Fun game! I initially dismissed it because I thought it was another live service Avengers game like the one from a few years ago, but it’s absolutely not.

People don’t need to park busses and trams

What? In cities skylines people can put cars in their pockets but unfortunately that’s impossible in real life. Where the hell are the busses supposed to go then?

They need somewhere to park though.

No, pretty much everyone agrees with you. It’s like posting on unpopular opinions: “I think Hitler was a bad person”

I’m not saying that AI will take over the world but people’s fear doesn’t come from current AI. It comes from the fact that AI improved massively in just a few years and if it continues to do that, it might become very advanced fairly soon.

I started at the company during the summer so I haven’t been around long but my colleague has worked there for over 10 years and my former colleague worked there for 20 years. So I think that they are probably right.

The software is also something from the past that not a lot of people use anymore. Unfortunately I can’t say what it is because people could figure out where I work very easily if I did, I believe it’s from the 80s. My company is also the company that has used this kind of system for the longest time in the world.

Fun fact: I just searched up the software/system and I found out on Wikipedia that another company in the same industry had to reverse engineer and replace the entire system because it was just too old, and hard to maintain.

With that said, some of the servers the software uses runs at least on 2012 and 2016. I haven’t checked but if it’s a VM, I should absolutely just try and replace it and see what happens.

They don’t expect home users to pay. Remember that they often refuse to even reboot their computers to receive security updates.

Extended support is pretty much intended exclusively for enterprises.

The biggest danger isn’t viruses sneaking their way in, it’s from the web browser and email client.

What are you complaining about then?

They supported your hardware for 18 years even when it was only meant to be for a single OS version and now people still had the option of upgrading but the hardware is just too goddamn old. I’m not defending Microsoft I also think the requirements are too high for 11, but expecting even more from your key is just ridiculous.

In a way, isn’t this just saying windows 11 is not ready as a replacement?

No, Microsoft has offered paid extended support for afaik all other windows versions at least as far back as XP.

There is always something that can’t be upgraded because it’s running some obscure software or something. At work we are unfortunately running a single Windows Server 2003 server because it’s running some software that’s absolutely critical and apparently can’t be upgraded (I should test that though).

Pretty much every hardware or software company in at least IT offers (often really expensive) extended support for old stuff.

It’s just the way of things. It isn’t an admission that Win 11 Is bad of any kind

Yeah. They have always done extended support like this.

Or Linux Or MacOS Or any computer really

They should have put the button on the top or front like any other company would do.

I would absolutely agree if Apple was a person with feelings, but fair enough.

Have a nice day/night

No one is genuinely mad. It’s just fun to mock them.

The genocide being committed in Palestine is something that makes me mad.

The fact that we are happy for our largest companies to outsource work to poorer countries makes me mad.

The fact that corporations seemingly control the world and don’t pay their fair share makes me mad.

Fun fact: it’s possible to be mad about those things while also thinking a button is stupidly placed. It’s perfectly fine to not care about this at all, but acting like that is just annoying as fuck. Please just abstain.

Here, many stores don’t accept cash so I assume accepting credit cards is cheaper and easier than handing cash.

Well, that’s sad.

It’s stupid. Do you need any other reason to laugh at it?

FYI with many routers, switches, and firewalls there are ways to automatically rollback changes in case the device is unreachable after applying them. Usually the command is called something like “Rollback”.

You usually supply a time limit when you run the command and if you don’t confirm the changes before that time limit it will rollback. So if you run rollback 30 and then do something which breaks the network connection, the config will rollback in 30 seconds. If it does work, you simply cancel the rollback.

The reason that most companies don’t want you to do that is because they don’t want people running around installing their own OS and doing whatever they feel like on company devices.

Letting people do that would be an IT and information security nightmare.

It’s the same reason that no (sane) company would give local admin privileges to everyone.

The reason why companies generally don’t have an official way to use Linux is because it’s hard to support two platforms simultaneously. Especially when you have, certificate and/or AD network authentication for wireless and wired like we do. You also need to consider how the two platforms should interact with each other. For example Linux devices should be able to connect to the AD domain with Kerberos and need to be able to access SMB shares and probably other systems.

In short it’s more complicated than “just let me try”.