Eh, that’s fine. I get that people are worried about EOL systems but, honestly, most of the time the concern seems overblown to me: it’s not like you are going to run these Windowses on baremetal and plugged directly into the root DNS gigabit ethernet line. When it comes to Windows, you run them in a VM and under a battery of safety measures such as firewalls and snapshots to begin with. And, once you’re bored with it, you return to Linux and the AUR.
No.
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8.1. That’s different. It was also IIRC the last Windows version without any sort of AI, enforced telemetry or any of that crap.
the only sane windows left
Windows 8.1 exists.
2·13 days agoAh, a systemd user I see!
sysvinit and OpenRC are just so much better.
No no no, that it’s the other officers (Tony, Ziva, McGee especially) being awkward and clueless around a mimeograph or such stuff, whereas Gibbs actually looks and acts technologically competent (for the time).
Oooh you should watch the blackout episode, when there’s a blackout all over WDC and Gibbs pulls up all those manual machines from the 70’s.
Just as cringe, just the oooooother way around.
Gibbs: [silent stare]
(translated: “what’s that? I can’t hear you over how my silver hair rewrites reality”)
Gibbs 6 seasons later: [stops ransomware by shoooting at the screen. In a datacenter.]
2·17 days agoI mean I understand the reasoning behind the problem with “x is mainline”: distros.
Most software at the utility level rsync sits at, reaches final users (the ones who complain) not by direct download, but by being aggregated by distros. And unfortunately even highly respected distros like Debian have decided to accept AI in rsync even with the resulting data loss.
I was warned beforehand enough that I pinned rsync in 3.4.1 while it still was in my system, and it will remain so for the short term while I wait for this whole thing to settle down amicably.
1·27 days agoYeah I was going for the “if only there was something like LibreOffice” joke.
The shadow in our hearts is the nevers we made along the way.
I can live without Booleans I think… what saddens me more than nothing else is the lack of more proper treatment for Decimal-like types.
These cases always, always make me laugh.
Because avoiding them is quite simple.
I’m always impressed by the level of differences. Printer drivers were a real hassle with 8 and 8.1, and you never knew in advance which driver was for which.