Dude, your hardware most likely has TPM2. Like most 10 year old PCs have it. Itâ(TM)s also not even required, you can bypass it.

So I guess youâ(TM)ll be on the phone with Canonical tomorrow to tell them to keep supporting 1804 LTS now that it entered extended support ? How about telling Redhat to keep patching RHEL 6 while youâ(TM)re at it. My dude just discovered software lifecycles. Keeping old software alive requires devs. Requires tooling. Keeping all that going rather than shifting to newer versions is idiotic, nor is it something anyone on Slashdot should be mad about, seeing how most of us here should have IT or dev careers and we should all know about software lifecycles. You guys talk like normies and noobs. When the fuck did Slashdot stop being news for nerds ?

Me was an upgrade to 98 ?

Vista was an upgrade to XP ?

8 was an upgrade to 7 ?

My dude, this whole spiel of "New windows bad, old Windows good" is as old as Windows itself.

5th option : just install Windows 11 on your existing PC.

That's what I did.

So when can I expect my security patches for Irix 6.2 ?

Would also be nice of SGI to add Vulkan support for O2s.

Oh wait, that's just a ridiculous notion. Like your own that Microsoft should be stuck supporting MS-DOS 1.0.

Nothing stops you from keeping Windows 10 installed. Microsoft is just moving on, 10 years after they shipped it. Like they moved on from Windows 95. BTW, doubt you could boot XP on most PCs running Windows 95. You do understand how fast PC specs were progressing in those days right ? My first Windows 95 machine had like 32 MB of RAM.

Then you'll have no issue changing to Windows 11 if you're already a few "major" versions in my dude.

I paid 21$ for my Windows license 10 years ago.

Updated it 3 times, never paid a penny more.

"Cutting Edge" version of Windows which is 4 years old, instead of 10 years old.

You guys are funny. Should they also still offer MS-DOS 5.0 security patches ?

Can I still get updates for Redhat Linux 5.2 ? No, not Enterprise Linux 5, actual real Redhat Linux 5.2 with its Kernel 2.2.

This has nothing to do with that at all.

This is "Your OS is 10 years old, and if you want to keep using it and receiving updates, we better see some money to justify the devs we put to work on it".

No different than Windows 95 in 2005. Time to move to XP.

Is like using Windows 95 in 2005.

At some point, we can't ask companies to keep dragging you along for the ride.

That's where Slashdot is at now. Peeps commenting without going further than the headline.

The answer to your question is in the summary : as long as the app is running, it changes the settings back, whether the VPN is connected or not.

The problem is the "too low barrier of entry" is a ridiculous notion and a non-argument. We're in 2024. There's an open source compiler for about every thing. There is no barrier of entry besides owning a 300$ laptop or an even cheaper used desktop.

If OP is looking for a programming language with strict gatekeeping, he's in for a world of sadness. So really, why single out Go ?

Strange, I'm neither an independent contractor nor exempt and yet I'm on Slashdot.

I work 35 hours/week. Anything else is overtime is completely optional and I'm the only one that gets to decide if it gets done or not. My boss can ask nicely and that's the limit of what he can do about it.

I'm paid hourly, not salaried. In IT.

I don't really care and I am going to ad block or ignore them anyway. What they need to fix first though is this happening now for the first time at least that I've seen it happen...

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