we used to (retired from that work now) deal with those ai generated notes. they are horrible, error filled, and could literally kill someone if they aren’t corrected in time by a human (the bit we used to do).

it’s been almost a year here, i’m still going down (what my mind thinks is) the ‘correct’ aisle, only to be reminded when i get there that what i’m looking for i literally walked past a minute earlier, five rows back.

they’re just pushing more higher margin products. they’ll restock the ‘basics’ more frequently as a result of giving those things less shelf space.

was it a computer or other tech item that has seen greatly increased prices lately? we ran into something like that recently at wm. went to buy a basic desktop pc at what was then a pretty fair price. was turned-away in-store even though the web site stated availability and price we were looking for was available for same-day store pickup. turns out they pulled the shelf inventory and didn’t have any “in stock” to sell. we ordered online instead (again with store delivery, even) and got it delivered for the expected price. the very next morning they were back on the shelf, but at a far higher price. we just caught them in the midst of a very substantial price increase… well over 40% higher.

“… if you don’t get out’a my bed, ima comin’ in too and stickin’ my butt right in yer face”

ctrl-f5 should take you to the top after a full refresh. takes longer, though, because it forces the browser to re-fetch any resources like media and scripts that exist in its cache.

kiss one of the frogs, and you’ll have yourself a gay prince!

i wouldn’t mind being punished like that.

that is pretty lazy, especially on a pc where if you’d just have the energy to move a finger over to the right side of the keyboard to tap HOME once is all it would take.

slip-on shoes aren’t just for little kids, the elderly, or others that can’t tie shoes.

they. are. awesome.

i always loose-tie my sneakers anyway so they could be slipped-on and off easily, but stretchy ‘no tie’ laces are a huge upgrade from that.

we went to walmart awhile back to pick something up that was in stock in our store.

the asshole behind the electronics counter said “we don’t have that in stock”. didn’t even look. didn’t want to check his handheld after we showed him what the web site said.

we stood right there and ordered it online… for delivery from the store.

we finished up there, swung through arbys drive through, then filled-up the car.

and we barely beat the delivery guy from the store home.

one of the reasons i have captions on all the time. so i can keep the volume low enough during the program that the loud(er) advertisements don’t knock me out of my chair… or interrupt my nap.

by my grade 7, i had already learned all about dalkon shield and iuds, silicone breast implants and their risks, rely tampons and toxic shock syndrome, roe v wade, aids and homosexuality…

that was just the sex ed units from the regular nightly news.

the neo is still a relatively new product. the increase on it was probably planned from the beginning.

normally i’d be against ‘upgrades’, too, especially that different.

but this was a special case and i did have three decades of wading through this shit to pay the rent to work from. a fair bit of reading and a lot of prep ahead of time made the actual upgrade process itself almost completely uneventful. i did find one odd thing after it ran awhile, but it hasn’t resurfaced since.

P.S. I can be wrong, but IoT right now doesn’t shield oneself from installing copilot and other garbage, making this edition not better than others, you still need to debloat it.

a full year in here, with regular security updates. 11iot is still unmolested by microsoft shenanigans. nothing installed on it i didn’t put on myself, or didn’t come with the stripped-down windows, which isn’t much at all. there’s no store, so all the store-delivered shit is absent.

microsoft linux

British humor humour

he has windows, but i’ll mention the option to him next chance i get.

maximum memory speed is also often slower with 4 modules vs 2.