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For here, am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Computer screen went blue
When I opened outlook two
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
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.
Usually it’s because Windows is way cheaper to use.
How is Windows (which costs money) cheaper than Linux (which is free)?
More support is needed when switching workplaces to Linux as people are familiar already with Windows.
But will that remain the same? People are already using computers less in their personal lives.
Because businesses need support. They need to be able to rely on others to quickly get everything back in order or they lose money.
And since Linux does not have any (except for RedHat), they would need to have that support in-house. Which is a lot more expensive and still does not give all the expertise that big companies like Microsoft have.
For consumers it is free, but for businesses it costs a lot more money than using corporate standard software.
Probably the biggest source of income for open-source companies, is exactly providing support and similar services.
20+ years in industry as a UNIX and Linux admin. Informed but potentially biased.
Linux admins have tended in my career to be more expensive. They tend to be more week rounded as engineers. Linux by it’s nature, especially in the past, required you to be a DBA, network admin, server admin, developer all in one. They can often fix problems quicker than the support engineer elsewhere can read the ticket.
That means you pay more per engineer, MBAs don’t like this. This is a critical problem. You pay less overall in staff costs because you need less staff, MBAs don’t understand this. MBAs like support contracts so they can offset blame.
A small, concise, tight nit, well payed admin team who have ownership and care about a product will be cheaper, and have more uptime than the alternatives. But they’ll also be obstinate, high payed, entitled and ready to jump ship if you mistreat them. That means you need actual diplomacy and social skills to manage them well.
A small tight nit team with product ownership will need a kick up the arse at times to change “what ain’t broke”. So when product requirements need a radically different solution that can take time to change.
There is a reason that industry breaking startups in the early 2000s had their corporate backbones on Linux.
Less people use it which increases wages of the people that know it.
Also more hours lost when something goes wrong because of the smaller population of people that can fix it.
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 circleson 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?
Joke aside, it was the personal device of one of the crew members. Not NASA provided nor mission critical
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~
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.
It needs to run a second process to send all your data back to Microsoft.
Microsoft telemetry has reached space
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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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?
