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Why in the everliving fuck would NASA put ANYTHING Microsoft into a spacecraft?
Because Gates fucked Children with the President on Epstein’s Island…
It's almost as if this bullshit project was just pork barrelling for overpriced contracts.
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The entire craft is built by giant US legacy corporations. Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, etc. Microsoft is just one more in the pile.
Your laptop is built by "legacy corporations, " but if you put Linux on it, it works better.
I'm going to sound super stupid but w/e.
What happens to all your files when you install Linux?
It's just basically a GUI, right so does Linux create its own space and ignore what's there?
All operating systems we tend to use have filesystems. A filesystem is a methodology for writing data in a way that the OS can read. Windows included.
When you install a new OS, such as linux, you must choose how to allocate your disk space. You can use the whole disk - which would format and rewrite the system to be compatible with the flavor of linux you chose - or you can reallocate space on the drive if you have enough. This will move around the available free space, create the filesystem I just mentioned on that free space you designated, and leave your old windows files intact.
You can now interact with these from the Linux side with the right commands (mounting the windows partition and gaining access). You could even "dual boot," which would allow you to choose which OS you want to go to at startup.
I've HIGHLY simplified this since it's just a quick explanation, but that's the gist of it. There are obviously more scenarios, pitfalls, etc.
When I was first starting out in like 1996 or 1997, I was running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I accidentally wiped my system so many times that I stopped caring what got lost. It took me a while before I understood what the hell I was doing. Poring over man pages and instructions to figure it out.
Windows and Linux are like an operators in a warehouse. Windows knows some ways to store stuff and keep track of what is stores, Linux knows some ways too. Sometimes the way they store stuff overlaps, sometimes it doesn't. If you put Linux into a warehouse that Windows operated, by default, Linux will be able to find boxes and stuff, but the Windows operator has some small tricks up their sleeve to make it harder, and of course Windows has kept it a secret.
If you want to find all your boxes in a Windows warehouse and continue using the warehouse without being afraid of squishing a small box with a big one because the piece of paper Windows uses has some secret handwriting that was misinterpreted for "there's no box here", it's better to take out all the boxes, let Linux setup it's storage system, and then put the boxes back in.
So backup and restore into Linux what I can.
Correct
They are going to space to seed the cloud
Its a personal device
Personal devices running Outlook should be rapidly deorbited
You would think that Microsoft would be like this is going to space. Let's pull out all the stops. But no, it's the same corporate crap!
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If only there were low-bandwidth, straight-forward, well tested email clients.....
low-bandwidth,
They're on a 600Mbps connection, bandwidth isn't the problem.
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"NASA says they'll remotely connect to the computer to see what the problem is."
'Hello, this is your NASA certified Microsoft certied tech support, you need to send us gift cards to unblock your computer"
"WHY HAVE YOU REDEEM"
DOOOOO NOOOT REDEEEM!
Kitboga is the best
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Also known as "nominal outlook performance"
You would think that the absolute basic, minimum requirement for taking something on a space mission is that it complies with open standards.
If you have standards compliant programs, it's easy to set up a back-up client in case the primary doesn't work. If your email is "Outlook" and you are tied to the outlook server and something breaks, there's your single point of failure. Sucks to be you.
Imagine being literally off the planet and still be expected to check your work email.
I mean if you are on a work trip it is pretty standard
It seems you have problems with running your multi billion dollar rocket. Would you like me to help you with that?
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The rare occasion when "It's not rocket science!" means it's harder.
Wtf do they need email for in space
This is just… so perfectly emblematic of where we are as a society.
Who the f permits taking unverified software on a space trip?
In space, no one can hear you call tech support.
they rely on microsoft?!?
holy shit, and here i thought the job is dangerous as is.
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Why would you not use internal NASA programmed software? Oh wait, we're beyond that now, we just ask Claude to vomit up a mess from its exabytes of source code and vibe our way to the Moon!!!
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See? They're just like us!
The Apollo 13 movie sequel will be wild...
Trying to imagine Jim Lovell's reaction when Apollo 13 blue-screens and has to reboot. What an amateurish shitshow NASA has become.
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Let this be a lesson about putting windows OS on space equipment.
Let this be a lesson about putting it anywhere.
So they're not only using Microslop in offices, but also on space missions...? Gee, I wonder why they've been failing to return to the Moon for 50 years...
Microsoft, because sucking only on one planet isn't enough..
What a surprise. Microslop
Have they tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
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