Yeah an hour is crazy long, I'd be panicking. (Like, what system update takes that long during business hours?) That's a huge chunk of prime time sales just gone if you're only on cards.

Watched this happen at my kid's school bake sale last week. A parent brings fancy cupcakes, then spends twenty minutes telling the teacher how to run the reading corner. See it all the time, my neighbor gives you tomatoes from her garden and then feels she gets a say in how you trim your hedges. That little gift just makes them feel like they bought the right to nitpick your choices. Honestly it turns a nice thing into a transaction every single time.

I actually trust those big tech site reviews more than random people, @brian_martin75. They test a hundred laptops a year and run the same battery life test on every single one. My last phone got ripped apart in user forums for overheating, but the proper review at AnandTech showed it was only a degree warmer than its rivals under full load. That kind of controlled data is way more reliable than one person's bad luck.

You know, your post hit home. My local news did a segment on a park renovation last year, but it got cut from the evening broadcast. The anchor said it was "technical issues," but everyone knew the mayor hated the criticism. Seeing that small slice of info get wiped made me question what else we miss. It's not books, but it's the same kind of quiet erasing. Now I record the local news just in case things vanish.