“Hey uh, Mission Control? I’ve got two Outlooks and neither of them are working” A real quote from the mission btw
Your rocket will ignite in fifteen minutes.
Actually, it’s looking more like six days.
No wait, thirty seconds.
could be worse. last year, deutsche bahn put up a job ad looking for a developer familiar with windows 3.1 in a networked environment to work on their fleet of high speed trains.

Industrial embedded software is such a shitshow. Somehow Microsoft convinced companies that Windows is a great solution for controlling heavy machinery.
Tbh there’s no reports of that choice leading to actual accidents, but still you’re stuck with an old version of Windows with no possibility of upgrade.
Doesn’t NASA use older tech because it’s more secure? I think I remember reading that somewhere.
Windows 11 is a hot pile of garbage. Windows 10 was a “better” choice TBH
RHEL 7 would have been an even better choice, though.
And Rocky would be an even better choice.
I’m pretty sure you can’t get approval for a community-maintained OS without enterprise support to send people to the moon.


