GOOD LUCK in "taking the battery out" in pretty much ALL of the current crop of laptops. Guess that "command line" shutdown is your only choice in this case...

LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
LoL no fuck you. kBye.
And once more with FEELING... LoL no fuck you. kBye.

I've got a 32" Samsung TV (NOT a "smart"-tv) that I've had for going on 10 years, I use it as a monitor for a Roku "stick" in one of the HDMI ports. Works great.. Probably they don't make any "non-smart-tvs" anymore, so I hope this thing lasts, as I WILL NOT BUY any "smart-tvs" to replace it.

I do believe you are me.... I feel the exact same way about professional sports. These players are paid obscene amounts of money to kick balls around.. I refer to myself as being born withOUT the "sports gene". I care not a bit for pretty much anything that fits the term "sports".. Which is why I'm damn pissed off if I want to subscribe to Disney+ to allow the grandkids to watch the old Disney stuff, before Disney went woke, but I'm stuck paying for that sports abortion called ESPN... F--k ESPN...

After a 20+ year career of supporting Windows, starting with 3.11 in 1990, and ending during the XP to Win7 migration at my last company, when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with using Windows on my personal systems. Since I became aquainted with Linux around 1995, it was now my go-to OS. After seeing the "shit-show" that Windows has become, since Win7, I couldn't be happier with my choice of switching to Linux. Oh I still have some specialized software that Wine does not run, so I have a heavily castrated Win10 LTSC VM that I keep around for those programs..
I feel sorry for those who, for whatever reason, keep using Windows..

I dumped Windows and all other MS software nearly 15 years ago. Now its just me and Linux..

Morons with more money than they know what to do with????

I recall when Musk was saying they were expecting to get perhaps 10 launches out of the first stages.. Now this one did its 31st launch?? DAMNED impressive...

I vote KUbuntu, currently the 24.04LTS version. I've tried Mint and some of the other "introductory" distros, but I keep coming back to Ubuntu and the KDE/Plasma DE.. Your mileage may vary.

Lemme chime in here with a hearty "F--K YOU MICROSOFT"...

Windows 10/11 runs just fine withOUT a license/COA. The only thing is you can't customize it. Big F'ing deal...

As for "no security updates", try 0patch.com (thats a digit zero, not the letter o". They charge $24/year for security patching Windows10, 8.1, 7 and believe it or not, XP... Check it out
www.0patch.com

Rule #1: when the entire MSM machine fires up and suddenly starts pushing the same narrative very aggressively in lockstep with each other, you can take it to the bank that not only is that narrative FALSE but also likely very harmful to you.

Rule #2: when the MSM âoefact-checkersâ and censorship machine fires up into overdrive to suddenly try to debunk or censor some topic, you can bet the house that whatever that topic happens to be is directly over the target.

Your friend had better have SERIOUSLY GREAT MEDICAL INSURANCE (such that doesn't exist..) OR be really wealthy as those drugs you see ENDLESSLY advertised on tv are SERIOUSLY expensive.

It depends on their definition of "large". EDC in May in May isn't exactly tiny... The cost to get in to Burning Man is high enough already without the tax bozos hitting them with a large tax bite.

Yeah.. there probably is a way to modifiy this bullshit behavior, BUT once modifed, I almost GUARANTEE you that the next major windows/msoffice "update" will turn this shit back on again.. The ONLY way to win with Windows is TO NOT USE WINDOWS or ANY MS product...