2023-03-10 11:35:29 <KipIngram   > Ok.  I'm fairly caught up on everything now, and I'm on vacation next week.  It snuck up on me - I spent the last couple of weeks thinking it was the following week, and didn't realize until yesterday that... here it is.
2023-03-10 11:36:12 <KipIngram   > I usually send an email to principle people Friday a week out from my weeks off - that would have been today, but really should have been last Friday.  So yesterday was the first notice I gave everyone, and I felt kind of bad about that.
2023-03-10 11:40:31 <KipIngram   > So yesterday my work Mac told me it needed to update Dropbox.  I allowed it to do so.
2023-03-10 11:40:41 <KipIngram   > Then later in the day it suddenly developed a boot  loop.
2023-03-10 11:41:00 <KipIngram   > Just up and rebooted itself, and then wouldn't run for more than a few seconds before repeating that, over and over.
2023-03-10 11:41:21 <KipIngram   > I was kind of frantic for a few minutes - I'm completely incapable of doing anything work-wise without that computer.
2023-03-10 11:41:26 <KipIngram   > And I owed stuff to people yesterday.
2023-03-10 11:41:47 <KipIngram   > I rebooted into safe mode; that "worked" and fortunately I could do the critical things even in that mode.
2023-03-10 11:42:14 <KipIngram   > I've now disabled Dropbox and removed a few other things from my startup programs, but I have not rebooted back to normal mode to see if it's fixed yet.
2023-03-10 11:42:42 <KipIngram   > If it's NOT the Dropbox update, then... I have no clue.
2023-03-10 11:43:38 <KipIngram   > I figure it's' "more than 50%" likely that that's the culprit - it's really the only "invasive" thing I'd done in recent memory.
2023-03-10 11:44:07 <KipIngram   > Dropbox isn't really required on that computer - I have it for personal convenience.  We're not allowed to use Dropbox for any work material.
2023-03-10 11:44:30 <KipIngram   > IBM's got its own alternative, just called Box, that is "authorized" by the security gods/Nazis.
2023-03-10 12:02:00 <KipIngram   > Zarutian_iPad - yeah, I did get the sense that the Vikings "got around."
2023-03-10 13:25:37 <KipIngram   > Got my car picked up and home.  :-)
2023-03-10 13:26:47 <KipIngram   > https://www.quantamagazine.org/room-temperature-superconductor-discovery-meets-with-resistance-20230308/