There are many, many machines out there running 95 and even earlier versions. The issue is that a machine from 30 years ago is almost always still using the software that came with the machine… 30 years ago.
Even if the OS has received security patches, which isn’t even assured, the company may either no longer be in business, or charge for new OS drivers/specialized software.
In many cases, your options are literally to replace an entire machine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, or deal with the networking nightmare that is “keep this on the network, but not on the network.”
But then could it not just be recirculated? I’m not understand why we are assuming we pull out of the tap, and dump into the sewer, when that sounds incredibly costly. Would they not just.. dump into a cooling tank, then reuse when down to temp?
I’m also confused on how they are “consuming” the water. I’m guessing they aren’t closed loop like most later cooling, but are they just… using it till it evaporates? I legitimately don’t understand where this water goes that it’s just… gone?
Just imagine how utterly fucked this woman’s life is. Gone for 6 weeks. Does she still have her job? Does she still have a place to live? Does she still qualify for her school credits? Not to mention, her name and general location are public knowledge.
They’ve moved away from touch centric controls, and are “slowly” moving things into the modern settings. I never claimed their shit was clean, just moving in what seems to be the right direction, for the most part.
We have an excel. It’s more… a group of excels? They call each other. Opening and running VBA within each other. The excels are “run” nightly, and take well over an hour to do their thing.
Reductio ad Hitlerum is a really weird thing to pull out of your ass on this particular discussion.