A (non)post

Yeah, I'm overdue to post. Apart from a brief(?) rant, not gonna happen this week. Because of:

• the wife's Windows 7 PC dying. (At least it died when sales are on.)
• her new PC (which I picked and ordered, so I'm not blaming her), on which Windows 10 came out of the box looking nothing like Windows 10 on my PC.
• the vendor hiding the Windows product key, and telling me I'd never need to know it. (Because nothing ever goes wrong with Windows? Or disk drives?) 
• the absurd length of time Windows Update takes.
• the fact PCs now ship without manuals, or even a link to where on the vendor's website to find a manual. 
• the toner cartridge that arrived looking like it had been attacked by wolverines. 
• the peripheral manufacturers who abandoned hardware support, rather than produce Windows 10 drivers for customers who own their products.
• the Windows compatibility mode that wouldn't run Windows 7 drivers.
• the disk-partitioning utility that screwed up permissions. 
• the LAN software that ... well, that's so hosed, I'm still sorting things out.
• the crappy excuses for keyboards PC manufacturers ship nowadays. Not everyone wants to use a tablet or touch screen!
• the apps with opaque or nonexistent guidance on how to migrate libraries (images, audio files, and the like) to a new PC.

I could share more about my recent involuntary sysadmin experience, but I won't. You're welcome. Be back (hopefully) soon.