“Hey uh, Mission Control? I’ve got two Outlooks and neither of them are working” A real quote from the mission btw
could be worse. last year, deutsche bahn put up a job ad looking for a developer familiar with windows 3.1 in a networked environment to work on their fleet of high speed trains.
Industrial embedded software is such a shitshow. Somehow Microsoft convinced companies that Windows is a great solution for controlling heavy machinery.
Tbh there’s no reports of that choice leading to actual accidents, but still you’re stuck with an old version of Windows with no possibility of upgrade.
windows 3.1 in a networked environment
Sorry, what? Is this a thing where they beat the Y2K bug by just moving their clocks back for 30 years?
well the ice is like 35 years old i think
Your rocket will ignite in fifteen minutes.
Actually, it’s looking more like six days.
No wait, thirty seconds.
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Windows is installing updates. Please don’t turn off your computer.
wait. this is real???
Yes
Doesn’t NASA use older tech because it’s more secure? I think I remember reading that somewhere.
I program for ships (the water kind) and buddy, you ain’t seen nothin’. I’m talking server infrastructure from 1991. Spaghetti code from the 80’s. I had a program that had to run on a dos box, and we had to replace the whole thing because the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.
the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.
Now that’s how to secure job security
Windows 11 is a hot pile of garbage. Windows 10 was a “better” choice TBH
RHEL 7 would have been an even better choice, though.
And Rocky would be an even better choice.
I’m pretty sure you can’t get approval for a community-maintained OS without enterprise support to send people to the moon.
