The everlasting, yet to discover virus residing in human brains causing the never ending urge to collect $$'s or other considered wealth and power items - long list here omitted - by creating imaginary voids of various kinds to urgently fill without actual need and then to create more voids since it was futile as always requires probably extremely consequent and strong characters - is this Miller-something a type like that - anyway, time to hit the sack!

Looks to me also that on bootup the OS calls home maybe to check for updates, but what else is going on during that process maybe a black box. In any case, it seems to take it's time on bootup with disk defragged... Possibly unplugging the network cable before turning it on seems to make it quicker, but this can be imagination....

This constant cloud-lure of the bad internet-gangs along with M$ofts 365 gunk sure sucks ass!

In this country (US) are numerous forces in play to take away more and more rights from the general population through various tricks and manipulations to get it to a much smaller section of folks living in the same country.

Not allowing municipalities to supply their own Internet service is one of many attempts, please see:

https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks/

I am happy to live in a municipality who made it and provides this type of service. After getting rid of ComCast, whose manner in getting out of their claws and get my right required a small claims court case, it just feels better to now "own" it better in some way.

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The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin † 10. April 10, 1955

Is humanity now trying to beat this record event?

How much pollution does that add to the atmosphere? Flight time per mission is not mentioned.

An educated guess: 10 hour flight consumes about 100 ton of fuel..

Soon one will have to wear a cap with electrodes and a receiver backpack transmitting the signals to the cap so all will be controllable. Anyone seen not wearing this equipment will be shot.

Must be very fearful and control character people thinking out this BS and not taking into account what the rebels will heck out to circumvent everything.....

Once upon a time there was a thing called "bribery" and penalized...
Those times are gone, seems to be and everyone gets drunk on the $ symbol.

Please note that it is _not_ the food industry producing over-sweetened products loaded with corn-based sweeteners and the side issue that the SAD (Standard American Diet) causes diabetics and consequently Alzheimer's!

So, blaming something else seems to do the trick!

Isn't this whole throwing unwanted ads in your face against your will and intention abusive?
Who are the goon-robots programming this shit and the idiots trying to make a buck with this got nothing better to do?
Popup in your face - please subscribe - and have to act upon plugging an email address like "Ihate..." in..
The behavior causing this should be penalized with mandatory pot smoking and we will see progress happening very soon..

<quote><p>Who needs apps? When I need an app, I turn on my computer. My old TracFone LG-501c does calls and text just fine, hasn't needed to be replaced since I got it in 2011 and I'll keep using it until the network no longer supports it. It costs me maybe $10 a month; the phone itself cost maybe $30.</p><p>Also, get off my lawn.</p></quote>

Seem to be a humble user....

Two examples, brand names not mentioned:
- map software for a GPS handheld device, worthless now, because no longer syncing with "home" for software verification, original cost > $ 300, going back to older, original hard/software does not work, because support was dropped.
- Office software able to sync between handheld and desktop - no longer usable on latest OS - 4+ devices used for data entry, functional replacement cost = ???

Not a question of "Apps" but existing functionality working for fine years suddenly vanishes for reasons stated before.
 

But you may run out of support on Apps for your old gear and find no ear for your complaints...

System is geared for consumption and profit from there. Using old gear is counterproductive to this philosophy - try to win against that, fat chance.
Long term effect of this, I leave it to your fantasy.
Underlying reason, same thing, maybe the fiddler crabs effect, he who has the biggest claws gets the female.....
 

too tired to continue on yet another hype!

Will that silly shutdown ritual then go away?

This routine sucks! Waiting for<ever>.... I resort to # init 0, which seems to go quicker.
Dunno which brainchild this was. When I am done, I am done and want to go - this thing takes forever, seemingly several minutes with countdown displayed.
Who originated this nonsense?

<quote>How did Jeff Bezos <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bilk">bilk</a> "millions of normal folks for their hard earned $$'s"? I'm curious how he conned people into giving them his money via fraud.</quote>

Just in case, you have not realized - system is designed, probably by accident and self-perpetuating with all kinds of fairy tails - trickle down theory, work hard and you succeed, etc. with the dreams showing perpetually on flat screens.

Research on normal folks happiness showed that in societies where the spread of wealth is smaller, i. e. difference between rich and well, normal folks is small, people are more happy. This probably falls under the event horizon in the US-hype.

But look at the inner cities, where people - humans like you (if you are not a machine) and me fall through the grid, camp on road sides, beg on corners and are so wasted that they cannot even think straight.....

Those facts visually recognized have to be compensated somehow by labeling in some way blaming the individuals seen for their condition.

I'd say, this is a system failure.... not even thinking globally.

I think, there was a formula once for this planet - (well being + suffering) = constant.

Wish you well!