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There’s a scene in Space Force where a flight controller can’t do something crucial because of a forced Windows update. I remember thinking “this is such a silly, cheap gag, there’s no way a space organization would use Microsoft”.
Well. I stand corrected.
Every organization uses Windows because they can’t fathom that Ubuntu is perfectly fine to use.
Meanwhile Big Tech’s backbone are mostly libre software
Wait till I tell you many nuclear power stations and submarines run ancient versions of windows for their control software
At least these ancient versions won’t try to update in the middle of a sea fight.
Imagine having a nuclear meltdown because of windows
I’ve worked in more than a couple factories and fabrication shops. Everything was on XP.
We had some stuff at work that was XP until the machines started dying. They were not sure how to get around it but one option was XP in a VM.
Also we have internal websites that only work in IE Mode, because modern browsers don’t render them properly. Its annoying mostly because even though Edge has an IE Mode, and you can add exception, it CONSTANTLY nags about "don’t you want to use Edge? Or removes the exception with an “add back” option.
Like no Edge, it still does not render, why ard you so fucking extra about this, just render in IE mode.
And those dipshits never bothered to configure it properly?
That nagging is because it has never been forced via configuration to us IE mode. Its a feature called enterprise ie mode, but it’s a configuration file (of addresses and compatibility directives) and a couple of regkeys.
Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It’s wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even $100,000 on open source expertise but they’ll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.
Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.
No he was in bed some russian women and almost certainly under age girls with Epstein, it is after all, why he got divorced.
But yes, NSA_KEY, skype, bitlocker, etc…
I don’t think it’s too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out in the same social circles.
For here, am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Computer screen went blue
When I opened outlook two
Microsoft Copilot now requests full access to the flight control system.
Abort? Retry? Fail?
It needs to run a second process to send all your data back to Microsoft.
Microsoft telemetry has reached space
I just don’t understand wtf microsoft is trying to do. No matter what outlook icon i open, one day it says "this is new outlook, do you want to switch back yo classic?'. And the next day it says “youre on classic outlook, want to switch to new outlook?”. And like bro i literally couldn’t care less, i have no idea what the differences are, i just need to read and reply to emails for work so i can pay my rent. Wtf do you want microsoft?? New or classic i literally cant tell which one is which i just need the fucking emails bro
There’s something to be said for a computer that’s as dumb as a calculator.
Curse you play button.
This is a fairly common government furnished equipment issue lmao
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
