lemme in@lemm.ee to Linux@programming.dev · 23 days agoSave your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescencewww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down16
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minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down35·23 days agoUse Windows 11
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·23 days agoHere we’re talking about PCs that can’t officially run Windows 11.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·23 days agono thanks. I would rather put all my private data at risk of hackers than put all my private data at risk of corporate interests. at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back. what’s Microsoft’s excuse?
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-222 days ago at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back Firstly, that is absolutely not always the case. There’s no honour among thieves, as the proverb goes. Secondly, hackers do a lot more than simply encrypt your data and hold it for ransom.
Use Windows 11
Here we’re talking about PCs that can’t officially run Windows 11.
no thanks.
I would rather put all my private data at risk of hackers than put all my private data at risk of corporate interests.
at least when I pay the hackers they give me my shit back. what’s Microsoft’s excuse?
Firstly, that is absolutely not always the case. There’s no honour among thieves, as the proverb goes.
Secondly, hackers do a lot more than simply encrypt your data and hold it for ransom.