Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Programmers.

They're so smart they're stupid.  

A year and a bit ago, I bought this laptop.  I mostly use it for writing, but I also use it to read online, and to play some solitaire, and some match-three games.  I had my music on it, and downloaded a separate music player because I hate the one that comes with microsoft products.  

 End of November, Microsoft started pushing their AI "assistant" into everything.  

Including Word.  

I let my subscription lapse, and bought Atticus.  

Fast forward a bit to last month.  When the Microsoft updates went to do their thing.  

"You don't have enough room on your C drive for this update.  Use our smart tool to free up space for the update."  

Say what, now?  I do not have a lot of data, and this laptop was supposed to have an enormous amount of space.  

Well.  Come to find out, it does...but on a separate partition.  

All of my data has to live elsewhere, and most of my play-programs had to be uninstalled.  

Because somebody had the BRILLIANT idea to make the DATA partition more than 2/3 of the total space.  

And now I can't figure out how to get my music player to find the music files on my jump drive.  

I seriously want to head-desk the bright boy that decided that ALL laptops MUST have a partition because of COURSE everybody has to restore to factory settings sometimes.  Because the internet is for porn.  Right?