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Oldschool Repairs versus Tech Repairs
Jul. 15th, 2021 11:29 amI think I prefer the former, even though I have less expertise with them and they give me schweddy.... elbows, yeah.
Having spent more time in the past few months demolishing tile, scraping glue and slogging around pieces of permanentish equipment, at least you can tell what you need to do and, more or less, when you're done.
The tech stuff, not so much.
As I mentioned last week, Microsoft had to push through a quick and dirty patch on account of an exploitable hole in one of their universal print-related operations. Even if you didn't use a printer, you had to do it. We quickly updated our two Windows 10 laptops, but we have that old beast in the corner, a Frankenputered old Windows 8 tablet/laptop that Eleanor didn't last six months with. I use it for some older applications that don't play well with Ten, and after its last use I remembered to push through the emergency update for it. Windows 8, and its still-supported successor 8.1, were the last versions where you chose when to download and install updates.
I then forgot about it until 3 this morning, when nature called and I saw lights coming from that room. That computer was still on, hours after the update finished. It was nagging me to "finish setting up this computer," and the main feature being pushed was the much better, cooler and highly secure browser that Windows 8.1 recommends…
Internet Explorer.
Before rolling back into the rack, I replied: Go back to sleep, Microsoft. You’re drunk.
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Not that Ten isn't without its own day-drinking issues.
After more-or-less getting back to sleep and then up for feedings and kitchen cleanup, I started working from home; we had an energy audit scheduled for this morning and I wanted to take Pepper with me to work so she wouldn't be too bothersome. I finally left when they were late in arriving and I needed to get things scanned and printed. Which was going to be difficult, because Ten's built-in virus protection had turned itself on for a nice little scan around the block and was slowing everything down to a crawl.
You cannot turn it off. At one point, it was consuming 95 percent of CPU. The only real way out of it is to close out of everything and restart. There are suggested workarounds online, but they generally involve mucking in the registry or disabling the thing altogether, which is also not recommended unless you've got a replacement antivirus program ready to roll. The once innocuous AVG, which still runs on the Windows 8.1 beast, has gotten annoying over the years; I refuse to have anything to do with McAfee, given their history of "optional offer" BS with Adobe and their founder's general kookiness; and Norton has always bothered the shit out of me when it's come preloaded. So I'll just live with the occasional slowdowns, most likely.
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Once I did get going, I was referred a letter from an attorney I don't recognize from Bankruptcy Court, threatening to file his client in a bankruptcy and describing the potential consequences of that to his opponent. I told the referring attorney, The letter you received is so full of shit, I'm going to need a poop knife to cut through it.
This is a new piece ofshit imagery for my toolbox. It is apparently a famous tale among the reddit crowd, memorialized in this post there. Do not click that link, or the next one below that will, um, expose it unless you are not among the faint of fart. Heart. Whatever.
( You have been warned... )
Having spent more time in the past few months demolishing tile, scraping glue and slogging around pieces of permanentish equipment, at least you can tell what you need to do and, more or less, when you're done.
The tech stuff, not so much.
As I mentioned last week, Microsoft had to push through a quick and dirty patch on account of an exploitable hole in one of their universal print-related operations. Even if you didn't use a printer, you had to do it. We quickly updated our two Windows 10 laptops, but we have that old beast in the corner, a Frankenputered old Windows 8 tablet/laptop that Eleanor didn't last six months with. I use it for some older applications that don't play well with Ten, and after its last use I remembered to push through the emergency update for it. Windows 8, and its still-supported successor 8.1, were the last versions where you chose when to download and install updates.
I then forgot about it until 3 this morning, when nature called and I saw lights coming from that room. That computer was still on, hours after the update finished. It was nagging me to "finish setting up this computer," and the main feature being pushed was the much better, cooler and highly secure browser that Windows 8.1 recommends…
Internet Explorer.
Before rolling back into the rack, I replied: Go back to sleep, Microsoft. You’re drunk.
----
Not that Ten isn't without its own day-drinking issues.
After more-or-less getting back to sleep and then up for feedings and kitchen cleanup, I started working from home; we had an energy audit scheduled for this morning and I wanted to take Pepper with me to work so she wouldn't be too bothersome. I finally left when they were late in arriving and I needed to get things scanned and printed. Which was going to be difficult, because Ten's built-in virus protection had turned itself on for a nice little scan around the block and was slowing everything down to a crawl.
You cannot turn it off. At one point, it was consuming 95 percent of CPU. The only real way out of it is to close out of everything and restart. There are suggested workarounds online, but they generally involve mucking in the registry or disabling the thing altogether, which is also not recommended unless you've got a replacement antivirus program ready to roll. The once innocuous AVG, which still runs on the Windows 8.1 beast, has gotten annoying over the years; I refuse to have anything to do with McAfee, given their history of "optional offer" BS with Adobe and their founder's general kookiness; and Norton has always bothered the shit out of me when it's come preloaded. So I'll just live with the occasional slowdowns, most likely.
----
Once I did get going, I was referred a letter from an attorney I don't recognize from Bankruptcy Court, threatening to file his client in a bankruptcy and describing the potential consequences of that to his opponent. I told the referring attorney, The letter you received is so full of shit, I'm going to need a poop knife to cut through it.
This is a new piece of
( You have been warned... )