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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

i remember when some idiot on facebook kept trying to argue with me that continuing to use xp a full 12 years after its EOL was fine, actually.

ever since i've wondered once in a while when his bank account got breached for the first time.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    That type of thing is actually pretty common for fully offline equipment. Think things like CNC machines that get all their instruction files via USB. Nobody is replacing a quarter-million dollar machine just because the OS is old.

    But, yeah, if you connect such a thing to the internet, ooooh boy.

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