now it takes my computer 15 minutes before it starts shutdown procedures, vs. the old mere 2.5 minutes.At least you check your UPS. I was at a customer in the good old days when there was a power failure and their UPS kept their mission-critical servers going for 6 seconds.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1