. I'm guessing half the time they don't work is because they are doing updates 😂
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Especially one that's connected to the internet. From the app, you can see the status of Superchargers, and even start a charging session. Yeah, not a good idea
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In 2009 the company I worked for at the time acquired a manufacturing company in San Jose. Their accounting/ERP system was not only running on a 486, but was running Win95, and the Accounting/ERP system was a demo that some guy brought on floppy that he was developing and trying sell...back in the mid 90's. They were running some pirated email software on an old computer that was basically a virus compromised SPAM host that was also running as a command and control server. Their network was a bunch of daisy chained 10mbps Hubs (not switches) and their cabling was cat 5 cables that one of the guys who worked their just threw through the ceiling from room to room. Their internet was DSL, and their router was whatever the DSL company gave them. I was able to modernize them a bit, but to this day they just pretty much do what they want, their manager doesn't like to be told what software they can or cannot run (most of it is stuff they pirate), that he needs to pay for licensing and support, so I just isolated them on their own network and let them have at it
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I feel the same way about Mac's. To me they do things backwards, like when they used to have CD/DVD players you had to move it to the trashcan to open the CD tray. I absolutely love Windows 11, I can manage all our infrastructure, including our Linux servers. I used a Mac for awhile to manage our network, but I had to either use Remote Desktop or I had to run a Windows Virtual machine to manage our infrastructure.
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Windows 11 has egregious spying features. And you no longer own it MS can revoke your license at any time (read the updated terms).
If MS made a car you'd press the start button to turn it off. Oh wait some cars including EVs have this never mind.
If MS made a car you'd press the start button to turn it off. Oh wait some cars including EVs have this never mind.
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I feel the same way about Mac's. To me they do things backwards, like when they used to have CD/DVD players you had to move it to the trashcan to open the CD tray. I absolutely love Windows 11, I can manage all our infrastructure, including our Linux servers. I used a Mac for awhile to manage our network, but I had to either use Remote Desktop or I had to run a Windows Virtual machine to manage our infrastructure.
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The thing is, we are heavily integrated in MS services. We use MS365, Azure AD etc. It all ingrates into Windows. We can control windows settings on remote computers, and if a computer is corrupted, we can push a new image to it remotely using Copilot. We are way, way deep into Microsoft's ecosystem, so if they spy or not, doesn't really matter because there is no alternative