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I started a loaf in the bread machine, but not quite sure I put in the right amount of flour! I used a 1/2 cup measure and counted two, for each of 3 cups. That is, I think I did! omg... I wasn't sure, so I threw in a final half-cup. Brainless.

Have all the stuff out on the counter to make a nice veg-beef-barley soup. Now that my mise en place is en place, I'll be starting that soon.

My new bread knife arrived today. It's a beauty... gleaming steel, full tang, serrated and sharp! I'm hoping my bread comes out so I can use the knife.
 
RadishRose said:
I started a loaf in the bread machine, but not quite sure I put in the right amount of flour! I used a 1/2 cup measure and counted two, for each of 3 cups. That is, I think I did! omg... I wasn't sure, so I threw in a final half-cup. Brainless.

Have all the stuff out on the counter to make a nice veg-beef-barley soup. Now that my mise en place is en place, I'll be starting that soon.

My new bread knife arrived today. It's a beauty... gleaming steel, full tang, serrated and sharp! I'm hoping my bread comes out so I can use the knife.
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Gosh, I haven't used my bread machine in years! But, the few times I've made bread, I used those boxed mixes from the grocery store.
Have you ever used them?
 
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Going to spend New Year's eve and New Year's day with family so, will be off tomorrow and stopping over. Tbh I would gladly stay home but, I do think we should spend time with family while we can and, anyway, it will be fun to welcome in the New Year together.

I wish you all a happy New Year and all the best for 2025.

Catch you next year ;)
 
Tonight's sunset.....

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RadishRose said:
I started a loaf in the bread machine, but not quite sure I put in the right amount of flour! I used a 1/2 cup measure and counted two, for each of 3 cups. That is, I think I did! omg... I wasn't sure, so I threw in a final half-cup. Brainless.

Have all the stuff out on the counter to make a nice veg-beef-barley soup. Now that my mise en place is en place, I'll be starting that soon.

My new bread knife arrived today. It's a beauty... gleaming steel, full tang, serrated and sharp! I'm hoping my bread comes out so I can use the knife.
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That is a doosie and happens to everyone. At least it was not a cookie or cake dough with ingredients from hell. I started measuring everything into individual bowls. If it does not look right - re-measure. This has saved my sanity a time or two.
Enjoy that bread knife for a long time please!
 
A brother with low computer skills who just bought a new Windows 11 laptop, phoned me yesterday Sunday evening asking for assistance sending his smartphone image files via email to a residential windows company he services product for. This was after a couple days and many hours of frustration. I worked in computer engineering hardware over many years and at one time did administration work on UNIX systems.

My own primary laptop is Windows 10 although I did buy for on the road travel, a cheap Windows 11 laptop collecting dust I'd need to turn on and read up on myself just to use again. Although I've occasionally advised him to always after booting a system up have on one's Windows screen, File Explorer (aka Windows Explorer, explorer.exe) and notepad.exe app windows open, he has never done so. Thus doesn't understand how to deal with issues once GUI applications stop performing like he's used to.

Many that use personal computers today do so almost entirely with a web browser open so Microsoft after Windows 7 began building their functionality around the Internet to the extent working with file systems is something many haven't a clue about even opening up. Thus system builders set up Windows to directly boot into the MS Edge Internet browser and not the Windows 11 desktop with a bunch of application ICONs already set up on user's Desktops so they don't even need to themselves create shortcuts for.

This is all the result of the dumbing down of computers due to the dominant phone smartphone era. Brother had all .heic extension phone camera images on his smartphone that his previous laptop applications automatically were set up to deliver via emails to his company. The extension .heic is an Apple and Iphone camera standard that is increasingly used with some higher tech Android phones too.

It took me a half hour just to get the brother to find the folder what in Windows 10 was named "This PC" that moron execs at Microsoft have a tendency to change names for with every new OS release. I had him type into the Task Bar search text box C: and "This PC" was way down at the bottom of a bunch of listings for OneDrive, Internet, camera, and other media stuff. So his actual PC system C: file system was somewhat not obvious. Microsoft should never had changed Windows Explorer's name to File Explorer.

I then had him in the text box drill down to C:/users/[his username]/ that had some of the below special files, like Documents, Downloads, My Pictures etc this tech person never uses on my own laptop.

Finding the location of all special folders in Windows'

There I had him make a new folder into which I made him copy all his camera .heic files by opening 2 windows.explorer windows then simply Mouse grabbing and dragging. His old PC image app worked directly from his camera memory so there was no need to copy those files directly into his old laptop. But in doing so, given issues, he was lost as to how to access those images or convert them to another extension his company could open.

The native Windows 10 or 11 image app is Photo (I use Irfanview or Photoshop). From there, one simply does from the three dots ... on the Photo Menu bar, a SaveAs and change the extension for the new copied file from .heic to .jpg. There are of course many third party apps that do the same thing and more as the default Windows 11 Photo app.
 
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A brother with low computer skills who just bought a new Windows 11 laptop, phoned me yesterday Sunday evening asking for assistance sending his smartphone image files via email to a residential windows company he services product for. This was after a couple days and many hours of frustration. I worked in computer engineering hardware over many years and at one time did administration work on UNIX systems.

My own primary laptop is Windows 10 although I did buy for on the road travel, a cheap Windows 11 laptop collecting dust I'd need to turn on and read up on myself just to use again. Although I've occasionally advised him to always after booting a system up have on one's Windows screen, File Explorer (aka Windows Explorer, explorer.exe) and notepad.exe app windows open, he has never done so. Thus doesn't understand how to deal with issues once GUI applications stop performing like he's used to.

