Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

60 years ago tonight, NBC aired its first red-shirt dying on an alien planet, while on a routine mission in some kind of Star Trek, thinking he would get stereotypical sailor lucky with a salt monster and falling into The Man Trap.

The red-shirt's uniform was a blue shirt.

It took me a month to figure out why a CSS background was perfectly aligned with rows of pre element text in one browser on one PC, but refused to line up in any browser on another PC, not even the same browser.

Some fonts have line height oddities, & my font-face stack named fonts not on both PCs. Oops.

If you run Outlook for Windows during an Internet access outage, then instead of opening a window, it instantly pops up an error message then quits. The error:

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Connection Error

A connection to the internet could not be established. Please connect to the internet and restart the application.

[_OK_]

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Boy, destroying the Mail app built in to Windows & replacing it with a PWA worse than Electron was sure a good move and worth it.

I still think of what would've happened to CP/M-86 and GEM if IBM had put in a modicum of effort to meet with Digital Research instead of Micro-Soft.

GEOS, GS/OS, and GEM should've all been more popular and longer lasting GUI systems than they actually were.

I miss when Microsoft tended not to give multiple different products the same name. Instead, we have:

Surface & Surface: a portable tablet & a freaking coffee table,

Outlook, Outlook, and Outlook: a built-in Windows component, a pay-for productivity application, & a website unrelated to the other two,

Fourteen (!) different Windows 10 versions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history

And now 6 different Windows 11 versions: 21H2, 22H2, 23H2, 24H2, 25H2, & 26H1.

My tech support patient today is a laptop with Windows 11 installed.

However, Windows 11 has reached end of support, and I can't upgrade it from Windows 11 to Windows 11 because, while the CPU was compatible with Windows 11 and is actually listed as an approved CPU for Windows 11, the CPU is not compatible with Windows 11 and in fact the entire CPU series is missing from the list of approved CPUs for Windows 11.

This is some serious "Who's on First?" vibe of Kafkaesque hell.

It seems I'm late. The spam only just now found me.

Google's answer: "Manage invitations in Calendar: Control who sends invitations to your Google Calendar.", https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/13159188

👩​ -( The directions seem reasonable? )

Microsoft's answer: "Calendar Spam Entries", https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5904267/calendar-spam-entries

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