Things are certainly going better for me than the Bahamas who are now waiting for another tropical storm to pass over and making their lives miserable. I had a good visit with my younger brother and his wife, even though it was too hot to do anything outside.
I will be looking at your recommendations for more than game playing. I still have software that I use that won’t run on anything newer than XP and I haven’t converted to Unix/linux. The latest version of unbuntu insists I have a 40-inch monitor instead of 32 inches which is going to require change the GUI to something a bit smarter than the replacement for Unity. I think I’ll shifting to Mate, which I use on my Raspberry Pi.
In the US many Wishes involve Disney World in Orlando, which Disney handles with efficiency. They know how to make visitors believe they are happy – the workforce not so much. Think about being inside the Mickey Mouse costume in Florida in the summer.
]]>Ive been buying a few items from the “Wish” website in Europe the past few Months. Most of the Euro’s go to the “Make a Wish” foundation for Children. They have a special on the past week, so I got this “Outdoor Emergency Survival First Aid Kit” that is really cheap! It’s a combo first-aid/tool kit (you know I love tools! But I did need a first-aid kit & this was cheaper than restocking my old one I’ve used up). the kit’s come in several sizes. I got the 241 piece kit. I only paid 13eur on special, but added a 15eur donation.
https://www.wish.com/product/5bffb3ca9eab4f6351db9217
I remembered you liked to play the old Win Solitaire (and Minefield?) I found a open-source project on Github a while ago, then forgot about it! I got an email notice that reminded me… It’s a Win95 that runs on WinXP-10/Linux/OSX. I got it to run my old DOS app’s/games that just don’t work well (or at all) on DOSbox on W10!
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/
While I’m at it… This one is the tool I use the most to stop W10 spying, being slow, being annoying! It does a few things none of the others do (even the ones you have to pay for)! The most important is blocking the sneaky addresses in the HOSTS file that M$ use on several of the background app’s W10 needs to work (so you can’t disable them)! IT also gives you a “God Mode” link on the desktop, to access all the W10 tools in one place, most of which are hidden anyway!ππ
https://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/
I really noticed the difference in speed, especially @ startup. W10 also uses a less CPU/RAM.
And this is the best “Task Manager” around and it’s free (though I gave a donation as it really is very good!)
http://www.mitec.cz/tmx.html
MiTeC also has some other useful tools for free on that site. ππ
If you are interested in, or need any Windoze tool in particular, let me know. I probably have a link! π π
I hope all is going well for you m8! Take care, be well. π
]]>I added your NOAA comment to a tweet about an article in WaPo about the “weather community” being in uproar over the support of Trumpelstiltskin.
]]>The NOAA official who backed Trump is a deputy/assistant communications director who is a political appointee and was part of the Trump campaign organization and inauguration committee. She isn’t qualified to be a weather person on a local TV station, much less a hurricane forecaster.
The bear rescue was neat, but the YT vid is from Comedy Central UK and not available in the US. I couldn’t find it on the US site.
]]>Seems Trump has forced NOAA to agree with him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/06/noaa-backs-president-trump-alabama-hurricane-forecast-rebukes-weather-service-office-that-accurately-contradicted-him/?noredirect=on
Trevor has a YT vid about Boris Johnson (with hit’s @ DT along the way) that was funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVyGQXfAeik
Try this one too. A bear cub is trapped in a big dumpster & Mom & sibling try to rescue the cub but need some help. π
]]>There have been more people talking about leaving than rebuilding. If Trump wasn’t being such a schmuck many of them would want to move hundreds of miles away from any coast.
That was some funny stuff.
]]>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAFUR7ij7s&feature=youtu.be
I donated what little I could to a relief fund for the Islands. Not sure it will help that much unfortunately. I can see more *Dorian’s* in their future. π₯Ίπ
]]>If this storm had entered the Gulf and started toward me, I would have been on my way to Huntsville. I don’t need the aggravation anymore.
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