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05799 Re: Windows 10
   ,,,a warning about retirement. My retirement was great until the wife...
ribit   GRITZ   21 Mar 2025
3:05 PM
05775 Re: Windows 10
   De, [The Luddite you may think you're speaking to today has only s...
scubavol   GRITZ   21 Mar 2025
2:06 AM
05764 Re: Windows 10: DE
   You really are an old tr, er, um, geezer.... lol!!!!! Scube is a sp...
micro   GRITZ   20 Mar 2025
11:54 PM

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Re: Windows 10

By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Thu, 20 Mar 25 9:31 PM
Msg. 05760 of 06246
(This msg. is a reply to 05755 by scubavol)
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Scubavol:

Re: “I’m retiring next month.”
Congratulations! I love being retired. I get to do what I want to do, when I want to do it.

That's part of my beef with Windows 11. I've got software that I wrote a long time ago that does exactly what I want. I spent a long time building it. While I enjoy programming, it's not my whole life anymore. I've got other things going on like building a bad farm, and building a bad (but gigantic) bookshelf, and opening a few thousand boxes to see whether I still want whatever I put into them 25 years ago, and getting rid of the crap I don't want.

Staying current with application updates that don't improve my efficiency or enjoyment is time consuming. I don't appreciate being forced to do so. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind. And if I find that somebody is intentionally breaking my stuff, I tend toward annoyance.

BTW: I retired in 2018 from I.T. Security. I was formerly an I.T. manager, a Sys Admin and a C programmer. The Luddite you may think you're speaking to today has only started being that way in the last few years. Give yourself seven years or so and, assuming you'd like to spend your retirement on things other than what you were doing when you were twenty, you may find yourself becoming the same way. Cheesy Grin Cheesy Grin Cheesy Grin