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  • using a Windows base with a “Custom Support Agreement” still gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.

    No, it doesn’t.

    How is Microsoft going to affect the software installed on a nuclear submarine?

    It only gives Microsoft the power to choose to not add new features, the software wouldn’t be on the sub if it required any kind of outside support… the entire point of a nuclear submarine is to perform a second strike after everyone (including Microsoft) is destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse.

    Having software that’s dependent on anything that isn’t on the boat would completely defeat that purpose.
















  • I was not actually presenting a scenario where my grandmother would use a VPN.

    I was pointing out that this community is full of people who are perfectly capable of learning to use a VPN. In response to this comment:

    Unfortunately, not everyone is tech-literate enough nowadays to understand how a VPN works, nor do they want to

    That’s a true statement about ‘everyone’ i.e. the entire population of the planet… but true about everyone here in this community.