A great day, tater.
Came back from walking the dogs this morning, and found this:
That’s a Samsung monitor I bought back in 2020. Seems old, but the working monitor to the left is a Samsung, an earlier version of this one, that I bought well before this one.
I farted with it awhile, it would start work, then immediately blow up. Fuggit. I don’t think it’ll be replaced.
I went running at lunch, came back and found the black screen of death on my Thinkpad. The black screen of death is a Linux thing. That laptop was running Mint. It vapor locked over something, and said a restart is needed. OK. Hit the power button and it shut off.
Never to return. Tried pulling the battery and everything.
Nope. It’s dead, Jim.
My old Thinkpad did the same thing. Vapor locked, crashed and burned. Instant boat anchor. When I took it apart to do some troubleshooting, I found it was the motherboard. That’s been unusual for Thinkpads I’ve owned. Normally, they linger for years and I donate them.
So instead of ordering a new monitor, I did this:
(Notice Winston crashed in the doorway? That’s his spot)
Glad I bought the Mac. I moved the laptop stand from my second desk to the my primary one, and planted the Mac on it. There’s another reason for that. I’m writing this on my Mac. I’m doing this because the Window machine is doing something – antivirus I think, that’s jamming me up. Until it does whatever it’s doing, my iCloud won’t sync images from my phone. I fired up the Mac, and everything worked.
BTW, I’ve had a ton of irritating crap happen on my work laptop with Windows 11.
I’m so done with Microsoft.
Inspected By Pat 
I keep getting the impending doom messages about support for Windows 10 ending soon. My ancient desktop at home, purchased for a whopping $79 as a refurb from Tiger Direct when they even still had a Brick and Mortar in Ft. Myers is still chugging along on Windows 10 and absolutely has NOT the resources for the transition.
What to do…. what to do….
I guess I’ll cross that bridge when quite literally FORCED to do so. Hell, I have an old Dell running XP under the desk still. Why? It has a fully licensed and owned by ME copy of AutoCAD LT 2007 on it that functions brilliantly and doesn’t cost me a monthy “Subscription Fee”. Autodesk has discontinued migration of this so I’m stuck with it until the old machine dies.
The work machines? I’ll have to see what the I.T. nerds that oversee them say about it. I’m far too much of a luddite… hell, I resist EVERY damn “update” that’s issued, to be concerned. What they did have me do is the magic trick to eliminate the insistent notifications about Windows 11.
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