Once you live outside Microsoft for an extended period of time you start to get a visceral sense of how fucked up Windows is.
Way. It's way fucked up.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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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 too have been a victim of this and it's the ultimate suck in science. Instrument companies should be required to develop their control software for stable versions of Linux.
Why the fuck are you selling us a standard Win11 tablet for your program that simply runs in a browser? Why in the world do you leave in all the bloatware and other baggage when we are paying 10s or 100s of thousands for something that we just need to run reliably? I will never understand. It's like they want us to have a bad time.
I'm celebrating too as a user. No more shit updates that disturb me.
Which would be the reason the hackers are celebrating
the same tool that can.. uh.... 'remove the waterMark'.. yea, that's it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.
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.
Isn’t that what happened with Win 7?
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?
I would personally use Linux mint but yeah, good idea.
Not until Linux has a better association for laypeople.
If UAC bypasses weren't left unpatched I would have kept my own one so I could reign chaos as soon as Microsoft drops it.
You know what, I'm keeping it anyways, so I can prove an argument by telling you about it.
I'm sure many malware developers have tons of exploits ready for when support is dropped.
Shit header image. They don't want to delete your data.