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polydigm
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If they want you to work from home they should provide you the computer!
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BBP
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Guess what? Today they did! Well it does depend on how well my Wifi runs here...
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Cleared and cleaned the desk in my sister's bedroom. I find it a bit scary to be honest...
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Calvin
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Your sister's desk or working at home?
I've been working at home for over 10 years now. While I don't feel part of the culture at work, I love being able to just sit there and do my typing
and listen to my stereo without distractions.
Oh, hello by the way. 
Hi there.
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Hi Cal, great to see you!
I have a sore throat from all the talking. Work has been in-cre-di-bly busy, more than twice as busy as a high season Monday. I can't imagine how that
would be if all the seats in the office would be occupied.
I cleared my sister's desk for nothing since the WIFI wasn't good enough.
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Darn. We just changed ISPs and got some really nice speeds for the internet.
My wife is still working because she's the manager, but with the school closed down here, her drivers can't work. (She manages a bus company.)
Hi there.
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BBP
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Tricky.
I'm off for day 2 of working from home... I hope I can use a USB mouse since working with the touchpad is a pain in the neck
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polydigm
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The touch pad on my Mac laptop is great. When I use an older computer with a mouse, it feels very hampered.
So, you did mean that working from home was scary?
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You're really on your own - so that if I need help or permission I can't put a client on hold and walk off, I need to use a chat programme and hope
that I get an answer in considerable time.
I'm quite accustomed to the touchpad on my laptop but this one's very different, I don't like the buttons yet. Also the shortcuts - F5 as refresh I
need to use a lot when I work with our computer system since it often doesn't load properly - however I need to hold the function button in order to
activate F5. It took a frustrating day before I found out that just pressing F5 only turns the keyboard lighting on and off.
F5 is right next t F4, which turns the microphone on and off. On Saturday I could work, but on Monday I couldn't get the sound to work - I asked help
to three or four people on the chat but none of them could figure it out - it wasn't until I noticed a tiny LED next to a tiny microphone mute symbol
when I realized what was going on.
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polydigm
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Talk about love hate relationships - computers are definitely the ultimate. I really love what they can do for me, but sheesh, can they be a pain in
the butt.
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BBP
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Oh I know...
Talk about learning new things. "It's Oh So Quiet" that Björk made famous is a cover from the song by the same title by Betty Hutton, which is a
translated cover of the 1948 song Und Jetzt Ist Es Still by Harry Winter.
Betty Hutton
[url]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=it's+oh+so+quiet+hutton&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3
DhorRWtbAJoI[/url]
Harry Winter
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=und+jetzt+ist+es+still&ia=videos&i...
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BBP
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I bought a USB keyboard, hope it helps...
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It does! My working station is coming along now... am thinking of a few extra books to put the laptop at a nice height but for now the "Bulgarische
Volkskunst" is doing its job just fine. 
Been great to have a few days off after each other, had a longer day today but it hasn't been as stressful.
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polydigm
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My new Mac laptop has a fundamental flaw that is still irritating me beyond measure. The keys are too big and too closely spaced together. I’m just
not getting used to it and constantly making typos due to finger overlap. My previous Mac laptop was smaller, but I still didn’t have that problem.
Smaller keys and more spacing forces you to aim better while typing.
Anyway, our renovation is finished and life is back to normal with some nice improvements, so I can’t complain. Our regular swimming laps have had to
stop due to pool closures so we’re trying to go for more walks. I’m missing the fact that swimming is all over exercise all at the same time, whereas
walking only exercises your legs.
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Yeah true... too bad about the pool.
It sounds really irritating, that keyboard. I'm personally getting used to the home and end buttons at the usb keyboard I use now but at least it's
better than needing the Fn button to get the function keys.
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Is your laptop a Mac or Windoze machine? Isn't there a system setting that changes whether the fn key is needed or not? There is on a Mac, where you
can choose whether you need the fn key for the standard function keys or for the special features.
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Windows, but I'm very happy with the USB keyboard. Not only because of the function keys a=but also because of the distance between keyboard and
monitor I can use now.
There's another issue - our system works better on a smaller resolution and now I have to do sideways scrolling on pages that I could see in full on
the computers at work. I set te browser smaller to counteract it but that's not ideal.
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In a total shocker Till Lindemann (singer to Rammstein) was admitted to ICU due to Corona.I hope he recovers fully...
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Good day today, it was relatively quiet on the line and of course Dir En Grey livestreamed a concert.
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Yes, we’re in quite a pickle aren’t we? Mind you, it’s a fraction of the upside down world my parents found themselves in during the Second World War.
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