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An Amazon Order, a USPS Delivery

Empty Amazon box
I ordered a book from Amazon and even though it said “shipped and sold by Amazon.com”, it was actually shipped via USPS. As is to be expected from the United States Postal Service, the box broke open in transit and the book fell out somewhere along the way. For some reason, the postal carrier delivered an empty box to my porch.
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To Sonoma and Back Again

Downgrading from Sonoma to Ventura

For the first time, ever, I’m downgrading from a newly released operating system to its predecessor; macOS Sonoma to macOS Ventura. The driving force for the downgrade was VideoProc’s instant loss of functionality. It’s third-party software which I use every day and their tech support seems incapable of answering simple questions about this issue, so the downgrade was necessary until updates are issued.

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Just for Nostalgia

My favorite operating system of all time, Windows 2000 Professional. It’s running within Oracle’s VirtualBox on a Windows 11 gaming notebook.
Windows XP Professional, also running under emulation. It was released to manufacturer 22 years ago, this month.