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Just curious about what people have on their systems that causes Windows 11 updates to break their systems. Since I installed Windows 11, all updates have been applied, no problems at all.
Update your BIOS if you're running Windows 11. New form of Certificates to replace the old ones
BIOS and UEFI Updates in 2026: Secure Boot Certificate Expiration Risk | Windows Forum
Yes, mine was stuck saying "Restarting..." for ages until I hard switched t off, then it had to do a disc error-check on starting and install the update later.
I saw this post earlier but hadn't twigged it was your birthday. I thought it was a philosophical post, but yay, only seven more to go now and you'll be able to claim the big 'Five Zero' and get free bus passes and stuff like that!
Anyway, Happy Birthday!
As for Windows being coded by Satan, lol, and what in Hell's name did Satan ever do to deserve being blamed for that monstrous excuse for an OS?
I heartily recommend converting to the tuxedo-wearing Penguin as I have done, and many a wise-one hath done before me, and will surely follow!
And just in case you think I'm feeling cocky cause I don't have to worry about AI datamining or forced updates, I can confirm that you're absolutely right about that!
Well pleased I am, it was the best decison I made lately (although I had tried to move over to Linux previously and failed).
Well, I got Victus set up with a zillion updates, which Husband said to expect, even a BIOS update, fairly easily. Only glitch was it took like 3 tries for the Realtek (speaker) driver updates to take. Husband was surprised it didn't take hours. I will ask him to stand by when I do future updates to hopefully avoid the issues. Technician Syndrome* is real. Now I'm getting set up with my important apps - Firefox, DS, Discord.
*Your vehicle, device, etc., isn't going to act up, make the noise, have the problem, or display the error message in the presence of a tech qualified to fix it.
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@memcneil70 Where are you again? We're just getting scattered rain & thunderstorms here in Arkansas.
Actually I can get free bus pass already. But I rather use free taxi fare.
There's a term for it???
Not thrilled with Win 11 -- they took away a lot of features I liked about 10 and added a bunch of others I don't. And now after updates it will occasionally hang during login, leaving it eternally on the HP screen. (I also have a Victus, can't recall the specifics, but it's a desktop.)
In case it helps anyone, powering down the machine, unplugging it, and holding down the power button for 15 seconds to drain residual charge seems to fix the issue. After plugging it back in and powering on, it boots up with no problems. (Hat tip to my dad for showing me that one.) For laptops, might need to remove the battery to make the trick work.
COMPLAINT: Agency aren't finding me enough work as an HGV driver, leading to browsing the Daz store for more time than is healthy for my bank balance.
NON_COMPLAINT: I have more time to spend on my VN. The new Daz sale is screwed up so my bank balance is safe for a little while longer.
I am in Denver, CO, the Mile High City. And that required getting acclimated when I moved here from Santa Barbara County CA. What rolls off the Rockies here, gathers steam over our plains, and hits you'all hard. Sorry about that. We would love some of that water back.
We just had a lady who was out walking or jogging in Boulder struck by lightning a few days ago. Bystanders used CPR to try to restart her heart. They kept it up until emergency services arrived who took it over. She is alive but in the burn unit at UC Health. She is alive because of those bystanders according to the experts.
In Minnesota, passing a CPR course is a requirement of graduation from high school for exactly reasons like this. Not sure if that's the same in other places, but it really ought to be if it's not. I hope she recovers quickly and has robust medical insurance.
Wow, I wish I could get a free Taxi pass!
I just checked about the bus passes here in the uk, only to discover that free bus passes are not available until you're 60. That is of course if you happen to live in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. But for those of us in England, the age is 66 and about to rise to 67.
We don't have free bus passes in Minnesota. There's a reduced rate for low income folk, but AFAIK there's no way to ride free... and unless you're in Minneapolis/St. Paul proper, the bus lines aren't even vaguely robust.
The littlle local bus here isn't free, but close enough.
There are several routes from the various surrounding rural areas that have infrequent (once a day) trips into and outof the city (Jamestown, NY). I pay $15 for a ten trip punch card. I only go into the city about twice a month, depending on doctor appointments and laundry or breakfast hungers. And for that $1.50 I get door to door service by appointment. Cool!
