Windows 11 reminds me of Vista, and yes, it's offensive and repulsive too. Chime in if you agree.

Two big full of shit companies dueling it out. Over what? AI. Don't care, let them crash and burn. Not even worthy of popping corn to watch.

That's why TV in my world went bye-bye 25 years go. I didn't want my kids bombarded with that shit. We chose what we watched, when we wanted to watch it, all ad free.

There it is.

Clowns! Clowns striking again!

Oh hell no!

Like the farmer in the video I have resorted to purchasing older products that I can repair. A few years back I bought window fans make back in the 60s because I was tired of the non-repairable junk I had to replace every year or two. Those metal window fans are built like tanks and easily fixed when the time comes. My cars are older as well. My engine was recently running rough. I diagnosed it to a faulty EGR valve and for a few bucks, and an hour of my time all was right again. Laws against the paring of parts and denying literature/software needed to repair products must be enacted at the federal level. These companies are sucking us dry and I for one am fucking tired of it.

Why does it seem like big tech is always doing more harm than good? The promise back in the 80s and 90s was that it was going to make the world a better place. So far it's done far more harm than good in my opinion.

How about this time when designing the system the future upgrade-ability of the system is also factored into the plan. For now you can replace the diskette drives with Gotek USB floppy drive emulators to eliminate the actual floppy diskettes and use USB thumb drives instead.

I added a description of the incident above. Rationally, I would think it was man-made as well. But, if it was, it was something well beyond what the public at the time knew of our capabilities.

Next to my friend's house is an open field, approximately 200ftx200ft. Beyond the north and east sides of the field is a gully that goes down approximately 100ft. The north and east sides of the field are also ringed with very large old trees. It was around 6:30pm to 7:00pm on a November night and dark as the sun had already set (northern Ohio). We were dressed in our winter coats as it was cold too. We were standing on the south edge of the field by his house. A sudden intense bright white light began to shine from below the north side of the field, emanating from the bottom of the gully. Rays of white light were easily seen shining through the tree line. The angle of the rays starting to change, indicating the white light was rising. There was no sound. Our first thought was a helicopter. However, it would have been very difficult to maneuver a helicopter down there, and furthermore, why? When the light reached the top of the tree line it disappeared. Suddenly, the trees began swaying and the remaining dead leaves on the trees rustling as if a powerful 20 to 30MPH wind was blowing on them. There was no noise from wind and we also felt no wind, we just heard the sound of the rustling trees both on the north and east sides of the field. Suddenly, a completely straight blue beam of light shown down on my friend. It was not a spotlight. The light did not fan out but instead maintained a tube shape. It was like a giant piece of acrylic being lit up. I could not see the source of the light, there was nothing there but the light did have a definite stop point, maybe a few hundred feet in the air. The light stayed on my friend for a second or two, then very briefly on me, less than second. It didn't move over to me, it simply blinked to my position, and then back to my friend for perhaps another second and then disappeared. At that same moment the trees calmed down and there was complete silence. We never felt any wind or heard anything other than the rustling trees. Something was above us but we never saw it. My friend looked at me with wild eyes and began running home. I did the same running faster than I ever had before. Of course my mother thought I was telling a tall tale when I got home. However, the next morning my mother said, "come here", as she grabbed my hands. My exposed hands and face were as though they were sun burnt and so were my friend's. I still don't think she really believed my story until a few weeks later she showed me an article in the local newspaper recounting an incident where someone observed a blue beam repeatedly coming down over a field off in the distance. Others were reporting the same thing in other counties but only ever seeing them in the distance, not close up like we saw it. I have no explanation to what we witnessed. I can only assume some sort of object was above us given the incident.

I'm not religious, so I don't believe in a god(s). I'm not a UFO believer either. Proof, hard solid proof, is needed for me to believe in something. What we saw that night defies everything I can possibly think of, and I have thought about it a lot over the years. The incident didn't convince me of UFOs or aliens though because I have no proof to provide, just my word that something unexplainable was witnessed. It's so easy today to fake UFO and UAP footage and the irony is everyone is carrying around a camera today so some it may be real phenomena. However, none of the footage to date, possibly real or otherwise, approximates what we saw, so I'm still waiting for that.

A few years ago my wife starting growing plants in the back yard that she claimed would repel mosquitos and other biting insects, citronella amongst others. At first I was skeptical but it in fact worked. The citronella has a funny smell but you get used to it.

A friend and I had a very terrifying experience with "something" very close hovering above us in 1980 when we were 12 years old. It scared the living hell out of us. No one believed us until the local news papers started reporting similar reports around the surrounding counties a few weeks later. This was in 1980, no drones, very few bright satellites. What was it? No idea. This new wave of UFO and UAP reporting has me very, very skeptical. But what in the hell did we see back in 1980? It's one of those moments that one can recall every detail vividly, like what you were doing when you found out 911 was in progress. It's all very confusing.

As much as I hate mosquitos I don't believe we should exterminate them to the point of extinction. Doing so will most likely have unforeseen consequences down the road causing mass damage to the ecosystem. Find ways to fight the parasites instead if possible.