Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 ... what's the issue?
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Even JavaScript can infect you.
Assuming your family does online banking and brokerage you then become a jumping off point for malware.
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Microsoft finally embracing the Apple model of upgrading
What a coincidence, the end of my support for windows is also approaching.
jk I scrubbed that shit from my personal devices years ago after graduating.
Yeah I lost it when I saw this too. But, because I waited so long to switch to Linux, it’s to the point where I feel it has so much of what was lacking the last time I used it. Easily over ten years ago. Thank you to everyone who slogged through it to get here.
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"Trade it"
TO FUCKING WHOM? The whole point is that you made it useless.
(Unless this is Microsoft providing some free advertising for Linux)
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It's probably a non monitored email but I just replied, "I already switched to Linux because of this"
What a coincidence - I stopped supporting it too!
I mean, what do you expect them to say?
"Time to install Linux, here's how you chose a kernel:"
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I said from the beginning that the tpm 2.0 requirement was a way to make people buy new pc's. Good news for me who wants a laptop upgrade.
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Guess my parents will continue and will use unsupported OS in the future. Maybe i install Linux to my mother, as a beta tester for the family when i go visit them in the summer.
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Just recycle that shit! Here's my...and address where you can recycle it to....