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   Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:16:40 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   My wife is working from home today, with her company laptop (running Windows, of course). I hear this constant stream of distracting bland chirps and pings from the machine as she's working. I cannot imagine a greyer, more 'meh' tool to work with. I just feel bad for her and anyone else with Windows foisted upon them.

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     Future Sprog (futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:16:38 JST Future Sprog

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     My partner was trying to show me a letter she was drafting on her computer and pretty reliably every 5-10 seconds a new alert would pop up and cover the screen.

     “Windows Defender has found no threats”

     “Use Edge as your default browser”

     “Buy a subscription to Office”

     Absolute garbage. Then it wasn’t clear how to get Windows into “shut the hell up” mode because they’ve sneakily moved that about 3 levels deep in the overflow menu “.

     @lightweight

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:16:42 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     • Future Sprog

     @futuresprog it must suck to be renting when the landlord is so openly hostile to his tenants. I prefer to own my own desktop. Luckily, unlike the housing market, owning your own virtual abode is cheaper by far than renting.

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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:16:45 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     • Future Sprog

     @futuresprog that'd be the showstopper for me with 'cloud desktop' - there's no physical place to plant a boot.

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     Future Sprog (futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:16:46 JST Future Sprog

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     @lightweight

     Computer nearly went sailing out the window.