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Wishing you a speedy recovery, Richard!! we will save the rest for later, the giveaway and whatnot can wait :slight_smile:

Wow, just read about your accidents, sorry to hear…wishing you a speedy and full recovery!

Dang Richard! Here’s to a speedy recovery! Take it easy!

Wow sorry to hear Richard! Hope for a quick recovery!

I ordered a few things last week and they arrived very fast across the country. :+1:

For me, just contacting Richard helps me think better, sort of a reverse osmosis kind of thing. I was being stupid about a new-to-me set-up and asked Richard about it, then it dawned on me what I was doing wrong and I had to thank him for his help even before he’d answered my message because it was my knowledge of his high expectations that caused me to figure it out for myself, I can always count on Richard to be on top of things and expect the very best. Gotta love doing business with a guy like that! :smiley:

Next group buy: life-sized cardboard avatar of Richard.

Powered by Siri? Alexa? Ummm…. what’s the Google one called?

Apple has Siri, Amazon has Alexa and Google has “Okay Google”. No cute name as far as I know.

So you want to add one of these assistants behind the cardboard cutout of Richard and program it to responsor to “Hey Richard”? Sounds like a plan. Lol

It’s called Google Assistant.

Exactly, no cute name.

Is “Cortana” still alive? I recently read in a German computer magazine that “Alexa” and “Cortana” plan to join their databases.

Helloooooo, Skynet…

More like “Hello Microsoft trying to stay relevant.” They know they’re far behind, so they’re (presumably) joining forces with a company that actually HAS a database.

Yeah, if we can teach it to answer most flashlight-related questions, and be able to query mtnelectronics.com for stock levels and order status, and be able to actually handle the ordering system itself as well, then Richard can be more free to handle the back-end stuff, like actually producing and shipping stuff.

Ugh, all of Monkey$oft can go diaf. Later versions of Winsucks are by far the worst, most bug-ridden, antagonistic, actively hostile OSes I’ve ever come across.

If they want to stay relevant, well, I don’t think they even can. It’s only brainwashed businessdolts who insist on seeing “MS” on their office sw that seem to keep it alive.

If anything, they’ll just taint whatever they touch, and put a nasty stank on it that won’t come off.

I’m in complete agreement with everything you just said! :smiley: :+1:

Me: Richard, Cortana, Siri, Skynet, Alexa - Order me 17, 20 and 22mm boost drivers as well as drivers which support secondary colored LEDs with MTN’d triple boards.

Richard Poster Assistant: OK, ordering now.

Me: THANKS!

I only recently got it to stop trying to “upgrade” 8 to 10, by creating a file called “windows10upgrade” or whatever directory name it kept trying to create, despite my best efforts to keep deleting it, and then turning off all permissions, etc., on that file.

I tried finding all the urls to M$ servers to blacklist them, but you can only block dotted-quads, not ‘*.microsoft.com’ or anything.

It “upgraded” once, completely on the sneak when I wasn’t looking, and completely killed my wifi. Laptop (which without wifi is essentially a brick) didn’t even think it had a wifi card installed! So I was able to back out to the previous version.

A day or two later, it does it again.

Rinse, repeat, several times. Turn on “metered connection”, nothing. Try turning off or even deleting the “upgrade” daemons, nothing. It was this flesh-eating bacteria that just couldn’t be eradicated.

Then I got sneaky and did the file trick above, which seemed to work.

Now, could you imagine the average technodolt who’d wake up one morning to a bricked laptop that no longer had innernet access, and you couldn’t even go hit the web to find out what broke?

THAT’S Microsoft…

And they think people would want it listening in on their conversations 24/7?

Come on, LB, don’t sugar coat it, tell us what you really think :wink:

I completely agree. I’ve been a Linux nerd personally and professionally since 1994. I don’t miss using or coding for Winders.