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Connecting your critical equipment to the internet is never a good idea. And if you don't connect it to the internet, the support status of the OS it runs shoul
by grishka 5y ago
Connecting your critical equipment to the internet is never a good idea. And if you don't connect it to the internet, the support status of the OS it runs shouldn't really matter much.
- fsh 5y agoThere is a very large region between "has to be completely air-gapped" and "better should not reboot randomly".
- grishka 5y agoThen maybe only give it access to the LAN so it's easier to get data off of it. There's also a hacky workaround where you disable all of 5 services that relate to Windows Update to effectively prevent Windows from knowing updating software is a thing. You do have to edit the registry manually to do this. If you leave at least one, it'll turn the other ones back on. This is a very much malware-like behavior tbh. And, of course, do this at your own risk because Windows is written in C and known for containing obscene numbers of nasty vulnerabilities resulting from manual memory mismanagement.