XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   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.   
      
   https://tinyurl.com/2gysx9tj   
   "You don't technically need a bootable optical disc to install operating   
   systems, access live CDs, or use bootable rescue tools. You can use a   
   bootable flash drive, or any USB storage device to format it as a   
   bootable volume. However, it's more complicated than creating a bootable   
   disc".   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)