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| Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread  Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:01 am | |
| I now have Android 14 on my newer phone.
Flushed with success, I installed F-Droid on my tablet so I can have access to under-the-counter apps like Hexadecimal Viewer.
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:10 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:20 am | |
| I have installed Android x86 in a virtual machine on my (Windows) laptop.
It's working!
I am installing the authenticator app I have to use for work.
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:23 am | |
| The app doesn't work. It keeps crashing.
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:49 am | |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:00 am | |
| I tried another app. And it worked. I can hardly believe it.
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:38 am | |
| Still working today! I have defeated the evil colleagues who insisted I had to use my phone.
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:50 am | |
| I have installed WhatsApp on it too. Now I can WA from my computer!
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:10 am | |
| I tried installing a virtual machine operating system on my laptop, a few years ago but my laptop wasn't up to it and quickly ground to a halt.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:19 pm | |
| I had to allocate 3 of my 8 processor cores to the VM for Android to run acceptably fast 
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:44 am | |
| According to the news, Microsoft-based computers, systems and networks have been going down all over the world.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Fri Jul 19, 2024 4:26 pm | |
|  Only those with Crowdstrike installed. Whatever that was. https://twitter.com/vinceflibustier/status/1814233715641389456 _________________ What does an Argonian do when he returns home for a back-breaking day of working in the field?
His Dunmer master's laundry, if he knows what's good for him. |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:49 pm | |
| - The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
- According to the news, Microsoft-based computers, systems and networks have been going down all over the world.
Yes, I went out for a coffee this morning only to be greeted with a "Cash Only" sign... Lucky that I had some, we were the only two people there. Losers  |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:23 am | |
| Falcon Crowdstrike and its ridiculous macho name kept killing off a monitoring process I was in charge of on one of our work servers, because it thought it was malware.
I see this incident as righteous punishment for them.
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Mon Jul 22, 2024 5:30 pm | |
| Windows 10 is ending support after next October.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Mon Jul 22, 2024 5:31 pm | |
| It's only five years ago that I switched to Linux because they ended support for Windows 7.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: The magnificent operating system thread Mon Jul 22, 2024 5:32 pm | |
| That means that, in the space of just 6 years, I'll have seen the death of four versions of Windows. _________________ |
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