Long past, but for old files especially, old .doc files it is great as a backup.
It lives in a VM that never has access to the internet, it almost never gets started up.
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I have office 2007 on a winxp VM, I haven't had to use it in a few years, but it is there as a back up
No human should be running w11.
Automation engineer here: alarm management is a hugely important part of making a plant operable.
It is also a project that is never done, you must always review alarms that come in and see if they are providing useful information and what the operators are supposed to do with said information.
If the operators are not supposed to do anything with the information, then what is the point of having the alarm?
Yep, downloaded XP over 33.6k modem, but I'm in NZ so 33.6 was more advertising than reality, it took weeks.
Hell my home server, running on low end Xeon hardware had uptime numbers around 3 years....then there was a power cut. Next down day was another power cut a year or so later. Total around 8 years running with 5 outages, all but one due to power loss (other was Ubuntu 16.04 - 18.04 upgrade).
Just updated to Ubuntu server 20.04 so uptime is only 7 days at this point.
Completely passive, no computer in any form.
Just 100% marketing bullshit.
Nope, just semi -regular lenses but now with AI
I was at the optometrist recently and saw a poser for some lenses (transitions) that somehow had "AI"....I was like WTF how / why / do you need to carry a small supercomputer around with you as well.
$100 - $135 Canada style monies. +$27 for shipping to New Zealand. So up $160CAD....very expensive for a mouse, but not as crazy as some gaming mice.
Good choice on Mint.
I have been using Linux exclusively (personal) since 2008, distro hopped for a few years then settled on Ubuntu, until they shot themselves in the foot with 22.04 and the snap debacle; moved to Mint (after trying Pop, MX and a few others).
I have to say a big well done to the Mint devs, it is better than Ubuntu ever was; part of this is newer drivers etc...but it is very polished and it gets out of my way and lets me do my work.
Been working with the various flavors of Windows in a work capacity over the same stretch, in my opinion windows peaked with XP, 7 was ok, and 10 is also ok. But it really has been down hill since XP was retired.