Congrats on being a parrot in the "oh noes, taken over by bots!" securitah echo chamber.
W7 is just fine. Daily driver on multiple machines, never been "taken over" or turned into a crypto miner or a hub for a bot network, never had a single virus or other issues.
Seriously. Also less and less software is supporting 7. Importantly, Firefox ESR 115 is the last modern browser to support Windows 7 and it's entering EOL after this month[1]; Chrome dropped Windows 7 support in 2023[2].
Right now I wonder if a browser or chrome embedded framework (and then when applications that use it update past the cut-off version) is the 'killer app' that motivates upgrades. The CEF cut-off for win7/8/8.1 was when their extended support periods ended, and presumably they upgraded the underlying SDK they to rely on features not present pre-win10, and presumably oct 2028 (+3 years) is when the same will happen again
Just made dirty hack and be able to run latest LibreOffice 25.8 on Win7 despite official "unsupported status". Save dialog is not working but luckily software is cross platform and has it's native dialog and it can be enabled in options.
that's quite a bold statement. i am doing all my stuff without any problems.
If you check ms bulletin you'll see that quantity of bugs in recent Windows is waaaay above old crony, just see ghacks for comparison. I'm applying patches from 2008R2 which are still coming (till 2026). Having two firewalls, h/w and s/w, all unneeded services are stripped off or disabled. So the chance is slim to none.
I disagree with the concept of affluvic notes. All notes are intrinsically actionable; it's why they're a note in the first place. Any note has unbounded consequence depending on the action taken from it.
You're being downvoted, I suspect for being a tad hyperbolic, but I think you are raising a really important point, which is just the ever more gradual of removing a human's ability to disobey the computer system running everything. And the lack of responsibility for following computer instructions.
It's a tad far-fetched in this specific scenario, but an AI summary that says something like "cancel the subscription for user xyz" and then someone else takes action on that, and XYZ is the wrong ID, what happens?
If there's one thing I never tire of, it's someone telling me that I don't need something or how I'm doing it wrong. I would love a screensaver that scrubs my OLED pixels.
Holding and adhering to personal principles is the opposite of weak. You might disagree with that person's decision, but that does not make them (or their decision) weak.
"the Charm stuff" it is built on (and anyone else can use) is :)
And that's the stuff most of the industry (e.g. GitHub CLI) is using, btw.
Also, it looks like Crush has an irrevocable eventual fallback to MIT[1] allowing them to develop in open so you basically get all the bells and whistles available. We probably couldn't ask for more :)
I guess we're also going to have to ban movies like A Clockwork Orange then. Stanley Kubrick and all the other people involved in production? 100% bad people.
Careful on that slippery slope, you might fall and break something!
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