HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 9 hours ago:
But you also failed to provide any concrete examples of what is supposed to happen to my Windows 7 machine connected to the internet.
What security threat, exactly? If you can show me that, I’ll buy a new PC with Win 11 this afternoon.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 day ago:
You have provided no substantive evidence of what I can’t do with Windows 7. You have provided nothing but vague fear-mongering while inflating your chest about what a biker bad-ass you are.
Yet you refuse to see that other people also make trade-offs. My tradeoff is that sometimes I can’t install piece of shit software like KiCAD that somehow requires Windows 11 to move lines on a screen.
No big loss.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 day ago:
I don’t think I’m “at par” with Microsoft, what kind of sickness is this? Your brain fascinates me.
“There is a reason no one serious uses win 7 online anymore”
Oh I see, you are a serious person doing serious business. Serious serious serious. Meanwhile not a single concrete example has been given to me about these serious things I can’t do.
“Same reason cars without seatbelts are few on the roads.”
There is no overlap between the physical world and software delusions. There is no physical safety hazard here. Meanwhile, millions of motorcyclists use no seatbelts.
Again, your brain is fascinating.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 day ago:
So basically, you derive your identity from this.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 day ago:
What from this decade can I not do? You seem to think this is fashion. It’s just technical crap.
Computers stopped solving real problems a long time ago. “Something from this decade” like what? Endless games for children that stunt your mind? AI fart videos?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Huh? And what does that have to do with running Windows 7? You can, you know… install all the patches even if Microsoft doesn’t supply them.
They’re called Service Packs.
If this is too difficult to grasp, we can talk about something else.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Where did I say not to get bugfixes for my OS, which is Windows 7?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Well one did fuck me in the ass while the other one stole my favorite underwear right out from the delicate cycle. Total animals.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
But it sounds cool! Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bullock are waiting for me in my apartment to hack the web!
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
When you get your IT knowledge from the '90s movie Hackers…
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Very simple: I’m one user.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Like dude how am I supposed to order burgers through skip the dishes if I don’t have Windows 11 and a 64 core CPU with 256GB of DDR18 super RAM running terabytes of vibe-coded AI slop!???
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
I just connected my Windows 7 machine to the internet and two Russians jumped out my serial port! One is holding me down while the other one is stealing the CPU from my washing machine! Send help!
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
This requires little more than a 286. It’s an elevator. Responding in times measured in seconds. What kind of computations do you think are required here? Imaginary quaternion matrixes? Squared?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
But how else can it be safe to connect to the internet?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Luxury. All I had was a 186.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Why do people keep repeating this tired propaganda? What exactly do you think will happen?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Why would Windows 7 not be “safe” to connect to the internet? Do you understand how any of this works?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 days ago:
Stuck? What can you do that I can’t on Windows 7?
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 6 days ago:
Huh? That’s the very definition of incentive for a “hacker” (“cracker” should be the term). There’s also nothing really new about having protection checks in many places, usually using illegal opcodes or self-modifying code. At least on a 6502. Processors have changed, so have the tools to go with it.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 week ago:
Are you comparing the same time frames? Because Rivian’s sales are down 36% for Q1 2025.
I guess no one wants them either, or would a headline about Rivian invoke some other reason?
That’s my point.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 week ago:
For all we know lots of people want them but can’t afford them.
Paints two completely different scenarios from the same objective base observation that there are X amount of unsold Cybertrucks.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 week ago:
Not with that spelling.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 week ago:
“nobody wants” or 60% of Americans can’t afford basic living expenses?
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 2 weeks ago:
Enjoy it before Zuck sucks all that water out to cool the computers that bring you Italian brainrot animals and Turbodong 2000 videos.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 3 weeks ago:
Just awful, but I thought it was right there, you know?
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 3 weeks ago:
Someone should start Blueit. See cuz they blew it, get it?
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 4 weeks ago:
But Daaaaaaaad, all the other kids are getting a horse farm!
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 5 weeks ago:
Were you rooting for the shark?
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 month ago:
Something happened a decade ago to a single person. Therefore it follows it affects millions now in ways that persuade me my world view is correct.
I see.