I’ve been a user since Dos 5.0 and Windows 3.0.

Today I mostly use Linux Mint on my dual boot laptops and need to convert my main PC over to dual boot Mint next. I rarely boot into windows at home and if it wasn’t for proprietary software at work running only on Windows I would have been done sooner.

I was mostly able to go from XP to 7 and avoided Vista and 8 altogether. Windows 10 was sort of ok with the ability to go back to a Windows 7 control panel when needed but it always felt half baked and unfinished to me.

I’ve just not been interested in 11 at all and the tidbits I’m hearing about Co-pilot reminds me of not only Clipit but the forcing of IE/ Edge constantly on user’s especially after every larger update but to mention resetting the default PDF reader to edge. In a work environment of 20 plus shop PC’s I was managing for low tech skill employees it was a pain in the ass chasing down the changes that were not made on my behalf.

What will be the Co-pilot’s flavor of this new round of BS from Microsoft? The forcing of a cloud account is another headache I don’t want to deal with either.

I will say Mint just mostly does what I need for my web browsing and general productivity needs without the constant game of trying to keep it the way I want it versus what MS wants for me with every update.

I’m at the stage of get off my lawn and screaming at a cloud in the sky next. That cloud is MS these days when adding in the annoyances of their Android keyboard *Swiftkey injecting Co-pilot and Bing into my searches. I’ve not played in Office 365 for a bit now but I can only imagine it’s just as bad now.

Correction Outline icon pack is what I’ve been using. The Studio icon pack is pretty good. Thanks!

Same here. There are quirks by I think I’m really use to them now. I tried Nova, Lawnchair and some others over the years but I think my long term Smart Launcher still fits me like a glove.

I will. I’ve been using the neon colored Azure icon pack for many years now. I could probably go for an update.

That really sucks. It would be brutal to get that sorted. I’ve been lucky. I do recall once there was a botched update that reset all my custom settings on all of my devices. I was really choked but I had a old backup that restored it halfway. Reminds me to do another one now.

My huawei devices keeps reseting my launcher to theirs which is s really annoying but I think that is a Huawei thing.

I use Smart Launcher. I’m surprised there aren’t more users of it.

I’ve been using it on all my phones and tablets for years now. Doesn’t matter what type of Android phone I use, they mostly end up being the same feel with Smart Launcher

I wonder if they have counted the mail in ballots yet?

I feel like an outsider on these debates. I totally agree we should be able to own forever.

In my case I find there is so much new TV and movies I rarely go back to re-watch shows or movies so owning them isn’t on my radar. It’s a challenge just to watch a whole series I find.

I’m wondering how often do people beyond kids re-watch movies and TV shows? Kids seem to be able to rewatch the same movies several times a day…

Yes I’ve noticed this on my devices now for awhile. I gave up and downloaded a separate app instead.

If I understand this correctly in my use case Assistant will get worse in my car with a aftermarket head unit. The mic isn’t that great on the radio and I’ve had better luck using the handset mic instead.

I have a couple of phones in use. 1 never answers which is fine as I have a display too, but the other answers every time I can do that if you unlock your device first.

Still rocking my note 10 plus which had a SD card slot, and my LG V60 which still has both. The V60 has some of the best audio recording for video which I suspect is due to the DAC built in with the mic array.

During the height of anti-vaxing the ones that opposed them had no issues smoking a pack a day and guzzling beer while exclaiming their bodies were a temple to preserve.

They didn’t see the irony that their temple was filled with toxic smoke and drenched in a form of poison, but hey let’s endanger more than just you and your loved ones, but the community at large with the anti vaxx stuff…

I’ve seen people argue the real numbers of the decline for China are much worse than they have shared and they may already be past the point of no return like Japan and South Korea. It’s going to be interesting to see how they handle an aging population.

Asia does have a more recent tradition of kids being the retirement plan so they might fair a little better than places like the US where that is not the norm anymore. The US with their infrastructure crumbling from underfunding and a general lack of care, should provide a good side by side comparison of the ride down with the differences of family versus industry support of seniors.

Ugh that’s awful for you with the house.

Our gas Fireplace crapped out when it was coldest and we are waiting on repairs. We have baseboards as a back up but they aren’t keeping up and I’m not looking forward to the hydro bill when it comes.

It’s nowhere as bad as your situation by any means but we are glad to have them.

I bought electric blankets for the bed and couch this winter based on a gut feel in November and with how warm it’s been this up until this point the gf has been right that we didn’t need them. That was until this cold snap. Bloody thankfully to have them as they can’t be found in the stores now.

I hope those leaks get sorted out soon!

In Vancouver we don’t know that kind of cold. Wet and damp cold yes, but it’s been a unusually warmer winter. Low 50s even for Xmas and not at much rain and hardly any snow for local mountains.

Now it’s down to low 10s F it’s bloody super cold for us. With the wind chill it has been down to -10F. Not breaking your car quite yet but you don’t want to be out and about for too long without one. Usually the couple of days we get snow here it’s chaos and the major routes are a mess. It was just as bad the one day we did get some during the cold snap and it wasn’t even the wet and heavy stuff we normally get.

I usually go for short walks daily but not during these days - 10F days. We are warming up to near 32F for highs and I’m thinking this is probably nice BBQ weather for Edmonton now.

It seems all relative. I was down in Arizona this past winter. It was one of the coolest ones they had in Yuma and the day time temperatures were reaching high 60s to low 70s during the day with a lot of sun. I thought I was in heaven for winter. The locals were so disappointed.

Mind you at one point it was snowing in California, northern AZ, Phoenix, Tuscan, NM, and Texas while I was in a sun pocket so they may have had something to complain about but I would still take their dry and warm during the day over my normal wet and soggy days.

It’s a relief to see this post. After reports of the right starting a smear campaign against Rev. King I wasn’t sure what we were going to see here

It almost seems like a trap was set with the low interest rates, cheap mortgages, and plenty of stimulus money being released in the market.

Now with everything skyrocketing in cost to maintain so many have been found to have their hands in the trap.

“job creation” they would say as they throw their receipt on the ground before leaving…

Laugh as we might just because the health affects are not immediate versus long term doesn’t mean there isn’t ramifications.

Alcohol will mess you up in the short term and in the long term in more ways than one especially for those that abuse it.

Oddly one of those ways mimics over consumption of sugar.

But not to worry just like the culture of alcohol and tobacco had us convinced that there are no health issues at all to worry about, it’s the same mate for those operating on massive rushes of sugar and caffeine in energy drinks.

They might not appear mentally drunk but rest assured their bodies are…