As someone mentioned upthread, that's fine until some software you rely upon starts using something not present on older versions. It's one of the points that I keep in mind with most "what OS?" discussions, the OS by itself isn't really that useful but what it lets you do is. When win7 +3 year extended support ended that was the time chromium framework dropped support, and when projects using it updated then they would also need to drop win7 support (or "your mileage may vary" territory). I expect 2028 onwards may see another gradual win10 migration wave.
The support you're paying for is security updates against 0-day attacks. Once you stop receiving those then your machine becomes open season for botnets
By definition no support protects you from a zero day attack, A one day attack? sure if the supporting org is on their toes. Most of the time it will be weeks to months. if it is patched at all.
>A one day attack? sure if the supporting org is on their toes. Most of the time it will be weeks to months. if it is patched at all.
You should look at the CVE list that's fixed every month. Surely you agree it's important to have those exploits patched, especially since baddies can reverse engineer the patches to find the original exploits?
Yes, but they can only be analyzed, patched and distributed "After" the attack is known.
A zero day attack is where there have been zero days since the attack mechanism is discovered(by the victim, not the attacker obviously), there is no after. There is no time for a fix to be developed. When you get hit one day after the attack vector is known that would be a one day attack. if you get a fix one day after the attack that would be a one day patch. If the vulnerability gets discovered and patched before the attack occurs, then there is no zero day attack. only multi day ones on people who did not get or apply the patch.
I’m not so sure if you are using a web browser. Even the best enterprise firewall with SSL decryption and the best whizz bang features probably wouldn’t stop some novel zero day RCE. WannaCry was so bad that even WinXP and Server 2000/2003 got updates.
Microsoft security patches doesn’t protect you from doing that. Unsupported Win 10 behind firewall is perfectly fine, as long as you use an updated browser
Even that won't last forever. Notably, Edge is only guaranteeing updates until October 2028 [1], coinciding with the end of Windows 10's 3-year ESU period. Previously, Chromium ended support for Windows 7 at the end of its ESU period (which was also the end of support for Windows 8.1) [2]. However, Firefox continues to support Windows 7/8.1 by providing security updates for an older ESR version of Firefox 115; they appear to be re-evaluating whether to continue support every 6 months, currently set to end in March 2026.
This is exactly why its so hard to compare though; government contracts, emission credits and direct subsidies are all quite different and weighting them is highly subjective.
Nice and thank you! I think there's a great opportunity to apply the same love and care and compete with utility apps that tend to come with ads and exploits today. Thinking of music tuners/metronomes, barcode scanners, unit converters, bubble levels, flashlight strobe apps.
Thanks! I feel the same there’s a lot of room for small, focused utility apps that do one thing well without ads, trackers, or dark patterns. That’s largely the motivation behind this project too. Competing on care, simplicity, and respect for users really feels like a worthwhile direction.
Seems it's because out of the low hundreds people total who visited in a year and were expected to leave the US, some large percent didn't leave, joining the double-digit overstayers club. https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09/25_0912_cbp_...
Thanks for the link, to save anyone else the trouble, it seems that the rate for Bhutan is 89 out of 423 (21%) in country overstays. Average overstay rate for non visa waiver countries is 2.2%.
I don't think it was mentioned, but Bhutan minority groups have experienced ethnic cleansing and oppression; we used to accept their refugees, but now we probably don't, so it's likely that these overstays are actually people fleeing or related to those fleeing persecution. Another fun externality of politicians persecuting immigrants based on statistics.
Same, this was my first MUD by chance as some friends and I discovered it as a means to play games in a school computer lab that banned games. Good times. Taught me the definition of 'quaff' too.
I've had success using my nose and a cheap $15 moisture meter against walls and ceilings. In my case I was already pretty sure the moisture came from the roof when it rained so went looking right after rainstorms. This was after also running a dehumidifier in a formerly damp basement.
If a home has an active mold problem, it probably has an active water or moisture problem. What mold remediation people sometimes do as well is use an IR camera to try to find unusually cold (thus damp areas).
> If a home has an active mold problem, it probably has an active water or moisture problem.
Mold can't grow or spread without moisture, so a moisture problem is a necessary prerequisite for a mold problem.
So focusing on fixing any moisture problems is a great place to start. Feeling around walls and baseboards or climbing up into the attic in the hours and days after a big rainstorm is one way to get started without any equipment investment. Air circulation also helps dry things out, so make sure every space has some openings for air exchange.
I wonder if there's anything that can be done from an ecological perspective, encouraging the presence of (acceptable) organisms that consume the problematic fungal spore species.
Spores are kind of designed to not be valuable as food. Can you name some organisms that actually consume spores rather than eat and then poop them out?
It doesn't need to be the species' spore-stage per se, as long as it occurs somewhere in the lifecycle before bad-stuff-humans-care-about happens. Can we encourage any (microscopic) conditions that trigger germination that turns out badly for the fungus?
Kind of like how there are plant seeds we don't eat directly, but we trick them into opening up and eat the sprouts.
Infrared thermometer is also good to survey a room and look for cold spots which are associated with moisture (condensation and/or structural dampness increasing thermal transfer). A thermal camera even moreso (but more expensive).
I've seen situations where experts put different colored water soluble dye on different spots outside the house, so that when it leaks through you can determine the source. Presumably that's within reach for an individual as well.
Maybe draw a distinction between gift cards that users purchased, versus ones that the user didn't actually want, like credits from refunds that really should have come back as cash. And given the gift card balances going unused and eventually recognized as profits, paying interest across the board seems financially feasible and perhaps even more optimal.
It was a far cry from the full Portuguese citizenship offered for Macau, both in the latter's lack of conditions on acquisition (beyond being over age 15 at the handover), and in passing it on to descendants.
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