The bellow is totally a work of fiction.

Upon a winter’s evening, I realized that I don't need a full-sized keyboard on my desk at home, and decided to buy myself something nice, compact and wireless to make more room on the desk. I opt for the Logitech MX Mini, order it online and it arrived on Tuesday at work.

I bring it home and attempt to connect it to my desktop computer. It connects via Bluetooth, which the desktop does not have, but it also said it connects via the Logitech USB dongle, of which I have two, so no worries.

Except, it turns out, connects to a different kind of USB dongle. Oh well. Look up online, 13 EUR for the dongle, get in the car, go to the shop, buy. Return home, plug it in. Nothing happens. I explore online, and the new fanged dongle doesn't work with Windows 7. OK, fair enough, maybe it is time to upgrade from a 15 year old OS.

But, the computer is 8 years old, from a time when SSD drives were expensive, so the one on which I have Windows installed is just 120 GB and I better get a new one. But hey, a 1 TB SSD is about 50 EUR now so great.

Car, shop, buy, home.

Now I need to make a Windows 11 installation USB drive, so I go to download the installation file. But for some reasons, the WiFi connection of the desktop computer starts giving me grief, and after 15 minutes of struggle I think to myself, whatever, I'll download it on the Mac Mini I use as a HTPC/Server and just copy it from here. I download it to the Mac, but the Mac keeps refusing to copy the file on the USB drive, or even to an external drive, giving me some kind of error of permissions.

I try to fix it, fail, and decide it's time to leave the fight for another day, because otherwise machinery will start flying out windows.

Night gives in to morning, day 2.

I fix the WiFi connection issue with the desktop and download the Win11 installation file. Now, I need to make a bootable USB drive for a fresh installation. OK, there's an app for that. I download it, run it and it gives me an error - does not support Windows 7. But no biggie, you can download an earlier version of the app which supports Win7. So I download the earlier version of the app, run it, and make the bootable USB drive.

I unplug the computer, open it up, remove the old SSD drive from the bay, and install the new one. I boot up the computer from the drive, and start the Windows 11 installation. Error. This PC does not support Windows 11.

It is here that I begin to lose my shit.

I checked the minimum requirements, and my PC is more than capable for Win11, what the hell. Well, there's a thing called TPM which is some kind of security thing done with hardware, and since my computer is more than 5 years old, it doesn't have this.

But wait! I find info that the app for making bootable USB installation drives can disable the TPM check of the installation, so you can avoid the issue. OK, great. I remove the new SSD from the computer, put back the old SSD, run the app again and - this option is nowhere to be found.

Ah. It's available only in new versions of the app. Which doesn't work on Windows 7.

Oh well, no biggie, I have my work laptop which has Win11, I can make the bootable driv... wait, I can't. For security reasons, the official computers have all USB drives blocked.....

WELL SON OF A MOTHERF****G B****I JUST WANTED A SMALLER KEYBOARD F*** YOU BILL GATES STEVE JOBS AND THE HORSES YOU RODE IN ON CANT S**T JUST F*****NG WORK

How was your week?