I call it "The Ancient Person's Bus", because so many riders are either off to doctor appointments, or day care centers, or jobs as WalMart greeters. But despite the cheap ride into the city at 8:00 in the morning, I can't hang around until 3:00 in the afternoon to come home, and end up taking an Uber to home which blows the whole economy schtick.
Which is why I only budget for two trips into the city per month.
Complaint: Spring has sprung, all the snow is gone, and the field mice are wandering, right into my kitchen again. (*Sigh*)
Got one last night, 'twas the first one since before Christmas. Their first stop is up from the pipe hole under my kitchen sink then up into my silverware drawer in the sink cabinet, and then poop everywhere in the drawer.
Guess what I'll be doing today?
And I guess it's time to clear out all the accumulations of bottles, chemicals, and miscellaneous from the sink cabinet and find something to permanently plug those pipe holes.
@SilverGirl and @LeatherGryphon
To be fair, the transport in my town is famed for its punctuality, and it definitely is that. They appear to be testing different things. For example, they originally ran a service where buses specifically headed for shopping centres were charged just £1 on a Sunday (but only for the elderly). I'm guessing that system must have really worked for the retailers, because they've now increased it to being £1 on a Sunday regardless of your age, and regardless of your destination within the town.
I could be wrong, but I get the feeling they're experimenting with different schemes, with the ultimate goal of bringing-in a completely free transport system across the town. And should that be the case then I needn't even be bothered about the free bus pass age being well over another decade away for me.
Interesting times for sure!
Hmmm..., punctuality: The bus service here is generally on time, but they sometimes forget to come pick me up, even after I'd made reservation. I'd settle for inaccurate times rather than complete bypass.
An Observation: It rained hard here yesterday. So hard that my farmer neighbor up the hill is out with his tractor scraping his garden dirt from the main road and carrying it back scoopful by scoopful back up the hill to his garden.
Complaint: I just got another bill from the hospital for yet another nearly $200. But this time I caught what is wrong. They're still billing my old insurance company (yes, they were duly notified of my new insurance co.) who is of course saying "get lost" and not paying anything. (*Sigh*)
Incompetence abounds in the workplace these days, nobody is held accountable except the guy who has to write the check to pay for their incompetence. This calls for another trip to the hospital to sit in the waiting room of their finance office to say "I'm not leaving until you get this right." Yep, that's the ticket. And that gives me the excuse for a trip into the city for a good breakfast at the little city diner next to the hospital.
Yes, Husband taught me the term Technician Syndrome. I read an anecdote once about a tech leaving his picture inside a particularly troublesome machine he got tired of working on. And Husband hopes your Dad taught you all the arcane gestures to make with your other hand/arm while holding down the power button :) . I hope the tip doesn't require pulling the laptop battery. Modern laptops don't have an accessible battery; they are locked inside with everything else, and "they don't make [laptops] crackable any more."
Which means he will have to break into HAL 2.0 to recover the HD. I told him he's welcome to see what Geek Squad will charge to solve the BIOS problem, or recover the drive. It might be worth the cost so he doesn't have to deal with the old laptop.
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@memcneil70 when we moved to Arkansas, husband told me that because it's in the center of the US, it gets All. The. Weather, from everywhere. It's true. I can't even get completely away from hurricanes, because the remnants of Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often head straight up here.
Oh gosh. That shows you how long it's been since I had a laptop! (...and I'm pretty sure my last one was a decomissioned hand-me-down that the ex- got from wherever he was working at the time. It wasn't great, but it was free, and we were broke.)
non-complaint: Little Dude's psych eval was today, and he scored at a functional age of 25 months!!!! That might not seem like much considering he's 8 years old by the calendar, but his last assessment had him at 15 months. That's a HUGE leap in a year and a half!
Sounds as if you have a chauffeur-style bus service over there!
Excellent news.
...same here in Portland, just a 50% reduction in single fares.
