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lemme in@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 5 months ago

Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence

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Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence

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lemme in@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 5 months ago
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With Windows 10's end-of-life less than a year away, up to 240 million PCs could be expedited to landfill. Here are some ideas to delay that end well past 2025.
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    Just don’t upgrade?

    I just retired a Windows 7 box this past summer, because it just worked until then.

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      mofos out here begging for another wannacry

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      That sounds great for an airgapped device! Most aren’t though

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      But isn’t it unsecure if you connect it to networks or worse, the internet? I would use Windows 7 ONLY in a virtual machine, or alternatively on real machine that is not connected to the internet.

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        All I do on my PC is play games and look at memes.

        1. Who wants to hack this machine?

        2. Who cares if they do?

        Oh no! I’ll have to reformat. Man… That’s minorly annoying.

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          Sums up the average Windows user.

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          “I post my browser history on my public Facebook page cuz I have nothing to hide.”

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      Dear God I hope that was an airgapped machine…

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