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#2735462 27-Jun-2021 19:06

I still can figure out why Microsoft is intentionally assigning most computers from more than 2-3 years ago to the scrap-heap. I have 10-year old laptops that still run Windows 10 well enough for kids to watch videos and play Roblox - the TPM thing will mean all of them will be stuck with an OS that has an end of life only 3-4 years away.

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#2735480 27-Jun-2021 20:08

Easy solution: Don't update Windows.

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#2735817 28-Jun-2021 14:12

what is the junk in the trunk
what is it that elephants dont forget . Is there junk in their trunk
why is a floppy drive actually rigid

Will my fax machine run Windows11 . Will my 'PC Direct' meet any hardware specs ?

Is it a question if we dont expect an answer ?

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#2735869 28-Jun-2021 14:15

Gurezaemon:

.... why Microsoft is intentionally assigning most computers from more than 2-3 years ago to the scrap-heap.

scrap heap : yes they can never be used for anything, ever .
After 11 they will melt if you spill water on them.

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#2735874 28-Jun-2021 14:21

Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

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#2735885 28-Jun-2021 15:07

What was it that the pavement?

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#2735886 28-Jun-2021 15:17

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

- Ogden Nash

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#2735915 28-Jun-2021 17:32

What's the difference between a duck?

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#2735924 28-Jun-2021 17:57

neb: What's the difference between a duck?

One of it's legs are both the same!

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#2735927 28-Jun-2021 18:01

Why does a dog whistle but a cat has your tongue?

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#2735930 28-Jun-2021 18:12

Back in the 1960s there was a product sold in small fluted glass jars, called "meat paste" that my mother slapped between slices of white bread plastered with 1/4 inch thickness of butter and called it a "sandwich". I ate it once, then never again, I subsisted on the free warm milk at school that tasted off because it had been left in the sun (IOW it tasted off because it was), a slice of apple that had gone brown by lunchtime, and if I was lucky a tiny cardboard pack of raisins. Fearing the reaction if I returned home with the sandwiches in my lunchbox, I biffed them in the bin for years, and gradually got thinner and thinner. The reaction to this from my mother - fear that I was "failing to thrive" - was to carve even thicker slices of cold nasty butter, and pack my sandwich with even more of that vile grey substance that even the school cat wouldn't touch.

What was that "meat" paste actually made from?

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#2735932 28-Jun-2021 18:16

Why does a mirror flip your reflection left-right but not up-down?

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#2735933 28-Jun-2021 18:17

@neb - that's remarkable.

That was a (non) joke my grandfather used to tell me when I was a small kid - I've never heard it elsewhere or since, and the only reaction when I tried to tell it was a blank despairing look of pity, that the lad telling it wasn't all there.

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#2735934 28-Jun-2021 18:17

Thats a great question, I refused to eat it, my dad loved it go figure

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#2735935 28-Jun-2021 18:25

Fred99:
What was that "meat" paste actually made from?

According to Google it's:

Beef (36%), Chicken (33%), Water, Soya Protein Concentrate, Potato Starch, Beef Stock (Beef Extract, Yeast Extract, Water, Chicory Fibre, Salt, Sugar, Frog Liver, Cornflour, Onion, Spice), Rusk (Wheat Flour, Vegan Water, Salt, Kudzu, MSG, Raising Agent (E503), Dried Anchovy, Portland Cement, Stabiliser (E472e), Wood Fibre from Cardboard, Elvers, Salt, Yeast Extract, Shellac, Insect Parts (12%), Ground Mustard, Pasteurised Duck Teeth, Barley Malt Extract, Brominated Vegetable Oil, Organic Toenails, Propylene Glycerol, Ground White Pepper, Charcoal, Nutmeg Extract.

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