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Re: Windows 10

By: scubavol in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 21 Mar 25 2:06 AM | 20 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 05775 of 06136
(This msg. is a reply to 05760 by De_Composed)
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De,

[The Luddite you may think you're speaking to today has only started being that way in the last few years]

Progress doesn’t stop just because your personal status was altered in the “last few years.” Someone retired from IT should be the last to expect technology to freeze in place for their personal benefit. That’s just weird. Unplug that machine from the Interwebs and maintain your steam-powered shitshow as long as you want, and you’ll have what you paid for.

Ain’t none of mine. The Bobber fits my ass nicely. I like bikes I can flat-foot. Don’t know about long trips. To be clear, I have a bike now. It’s not something I was doing when I was twenty.


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Re: Windows 10
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Thu, 20 Mar 25 9:31 PM 		Msg. 05760 of 06136

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






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