SayJess

joined 8 months ago
[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

Depends. You did schedule backups, right? Right?

[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 12 hours ago

What??? In earlier versions, we had to lift a couple of legs on the chips, a 50cm bodge wire, and finally shorting a capacitor while booting. Finally the write protection disabled, which allowed one to flash an older BIOS that allowed usb booting. The major downside was that it was a tethered jailbreak. But we made it work…except for the fly-aways.

[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 13 hours ago

If you’re doing anything private on that computer, like social media, banking, cell phone payments, you need to get an operating system that gets current security updates. Windows 7 has not had security updates in 6 years. Malware, ransomware, etc have had 6 years to break Windows 7. Look at Linux Mint, it is a popular distributor, that many find to be a good bridge to get you up and running.

[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Are you able to get a usb mouse and keyboard to plug in?

[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 points 13 hours ago

Market share for Win 7-8.1 is, no joke, 0.69% (nice). And how many of those users are running FireFox?

[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Christians. They deserve special treatment, because they are all special.