Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@maddy In this walk-in's case, they told me the fruit-shaped store's bar of geniuses did replace their battery once before, because it quit working, but the techs were so unphased by its swollen status that they didn't even mention any risk existed.

And yes, we do. Ending device owners' ability to remove those batteries themselves was an even worse idea.

What is with laptops turning their lithium ion batteries into swollen lithium ion batteries? More distressingly, what is with the computer customer support industry's general apathy, as if it was as harmless as an old mouse's worn-out button?

#!/usr/bin/true

This ignores that Microsoft Windows is the problem, not the solution, but one result of that problem, Microsoft's OS monopoly, is that there's no viable alternative to Windows.

There are literally hundreds of alternatives, but none of them are viable. The closest ones, Apple MacOS & Google ChromeOS, are servants of capitalism pretending to be servants of users as well.

What will it take, short of dismantling & abolishing capitalism, to get Windows PC makers to include the two most important user instructions & warnings in their leaflet excuse for a user manual?

Instruction 1: How to turn this daffy slab of scrap plastic off, as in for-real off.

Warning 1: The most intuitively obvious way, the power button, doesn't. It puts it in still-on sleep mode instead.

Instruction 2: How to reboot it.

Warning 2: Shutdown/"Turn Off" then turning it on again doesn't.

The reality of landing on any website firewalled by ClownFlare, long before the "AI" scraper bots became the scourge of the Wild Wild Web, with untrusted, untrustworthy, and unauditable JavaScript either unsupported or forbidden from running roughshod over my PC.

Even when landing on websites that either don't need JavaScript to work or don't even use JavaScript themselves.