They had me enter into Safe mode, back everything up to the iCloud, shut down and enter "command" + "R," try re-installing Big Sur, when that didn't work because th eprogress bar was still loading constantly, they ha dme go into disk utility, macOS HD, and erase. Then, go back and install mac os HD big sur.
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