2026-10-21 22:51 UTC
i remember when some idiot on facebook kept trying to argue with me that continuing to use xp a full 12 years after its EOL was fine, actually.
ever since i’ve wondered once in a while when his bank account got breached for the first time.
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@RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 02:21
That type of thing is actually pretty common for fully offline equipment. Think things like CNC machines that get all their instruction files via USB. Nobody is replacing a quarter-million dollar machine just because the OS is old. But, yeah, if you connect such a thing to the internet, ooooh boy.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-10-22 09:36
It is, if you don’t connect it to the internet.