There are going to be a lot of good machines that should hit eBay for cheap as companies dump their old stock. Grab home servers, media machines, secondary devices, emulation rigs, etc as the opportunity presents itself.
Welcome to my plan! Ive got a good chunk of change set aside for some tiny/mini/micro to add to the others.
Also looking to pick up some ‘new’ laptops for me and the kids.
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
there’s also a bunch of sellers everywhere selling the old stuff with ‘windows 11’ at stupid high prices, too. i’ve even seen sellers trying to pass off specs like 2nd-4th gens as ‘new’, calling the old chips ‘reclaimed’ or some bullshit.
I learned your ago to disconnect devices in my lab run by computers from the web. They literally last forever without updates.
More than once, Microsoft would brick $800,000 microscopes by pushing an update even with updates turned off.
I’m celebrating too as a user. No more shit updates that disturb me.
Which would be the reason the hackers are celebrating
That’s great. I have ublock origin and paid virustotal at my side. I’m not safe, but I wouldn’t be any safer with a windows update.
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They haven’t so far. If they ever do I’ll let you know so you can be really happy about my failure
You should try running Windows XP while connected to the internet if you want to be sure about that
No need, the entirety of a building from a Uni I went to runs on XP with the last security patches and browsers that are built for xp compatibility like Supermium with security extensions. They never got hacked. No issues at all and the students can connect to the internet all they want, they aren’t even monitored besides checking they still work once in a while. This is because despite lack of funding for new PC’s, the security department is competent and actually knows how to work around that, as opposed to just saying what you are all saying here. There are Win7 machines there too, which can be remotely accessed via internet. There’s a magical thing called a firewall. Did you know routers also have a firewall? Crazy right? Did you also know that almost all PC’s are connected to routers, not directly to the internet? Crazy too, right? That’s like basic level security knowledge. If you’re so terrified you will be hacked that you’re willing to put up with Microsoft’s shit, i feel bad for you all.
Every security person in the world just groaned and rolled their eyes at the same time.
I once tabbed out in thd middle of a game to check an email and absent mindedly authorized an update while i was in desktop. A few minutes later I started getting overheat warnings–I set the threshold very low; I like my stuff to last–I started getting hardware lag.
It turns out my graphics card updated, and the game fell back to integrated graphics while it was unavailable. The terminal code to switch it back without shutting anything down required touching too many things i dont like to touch unless I’m sober, and was really complicated, and I mistyped the one to restart, so I saved my game, and pressed the reset button on the case to make it better.
Linux is so broken.
If this is a joke, well done. If it’s a troll, please don’t. If it’s a true story of how you use computers, may God have mercy on your soul.
reads like an old copypasta.
Yes, a little, unfortunately, none of them do
i really hope this is supposed to be a joke
I’m quite slow in the head but damn nI have no idea how all that happened
I was extremely faded.
Linux is so broken.
Then don’t break it?
No that’s the point. If I had been on windows my game would have just been interrupted and my computer unusable for an unknowable amount of time whenever it decided to update.
On Linux I had to be incredibly stupid lazy and high to get a result that was almost as bad–i still got to save my game.
the same tool that can… uh… ‘remove the waterMark’… yea, that’s it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.
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I’m still convinced Microsoft will walk back on this hard deadline. I would put my money on 3 days after their self imposed WIndows 10 dooms day that they will extend W10 updates with at least 6 months, most likely a year.
I’m thinking about buying a dozen cheap (from companies throwing away almost new) laptops, flashing Fedora with activated auto-update and bottles and selling them for maybe $100 more on ebay or wherever.
Good idea?
Shit header image. They don’t want to delete your data.
