Yeah nah. Iran is at the heart of Evil Empire Alliance A and Israel is at the heart of Evil Alliance B

There is nothing good about Iran or Israel’s govt. They’re both evil, and they’re aligned with countries some of whom are also doing (or have done) evil.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s other enemy.

Nothing more, nothing less

Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I’m loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.

I am truly impressed that you managed to replace a desktop operating system with a mobile os that doesn’t even come in an X86 variant (Lineage that is is, I’m aware android has been ported).

I smell bovine faeces. Or are you, in fact, an LLM ?

Setting aside the fact that legally a corporation actually is a person, there is such a thing as a corporate culture, and a corporate ethos.

Let’s start with an old microsoft ethos: embrace extend extinguish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Now don’t try to tell me I made it up, there’s enough evidence for it to have its own wiki page.

Similarly there’s FUD an approach they most certainly didnt invent but did an excellent job of weaponising to a fine art.

And so on and so forth. Those of us who have been around a while know the true shape of it, and that leopard has never changed its spots.

I got my MCSE on NT4 back when CNE was much more respected. I still work in IT so yes I too use both windows & linux, that doesn’t stop me having a clear eyed view of them.

They’re also not the worst by a long chalk, google, meta, palantir are all far less principled and far more detrimental to society.

M$ still arent good though, and its woven into their culture

Linux activists definitely root against Windows

That is at least in part because Windows has actively undermined Linux for years, and the older ones of us also remember M$ killing OS/2 (&Novell on tge server side) and learnt our lesson not to trust them even when it looks like they’re playing nice

It’s an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That’s not piecemeal is it ?

Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Copenhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it

<sigh> I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.

I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn’t propaganda.

If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren’t daily, they’re a handful per year.

On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you’re metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

But you do you. I’m not your Dad

So here comes alkaline rain to replace the acid rain we got rid of 40 years ago. Genius idea. Not

Yep still exist.

No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don’t want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares