource requirements is to start the system in "Safe Mode". Safe Mode does not activate certain modules that are resource pigs.
From the Microsoft site: Safe mode only loads the most basic system components and drivers of the system, and disables other add-ons.
(Firmly placing tin-foil hat on my head) Those modules look like they are trawling through your data in a decentralized, "data-mining" kind of way and (presumably) sending it back to the MS mother-ship. That data could include voice-to-text of everything the microphone picks up, image processing of video picked up by the camera and so on. MS is know for powering up your unit when it wants to run system downloads, what stops them from being able to keep your mic and camera running in stealth mode?
As a low-end user, I don't see a lot of disadvantages to running in Safe Mode. That probably means that Windows 12 will not have that option.
Bet that video is of you napping. One of my super powers is to be able to that just about anywhere regardless of light or noise. My wife marvels. Roger
ReplyDeleteLinux is a lot easier to use these days and it doesn't burden you with endless updates or privacy invasions. There's no reason to stick with Windows for the ordinary user.
ReplyDeleteVery true! Unbutu was very easy and intuitive, gentoo incredibly powerful!
DeleteMy brokerage software is mac/win only, so alas, I'm stuck.
"Mrs ERJ showed her appreciation and my name is once again engraved in the Hall-of-Heroes."
ReplyDeleteI'd rather have oatmeal raisin cookies..................
Oh, Win 10 and Win 11 are God awful shit............................
ReplyDeleteThe Bullshit I had to manually turn off on both of those.
MS is a giant assed data collector
My understanding of whatever the next version of Windows is, is that it forces you to use the Windows cloud. Not a fan.
ReplyDeleteI still have a WIN3.11 box running that does most everything I need it to do (how fast does document writing need to be?) except on-line stuff, I also kept a WIN7 box running. I had a newer WIN10 box but I converted it to Linux Mint and found enough software compatible with Linux (including my brokerage, engineering, and photo software) that I rarely/never need to use any MS programs. Can't recall the last time I booted up a WIN10 box.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why I'm running a 12 year old Mac laptop. I don't/won't put up with windoze crap anymore.
ReplyDeleteI threw off the Windows curse when I retired, since then I've been an Android user (which has it's own set of 'quirks'.....)
ReplyDeleteI gave up on Windows 10 after my laptop would freeze up for a couple hours during an "update" only to get a message that the "update" had failed, please try again. I agree that Umbuntu is a superior product but I am currently using a MacBook Air (2015)
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