They dropped 7, 8, and 8.1 at the same time, January 1st 2024
the actual ‘end of service’ dates for win7 (with the max 3 years esu) and 8/8.1 all occurred during the first half of 2023… so they gave a whole six months of extra life on those versions.
if you want the full american experience, pay $10 + tip for a lukewarm (by the time you get it) cup of water and a lipton tea bag from room service.
and some are, apparently, obscure af:
“an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”
the form itself is easy, it’s the bot detection and spam prevention that’s hard. on my own sites, i’ve given-in and use the highest-level recaptcha, a hidden form field triggered by bots but not humans, and a server-side script for the mailing that also has some spam detection routines. they still get through, but far less often than a naked form would.
if you’re satisfied with your existing comments function, can you simply enable comments on your ‘contact’ page and hide them from public view?
One. Two. Three. Four. Five?
That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage.
i’ve got one user who has refused to update their win7 system for a full decade–literally the entire lifecycle of win10. offered to set up a dual boot for her and she seemed to be receptive of that–even bought a nice big ssd drive for it, but she never used it and never upgraded. husband says that ssd is still in the damn box sitting on a shelf. i expect to hear from her when that now tired old hdd in her (i think) wolfdale-era win7 finally craps out.
Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.
yes. yes they are. we’ve taken in a lot more ‘junk’ systems over the last six months than we ever have.
many of those who aren’t tossing their pc on the heap are paying for the updates or jumping through the link-and-sync bullshit for them.
microsoft’s scare tactics work, and work very well.
yup. i have a bunch of users that won’t be happy. they only still have fb for messenger, use the messenger app, and never go to fb itself anymore.
nope. but we have an ‘account charge’ per meter, as well as a ‘cost adjustment’ that has never adjusted lower.
we’ve also had charges for meter replacements we never asked for or needed… not like the old spinny dial ones were broken. or the first digital one they put in… or the second. or the… i’m on my fifth meter in 25 years.
don’t forget the ‘there will be an additional $7.50 used anal probe flavored fee beginning next month’
just give 'em time. it’s still a bit early in the game for that play
iirc, they did do a limited regional test of subscription windows back sometime during win7.
rufus doesn’t help with preloads that you don’t want to or can’t, for whatever reason, overwrite with a ‘clean’ install.
since you’re buying parts, you can specifically look for boards with 6-8 (more than that will require a ‘specialty’ board). 8 isn’t impossible to find. start a build on pcpartpicker, go straight to motherboards and filter 8 or more ‘SATA 6Gb/s Ports’, then sort low-to-high on price. you should find a msi pro am4 and an asus prime am5 that are quite reasonably priced and have multiple reputable vendors selling them.
otherwise you’re looking for an expansion card to add to a board you’ve already got or to expand one of those above for even more.
of course, you need the drive bays to hold them all, too. which can be harder to find at a reasonable and affordable price than motherboards and controller cards.
‘humans and cardassians can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.’
and even when you do know what you’re doing, you’re probably choosing not to host your own. at least not one that faces the public. a private mail ‘server’ that consolidates mail for you from multiple providers (and sends mail back out the same way) is different.
i have an old wood desk at the office. it just resonates and amplifies noise when i set a desktop form factor external hdd (with its attached rubber feet) on it. it now sits on a couple old-school foam rubber mouse mats.
don’t expect a 19 year old laptop to perform all the tricks something more ‘modern’ can do, such as transcoding video for a streaming media server. also note that a t5600 is not a ulv chip (draws as much as 34w under load, on its own)–so probably not a candidate to run ‘lid down’ without some outside help for cooling.
it’s not fast, it’s not power efficient, it has slow networking (10/100 and 22-year old ‘g’ wifi), and lacks usb3 for ‘tolerable’ speed on extra external storage space—but it will be ‘ok enough’ for learning on.
if you go with something like yunohost or even dietpi, you will pretty much restrict yourself to what it can run and do and how it does it. if you want more ‘control’ or to install things they don’t offer themselves, you’ll need to ‘roll your own’. a base (console only) debian would be a great place to start. popular, stable, and tons of online resources and tutorials.
i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.
it was at 50 percent in aug 2024’s survey… that last 15 percent to 65 took over a year to achieve.