Bob's Bytes - a Misc Catch-up Session

 For 23 Sep 2021:

Topics of the Day:

• My Trip out West: Stats, Itinerary, Observations, video
• Inspiration4 flies
• Norton buying every free AV?
• It’s a scam if …
• Windows 11 release
• Beginners: PDFs to JPGs
• My Computer is dead!
• Starlink
• … plus odd bonuses on the way!

This just released: An explainer by Joel Hruska from ExtremeTech on Microsoft's terrible explanation of whether Windows 11 will or will not work on unsupported PCs:  https://www.extremetech.com/computing/327410-microsoft-needs-to-clarify-its-windows-11-update-policy-before-launch.  As he says, "From our {viewpoint} it looks like an excellent reason not to bother with Windows 11 in the first place" - which is my position at the moment.

Links of the Day:

• Mark Rober's Epic Elephant Toothpaste Party for Brody <link>
• My thrown-together video of our Trek out West <link>
• The Netflix trailer for "Countdown", the Inspiration4 space flight <link>
• Bo Burnham's "Welcome to the Internet," slightly terrifying accurate description <link> - a few ignorable  obscenities, but this is the Internet.  :-)