Our system doesn't use paper tickets or passes anymore Everything is handled with either a reloadable tap card or a phone fare app..
I use the tap card as it is simpler and quicker (don't have to turn on the phone sign in and open the app) I also often notice people who use the phone app having difficulty with the readers on the busses and trains recognising it.
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Reading al the issues people are running into with Win11 updates makes me more than a bit apprehensive. I know will eventually have to and not looking forward to it .
Win 8 and Win 10 took away several things I like about in 7 like the simple and elegant UI, the "classic" start button (which I use a lot) and the ability to research security and feature updates for bugs before installing as well as the ability to reject those I didn't need (mostly feature ones) or ones that had bugs and instabilities.
Yeah it may be old and no longer supported, but it continues to run smoothly and trouble free. True I cannot upgrade to the latest version of Daz (still on 4.21.0.5) so I don't have the latest toys and tools, but heasace free operation is a reasonabe trade of for now..
I'd call it a scheduled route with pickup arrangements when it gets near you. It takes a major road across the county via specific towns into the city. Ridership is low. It's basicly a 15 seat school bus with typical morning ridership between 6 and 9 people by time it gets to the end of its 25 mile route. When it gets to the city it continues around the city on a basic route but will vary as necessary, by appointment (made a day earlier), to get infirm-ish people where they need to go until the middle of the afternoon when it starts its trip back to the hinterland at the edges of the county. There are also a number of regular route buses (same company, same type buses) that serve specific stops in the city. Mostly one bus per hour at the designated stops. Standard off-the-street fare is $2. Unfortunately, the in-city standard bus routes don't fit my needs well (i.e., can't get there from here, issues) They need a stop closer to the hospital (city center south) and they need more routes that run to the "franchise row" stores (far west end of the city). I'd use the bus more if they connected more areas. I can't walk more than about two blocks in one go. Four blocks terminate my day, and I have to go home and rest.
Yes indeed! So happy for all of you.
Thanks, all. The win was especially welcome after an inexplicably rough day (he'd had two fantastic ones before that, seriously couldn't figure out why the switch flipped)... he ended up screaming himself to sleep in the walk-in closet, poor thing.
But aside from being its own win, measurable progress means I have backing if the people who consider themselves experts (cough cough school district special ed cough) want to insert themselves in with their opinions on how things ought to be done. I have no doubt their methods work well on a lot of kids, and they've done a lot of good, but I absolutely know from experience they will not work for this one.
One less battle to fight. I'll take it.
I am so happy for you, the Little Dude and your family. Hugs to you all.
Or the fix you already tried several times without success suddenly works when they're here / on the phone
That’s great news, congrats to him.
Non-Complaint: One more mouse down.
Got one yesterday, and probably the mate this morning. They always seem to come in pairs. The adventurous one comes first, gets dispatched, the mate goes looking and follows the smell trail and gets caught the next day. Loyalty is its own reward.
'Nother Non-Complaint: At risk of jinxing it again... Yay! I've gone a whole week without a bloody nose. (*Fingers Crossed*)
Complaint: Arghhh..., I called my MediGap insurance company again to try to resolve my inability to log into their data website for my account. When we last left them, the phone assistant had decided that she needed to reset my account login but it would take two days to be effective. I waited 5 days, tried again last night. Got another nice lady who was very patient with me and my situation and we very carefully filled out all the forms and made sure that I could receive verification emails from them, but the actual process of verifying my email address fails with the error message "Cannot connect..." when trying to send the verification back to the web server. We tried Google, Edge, I've reset my router, used a different email address. Her "theory" is that it's my fibre network that's causing the problem. I was on the phone with her for an hour but I ended the call (time for supper) and will try other efforts here to get around my fibre connection. Probably by installing a way to get my email via my phone's cell connection. Yeah, I don't get email by phone, never have, don't want to, but may be forced to. But it's an experiment that has to be tried.
@LeatherGryphon
Yup, they have those little buses here too, although I've not seen them in my town as an official council service other than for transporting the elderly around for days out and stuff like that.
...indeed wonderful news, particularly after the bureaucratic wringer you were put through