Microsoft Windows gripes

yeah I've been stuck in that nightmarish loop, always authenticate using text messages!

tbh I've got to hand it to Windows after my earlier gripe. at least it's not Debian. just upgraded Debian from 11 to 12 and it's completely fucked my Postgresql database. think I've lost it all. nothing is working to get the data back. most of it I can get from backups but not all of it. what a fucking nightmare

Every time: click on the Windows button, carefully click on the tiny icon for Word or Excel or whatever Office thing I need, realise that it doesn't give a shit which one I clicked and will open up a new panel of bigger icons to click on.

Oh, you'd like an external drive to always have the same letter, the one you assigned to it multiple times, every time you plug it in? Well, fuck you.

I have an external drive which I turn off often. I haven't had that happen. But I found this site which may solve that issue: https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Cheers!