Microsoft sucks

5/4/26:

In the process of an upgrade. More geeking out, as I've moved on to a new Raspberry Pi machine. I've paired it with a tiny screen, though. It is only 7.1 inch diagonal, and reading it is not easy.

The change was made because there was a blank screen from the older machine. For some reason, the monitor would no longer display. It was acting like there was a loose connection somewhere, so I just got a new machine. More than one reason for a new machine. The old one was a minimalist system. This one has more memory, and therefore more power. We'll see.

It turns out that the old machine still works. There's also a tiny screen for it too. So now I have two Raspberry Pi machines.

All of this in order to get away from Microsoft.

3/20/26:

Microsoft just bricked the machine in this video. He fixes the problem, and it tries to do it again! Avoid Microsoft...



11/23/25:

A problem has arisen.

There may be some who would think that I am being too hasty in my judgement. Let me state what has happened. Then we'll go from there.

I have two computers. One of them is a netbook, the other is this one--a raspberry pi. Linux is preferred because Microsoft has gone rogue, as far as I'm concerned. They are WAY too nosy with their data collection. It's over the top, and so I switched to Linux in the last several months. Since that switch, I've had Linux go out on me three times. The first two times, I figured that it was Linux to blame, but this time, it HAS to be Microsoft.

The bios was messed with. Who could do that but Microsoft? Microsoft shares the netbook with Linux. Linux isn't on the main drive, though. However, when you boot up, some of the boot code is accessible to Microsoft. Well, the bios won't load up the Linux now, and redirects you back to Microsoft.

Could some hacker do this? Maybe. What makes me suspicious in this case is something I saw on a YouTube that says Microsoft tries to bump off any Linux installations if there are operating on the same machine. When I saw this, I realized that somehow the netbook allows the possibility of interference by our good, good friends--Microsoft. Anybody, all three failures could very well have been Microsoft refusing to play nice with Linux.

If Microsoft is innocent here, then it was hackers. But why would hacker direct me back to Microsoft? Only if the hacker is with Microsoft, and Microsoft is actually the hacker. Or they paying hackers to sabotage Linux installations.

At this point, the damage is minimal. I don't know how to recover from this, but I might be able to. Not sure what I need to do though. It is a pain in the ass.

The Big Tech companies, like Microsoft, are out of control. They need to be reined in. This ought to be an anti-trust issue right here. They got no business interfering with people's computers. They don't own this damned machine. They didn't give it to me. It isn't their property. I'M NOT THEIR PROPERTY EITHER.

 

5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics

5/3/26:

The attention may be on Trump now, but Obama was POTUS when this post was written. The left may only be interested in political situations that run against them. If anything is radicalized, it is the Democrat party. Obama associated with communists, after all. Nazis were defeated decades ago.

6/26/12:

The Atlantic

This seemed like pure projection to me, but as the Supreme Court has shown, the projection and denial is going all round.

I read this yesterday, and Glenn Reynolds posted his reactions to this piece.  One reaction was to be "unimpressed".

The major aspect of projection is that it denies something that is within oneself.

Plain denial is also the refusal to see what is there.

How can conservative justices support Obama's usurpation of the Constitution?  Well, it might well have started a long time ago.  Maybe the Bush-Gore election controversy, where this Atlantic piece picks up on, is just one strand in a long strand that is coming unraveled.  It looks like The Atlantic's piece was projection, and the conservative/libertarian response is just plain old denial.

Obama won't follow the law, which he is bound to do under the constitution.  That's the coup.  It is ongoing, but evidently, nobody at the highest levels seems to get it.

I followed the 2000 election controversy pretty closely.  No way Gore could win that one, but if the Supreme Court hadn't stepped in, it was going to have to go the Congress.  In such a case as that, the House picks the winner, and the Senate picks the Veep.  That meant Joe Lieberman would have been veep instead of Cheney.  The House was Republican, so there's no way Gore could win the presidency that way.

The Supreme Court just stopped the counting which could have gone on past the "safe harbor" deadline, which was very close at hand at the time of their decision.  The counting wasn't going to get done in time to get in before the safe harbor deadline, which would have thrown it into the House- by law.  The Republicans controlled the House, (as Gore must have known), but the Senate was 50-50.  Gore would have broken the tie in favor of Lieberman, weakening the incoming administration.

The Supreme Court then may have acted politically, but at least they were following the election law.  They don't seem to be very interested in doing that anymore.

As for the rest of the article, it is pretty much the standard political fare.  The author's major rhetorical thrust was the Bush v Gore decision was a type of long running coup, but it was Gore who was trying to steal the Vice Presidency if he couldn't get the Presidency itself.  That's my take.

The main point to me is the total breakdown in authority that is outlined in the Constitution.  There are three co-equal branches, but at the moment, the only branch that seems to matter is the Presidency.  That looks like dictatorship.   The President must follow the law, or what good is the Constitution anymore?  Why have a Congress pass a law that the President won't enforce?  Why have the Supreme Court decide the controversy, if the President decides to ignore the part of the decision that he doesn't like?

At what point will this President be restrained?  If he gets re-elected, what can stop him?

Gerrymandering is a loser for the Dems, so it says

If both parties MAXXED OUT on gerrymandering, the House would end up with 262 Republicans to 173 Democrats -- according to leftist FiveThirtyEight.

That's because Republicans control more state governments with multiple districts, and Democrat voters congregate in cities. This… pic.twitter.com/6HKKZJf6TD

— Ben Hart (@BenHart_Freedom) May 1, 2026

America didn't lose in Vietnam. It was betrayed.

Yeah, and once Nixon was shoved out of the way, the far left (commies) began taking over the Democrat Party. We're seeing now what that leads too. Iran fell in 1979. The trouble we are having in Iran was largely because of the betrayal in Vietnam. All of this thanks to commies.

By the way, that's what the bastards in Tehran are counting on. They're getting help from the commies.

South Vietnam didn’t fall because it was beaten. It fell because it was betrayed.

Fifty-one years ago today, April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter lifted off the Saigon embassy roof.

We had won. Nixon and Kissinger’s Paris Peace Accords forced the North to recognize… pic.twitter.com/LF0F7DpOz7

— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) April 30, 2026

Tar, feathers, pitchforks!

Look, parents with advanced STEM degrees just aren’t smart enough to homeschool their kids.

You have to let fat retarded communist women with a BA in interpersonal communication and a Masters in uptalking handle education. https://t.co/3eZfW1mgjh

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 1, 2026

Reason magazine explains

Why Wealth Taxes Fail

Comment:

The "Save Democracy" folks just want to spend us all into bankruptcy. All of that just so they can have power. Good for THEM, but is it any good for YOU?

Holy moly! An affordable electric car.

5/2/26:

$12.7k Tesla model 2?

Yours truly wouldn't mind having one, but even at this price, it's too expensive.



10/9/25:

 

The price points for this car seem to be all over the place---anywhere from 10k to 30k. Which is it?

 

10/6/25:

 

Speculation about the new affordable electric car?

 

 

9/12/25:

 

You could knock me over with a feather...

 

New Tesla Giga Press makes a $15k Model 2 possible, or so it says...



But wait! It gets better than that...

$10,595 Model 2! Is it hype, vapor-ware, or real? Supposedly, it will be available by years end. That's not long into the future, and this is a freshly published video...





P.S.

The aluminum ion battery--- it is said to be in the new affordable Tesla Model 2.