With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be these computers’ only secure hope, what do you think?

  • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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    1 year ago

    If these were all stacked laptops, stacked on top of each other, they would form a stack 600 km above the Moon.

    Ummm… what??

    Assuming 3 cm thick laptop x 240 mil = 7,200 km. Moon is on average 380,000 km away. Even 30 cm thick laptops (lol) would only get you to 72,000 km.

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      1 year ago

      They’re stacking on the longest dimension after opening up the laptop.

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          1 year ago

          They said “600 km above the Moon”, so assuming that the laptops are 2.5mm thick, and stacked on the surface of the moon…