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If you have the August 13, 2024—KB5041580 update. You're good.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is this for Windows 11?

My windows XP laptop is good right?

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can't tell if you're russian, or room mates.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would you make it accessible to the world?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In this case? Research, but you are correct in that it’s incredibly unlikely that someone today has their computer directly connected to the internet without a router or something preventing any incoming connection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People rely on IPv4 NAT to be a “firewall” and it drives me nuts

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Could also be a joke on how there was a single XP serial number used by nearly everyone that got it from, uhh, non-official sources. FCKGW FTW.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They own the botnet.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Winsock baby.

modem noises

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Eh, they're alright. They had to deal with more bullshit than I ever had to in high school.

They had to deal with the daily threat that a school shooting could be their school. All I had to deal with was teenage girls having a war over who was hotter. Backstreet Boys, or N-Sync.

Which to be fair, if you said the wrong one to a teenage girl in the 90s, she'd be likely to flip out on you. Still though, they wouldn't pull a gun!

I'm honestly surprised that the closest we ever got to a parody boy band was Justin Timberlake singing Dick in a Box with Lonely Island. Seems like SOMEBODY should have made a parody band! Weird Al can't do EVERYTHING, ok???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They had to deal with the daily threat that a school shooting could be their school.

What kinda hellscape country is that?

Oh wait. I know this one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Zoomers are fine, just making fun of the concept of young people thinking Windows 3.1 couldn't connect to the internet. America Online, bitch. A/S/L? Also Zi could type my friend's phone # into Doom and it'd call his modem and we could play each other

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

New Kids on the Block you millennial.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You can equate your highschool experience to a war between boy band favorites.

Sounds like you had a good time in high school.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

With or without, it's a personal choice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fuckin DOS could go online.