Lol, more like per week around here! 
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The kicker here - after my previous work issued laptop crashed, I had to wait 3 weeks for a new laptop because it just so happened that’s when the crowdstrike issues hit - and our IT dept couldn’t commission me a new laptop until the issues were resolved. My clients were starting to ask questions - how can you be running $70M data center projects without a laptop for 3 weeks?
Oh how I miss simple computing… am I the only one that misses windows XP? I mean if I have to pick a windows version.
I agree. Although I’d gladly give up half my hobby budget if my wife would pick up similar hobbies.
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I still see people online that want program manager back from Windows 3.1. There is one thing for certain in computing. Things will change. I remember my mom complaining that Apple changed the settings page on "her" iPhone without her permission. 
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I still run a windows XP vm locally… it runs a really old version of iTunes to share my 20-yr old catalog of music and videos to Apple devices around the house.
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Somebody else has joined the pineapple pizza discussion today
'alexa good morning’
‘Good morning. Here's something to think about next time you munch on a Hawaiian pizza. Did you know that pineapples don't originate from Hawaii? In fact, they were planted there for the first time on this day in 1813.’
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Unclear - does he mean before or after scattering? 
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either
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The same will be true if / when we ever do away with USB A adapters.
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My wife just dropped off 4 more adapters in my office. Asked if I knew what they were to. She knows better that if she doesn't know then I wouldn't know. I'll just add them to my big bin. I will say that this pile of adapters has saved me a couple of times with alarm clocks and such. Right voltage, wrong end but just cut the end off the alarm clocks adapter and the donner adapter and black tape the clocks end to the donner and job is done.
The integrated USB A with power brick adapters really have a short lifespan due to the cheap components they used. Just watch Big Clive when he does teardowns. My weather stations receiver power supply month by month kept dropping the current it was putting out and had to replace it with an old Motorola one. I will tell you that Motorola built their USB A adapters to last. And don't get me started with the cheap ones that Samsung used to put into their phone boxes.
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I had that in my possession at one point. Well after they were sold, but it was interesting. Ran CP/M if I recall.
