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I asked GPT about it and here is the answer:

Do you keep a memory of your conversations with humans in order to improve your own abilities ?

As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to engage in conversations with humans or to improve my abilities through such interactions. I am designed to respond to natural language input based on my training, but I do not have the ability to retain information from previous conversations or to use that information to improve my performance. My responses are generated based on the latest input I receive, and I do not have access to any previous conversations or interactions.

If I understand well the guy's need, he only boots this Windows partition for some compatibility software testing... Which means he has to use this Windows. Moreover, being a daily Debian user, let me tell you that bad suprises after patching happen too when using a non-proprietary system... But at one point, whatever the system that you use, investigating the root cause of the issue should be the first taken by a professional, rather than complaining on internet.

Well, now you get that these were not the adequate steps to fix your issue, you might want to try to configure / use differently the system updates, which in my opinion could be the root cause of your issue ? And why, more importantly, haven't you checked your event log to understand the issue rather than wasting time to complain on Hacker News ?

"What root causes? It's simply bad OS programming"

How would you know ? What investigations have you made ? When my Debian has issue when booting after updating my kernel, is it because Debian releases s*** ? No. It is because my setup has a problem I need to find and fix. Stop whining and fix your issue...

A dev/engineer who spends time to whine on internet about a product because of a specific issue while he has not spent a second to investigate the root cause of the issue needs to take a lesson. What would you think about someone who wrote an article stating that "Ford is gonna die soon because it took 5 minutes to start my car this morning and I have strictly no idea why" ? I guess you would think this person is somehow not very smart...

I really doubt that Windows will globally die because you experienced boot issues. If you were a non-lazy dev/engineer, you would have parsed your event log to understand the reason it took so much time to boot and you would have fixed the issue. But you rather invested your time in writing a rant on internet. A clue: when you boot your Windows system on rare occasions, at the moment it boots it will update or finish the installation of updates from the previous boot. Which can explain some important boot duration. My take: complain less, investigate more and configure your Windows system for your specific usage.

Personnaly I love small phones and I am stuck with a Samsung Galaxy A3... released in 2017. It is 135.4 x 66.2 x 7.9 mm and has a super-AMOLED screen, 3GB RAM and Knox layer for secure corporate enrollment. You cannot find smaller or as small devices with such specs since 2017. The downsides ? It has a 16GB Rom (it has a SD card but less and less apps can be moved on the SD card) and the battery will not last forever (even if until now it resists very well). The smallest and modern device I have spotted since then is the Asus Zenfone 8 but it is bigger than the Galaxy A3 2017: 148 x 68.5 x 8.9 mm

The mystery goes deeper...

When searching from France, there is only this single link to the wikipedia page for VK and nothing else... weird.

GNU (even polished distros) means you will have to invest a bit of time to understand some basic concepts about your hardware and the system if you want to configure correctly your PC and take advantage of all its functionalities. As you come from the Mac world, are you in this mood ? Or do you already have knowledge about lnux systems ? I am asking because numerous Mac user often prefer no brainers and out of the box experience rather than investesting time in that kind of stuff (which I fully understand). Note this is not difficult at all, but however it needs to spend some time if you are a newcomer.

> "Things look a lot better for the UK now that we have a government that actually intends to stand up for the country instead of delivering it gift-wrapped into the hands of foreign powers to do with as they please."

Well it sounds like the UK was not an active EU member when I listen to Brexiters. Just like if you had no power and influence on the system. What a joke. The matter is your leaders never read the manual to integrate Europe. Their mouth were always full of "I want my money back", "There cannot be a politic project, EU has to be a trade block" or "Let's have a cake and eat it". They never wanted to make the integration of UK a success. And moreover, the most moronic press in the UK has sold you guys that all your issues these last decades came from the EU, while most of the time, they came from your own gov.

About the death toll, if you have any doubts about the NHS numbers, just read others : how many people died this year during the pandemic compared to last year on the same period. Numbers might be worse than those of the NHS. Guys, your own PM is so stupid he caught it because he didn't want to respect social distancing... He is as smart and relevant as Bolsonaro. Imagine the consequences if he died...

And about the future secession in your own Union: many English express the idea they would be better off without the Scots. Any many Scots are fed up with England. Your future looks like a divorce. For, us French, this not only a mistake, this is a sin. The integrity of a country is sacred. If you give up your own land and destroy your union, it means that you do not deserve to be an important nation anymore. You are just weak and senseless. Soon, you are a prey.

Did you have a look to your death toll ? Do you have a big picture of the trajectory of the brexit negociations since 2016 ? The tories arte killing you literally and economically, just like republicans are killing the US. You are even on the verge of a secession in your kingdom. your government is inept and inapt.

You do not get it : this is your own country. Check your own borders by yourself. You Brexited to restore your sovereignty that was stolen by the EUSSR (Copyright Daily Mail)... Well exercise this sovereignty now. And I do not think that there is a bargaining strategy anymore in the EU negociation team : the no-deal is on going. And the main reason is that your government has not the required level to manage the divorce. From the outside it seems that they could not manage anything anyway.

An amazing obsession for all the Daily Mail commenters : the dinghies. In France this question raises perplexity : why do you think we should enforce your border control instead of your administration ? You pay us for having your border in France at Calais, but you do not pay us to make the job of your border officers. Recruit agents and give France a break please. We have other concerns than your Brexit or your migration policies.