I am a melancholic
Meh!
I am in what Jane Austin might have described as a “state of melancholy”.
Oh yes. I know all about Jane Austin. I have never any of her stuff but Herself is a fan so I have been subjected to so many re-runs of “Pride and Prejudice” that I could probably recite the entire work verbatim.
Anyways, it’s supposed to be summer. Or at the very least the middle to late spring. But the heating is on and it’s fucking wet and windy outside. Miserable. The only good spot there is that I knew the shit was about to hit the fan and mowed the lawn yesterday.
What’s really pissing me off though is fucking Microsoft.
It was Grandson the Younger’s birthday the other day. His Ma gave him a present of one of those graphics tablet things as he’s very keen on drawing and painting and such. Grand. The only problem is that he uses an ancient laptop that barely runs Windows 7, and the software for the tablet wouldn’t run. Being a sucker [and a Grandad] I offered to fix things for him.
An afternoon was completely wasted trying to fix his laptop. I gave up. Then in a moment of extreme weakness I offered him my old laptop.
My old Acer has WIndows 8.1, Linux Mint 20 and Kubuntu running on it plus half a ton of personal shit. It had to be cleaned up. So I set about cleaning it up.
For some reason known only to a young boy, he wanted Windows 10. I set about upgrading the 8,1. I have spent the best part of a long weekend trying it and it still won’t work. This morning I ran [for the umpteenth time] a programme that was supposed to update everything. For an hour or so I watched percentages slowly crawl up to 100%. Each time it hit the mark it would start a different process that would start at 0% again. Finally it started the tidy-up procedure. The percentages climbed slowly and a warning appeared saying it had to reboot, which it did. It just went into a blank screen. I switched off and on again. It then announced it was undoing everything and started at 0% again. I was back to 8.1 and a lost couple of hours
I burned a new Windows 10 DVD. I just stuck it into the laptop. I got the software from Microsoft but for some reason that completely escapes me all the instructions are in Spanish! Or Portugese? Or Mexican? Or Swahili? So now I am trying to install the programme in a language I don’t understand.
It’s currently at “20% completado”.
Fuck!
It has just failed again.
Windows 10 is our system at school, when it is not seizing up, it provides constant riddles.
That's why modern youth is so good with technology – they have to keep fixing the constant breakdowns.
I have used nothing but Windows (version whatever, after whatever….) for some time now and have never had a problem crop up.
Now, it must be remembered that I am not a "computer guy", never have been and never will be. This means it is altogether possible or even more than likely, probable that it's been screwed up all along and I never knew it.
Try doing more than playing Solitaire?
No can do, I have three joys in retirement. Pipe tobacco, Whiskey, and Solitaire. Sex dropped off the list when it became more work than an actual job.
I hear you younger fellas snickering out there, it will happen to you too! (Just ask grandad.)
It takes all night to do what you used to do all night?
Missread your post title.
Thought you had developed an irresistable liking for some new brew of electric soup.
However once you find a supplier of melancohol it could be the cure for your malady.
No, I am not implying your woman requires a fix.
Doonhamer, I’m given to understand that according to the Oregon Health Authority, this is built into one or the other (which one is not clear) Covid vaccines.
Worth checking hardware compatibilty?
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=hardware+compatibilty+Windows+10+Acer
That's one factor I wasn't worried about. The machine originally came with 10 but I had wiped it to install 8.1 [because I had the disk and am not fond of 10] and Linux.
I finally cracked it through sheer dogged determination. Wiped the drive, installed 10 and a copy of Linux in case Grandson the Younger is interested.
I know the feeling well, sir. After we were forced to replace our old desktop PCs (and I mean "forced" since we were hanging on tooth and nail to the old ones) and I had to set up and wrestle with drivers and programs, manual back ups and restorations, twice over mind you, I swore I'd never set up Windows again. That was the last time.
Then our old laptop died…