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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem With Windows
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:36:05 -0400
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-hh wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 3/24/24 1:20 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> candycanearter07 wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 12:50 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>
>>>> At work I wanted to make Caps Lock = Ctrl, so I had to google it up, make
>>>> myself a temporary-limited user via the corporate crapware, and make the
>>>> change.
>>>>
>>>> Only to find later that a corporate update or something changed it back.
>>>> So now I have to undo the accidental typing a capital letters a lot :-(.
>>>>
>>>> And they got a white-list of apps you can install. IIRC, gummint IT had
>>>> a huge black-list instead.
>>>
>>> Maybe if you ask nicely they could whitelist AutoHotKey?
>> 
>> Nah. Retiring soon.
>
> There reaches just such a point for everyone.  How close are you to FRA 
> for Social Security?  I've recently been working with and learning some 
> tools which optimize one's collection strategy for SS; let me know if 
> you're close enough to be interested in them & their basic operating 
> principles & I'll get you up to speed quickly.

Thank you for the kind thought.  However I am already at full-retirement age
and got everything squared away.  Also pretty set with the 401k stuff, too.

Yesterday was my last day on the job.  I boxed up the fershlugging Windows
laptop and will take it to Fedex on Monday.  More room on the desk for the
Linux laptops.

Again, thanks!

-- 
Today is what happened to yesterday.