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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.
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Every security person in the world just groaned and rolled their eyes at the same time.
That Uni is just one exploited vulnerability away from a botnet. Getting hands on a PC physically could get you could use Spectre/Meltdown, get the admin pass and mine bitcoin.
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
That’s, like, 7 PEBKAC errors in a row, damn
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.
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.