laurelraven

Stop, I can only switch to Linux so much

Well of course, that makes perfect sense to me! What would we do if the ISPs ran out of bits? Can't just use them anywhere you know, those suckers aren't cheap!

I think it does, but only blocks competing advertisers

(Note: I actually have no clue if they do and I'm talking out my ass; that said, I would absolutely not be surprised one bit if they did exactly that)

Heavy emphasis on maybe

Python exists but I personally like PowerShell more. I'm not crazy about it being Microsoft owned, but it's at least open source at this point, for whatever that's worth.

I mean, not really? Unless someone holds onto a really bad exploit until after that point, it'll be no different than going increasingly behind on updates, there's no magic switch that will be thrown that makes it more vulnerable after EOL

PowerShell is another advantage, oddly enough, though I've been worried for a bit the direction they're going with that... Everything they're doing now is Azure and they're pushing everything to Graph, and the way all of it works is a massive pain for anyone trying to use PowerShell the way it was designed to be used

I dunno, I've got a laptop who's CPU was too new for win 8.1 to have drivers or support for it, and is too old to put win 11 on it...

This is the first time they've intentionally cut off the ability to run their OS at all just based on hardware age when it could otherwise run it just fine.

Not dedicating support to old hardware is one thing, blocking it intentionally is something else entirely.

Oh, that laptop? High end gaming laptop that was 6 years old when Windows 11 released. The fact it's blocked is flat out ridiculous, and defending it is equally ridiculous.

Or I could switch to Linux...

OH WAIT, I already did that, darn. Such a shame I can't ditch Windows twice.

Too busy with Satisfactory 1.0 to do anything else at the moment, but I'll probably check it out eventually

Thanks! I've not been having many problems, but if it's causing a performance loss it would be good to take care of it, I'll check that out

Not just any corporation, but one that's done this exact kind of thing themselves

There is no good guy here