Re: “End Of 10” Project

On Tue, 6/24/2025 7:29 PM, chrisv wrote:

Paul wrote:
 

rbowman wrote:

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/microsoft-extends-free-windows-10-security-updates-into-2026-with-strings-attached/
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Microsoft blinks again...

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I don't think "blink" is quite the right word.
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I'm going to need H&R Block to decode this "deal" for me.
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And enabling a "Backup" software to make copies of
my personal files in their Cloud, that's a non-starter
right there.

 
Classic Evilsoft.
 

I've got plenty of storage locally.

I also happen to have a rather slow Internet connection.

*******

I was hoping the neighborhood would be filled with fiber optic
cable by now. Some trucks came out, they installed fiber cable
underground to five properties, on the other side of the road.
The men were there for more than a week. They redid some of the
operations twice.

A supervisor shows up in a truck the next week. He was furious
at the progress. He made all the men and trucks go away. There
was a large roll of multi-fiber thunk line on a big reel and
that eventually went away too. They ran a trunk under the road,
near the pedestal. Then didn't use the output on my side of the
road.

Nobody has been back since, and that was two years ago.

That's what I like about this timeline. Everything just works.

I can imagine the conversation now:

<Me>    "I'd like to get your 3Gbit/sec fiber service"
<them>  "Hold on a sec. You're in the city, right ?
         Says here, unavailable"
<Me>    "I'd like to get your 3Mbit/sec fiber service"
<Them>  "Strange, that's unavailable too."

This is what happens when you sub-contract installs.

   Paul