I have no idea, I just have a copy from TPB.
Its still supported tho. Still getting security updates. I think until 2030 ish? I'm not sure, I think the older versions of LTSC had longer guaranteed support than the newer ones.
I feel like I live on a different planet to many on HN.. Any time I've dabbled with the current roster of LLMs for work tasks (I'm a game programmer). They are utterly useless, complete waste of time. Definitely not something that seems promising and warrants more time invested.
I always point this out too. They had a war of independence, the main goal of which was so the elite slave owning class wouldn't have to pay tax. Yet they call it a revolution.
They have never had an actual revolution akin to French revolution and the July revolution.
When you look at how molecules like RNA work, and krebs cycle, and the billions of cells we are composed of, and so on, it always strikes me as astronomically lucky that we function at all. Like how can this assemblage of Rube Goldberg machines function for more than 1 seconds without catastrophically falling apart?
I think multicellular creatures on earth are just so complex they are basically ineffable.. We can understand certain general principles and statistical trends, but the entire system holistically is incomprehensible for a human level intelligence.
Kind of analogous to ML, we absolutely understand how each neuron works, we built them! But we often dont really understand how the resulting model works.
What's happened in software / computing in the last 20 years that's good? Imo it could be argued that overall the user experience has gotten worse. Dead internet theory, enshittification.
* The web is pretty much dead. Time Berners Lee's ideals certainly are.
* Computing is dominated by completely evil megacorps.
* They are making a concerted effort to make people as tech-illiterate as possible and also make universal computing illegal.
* Theres been years where GPU's were being price gouged, 1st by crypto bros, then NFT bros, now LLM bros.
* Cant even buy RAM now.
* They put e-fuses into hardware now, comes right out of the factory as ready made e-waste that cant be repurposed.
* The biggest platforms, Android and iOS, are walled garden, locked down, corporate nightmare worlds. And there is practically no alternative.
* Social media is making people depressed and also very easy to manipulate en-masse by anyone willing to pay.
* Moore's law stopped and software bloat overtook performance gains.
* VR might have been cool but it was pre-enshittified in its nascent stages. Freakin' facebook bought Oculus before they had released a single headset.
Yeah that is good, there are some good things, but I think on average the computer user experience is worse.. In the 80's and 90's with the rise of microcomputers and the net and the web and Linux, things were so utopian, things just seemed to keep getting cooler and computing was empowering people.
Apparently one reason cars from the 90's last longer than new ones (which almost always fail in some way immediately after warranty expires) is the advancement and increased usage of computer modelling / simulation.
In the 90's they had pretty much mastered car manufacturing and made parts which they were certain would outlast the warranty, erring on the side of caution they mostly ended up making parts that lasted much longer than the warranty.
Now, with computer modelling and simulations, they can accurately design a part to be as cheap as possible to make while being just durable enough to last for the duration of the warranty.
D4A did a good video on it.. https://youtu.be/SeMZGICNSMg?si=sideQIwNBr9s9QW6
Windows 10 LTSC 2021 IOT is great tbh.. Install it without internet and you dont need a MS account at all.
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