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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • I’ve always been surprised to find all the ATMs in my country run different versions of windows (XP, Vista, 7)

    Like even from purely an accountant point of view, if you’re using some shitty proprietary software why wouldn’t you implement it in an OS that doesn’t require commercial licences???

    Then again the entire software stack of any established financial institution is just spaghetti code and things held on with duct tape and prayers











  • The pro versions of windows don’t get as disrupted as windows home (the version everyone complains about because they don’t know there’s a difference). And the pirate ones I’m mentioning usually are iso images that have been preemptively unshitified as to not have most of the unnecessary bullshit out of the box but still get the security updates.

    Used to be you had to pick and choose updates or get your system gimped for not being a legal copy but Microsoft kinda gave up on that when they went freemium