Kosh's Shadow 6/24/2026 8:00:30 PM

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Small food. Where's the eggs? 

I hope I have makde it harder for a troll

Kosh's Shadow 6/24/2026 8:01:56 PM

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Realized I have some old computers and went looking around. I wish I could just go to Linux

Crapilot--- PCs that will send everything I do to Bill Sauron.

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 6:52:13 AM

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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: I hope I have makde it harder for a troll

Apparently not. More technical details in the Frontier soon

JCM 6/25/2026 7:35:57 AM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: Crapilot--- PCs that will send everything I do to Bill Sauron.

It is becoming more and more of an issue. I work in restricted tech space governed by ITAR / EAR / CUI. Our poor IT folks are working overtime to make sure all the software is sending data outside the firewalls.

JCM 6/25/2026 7:51:43 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

D'oh! IS NOT SENDING.... coffee need more coffee!

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 8:16:51 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

I can't find a Windows computer that isn't copilot. So I will have to pay for hardware that I won't use because I'll turn off copilot.

But Linux systems are actually more expensive.

JCM 6/25/2026 8:29:02 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 6:

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with software that "thinks" it knows what I want to do. There is this video that sums it

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 8:48:55 AM

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Reply to JCM in 7:

Word is particularly bad. Unfortunately, that is the standard, and there are some differences with Libre Office and OpenOffice.

Even just moving windows around is a problem. I like some near the top of the screen, but if I get too close, it makes it full screen.

Never mind menus and other things that move when you try to click on them. RIght click in File Explorer is particularly bad, plus it hides items I frequently use on the next page of menus. 

JCM 6/25/2026 8:51:45 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

I hate Word... personally I use Libre Office. The last update at work Win11 disconnected all my mapped drives and I have a bunch.

vxbush 6/25/2026 9:05:13 AM

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Oh, I see I missed the grousing session on Microsoft products. Why? Because I've got a machine that just died after a power outage and I'm not going to waste my time replacing the power supply or motherboard. Just easier to take another old machine and move it back into service. 

vxbush 6/25/2026 9:34:29 AM

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Reply to JCM in 7:

Yup. That's spot on. Microsoft delenda est, but it's not up to me. 

JCM 6/25/2026 9:39:01 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 11:

One of the big tools I use a CAD program tp0 design circuit boards, and costs $12,000 per set per year. Set a a "Customer Satisfaction Survey".

I had fun detailing the many, many know bugs, flaws and issues. Very satisfying.

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 9:42:39 AM

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Reply to JCM in 9:

Unfortunately, my wife needs to produce proper Word documents that are 100% compatible.

She hates Word, too.

Recently I was unable to fix a problem where if the blank page at the end was deleted, the last paragraph on the previous page got moved to another page. The document was produced by PDF Pro from a scanned PDF, which probably did something wrong.

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 9:44:52 AM

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I have two older Acrer gaming laptops, and their secure boot certificates are expiring in a couple of days. Needs an Acer update, which won't be available until around July 4, a week or AFTER the certificates expire.

No real danger but enough for me to realize how long ago I got those.

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 9:46:23 AM

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vxbush 6/25/2026 9:56:21 AM

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In #12 JCM said: I had fun detailing the many, many know bugs, flaws and issues. Very satisfying.

Heh. Oh, sure, they want customer feedback--until you start identifying issues they never saw because they didn't run it on a regular machine. Yup, yup. 

buzzsawmonkey 6/25/2026 10:19:41 AM

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JCM 6/25/2026 11:11:16 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13:

A previous company we and Document Control Group. I would use their Word template to create the doc. Invariably Doc Control would reject it for formatting. I would fix the formatting. After this happen a couple of time I would file bug tickets against the Doc Control for incorrectly formatted templates. 

JCM 6/25/2026 11:14:17 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 16:

Oh, it's much, much worse than that. Many of the bugs are well known and documented. Will at Kuiper we had lots of interaction with the companies engineers, they openly acknowledge the issues. My primary complaint was they focus on new features laid over the existing software, instead of fixing the know issues and improve the core product.

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 11:32:59 AM

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In #19 JCM said: instead of fixing the know issues and improve the core product.

And of course the license makes no claims that it works.

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 11:42:10 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15:
Managed to get the development version of the blog running, after detaching the databases, figuring out how to get the SQL server to have access to the files, and then attaching them.

Now for the actual bugfixes

Kosh's Shadow 6/25/2026 12:00:44 PM

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In #21 Kosh's Shadow said: Now for the actual bugfixes

Reproduced the bug. Have to run a short errand and then see what broke.