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Spent time today helping a VAR upgrade from one support appliance to another. Not my job but I get sucked into these things. While racking the new one I found an unknown box in the rack. "What is this?" "Oh, thats <vendor>'s box. We stopped using them years ago." Cue me finding a Ubuntu 16.04 box STILL ON OUR NETWORK FROM A VAR WE DON'T USE. Keep in mind, these are the same folks that run around screaming about security. Some days I really want to just wa…

Looks like it's time to "upgrade" the studio monitors as the left speaker is slowly eating itself. It now takes about a minute or two to come online, and there's a 20% it doesn't come fully online. I've had these for awhile now, but I'm going to replace the RKR G4 speakers with a set of Adam Audio T5Vs which should pair pretty well with the JBL subwoofer.
#computers

So Windows 10 support ends in a month from now, and many PCs can’t be updated due to bullshit arbitrary requirements from Microsoft.
And there’s a group of people who insist that “you can just easily upgrade to Linux” and try to convince non-techies to do so.
It’s hilarious.

Urgent help needed.
Is there an Apple Mac specialist around Paris who is willing to revive a MacBook Pro M3 Pro which got stuck during a MacOS #Tahoe upgrade?
I tried to approach two Apple Stores but they claim to be too busy to help in this iPhone launch weekend ☹️. And I am traveling Monday to a country without any official Apple presence.