Errr not at all. Microsoft simply changed the name of control panel to "Settings" and is slowly porting all of control panel functionality over to it.

This would be fine if the Settings app? menu? actually worked. They're constantly breaking the print subsection in setting by making the Manage option unclickable for a printer. I'm always telling users to go to the old control panel that actually works.

The big takeaway we discovered was we don't have to pay people to travel for in-person meetings. This will be a fundamental change going forward for us.

I mentioned this years ago and was ignored. It only takes a pandemic to figure out there's different ways of doing things...

It's also stable enough that people routinely use their Macbooks onstage. I wouldn't care to try that with a Windows machine.

I think that depends on your use-case.

I was at a seminar where someone tried to connect a MacBook to a projector. After about 10 minutes of fiddling around, I heard the presenter say "Isn't this supposed to just work?" and then relented and used his co-workers ThinkPad.

If you junk them you'll be called a visionary when everything goes wireless in the future. ;o)

Considering the weight of EV cars are much higher (a Tesla Model S weighs the same as a half ton truck) this should be reflected in the tax. The EVs should be paying a similar tax to truck owners due to infrastructure wear.

That is why GPO's were invented.

Not really, at least on Home and Pro editions. For Home and Pro, Microsoft set it to ignore many GPO policies (Home doesn't support GPO anyway...)

About the only way to get full control of everything to GPO is ponying up for an Enterprise license. Ouch!

I miss the days when drivers came on a CD included with the hardware. Now people are expected to download the drivers.

That doesn't even matter really. Doing a Windows 10 upgrade on a Intel motherboard, I discovered a weird UEFI boot bug, and also that for some reason Win10 didn't auto-download some drivers (like the onboard video.) Thanks to Intel removing old drivers and BIOS versions from their website, I resorted to the CDs and found out they BSOD Windows 10. So even having the CD won't save you when in dire need.

The same board had a boot issue with UEFI and after searching Intel's website they recommend not using any old BIOS versions or drivers and they've been removed from their website. Huh? How are you supposed to boot the motherboard without its firmware???

I had to resort to the wayback machine to identify download directories and download a massive 400GB torrent that someone scraped of download.intel.com when they found out drivers were being removed.

Thankfully I did find the BIOS I needed, no thanks to Intel. I did check other mobo manufacturers and Asus (as an example) you could still download the most recent firmware for boards made in 2005!

PITAscript could be a good choice as well.

Your unnecessary and redundant addition of the word "either" reveals unconscious embellishment and betrays the fact that you're lying.

Not everyone has impeccable memories (just so we are clear: I'm not the AC.) I don't even remember what I did last year, nevermind three or four years ago.

You should go talk to people in BC then. I'm sure the that the $1.80L for gas that some people are paying isn't hurting them at all.

The highest price in the Vancouver area was $1.789. That's $6.76 CAD/gallon, that will give perspective to our neighbours to the south.

You never got service requests because systemd is not able to boot these affected systems and they're all sitting at a rescue shell. ;-)

If a game needs DLC to work, the game is not a product, and is just a demo.

I made this comment some time ago (years?) after someone said the DLC made the game so much better. I said "Well sure, they finally finished the game." or something to that effect. I buy almost no games nowadays, if I do it's used at usually 50-75% off the new retail price.

Heck, I don't even play games on my phone. I tried it once years ago, and the first time a game asked me for real money (didn't take that long) I removed them and haven't bothered since.

I've adopted an adult cat recently that wasn't getting along in a multi-cat house. This cat is very smart. She's figured out how to open closet doors, can find a way to look outside when the blinds are closed, and some other things. She also responds to her name... if I start talking to her she looks at me. However, if I say her name, she will meow and come over to me.

I've tested this a few times. I can call her name and she will meow and come out to greet me. I've had smart cats before, but the cats I've had before never really responded to their names.

... a particular byte sequence is "poop", "happy", or "explosion".

Hmm, is that the new ctrl-alt-del sequence?

It's pretty par for the course though.

I recall a seminar I went to a few years back... the presenter had a MacBook and couldn't get it to work with the projector at the venue. Even he himself said "Isn't this stuff supposed to Just Work?" He relented after 15 minutes of screwing around and used his coworkers Lenovo laptop - plugged it in and it worked as expected.