Indeed, you're correct! I'm a fool, I made poor decisions! It's really sweet that you felt the need to go out of your way to make that crystal clear for me, even though I mentioned my awareness of my poor decisions multiple times in my post. Thank you ❤️

To answer one of your questions, the only thing that I possibly thought was a reasonable thing to expect from Samsung, being one of the richest corporations in the world, was slightly better customer service?

I never expected anything else from them, I simply asked them very nicely if they knew anything that could help me solve the problem I'd created for myself. I feel that was a fair thing to ask, after spending hundreds of dollars on SSD drives? I then asked Apple the exact same question - nothing more, nothing less.

My experience speaking to Samsung turned out to be a waste of time for both myself & the five different operators that I spoke with. One the other hand, my call with Apple was over & done with in 5 minutes, and I walked away feeling much better about my situation, with a few different options of how I could solve my problem, which I'm currently working on.

I would respond all your other questions, but you've rattled off quite a few there and I'm about to head-out for group hugs.

Why don't we just leave it at that, there's no need to explain ourselves further. Let's both just learn from each other's hypocrisy in publicising our negative opinions. I started it, so I apologise that it got you a little worked up. Seems we're both a bit sensitive today. Would you maybe like a group hug too? ;)