• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Windows treats user commands like most tech treats consent. Negotiable, ignorable.

    Linux brooks no bullshit. The program will do as it is told.

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      That isn’t exclusively true. Programs can capture SIGTERM and ignore it, or do as they please, SIGKILL is non-negotiable though.

      Windows does have an equivalent to SIGKILL as well, in taskkill /F.

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      Yeah. I regularly wake up to my work computer having nonconsensually rebooted overnight (closing all open applications, because who cares)

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        96% through recovering an attached 20tb RAID and windows update decides i should go fuck myself.

        And that is why it’s only on my work laptop. And only because i’m forced at gunpoint