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To Err is human, to really foul it takes a computer.
and a refuting corollary - one of the biggest causes of bugs is a programmer with an idea.
1. We've been having some problems with theft from a shed in our yard, and the police suggest installing a camera. Did some research and a combined camera and floodlight from Ring seems appropriate. But....
a. I can't install the app on my current phone - its old and uses android 4.2, the app wants minimum of 5.0
b. I've been able to get the app installed on a win10 laptop, but trying to add the camera to the device list just calls up the instructions again. grr. Not everyone has a modern phone!
I think I'm going to need to upgrade my phone, but I've been happy with the current one, and I'm lazy....
2. On a different computer, at our family's vacation home, I got a used computer from our church. Didn't know it had originally been win8.1 and upgraded to win10. I ended up putting a newer solid state drive in it to re-install win10, and that did ok. Problem is, we just tried to install a new release of an old game, from Steam. Video card won't support DirectX12. grumble. need to find a better video card.
3. Just bought new headphones, a cordless noise-cancelling model. When turned on, the phones announce what devices they're connected to, by the computer label or phone label. Which is a bunch of strange letters that I apparently can't change to a more friendly label. I guess I'll eventually get used to it, but I still have to listen carefully to figure out if I'm still connected to the right device.
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