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top 10 bad ideas: #1. signing into accounts on windows xp

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[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

double dog dare u to rev up IE and download mcfee from like major geeks and Norton from like cnet and have them fight

[–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

maybe in a different vm because this sounds like the best horrible idea i’ve seen in a while

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 9 months ago

Snapshots baby. Learn em, love em.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Most likely it won't work as very few websites will work with XP's level of SSL security these days.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Firefox/mypal bundles its own SSL stack

[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

major geeks looks like it hasn’t been touched since ‘05 so there is some hope for IE

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I was going to suggest another antivirus from tucows but turns out that site has been dead for quite some time.

[–] lagomorph@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

no it’s actually windows xp

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I opened the post to ask where you got that theme and what DE it is.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You guys must be joking. Fuck I feel old.

Also now I kind of want a WinXP DE on Linux lol.

[–] Otherwise_Direction7@monyet.cc 3 points 9 months ago

KDE with Windows XP theme?

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

you can make kde or xfce look indistinguishable from win xp