Many that use personal computers today do so almost entirely with a web browser open so Microsoft after Windows 7 began building their functionality around the Internet to the extent working with file systems is something many haven't a clue about even opening up. Thus system builders set up Windows to directly boot into the MS Edge Internet browser and not the Windows 11 desktop with a bunch of application ICONs already set up on user's Desktops so they don't even need to themselves create shortcuts for.

This is all the result of the dumbing down of computers due to the dominant phone smartphone era. Brother had all .heic extension phone camera images on his smartphone that his previous laptop applications automatically were set up to deliver via emails to his company. The extension .heic is an Apple and Iphone camera standard that is increasingly used with some higher tech Android phones too.

It took me a half hour just to get the brother to find the folder what in Windows 10 was named "This PC" that moron execs at Microsoft have a tendency to change names for with every new OS release. I had him type into the Task Bar search text box C: and "This PC" was way down at the bottom of a bunch of listings for OneDrive, Internet, camera, and other media stuff. So his actual PC system C: file system was somewhat not obvious. Microsoft should never had changed Windows Explorer's name to File Explorer.

I then had him in the text box drill down to C:/users/[his username]/ that had some of the below special files, like Documents, Downloads, My Pictures etc this tech person never uses on my own laptop.

Finding the location of all special folders in Windows'

There I had him make a new folder into which I made him copy all his camera .heic files by opening 2 windows.explorer windows then simply Mouse grabbing and dragging. His old PC image app worked directly from his camera memory so there was no need to copy those files directly into his old laptop. But in doing so, given issues, he was lost as to how to access those images or convert them to another extension his company could open.

The native Windows 10 or 11 image app is Photo (I use Irfanview or Photoshop). From there, one simply does from the three dots ... on the Photo Menu bar, a SaveAs and change the extension for the new copied file from .heic to .jpg. There are of course many third party apps that do the same thing and more as the default Windows 11 Photo app.
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I had a problem when, in my android phone settings, it was set to .heic. I'm sure I had a good reason for that setting but I was unable to post pictures to SF or other places. I finally found the problem in the phone settings.
I believe I probably set it there after taking a course on Wondrium that taught cell phone photography. I still don't take great photos but I did improve and improved the camera settings in my phone.
 
David777 said:
A brother with low computer skills who just bought a new Windows 11 laptop, phoned me yesterday Sunday evening asking for assistance sending his smartphone image files via email to a residential windows company he services product for. This was after a couple days and many hours of frustration. I worked in computer engineering hardware over many years and at one time did administration work on UNIX systems.

My own primary laptop is Windows 10 although I did buy for on the road travel, a cheap Windows 11 laptop collecting dust I'd need to turn on and read up on myself just to use again. Although I've occasionally advised him to always after booting a system up have on one's Windows screen, File Explorer (aka Windows Explorer, explorer.exe) and notepad.exe app windows open, he has never done so. Thus doesn't understand how to deal with issues once GUI applications stop performing like he's used to.

Many that use personal computers today do so almost entirely with a web browser open so Microsoft after Windows 7 began building their functionality around the Internet to the extent working with file systems is something many haven't a clue about even opening up. Thus system builders set up Windows to directly boot into the MS Edge Internet browser and not the Windows 11 desktop with a bunch of application ICONs already set up on user's Desktops so they don't even need to themselves create shortcuts for.

This is all the result of the dumbing down of computers due to the dominant phone smartphone era. Brother had all .heic extension phone camera images on his smartphone that his previous laptop applications automatically were set up to deliver via emails to his company. The extension .heic is an Apple and Iphone camera standard that is increasingly used with some higher tech Android phones too.

It took me a half hour just to get the brother to find the folder what in Windows 10 was named "This PC" that moron execs at Microsoft have a tendency to change names for with every new OS release. I had him type into the Task Bar search text box C: and "This PC" was way down at the bottom of a bunch of listings for OneDrive, Internet, camera, and other media stuff. So his actual PC system C: file system was somewhat not obvious. Microsoft should never had changed Windows Explorer's name to File Explorer.

I then had him in the text box drill down to C:/users/[his username]/ that had some of the below special files, like Documents, Downloads, My Pictures etc this tech person never uses on my own laptop.

Finding the location of all special folders in Windows'

There I had him make a new folder into which I made him copy all his camera .heic files by opening 2 windows.explorer windows then simply Mouse grabbing and dragging. His old PC image app worked directly from his camera memory so there was no need to copy those files directly into his old laptop. But in doing so, given issues, he was lost as to how to access those images or convert them to another extension his company could open.

The native Windows 10 or 11 image app is Photo (I use Irfanview or Photoshop). From there, one simply does from the three dots ... on the Photo Menu bar, a SaveAs and change the extension for the new copied file from .heic to .jpg. There are of course many third party apps that do the same thing and more as the default Windows 11 Photo app.
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every computer user needs a ''David'' in their life....:D(y)
 
Morning all folks!! Well we had some rain overnite, all thru now
I think...only 36F outside and temp not rising hardly any today,,,,
No biggie plans, got to get a new furnace filter put in today....oh, yesterday when the young lady was delivering grocery I asked if she had time to fix light bulbs for me and she did and so that is taken care of, passed her a fiver and we both
happy people!!! Have a great day and Happy New Year.....:love:
 

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