Oof. That’s horrendous. Hoping for a steady nó lightning few days to assist.

We had days of 999 (where the scale stopped) during the Australian bushfires in 2019, and anything over 150 was already brutal. Above 300 and you feel like you can chew the air.

We’re old like dirt.

Or beans. Old like beans.

Weekend at Mitch’s

Good ideas to investigate. Thanks for the suggestions. :)

At time of disappear, the keyboard was turned off (Bluetooth, I was watching videos) Only mouse was in use, and the focus was on a non streaming browser. (Disappeared streaming browser was on monitor two, steam and other items that disappeared were on primary monitor) I’ve since wondered if I somehow hit just the right combo of buttons on the mouse to cause it, but no luck reproducing.

I don’t have restore previous sessions turned on. The haunted browser came back after a full day of normal use and two reboots. Having it reappear at the point in the video I’d been watching (and have since finished) really made me double take.

I use display port for both monitors, and have since installing this OS. Cables have not been reseated since then. I did have trouble getting both working correctly, (Nvidia card) so will double check that I don’t have a ghostly monitor installed to the system.

Windows 11 was stress. I was spending far too much time keeping it the way I want it - stable, no cloud, no AI. A four hour call with MS tech support (that went in the most idiotic circles) kinda sealed the fate of my new desktop build (old one had a failing MB, no choice but to finally upgrade hardware) and switched both it and another desktop the next day.

Much less stressed now, even when things go weird and wonky.

Mint (Cinnamon) - Mutter (Muffin)

Haven’t gotten too far into customizing/switching things up yet, still learning.

See through items would be almost as amusing as vanishing items. :D

Literally. :D

The missing programs were not on the taskbar, they just poofed away all at once as if they’d been closed. (Nothing on taskbar for other workspaces) Certainly didn’t expect one to reappear a few days later. >.<

If it’s some esoteric geometry bug, it’s a darn tricky one.

It’s a self build. ;)

Most likely explanation.

I’m OK with this.

Absolutely this. I was spending 2-3 hours a week making my Win11 box stable.

Once a month I had to redo all the sound drivers, as with each reboot sound would get quieter and quieter until I was running a lottery of which program wouldn’t be affected any given day and suddenly have it’s volume loud enough to shake the house.

I upgraded CPU/MB after the MB failed, MS cancelled my Win11 licence. I realized I still was spending stupid amounts of time keeping things working, and I am very against all the AI being shoved into every Windows book and cranny.

The first week of ditching Win11, I was tinkering everything because New Shiny, but now things were working I’m not even sure I’ve spent 3 hours in the last two months tinkering.

That was adorably fun.

Narrowed down to the one I chose, and now I have my next choice if to test run.

I’d wager it’s due to the user’s catalogue of knowledge being effectively reset, even the deepest of users of windows has years of working around the (many) issues. Swap to a new OS, the knowledge doesn’t always transfer.

It’s not hard, it’s just different.

I’ve always answered “Fighting words” when someone asked if was American. (I live in Australia, and the assumption that my accent is American always irked me)

These days people who do ask where I am from do so by asking if I am Canadian, a sharp contrast to when I moved here over a decade ago. I guess some other Canadians have dropped the polite corrections and gone straight to growling.

Used to buy succulent seeds online, and sadly there were a fair number of scammers selling seeds for what appeared to be gorgeous, but non-existent photoshopped succulents.

Scammers gotta scam, and AI makes it easy.

Very effective for cold climate/weather, not so mach for heat.

I did this for the windows on an old 1920’s cabin in BC, the walls and roof cavity had been retrofitted with insulation, leaving the windows as the big heat loss spot during winter. Didn’t fix how cold it go inside during winter completely, but it did bring the unheated temp up a degree or two, which made heating and keeping a temp easier.

Summer, OTOH, it created a heat pocket that radiated more heat inside, so I did a covering for outside with light coloured heavy fabric (curtain fabric) for the outside.

Maybe you and I can go splits. You can have my share of the stone if I can have the pain relief part.

For real. Everyone already has their friend group, their clique, whatever. They often say they are open and welcoming, and sometimes are for a while. They don’t try to get to know the newcomer, regale then with stories of their already set in stone group, and make promises they have no intention of keeping. Newcomer leaves, and they don’t even notice or care to reach out, and if they do, it’s purely performative and there’s no follow through because they already have their group.

Australia: I don’t get it either.

So far, so good. Thanks much for this!