• Tux@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 days ago

    240 millions PC will become e-waste if Win10 reaches EoL

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      10 days ago

      EoL doesn’t mean it will stop completely; people will probably keep using it till they can’t anymore, like pc becoming too slow or their home banking site not working.

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        10 days ago

        I’ve got an Asus eeePC running WinXP. It’s air-gapped and the wi-fi is disabled in BIOS. All it does is play music, connected to dumb speakers. I update the music periodically via USB. Remarkably reliable and long-lived hardware.

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        9 days ago

        Realistically it will live for as long as Google Chrome still works and sites don’t start getting picky about TLS 1.3.