[Bad language ahead. Block your children!]
I just lost nearly two full days dicking with my computer, mostly on the email. I have an account through the University of Michigan, which is POWERFUL. The U. of M. has CLOUT. However, that account runs on gmail which is owned by fucking Google. Now, Jim Stone (superb alt news site) long ago said that Google is trash, as well as YouTube and Instagram. I use YouTube for music stuff, not politics; ditto Instagram, so I don’t have problems there. But when my email failed to work several times in a row over the past few weeks and I really needed to get what was being sent me, I got to work trying to fix it.
Turns out the problem is some phony ‘security’ issue that Google, which I will henceforth call Joogle (Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Joogle, are Jews), has decided to change. They no longer allow “less secure apps” to run for any length of time. One of these ‘insecure apps’ is Thunderbird, an application which I’ve used for well over a quarter century with zero security issues. As with all my computer stuff (I’ve been messing with computers seriously since about 1983) I NEVER allow updates. Updates ALWAYS and INVARIABLY screw things up and cost me time. As an old man I don’t know how much time I might have left, but I sure as hell don’t want to spend it dicking with a recalcitrant electronic box.
As I was saying, once I turn on access to “less secure apps” everything with my email runs fine…for a few days. Then it goes bad. My latest email problem wasted three hours of my time. The email suddenly would not work. I knew I had clicked to allow “less secure apps” so I never checked that. After three hours of dicking, I finally got in touch with a fellow at the U. of M. who suggested I turn on “less secure apps”. I had already done that, but looked anyway, and sure as fucking shit the goddamn button was turned off automatically by Joogle. This is grounds for a serious lawsuit. Joogle NEVER TOLD ME they were going to do that.
Joogle blocked an important missive a lawyer friend sent me. The lawyer got angry, I got into a rage, and still don’t know why the assholes at Joogle blocked it. That’s still more grounds for a lawsuit against the cocksuckers who own Joogle.
In the near future I may have to go to *.aol for my email and abandon the slick and influential “umich.edu” banner. All thanks to the utter assholes at Joogle.
Thank you for your time.