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.
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At this point, I'd feel much safer on a Win10 powered spaceship than a Win11 one. At least it isn't "30% AI-generated".
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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.
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Opens Windows.
Air escapes. Asphyxiate.
Your rocket will ignite in fifteen minutes.
Actually, it's looking more like six days.
No wait, thirty seconds.
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Windows 11 is a hot pile of garbage. Windows 10 was a "better" choice TBH
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"Hey uh, Mission Control? I've got two Outlooks and neither of them are working" A real quote from the mission btw
I believe it was the 2006/7 Seattle New Years or 4th of July fireworks that had been rigged up to orchestrate by "the latest microsoft technology" and the thing refused to execute and they rebooted the machine three times before someone just gave up and went and hit the firework triggers manually. Most people are pretty sure it was a wide beta version of Vista.
"T minus 10... 9... 8... 7..." System restarting for updates, do not power off... ... ... Yo, wanna back up all your shit? Click here to let us save a copy of all your shit to our servers! Ehhh check that out, it's time for your FREE upgrade to Windows 11! Click here to... wow, fucking rude. Alright. How about an office suite? Ya want an office suite?? Nevermind that Office is already installed, this one's special! ...what are you a fucking peasant or something? Alright fine, here's access back to your peasant-ass operating system and an image of a cartoon cat wearing a wrestling belt for some fucking reason. 🖕
"...-T THE FUCK ARE DOING, I SAID ABORT DAMNIT! THE WIND PICKED UP, HARD! YOU CAN'T BRING THE FUEL TANK THROUGH THAT MUCH TURBU--" explodes
Doesn't NASA use older tech because it's more secure? I think I remember reading that somewhere.
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You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
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I saw him typing in his pin code too. It was 3939.
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That is probably why Microsoft removed the BSOD, so that they can deny being responsible for the death of the astronauts.
All jokes aside, I imagine it is a heavily curated version of Windows with only the strict nescessary for operating the systems and multiple redundencies. I can't imagine NASA risking a disaster while their budgets are being slashed.
But does it have an XBox controller?
Houston, I've dropped the stilus! Noise iiiiii
Eheeeeeh can I go get it? Noise iiiiii
Negative! That's a negative young man! You shouldn't have been playing on it during flight, you dad told you to put it away! You're supposed to be there in the moment and enjoy the flight and to look back at planet earth as the pale blue ball. Now sit there and wait until the engine stops.
Is this better or worse than macOS?
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