I’m thinking about buying a dotzen cheap (from companies throwing away almost new) laptops, flashing Fedora with activated auto-update and bottles and selling them for maybe $100 more on ebay or wherever.
Good idea?
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
Submitted 1 day ago by misk@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.zip
https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-02-microsoft-abandoning-windows-10-hackers-celebrating/
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Not until Linux has a better association for laypeople.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Shit header image. They don’t want to delete your data.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Once you live outside Microsoft for an extended period of time you start to get a visceral sense of how fucked up Windows is.
Way. It’s way fucked up.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 day ago
There are going to be a lot of good machines that should hit eBay for cheap as companies dump their old stock. Grab home servers, media machines, secondary devices, emulation rigs, etc as the opportunity presents itself.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Welcome to my plan! Ive got a good chunk of change set aside for some tiny/mini/micro to add to the others.
Also looking to pick up some ’new’ laptops for me and the kids.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I learned your ago to disconnect devices in my lab run by computers from the web. They literally last forever without updates.
More than once, Microsoft would brick $800,000 microscopes by pushing an update even with updates turned off.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 22 hours ago
I too have been a victim of this and it’s the ultimate suck in science. Instrument companies should be required to develop their control software for stable versions of Linux.
Why the fuck are you selling us a standard Win11 tablet for your program that simply runs in a browser? Why in the world do you leave in all the bloatware and other baggage when we are paying 10s or 100s of thousands for something that we just need to run reliably? I will never understand. It’s like they want us to have a bad time.
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m celebrating too as a user. No more shit updates that disturb me.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 day ago
Which would be the reason the hackers are celebrating
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s great. I have ublock origin and paid virustotal at my side. I’m not safe, but I wouldn’t be any safer with a windows update.
primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I once tabbed out in thd middle of a game to check an email and absent mindedly authorized an update while i was in desktop. A few minutes later I started getting overheat warnings–I set the threshold very low; I like my stuff to last–I started getting hardware lag.
It turns out my graphics card updated, and the game fell back to integrated graphics while it was unavailable. The terminal code to switch it back without shutting anything down required touching too many things i dont like to touch unless I’m sober, and was really complicated, and I mistyped the one to restart, so I saved my game, and pressed the reset button on the case to make it better.
Linux is so broken.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Linux is so broken.
Then don’t break it?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If this is a joke, well done. If it’s a troll, please don’t. If it’s a true story of how you use computers, may God have mercy on your soul.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
pebkac
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 1 day ago
i really hope this is supposed to be a joke
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m quite slow in the head but damn nI have no idea how all that happened
relativestranger@feddit.nl 1 day ago
the same tool that can… uh… ‘remove the waterMark’… yea, that’s it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
I’m still convinced Microsoft will walk back on this hard deadline. I would put my money on 3 days after their self imposed WIndows 10 dooms day that they will extend W10 updates with at least 6 months, most likely a year.
stoly@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Isn’t that what happened with Win 7?
x00z@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
If UAC bypasses weren’t left unpatched I would have kept my own one so I could reign chaos as soon as Microsoft drops it.
You know what, I’m keeping it anyways, so I can prove an argument by telling you about it.
I’m sure many malware developers have tons of exploits ready for when support is dropped.