In reply to Turbo Beholder (msg # 2154):

Art tends to be relative, anyways.   There's a lot of "art" that just looks like trash to me....

Trying a new sleeping med today after work. One of the warnings: “may cause drowsiness.”

Well yeah…that’s kind of the point.

In reply to Wynternight (msg # 2156):

I have debilitating sleep issues, so you have my sympathy, and I hope the new meds are helpful.

In reply to Wynternight (msg # 2156):

Sounds like my pain meds - take them with food, then take nap cause can't stay awake.

So...I finally broke down and bought a (relatively cheap) Windows 11 computer.   And OMG! so much bloatware and spyware to uninstall...

In reply to Hunter (msg # 2159):

Windows 11, the Windows ME of the 21st century. I keep getting update notifications that tell me my older model Windows 10 computer is not compatible with Windows 11 and then it gives me a list of things to do to make it compatible (top of the list is get a new computer as my present one, which works fine, was New when Windows 10 came out.)
My few experiences with Windows 11 makes me Never want to get that system. Mostly as its little more than a machine to bury you in Ads and make you pay for Everything, its like EA took over their marketing department.

I solved that by only having Linux on my machine.

And I play just fine on it too.

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 2160):

I'm finding Windows 11 so shockingly bad that I'm going to end up switching to Linux.  Not only could I not even USE the machine without a "Microsoft ID" but some of the "features" aren't removable by the user.   And the price of an external recovery media is over a hundred dollars.

So, I'm going to switch now and deal with the recovery media later.   Yup, another dissatisfied Former windows customer.

Did you do some deep searching to find out how to get around that? There's always been a way before, although it has admittedly required a *LOT* of hoops to be jumped through, so I'd expect there's a way for Win11 as well. I've been running Windows machines for...always, and have never had a Microsoft account, nor do I intend to acquire one.

/goes to do some digging

edit: Found some immediate hits on a quick search for 'How do I bypass account setup in Windows 11?' (I'd link, but I'm not sure that's allowed in here, but I'm confident you can find them if you want to. I'd suggest the ghacks article method #1, if I were doing it. :D)
This message was last edited by the user at 21:10, Fri 17 Feb 2023.

Too many game ideas...too many deleted games.

That is all.

In reply to Hunter (msg # 2164):

Sounds like my incomplete story file - I lost count of how many I got now. Never delete them, as I never know when inspiration will hit (me upside the head, pretty hard sometimes...)

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 2165):

I have one of those too.   ^_^

RAGE.

My eldest child (who is well into being a legal adult but not into the 'Responsible Adult' stage) has a Mini Cooper that's been in the shop for thousands of dollars of repairs about every six months, because - you know - it's a Mini Cooper. So what did they do today, while taking it (yet again) to the dealership for repairs?

That's right, they decided that they enjoyed the experience of dropping thousands of dollars (that aren't spare) every few months so much that they bought a brand new Mini Cooper (0 Down, so no price mitigation at all) in order to get to extend the experience!

/sigh

In reply to SunRuanEr (msg # 2167):

We hope that the new one has fewer problems than the last one. I am sure there are some out there that don't breakdown that often.

A small silver lining that can be had here is that make and model can be incredibly safe in a wreck.  For such a small vehicle they are actually pretty beefy.

My daughter totaled her Mini Cooper a while back.  Air bags went off, whole front end crumpled, etc.

Three vehicles were totaled after the crash, but she walked away uninjured.

Good for her!

So our dishwasher broke down. Not happy. Even worse is that there's seven people who are living in our house and we have to hand wash every dish.

In reply to glaxton (msg # 2171):

I can relate.   As I've gotten older, it's one of those things that just becomes a pain to do.

In reply to glaxton (msg # 2171):

Got one worse -toilet is on its last leg. Thing was new back in 1988. Problem is counting the price for a new toilet its almost $700 (plumber install, remove old one included) which we don't have.

I had a water shutoff valve in a bathroom break last month. Had to shut off water to the entire house until I could get it fixed.

Current problem: gas oven refuses to light properly meaning I can't bake or broil anything. Stovetop works though.

Yay home ownership.

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 2173):

If you are in the US, I might be able to help, depending on which town you're in. Feel free to rMail me if you want to take it off this thread.

In reply to Taipo (msg # 2174):

The reason my wife and I sold our house of ten years and went back to apartment living.  Too many projects and repairs, not enough time and money.

This is the reason I moved from where I lived to live with my cousin. Four incomes in one house means we can take care of everything.

I'm with you there.  I owned houses from 1986 to 2017 -- three different houses and sometimes owning two when we moved but still hadn't sold the one we moved away from.  Of those, only one represented a significant profit when we sold it, and that house we had while our kids were in college, so we had already refinanced our newfound equity out of it.  The others we sold for the same or less than the money we paid for it and put into it in improvements.  (I'm not counting upkeep, just real improvements.)

The myth that renting is a waste of money comes from my parent's generation, the WWII vets, who only saw housing prices go up and up.  After selling my third house in 2017, I worked out everything we spent on home ownership, including taking the tax breaks into account (but also paying for yard work, maintenance, and all the stuff I no longer pay for now that I'm a renter), and compared that to if I had just rented the entire time and invested all my down payments.  The difference is well within my margin of error, which means it was basically a wash financially.  When I add the cost of all the stress of owning, buying, and especially selling the houses, renting is the clear winner.


It is a great approach, if you all get along.  Do make sure, though, that you have an exit strategy that includes a legal agreement on who owns what.  I've seen great friendships break up over such things.  If you buy an antique side table that looks so great in the living room, be clear that it is you buying it with money over and above what you contribute to house maintenance, and therefore belongs to you when you leave.

When the person whose name is actually on the deed asks you all to contribute to the new roof, that's reasonable; that is maintenance.  When they ask you to contribute to adding a new garage, that is not, since it will increase the value of the house (probably by more than it costs), and they'll get it back when they sell the house.
This message was last edited by the user at 17:41, Sat 11 Mar 2023.

A store clerk that looks at you like you're an idiot because you didn't look in Natural Foods section of the store for artificial milk.