I'm good with hot food, to the point I actually occasionally use nasty sauces like the infamous Da Bomb on things I legitimately eat, but I'll never get people that say sriracha isn't hot.
Maybe I buy a special one or something, or it varies wildly from person to person, but i like to put a good juicy squirt of sriracha on my cheese sandwiches and it definitely still clears my sinuses quite effectively.
Also IT guy. Hot take indeed. I've done this but won't support this. I will almost guarantee some update will break shit at the most inconvenient time humanly possible and the people you've done this for will need your help, all at the same time.
I'm using this opportunity to expand Linux market share.
Most people only use a browser these days. People that ask me about Windows 10 eol get pushed towards Linux. There is really no need to spend money to replace a machine mainly used to browse the web.
Only if they need stuff that won't work on Linux or they really really want Windows to use Chrome or Firefox on for some reason I'll recommend complying with Microsoft's hubris.
But not before suggesting Apple sells pretty and user friendly computers as well. Because I really want this to hurt Windows's market share and by golly I'll do everything in my power to help.
Just don't go at all.
There's some inertia that needs to be overcome, but it's coming. UK and Germany already posted (rather tame...) advisories.
"Freedom of speech."
Maybe I'll get down-voted so hard I end up below earth's tectonic plates but I'm against this, in the context of open source software.
The whole point is that it's worked on by everybody from everywhere and we really need to not tarnish that ideology. Very little money changes hands in this desktop OS landscape and there's thusly more to lose than to gain here.
You'd literally only be caring about the location of the entity behind any distribution because all the packages that make up the vast majority of Linux distro's are still going to be coming from the same places as, again, that's the whole point.
I hope we give a real advisory and just straight up mark the country yellow, possibly orange for anybody not hetro or white instead of just telling people to "check visa requirements" so papa US doesn't get angry...
Mexico's been yellow with orange area's for years while crime rates in some area's are totally comprable.
They are losing it and we'd to well to remember there are more weapons there per capita there than we have bicycles.
(The scale is green, yellow, orange, red, for those that don't know what i'm on about. Green obviously meaning (relatively) safe, and red essentially being a warzone.)
Not sure where this is coming from but people are not only refused entry. People are detained. Even with valid documentation, evidently.
Germany also revised their travel advisories to reflect the fact you can basically arbitrarily be detained.
They don't issue these kinds of advisories for countries with normal visa procedures where nothing of note happens...
Your rant seems somewhat out of place.
As surprise to absolutely no-one. Me buying a Samsung panel with tizen on it one of my bigger regrettable purchases in my home theater life.
So lazyness is the real answer. ;) This is fair enough, to be sure, but logically I continue to have problems with it when looking solely at the wife factor.
My wife sets nothing up, that's my area of expertise. My wife's a user. This is true for Jellyfin but also things like our home automation that she very much enjoys but has no clue to how I made work on a technical level. She just taps things in the Home Assistant app as desired and things happen.
I would also argue setting up Jellyfin, though more a complex proposition as Plex, is a lot easier then setting up things like an *arr strack or ripping the media you eventually play back with it.
Plex does very little in a vacuum so despite it being easier to set up, it would be equally unlikely she ever would.
I don't disagree, but I don't see the reason in tempting/inviting work to spawn. Especially in the cases where windows itself is optional.
I also think it's interesting you're not convinced it's a reasonable risk. I've had updates break things on clients under my control on several occasions, particularly post Windows 7 with the bigger feature releases.
It's definitely a "when", and not an "if" to me.
It's also worth pointing out Microsoft has already actively been working against allowing you to bypass the requirements. It's very clear to me they want to go towards some kind of hardware lifecycle management and I would definately not put it past them they deliberately make windows stop working on unsupported platforms at some point.