But it sounds cool! Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bullock are waiting for me in my apartment to hack the web!

When you get your IT knowledge from the '90s movie Hackers…

Very simple: I’m one user.

Like dude how am I supposed to order burgers through skip the dishes if I don’t have Windows 11 and a 64 core CPU with 256GB of DDR18 super RAM running terabytes of vibe-coded AI slop!???

I just connected my Windows 7 machine to the internet and two Russians jumped out my serial port! One is holding me down while the other one is stealing the CPU from my washing machine! Send help!

This requires little more than a 286. It’s an elevator. Responding in times measured in seconds. What kind of computations do you think are required here? Imaginary quaternion matrixes? Squared?

But how else can it be safe to connect to the internet?

Luxury. All I had was a 186.

Why do people keep repeating this tired propaganda? What exactly do you think will happen?

Why would Windows 7 not be “safe” to connect to the internet? Do you understand how any of this works?

Stuck? What can you do that I can’t on Windows 7?

We’re the good guys. It’s OK when we do it.

only if you’re not looking

Probably Russian disinformation.

We as a species had the opportunity to build a leisure society many times over the decades. We just prefer torturing each other with meaningless busy theater.

Are you comparing the same time frames? Because Rivian’s sales are down 36% for Q1 2025.

I guess no one wants them either, or would a headline about Rivian invoke some other reason?

That’s my point.

Windows stopped at 7.

For all we know lots of people want them but can’t afford them.

Paints two completely different scenarios from the same objective base observation that there are X amount of unsold Cybertrucks.

I guess I’m both not old enough yet to get it, and quite unimpressed with Monty Python. It’s just not that funny. Q did it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q…_(TV_series)