Archive of ‘personal’ category

12
Feb
2020

Another minor hiccup, or series of them.

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I have had to roll back the most recent Windows update twice now because for some reason, actually getting it on this computer has been the most difficult process… and this thing doesn’t have bad specs, so it confuses me as to why the process of updating it seems to be the most cumbersome and difficult. I’ve tried to follow the advice of tech blogs and tech message boards that I have found, and have tried different ways to download the update, so we will see how that goes since I am now doing the lattermost of those things…

I mean, when this new computer works well, it works great. Don’t get me wrong.

However, when it decides to throw random errors, they are some of the worst that I have seen, and I thought that I liked Windows 10. As this continues to bother me and give me migraines, I am beginning to rethink that given the sheer difficulty of updating a computer that should effortlessly be able to update (from a fresh Windows 10 load a few days ago, no less!). I’m still thankful that the system restore that I attempted when everything seemed absolutely amiss with this computer actually worked… thankful, and equal parts surprised that it actually did restore nearly everything, to include my files and some of the most important settings on this computer that I wanted to keep. Hopefully at some point I can actually update this thing…

11
Feb
2020

So far, my reasons for disability denials…

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· you have a STEM degree (an associates’ in Biology obtained before the onset of any disability)
· you’re intelligent, so you can adapt to work (when my disabilities are all physical)
· “your functional limitations line up with your neurologist’s report on you, but we still believe you can work”
· the migraine aborters actually work 100% at taking all migraine pain away, so I “can work”
· “you may have some limitations” (ha), “but you can adapt to work” (and absolutely no work is listed)

I had a friend whose mother had to apply for disability for them four separate times while they were a child, just to get them approved. That was four separate applications that she had to put in. Another case that I heard about was the friend of several friends waiting for a hearing after having been denied twice, just to die in her sleep. And I read about someone who had to advance it to a hearing for leukemia, at which point they were approved, but they died soon after because they could not start therapy for their cancer in time to save their life. This is literally what disabled people in the United States have to deal with. They have to put in application after application, or advance it to a hearing and wait up to two years to get in front of an administrative law judge, hoping that they can hold their heads above water while they do, also hoping that they don’t actually die before disability benefits are granted. Like I’ve mentioned before, 13,000 people die per calendar year here because they actually are disabled and they kept being denied benefits. That is one hell of an “oops”. I’m starting to think that it’s intentional on the part of this country, a feature, not a “bug”.

10
Feb
2020

Okay, one very minor hiccup to be had.

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For some reason, when doing one of the last Windows updates to this laptop, it completely froze at 27% and just… sat there, so I had no choice but to power down the computer, start it back up, and have it “undo” the update. Now I’m following the advice of some tech blogs to see if this can’t be fixed, because I see no reason why this Windows update shouldn’t seamlessly install. I know that sometimes Windows updates can take a really long time to install (the infamous “blue screen”), but this one absolutely hung on 27%. I’m going to run Disk Cleanup, make sure that this continues to be as defragmented as possible, and continue to do some research into this to… get it not to hang, although I may also just wait until I can purchase a replacement USB since our last one stopped functioning due to old age and make a backup of Windows, which this actually suggests, in the event that this tries to brick this computer. But I really don’t want it to hang again…

Once I get this final update successfully on this computer though I am done with setting it up!

Okay, but that was how many migraines that needed to be medicated between now and then though?

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