Windows 10 password problem.

I did a bit of a search, and I have a question in to the eBay seller, but I thought I'd also try here. Thanks in advance if anybody can help me.

So I bought a refurbished Dell with Windows 10 on eBay. I know, I know, but I just cannot stand Windows 11 and I'm going to start using the computer that has that on it, dual boot with Linux, strictly as Linux. But I'm not familiar with Linux yet, so I got something cheap that I am familiar with and figured had to be better than Windows 11, even with the issue of no security updates, which, on a side note, infuriates me.

Anyway, I was setting up the basic stuff the way I want it, and some of it was giving me trouble, and that's my excuse for neglecting to put a password on it. I was able to access it with no password whatsoever.

So this morning it tells me my password has expired and I need to change it, and won't let me log on until I enter my old password and my new password. Which would be just fine except that there is no old password. It had no password. Yet it wants the non-existent old password and I am completely locked out.

I don't have high hopes that anybody else has had and solved this problem, because anybody else would probably not be as dumb as me and put a password on it right away.

This is not exactly of top level importance, maybe, but still......

I want news outlets and everybody else to stop calling it the GOP.
It is not the Grand Old Party, and it has not been since Lincoln.

I'm going to Cornyn's office with a group tomorrow.

Supposedly we're actually going to get in the door and have a chance to speak. We shall see. If we do get in the door and if I'm picked to speak, this is my current version of what I intend to say. Any suggestions appreciated.

*******

I know I wouldn't be hurt anywhere near as much as many other people if this horrible bill passes, but I probably would be hurt, and I happen to be the one right now that has an opportunity to explain why.

I'm in pretty darn good shape for my age, and honestly have reason to expect at least another 20 years. But if something happened to my medical care, I would not get that, or at least the quality of those years and/or my finances would be significantly impacted.

I have physical issues that are very well controlled by medication. I have good doctors who take care of me well. It would not be pretty if I lost that or had to pay so much for it that I wound up one of the too many medical bankruptcies we have in this country (by the way we're the only developed country in the world with this issue) or wound up having to choose between necessities, as so many other people unfortunately already have to.

I have high blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat. If I don't get my meds for that, I'm at pretty high risk for a heart attack or a stroke. I have high pressure in my right eye. If I don't get my med for that, there's a pretty good chance of developing severely impaired vision in that eye. I have wet macular degeneration in my left eye, which a periodic shot fixes up just fine, and I am grateful for that. If I lose access to that shot or can't afford it, I'm going to go blind in that eye, and probably pretty quickly.

Now, these are first world problems compared to the problems a lot of people in this country already have with medical care. I'm sure you're aware of this. So why Republicans want to mess up the rickety system we have even further to give a handout to corporations and billionaires is beyond me. The only explanation I've been able to come up with is being in bed with them, and sheer meanness or criminal indifference.

Thank you for listening.

Dogs and possibly hot pavement.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before. I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it, but I never saw it mentioned anywhere else.

I was getting ready to go into a store with my dog, across an expanse of pavement, and the temperature was 91. I didn't really want to carry him the whole way if it wasn't necessary, and suddenly the idea to take off my shoes popped into my head. That is very easy thing to do in my case, because I almost always wear ballet flats without socks, which are both easy to get off and on and easy to carry. So I took them off and walked across the pavement barefoot, finding out in the process that it wasn't actually necessary to carry him. Since he doesn't much like being carried, that was a win-win.

EDIT

I may have been unclear.

I did not walk a little ways on the pavement, analogous to the way you would put your hand on the pavement. I walked from the car to the store, put on my shoes, came out and took them off again, and walked from the store to the car. In other words, I was walking barefoot where my dog was walking 100% of the time.

Following on to my post about my waking up thought this morning.

Here's what I just found in my inbox. Maybe it projected itself into my sleeping brain.

https://www.levernews.com/why-the-trump-protests-will-fail/?utm_source=newsletter-email&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=newsletter-article

Why The Trump Protests Will Fail

The resistance won’t succeed until it stops being a performance and starts challenging the system that got us here.

snip

But instead of facing the collapse of the bipartisan, neoliberal consensus they’ve defended for decades, the liberal class reverted to familiar tropes: Trump as a fluke, an aberration, a villain who somehow broke into an otherwise healthy system. The Resistance, they believe, will rise again to stop him. 

This dominant narrative in liberal circles — a symbolic clash between decency and fascism — obscures the deeper crisis beneath his rise. It avoids naming the economic, institutional, and political failures that made his comeback possible. And in doing so, it sidesteps the harder, more urgent task: confronting power itself.

I'm sure this isn't an original thought, but it's the thought I woke up with.

Trump is a problem, but he isn't THE problem, he's a symptom.

THE problem is that corporations and billionaires been allowed to run wild for decades. They've been allowed to run the world, and this is where it's got us.

"Way too much activism," you #@%&er??????

Guy named Arthur C Brooks on Morning Joe. Sorry about watching that even briefly. It's on Lawrence when I go to bed, and I just turn it on to the previous channel while I'm feeding the pets and making my coffee.

He's from Harvard, and it turns out he's conservative, and those were his actual words, that there is way too much activism currently and for the past few years on college campuses. He wants those young people to sit down and shut up and listen to their professors and find their spouses. My paraphrase. And he and dear Joe are talking about how few college professors are conservative. Well there's a reason for that, same as there's a reason more education is associated with moving to the left.

Anyway, that woke me up a little faster than I really like being woken up, and I'm now going back to the pets and the coffee. That particular little statement and conversation just annoyed me enough to say something about it.

Correct me if I'm wrong; Constitutional thing that just occurred to me.

So, I haven't read the Constitution in a while, and something just now caused me to think about this. We, or rather the media, need to talk about how Trump is throwing out bills of attainder disguised as executive orders right and left.

https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/ap-gov/bills-of-attainder

The corporate news is reporting the wrong damn things.

I'm watching MSNBC talking about Trump's flip flops on tariffs and on firing the Fed chair and the effect it's having on the markets.

They, and the rest of the corporate media, are covering this garbage as if it's normal and as if he has the right to do it. What they should be talking about is all the things he's doing that he has absolutely no legal or constitutional right to do, and exactly why he has no legal or constitutional right to do them. That's the story. In a rational world.

Odd post from my Congress critter, odd reply.

He posted a picture of himself looking like the jerk he is saying Friday is coming. One of his sycophants posted in reply is that when it's going down. Have no idea if either one means anything. This is Troy Nehls, one of the most disgusting people in the House of Representatives.