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Yesterday, via the usual search for the forgotten info about which printer manufacturer's products were badged as Dell, I got the laptop talking to the laser printer and printing a test page. (I even found easier to use info than in the past.)

And thence to P&Pw/Z.

Much silly. Very costumes.

I'm a habitual watcher to the absolute end of the credits: partly because with a sibling who's an editor I like to appreciate all the effort put in by the entire crew; partly because I paid to see the whole movie; partly because the end credits can be as much a work of imagination and creativity as the opening credits or the film itself, and you never know what's been slotted in.... This time the remainder of the audience had hung around long enough to appreciate the inevitable resurgence of the evil, but they'd all left--bar Looby Loo and I--for the moment when the classical soundtrack was faded out for the spooky rewrite of "Ring-a-ring-a-roses" and then silence and a blank screen. Spooky.
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I keep on meaning to write this up, so, since it's too rainy for a foraging trip (plums!), I'll get it out the way.

I'd not updated Mint on my tiny Vye for a very long time (the version had fallen off the support list) and various things, mostly to do with updates and fixes, had started to go awry. So, I upgraded. Not to a more recent Mint, but to a more minimal install. Pretty much a compromise between a build it yourself and a fully-euipped install. I looked at several, found some I liked but which were 64-bit installs, and then settled on Peppermint.

Set up the USB, tried it from the USB, made a list of programs I'd installed myself post-Mint installation, backed up the tiny bit of data I needed from my hard disk. Installed Peppermint 6 and wiped Mint out.

I then reinstalled those programs I decided I needed--Vivaldi, LogJam, Scrivener, TeXstudio--and omitted some others (Opera), set up links to Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, tweaked my email arrangements and was good to go.

Everything good to go. Faster, cleaner, more like an ancient Windows machine than ever. With my start menu down the right-hand side of the screen just how I like it.

It took a week before I had to cave in and install bit of OfficeLibre to read a docx file.

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