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There's a scene in Space Force where a flight controller can't do something crucial because of a forced Windows update. I remember thinking "this is such a silly, cheap gag, there's no way a space organization would use Microsoft".
Well. I stand corrected.
Every organization uses Windows because they can't fathom that Ubuntu is perfectly fine to use.
Meanwhile Big Tech's backbone are mostly libre software
Big tech is at a scale where it's cheap to do an in-house solution. Amazon maintains its own distribution for internal Amazon systems
And Government isn't at scale? Its the biggest scale.
Government is also smaller than big tech, at least tech wise.
No. Many different organizations with their own requirements.
Wait till I tell you many nuclear power stations and submarines run ancient versions of windows for their control software
I've worked in more than a couple factories and fabrication shops. Everything was on XP.
I'm not saying you can't run infra with a couple of old dells plugged in that break prod when they are cut off.
We don't talk about that.
I do think that modern manufacturing or even shipping logistics stuff having not been touched in twenty years is saying something.
We had some stuff at work that was XP until the machines started dying. They were not sure how to get around it but one option was XP in a VM.
Also we have internal websites that only work in IE Mode, because modern browsers don't render them properly. Its annoying mostly because even though Edge has an IE Mode, and you can add exception, it CONSTANTLY nags about "don't you want to use Edge? Or removes the exception with an "add back" option.
Like no Edge, it still does not render, why ard you so fucking extra about this, just render in IE mode.
And those dipshits never bothered to configure it properly?
That nagging is because it has never been forced via configuration to us IE mode. Its a feature called enterprise ie mode, but it's a configuration file (of addresses and compatibility directives) and a couple of regkeys.
Why won't you fix those internal websites? I wouldn't think it is that hard? It is just html and css isn't it?
all of my factory lines run on 98 and XP, which is perfectly fine, I can navigate them in my sleep
but management just hired a vibe coder to make a larger infrastructure for materials handling... that should work out great
At least these ancient versions won’t try to update in the middle of a sea fight.
Imagine having a nuclear meltdown because of windows
Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It's wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even $100,000 on open source expertise but they'll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.
Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.
I don't think it's too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out in the same social circles.
I don’t think it’s too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out ~~in the same social circles~~ on the same Caribbean island...
Ftfy
I heard they even had a special island where they liked to meet up. Allegedly.
No he was in bed some russian women and almost certainly under age girls with Epstein, it is after all, why he got divorced.
But yes, NSA_KEY, skype, bitlocker, etc...
You are because it's on a personal device.
It's got a really nice ui
Didn't they skin it to look a lot like Windows?
Microsoft Copilot now requests full access to the flight control system.
Abort? Retry? Fail?
Copilot erases whole guidance and navigation. Ejects control systems computer. Vents atmosphere
Artemis crew goes Mark Watney mode and miraculously save themselves.
Microsoft calls it a hiccup and asks people to ease with the Microslop
Pentagon invests billions into AI
CoPilot and Copilot, despite both being Microsoft-owned, are different things, and scare tactics like confusing what CoPilot can do with what Copilot can do is irresponsible, particularly now that there's also Copilot 365, a different set of capabilities again that you may be purposefully also muddying the water with. Do you even stop to think who you are hurting?
~Please for the love of god don't make me use the tag~
Joke aside, it was the personal device of one of the crew members. Not NASA provided nor mission critical
There's something to be said for a computer that's as dumb as a calculator.
They were troubleshooting a GoPro earlier too, lol. Was interesting, same problems up in space as we have down here.
Curse you play button.
why would you want to have email on a spaceship? why do they need email on a spaceship?
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just use Teams
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I just don't understand wtf microsoft is trying to do. No matter what outlook icon i open, one day it says "this is new outlook, do you want to switch back yo classic?'. And the next day it says "youre on classic outlook, want to switch to new outlook?". And like bro i literally couldn't care less, i have no idea what the differences are, i just need to read and reply to emails for work so i can pay my rent. Wtf do you want microsoft?? New or classic i literally cant tell which one is which i just need the fucking emails bro
It needs to run a second process to send all your data back to Microsoft.
Microsoft telemetry has reached space
This is a fairly common government furnished equipment issue lmao
Guess NASA didn't want them writing SMTP rules while circling the moon.
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
For here, am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Computer screen went blue
When I opened outlook two