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I remember back in the days of 98 when in my experience, hitting F1 would trigger the help which would never load rapidly or successfully. My standard operating

I remember back in the days of 98 when in my experience, hitting F1 would trigger the help which would never load rapidly or successfully. My standard operating procedure was to do a hard shutdown. It was so frustrating. I was roughly 5-7 while using it. Maybe it wasn't that bad and I was simply impatient. Regardless, it's always been useless to me.

pavement 9y ago
And for this very reason (throttled CPU lock over accidental bullshit > BSOD > necessitating cutting all electrical power to all circuits) was THE reason I despised the idea of proprietary hard-soldered batteries in laptops and mobile devices, and shaped my buying habits for years. I simply could not trust these shit options, regarding unhackable-useless-cruft-removal-customizations (aka: pre-live-cd-linux era) not conflicting with the need to cut power to the main board and CPU, to force a cold boot on a moment's notice. Now, I still despise the idea of non-removable battery power, and avoid it vehemently, but for different reasons. Basically fuck any Android device that has no removable battery, no well-understood rooting procedures, and locked falsh firmware. Fuck Android's slow-loading, identity-authentication-prompting-geographic-location-demanding shitware, and all-encompassing, non-uninstallable-OEM-but-still-mostly-Google/Facebook/Twitter-garbage. Fuck Apple products that refuse to power on even when plugged into power, and fully capable of displaying a fancy, animated empty battery graphic. Fuck that shit right in the god damned face. I plug you into the wall, and you shall power on at my whim. I want you off, I pop the battery and pull the plug whenever I want, or I THROW IT ON THE GROUND.