Re: Fixed that for you America!
Trump is a Turd!
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I got systems still running from the late 70's-80's thru to the 90's generation of hardware.
This stuff is pretty much bulletproof except one thing, crt displays.
But, field monkeys like me working with video game (commercial) repair companies have figured out how to mod them with flat screens using CGA to VGA converters.
I can still source pretty much all the TTL components on board assemblies. Power supplies can be rebuilt as long as the transformers are good and Molex and AMP still make all the connectors.
Even the Z80 processors are available still.
And they keep chugging along,.........!
Not bad for 45 year old iron.
Working in Bowling centers world wide for the major manufacturers the mandate that management wear ties to distinguish themselves was soon modified to be that managment was to wear "clip-on ties only at all times".
This came about after an assistant manager (night manager) was working alone after sending the night mechanic home early because it was slow. He was found in the morning not breathing anymore, yet the machine was still running.
Seems that his "required tie" had become entangled in a 205 inch "B" series (high powered) ball wheel drive belt that was driven at at about a 400:1 ratio by the 1-1/2HP drive motor. Not a good mix!
Glad I didn't have to clean that machine afterwards.
You should see Phosphorus burn. Had fire fighting training in the Navy and Phosphorus was the one thing that we were told to not do anything.
It's so hot it will separate water molecules into hydrogen(fuel) and oxygen(oxidizer) just adding to the mess.
The only thing you could do was follow it as it burned through the deck plates and plug the holes with damage control plugs.
Visited a few bombing run sites in Vietnam where Phosphorus bombs were used, that shit will melt dirt!
Just amazing how fast they cut the crap out when this was published on Arstechnica this morning.
I block over 1K IP addresses for farcefuckbook and yet they have whys of getting around the means that people use to stop their shit.
This cat and mouse stuff needs to end. User's should have a positive means of blocking any and all access from any web service if they so desire.
I know it will never happen, but, one can dream!
I use it to import new parts numbers to a 30 year old database of equipment part numbers, different suppliers, pricing, website addresses. I use CSV import through Excel then update the database with the spreadsheet, it just works like a batch job.
I don't need AI fucking with any of that process, it works very well and gives me all the update logging necessary to keep track of sources I use.
Screw their AI shit, I believe in "keep it simple shithead". and this is not that!
I dumped their shit 10 years ago, I won't even use Reader anymore because of the garbage included with their shitware of the day. There is plenty of other software for the casual user to use, and for the "Professional" I hope you understand that you don't own or control anything you allow to their "Cloud".
On Aircraft carriers top speed:
I was on the U.S.S. Midway towards the end of Vietnam and we were qualifying her because of a major casualty that had happen in #2 main engine reduction gear.
We had her up to 37.5 knots and she was screaming like a two dollar whore.
I was also station on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk(also known as the Shitty Kitty) in 76. The big difference in the steam plant was that the boilers were 1200psi instead of 600psi like the Midway was.
Well, they had an inside guy working the numbers
Yet no one never noticed the ledger out of balance.
This is what double entry accounting systems are supposed catch.
So, either their software stack is a pile of shit, or this kind of thing is typical corporate happening's just pulled off by the C-suits usually.
If the current OS is WIN7 up with an activated key your good to go, it will self activate.
What you end up with is a very generic Win11 install.
To keep Edge tamed I deleted "TrustedInstaller" and "System" permission to write to the Edge folder, then deleted the contents of the folder. This confuses the update mechanism because the folder all ready exists but it can't do anything with/to the folder.
The Telemetry crap can be turned off in the registry, but Microsoft likes to override that so I use firewall rules to block outgoing comms.
I can tell you what I haven't got, CoPilot, Recall, OneDrive, Edge, or any of the other shit like Telemetry.
What I do have is 40 years of hardware test software that I use to troubleshoot and repair equipment that I work on.
Now I realize that you're not use to anything in life lasting longer than the loan payment's on it, but in industry there's a lot of legacy equipment out there chugging along doing it's job.
And that's the shit I got!
And, no Linux doesn't work in this scenario.