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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Cannot resist saying it out loud, that is such a guy solution. It's got every single element in GuyThink right in one motion, and I trust in the absence of other ladies here to back me up that this is pretty obvious

:: smh ::
Oh, I definitely agree with you. "Here, hold m' beer while I fix that thicket in Uncle Dickey's ears. I seen it done on one a them YouTube things one time." Somewhere in there lurks the question, "What could go wrong?"
 
Rapunzel?

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and where might one wear this IRL.


edit. and what would my parents say
 
Rapunzel?

and where might one wear this IRL.
I remember being disturbed by that when you posted it some miles back. Seeing the watermark, I think it may be more a proof-of-concept advertising effort than anything else. On the other hand, "Art of Makeup" has me thinking this might lead to more of a "look at me" statement than I care for. I like tastefully made-up women, not something contrived that makes me think of, oh...a Kardashian, say.
 
I remember being disturbed by that when you posted it some miles back. Seeing the watermark, I think it may be more a proof-of-concept advertising effort than anything else. On the other hand, "Art of Makeup" has me thinking this might lead to more of a "look at me" statement than I care for. I like tastefully made-up women, not something contrived that makes me think of, oh...a Kardashian, say.

A lot of women (myself included) upped their eye makeup game in the time of covid masks.
 
Johnson made a tire lock for cars around the turn of the last century. The idea was revived many years later. I had something similar as a motorcycle lock. It was pretty heavy, I'd lock it in a circle and ride with it over one shoulder.



Gabby Johnson has something to add.

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TL;DR The most recent video driver upgrade was behind a couple days of frozen screens and fatal stops.

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I see the update ready icon and do the old "custom install" deal to make sure no hornswaggler slipped in a helpful third party program I don't want (e.g. free antivirus, free browser). Whee.

Diagnostician me: what changed on my computer between the time of crashes and no crashes. Memory me: new video driver.

Can't roll back the driver. Visit the graphics card folks' website, find the "old" driver from May. Won't download. Won't download three times. Four times. Good night moon

Visit the website again this morning. Driver downloads. Work and not-panda-stuff all day and there are no crashes.

Computer component super-genius me

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add memory, upgrade CPU, GPU. That's easily a grand, "done right". I'll be able to use virtual green screens on Zoom and videos!

That'll also buy a pretty nice bass. Ya know.
 
TL;DR The most recent video driver upgrade was behind a couple days of frozen screens and fatal stops.

***

I see the update ready icon and do the old "custom install" deal to make sure no hornswaggler slipped in a helpful third party program I don't want (e.g. free antivirus, free browser). Whee.

Diagnostician me: what changed on my computer between the time of crashes and no crashes. Memory me: new video driver.

Can't roll back the driver. Visit the graphics card folks' website, find the "old" driver from May. Won't download. Won't download three times. Four times. Good night moon

Visit the website again this morning. Driver downloads. Work and not-panda-stuff all day and there are no crashes.

Computer component super-genius me

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add memory, upgrade CPU, GPU. That's easily a grand, "done right". I'll be able to use virtual green screens on Zoom and videos!

That'll also buy a pretty nice bass. Ya know.

Just an FYI... There was an international internet outage this morning (Tuesday) that affected a lot of major sites. That may have been the cause of your download probs. Or not.
 
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