Likely humilating as seeing pics of yourself as a child and you think "What on Earth was I wearing back then?"
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Likely humilating as seeing pics of yourself as a child and you think "What on Earth was I wearing back then?"
Bark back. Assert dominance.
Not funny.
Honestly, I'd ring the neighbor's doorbell after that long to make sure they didn't forget about the dog (eg had their music blaring loud) or something.
I lived through that for a while. It sucked.
My crazy grandma is always telling me I need to get out of the suburbs and "come live in the forest" but I don't think I would make it out there. Suburb noises are annoying, but I know them.
My crazy grandma is always telling me I need to get out of the suburbs and "come live in the forest" but I don't think I would make it out there. Suburb noises are annoying, but I know them.
Wasn't thinking straight this morning gone, thinking I had to get up, get dressed, bite to eat, teeth cleaned and off to work, only to arrive in the area about half an hour earlier than normal, but then I had a bad night, thus I hadn't fully woken up until I got to the area where I work, which isn't that far, about 7 min on my bike, thus close to home and yes I do work on a Sunday, offen, weekends, what's that?
hug off Windows. I ran Windows 98 into the 2010’s. I don’t need Windows 11.
The popups are especially annoying since the one time I clicked it it tells me my laptop can’t run it. This laptop is barely three years old. What ridiculous amount of spyware is Gates peddling that it requires such specs?
The popups are especially annoying since the one time I clicked it it tells me my laptop can’t run it. This laptop is barely three years old. What ridiculous amount of spyware is Gates peddling that it requires such specs?
Sounds like your PC might gotten a lot of spyware that isn't from windows and you need an anti vrius program installed to clean house!
My laptop doesn't get those popups. I tried to sever it from Microsoft as much as can possibly be done with Windows 10, so maybe I broke that.
This is a message from Microsoft, as in official messages everyone using windows 10 gets. There is no spyware. Well, aside from the spyware baked into every OS, of course but good luck looking through all the useless boring spreadsheets and reports that are exclusively what this laptop's used for, I guess.
Hi Bill!
It's called trying to get people to buy new computers aka the Surfaces or Copilot PCs that no one wants because their previous computer was "good enough". Microsoft has even started sending people e-mails telling them that if their computer doesn't support 11 they should just throw it out recycle it.
Later in the year, I need to look into upgrading my PC, for this latest windows as mine runs on Windows 10 but currently its incapatable with 11 and I rather like my current machine that I gave the name Daffy to, we use to sort of name our PCs at my place, such as one was called Olide, standing for Oh Dear, I gone wrong, I know it doesn't really line up, but its just a name we used as that PC use to be some troublesome, but then I do have a old windows 98 PC that currently serving as a doorstop and has done for, at least maybe 15 years now, it should still work but its just not been used in a long time and the purpose of keeping is for me to use some of my older games, if I ever feel like connecting up again, still got the keyboard with a total of six spares hang around most of them on top of the bookcase of the room that my PC is in!
I'm going to continue using Windows 10 on my laptop until the hardware dies, and I bet nothing bad will happen.
So will I. Supposedly it's for security or whatever but few times my data's been compromised, it was on the end of the people I buy stuff from. I don't see how me buying a new computer's going to change how these random toy, medical supply or computer part stores do business.
I'd still be using XP if I could.
You can technically pay Microsoft to continue to get security updates. This is the first time they've offered ESU(Extended Security Updates) to home users, and IIRC it's around $30/year. If it's anything like their business ESU they should offer it for the next three years.
As to what it protects you from, there are legitimate exploits that this prevents. From https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/patch-tuesday-analysis-march-2025/ :
This is only one of six vulnerabilites already used by attackers that were patched this past month alone. I'd like to hilight the point that this one could be triggered by going to the wrong website, which is something that can happen to most home users at one time or another. Yes, your data is more likely to get popped from a big site or data dump, as those are large targets, but just like spam, even if exploits like this only affect 1 in a few thousand, as long as it ends up a positive for them for the effort they'll do it.
There are third party groups that will offer patches too, like 0-patch, but I believe they also charge.
As to what it protects you from, there are legitimate exploits that this prevents. From https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/patch-tuesday-analysis-march-2025/ :
This is only one of six vulnerabilites already used by attackers that were patched this past month alone. I'd like to hilight the point that this one could be triggered by going to the wrong website, which is something that can happen to most home users at one time or another. Yes, your data is more likely to get popped from a big site or data dump, as those are large targets, but just like spam, even if exploits like this only affect 1 in a few thousand, as long as it ends up a positive for them for the effort they'll do it.
There are third party groups that will offer patches too, like 0-patch, but I believe they also charge.