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Well I've made my mouse move around better and I have set up my VPN.

All by my own self.

I changed my homepage. My choice of duckduckgo now comes up in Firefox and Internet Explorer but Google Chrome keeps coming up as google. Maybe that's just automatic because it's a Google thing?

What search engine do you guise recommend anyway?
 
Mudcat
For someone I speak to so seldom, that is a remarkably on-the-money assessment. I intend to copy the whole thread to a Word file (or whatever) and refer to it in writing a book which I will probably start a few months down the line.

I want to make sure I have it in case the forum explodes to smithereens. Disaster insurance. And I figure it is tidier in that format than trying to copy/paste 550 (or whatever) normal pages.

I wouldn't say it is so much for "a new book project idea" as "a bunch of hopefully funny little filler ideas."

But yeah.
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how is the book writing going?
 
Archie
how is the book writing going?
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Thank you for asking. In the big picture it is good. It is well designed and well over half the chapters have first drafts done. I was going through a period of some staleness the last few months so when the Jeopardy test came up I decided to take a complete break from writing and just focus on my game. That seemed timely.

But now I will be getting back to daily progress on the book.

It will still take some time though. I keep having to go to my stupid job!


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RogueJuror
Muddy did you ever get that smartphone?
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Nope, never did.

Came somewhat close. If a guy I was talking to at Best Buy had been just a little bit competent as a salesman, he could have sold me. I was feeling ready to go for a minute and a half there.

But the guy was just useless and I walked out thinking I would maybe find someone better later and try again.

But nope.

I needed a camera so I bought a camera. As for the phone and not having one, here's the thing: I don't seem to care.
 
Somewhat annoying with this new computer: when I open a website for the first time - which happens a lot at this early stage - it balks. I sit here waiting . . . and waiting . . . while I guess it is deciding if the website is okay. I guess maybe it is my security software?

Not totally sure. Anyway, once I start using sites repeatedly, they're fine. But last night I tried opening Youtube because I wanted to play something for Jenny and I basically just had to give up. It came around eventually but it was a stupid amount of time.

While this is happening, there is a little message in the bottom corner saying something like performing a TLS handshake . . .

I know I can google this but I just felt like venting for a second.
 
Google ---> it's a good thing. Well, actually I didn't google, I duckduckgo'd.

In any case, I got the answers I needed for my email-straight-to-trash issue so good.


Here's an ongoing issue though: sound.

My old laptop, which I used for my music project and is connected to some pretty nice speakers through an audio interface ---> I'm not sure how to connect my new laptop to those speakers. When I plug the interface's USB plug into this computer, it starts looking for drivers and it never finds them.

Meanwhile the speakers themselves each have a prong plug. There are compatible female receptacles on the audio interface but not this computer.


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Mudcat
Here's an ongoing issue though: sound.

My old laptop, which I used for my music project and is connected to some pretty nice speakers through an audio interface ---> I'm not sure how to connect my new laptop to those speakers. When I plug the interface's USB plug into this computer, it starts looking for drivers and it never finds them.

Meanwhile the speakers themselves each have a prong plug. There are compatible female receptacles on the audio interface but not this computer.


:dunno:
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This issue remains open.
 
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