XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 1/24/24 11:19 AM, micky wrote:   
   > People laughed at me when I said I wanted a desktop and a laptop with a   
   > DVD drive.  No one uses those anymore, they taunted me.   
   >   
   > Well, I was visiting my brother and sil, and good friends of theirs had   
   > given them a telescope.  They live on the 17th floor of an 18 story   
   > building, on a corner apt with a balcony.   
   >   
   > And they are complicated. Setup especially. And guess what, included in   
   > the box was a DVD.  Their computers would not play it but mine could. So   
   > there.   
   >   
   > It turns out, the telescope is still for sale new, a couple hundred   
   > dollars iirc, but the file dates on all the DVD files was from 2008.   
   >   
   > It included weblinks to the manufacturer, for warranty registration etc.   
   > and none of the links still worked, It also included the user manual in   
   > PDF, which is good because one of their new dogs** ate up part of the   
   > paper manual.   I sent the pdf to each of their email accounts, though   
   > afaict neither reads his or her email. But if they complain later, I'll   
   > send another copy.  LOL   
   >   
   > **The dogs are maltepoos.  Combination of a poodle with a malted milk.   
   And a usb plug in drive would also work on all systems including the   
   above people you visited.   
   You could even make an ISO from it and give them the ISO they could   
   mount and run without a DVD.   
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