• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    you wouldn’t believe how many middle class families and small businesses in southeast asia are officially fucked

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      5 months ago

      They will most likely continue to use win 10 oblivious of its EOL. I have seen many using windows 7 even now. Some tech-aware will install win11 in the same machine by registry hack or sth. Very, very few will consider the possibility of alternatives.

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          5 months ago

          Don’t underestimate the power of Normies. They don’t know what a ransom is, nor the value of their own data. Any email requesting for ransom will go unnoticed or marked spam, and users will live in their normie nirvana, while their digital self will lie floating around internet, which they wont give a damn. After all, all their Facebook photos and tiktok videos are already out.

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          5 months ago

          You’ll soon be able to include MS itself in that designation.

          Your Microsoft account has been suspended. We’ll need some additional information from you to get you back on your feet.

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