Thanks, and you’re welcome, [@John].
I myself am semi-retired ( CoViD-19 is a great incentive to wind down ), and my parents have been retired longer than they worked, so I see there are going to be a significant spectrum of different computer users, including a ( hopefully ) growing body of computer users who work at their computers as if in an office, but we are not running or working in business, instead doing our own activities, whatever those may be.
As I wrote, I like the idea of the WIndows CLoser software – to have the computer self-organize while we are away.
What throws me is that this is version 4 already, and if this lack of flexibility is all they’ve produced, it will be many years to version 14 before it becomes a tool that might interest me.
Conversely, every program should incorporate an automation features, watching waht we do, and offering “… would you like me to do this for you in the future? …”, because that’s supposedly what computers are for, for watching us do something once, and then the computer does it automatically from the second time on.
Whenever I sit at the computer and do the same thing over and over, I winder where we went wrong, and I wonder why programmers are still avoiding automating things automatically.
“… I see you just ___ task, would you like me to remember that and do it automatically, or keep a record so we can repeat it together on demand? …”
Yes, HAL, I would like that very much.
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Note HAL has been used to mean Human Access Language, and HAL are the letters in the alphabet before the letters IBM, who refused to permit the IBM logo to be used in the movie 2001 where a computer killed people.
But I am not afraid.
If I were to ask HAL, “… please recognize speech …”, I don’t worry that HAL actually has the power to “… wreck a nice beach …”.
So, we’re all safe.
For now.
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