No shock Microsoft would do this.

Seeing as it’s not installed on anything since 8.1 I would be really really shocked.

Well not really, I have seen systems uses by governments and infrastructure.

Fuck off with your casino spam.

Because Linux is written in C so its easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

Always worry. Just because you arent using a us frontend, there is a very good chance they are using a US back end like AWS, azure, gcp, etc

Easy, you buy a really big machine that goes brrrrrrrrr

ActionRetro is that you?

Dude ran a webserver on raid 0 array of floppy disks.

Because what looks better on this quarters report selling a $85 VHS player or selling a $35 DVD player?

As is the meme

Having a stroke there mate?

[email protected] is that way mate.

I was expecting Star Trek/Xcom crossover now I am sad…

That’s interesting. I understand not wanting to fed some of those communities.

From the Wikipedia article.

A CD recorder writes data to a CD-R disc by pulsing its laser to heat areas of the organic dye layer. The writing process does not produce indentations (pits); instead, the heat permanently changes the optical properties of the dye, changing the reflectivity of those areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods

But if you ask them what burning a cd is I bet they think it’s setting them on fire, not writing data to the disk.

What are the price of disks now?

Spicy rainbow fires are the best.

What do you mean would?

Backing up and preserving physical media. A champion among us.

Assuming they have players.

Although DVD and br can play cds.