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Cake day: February 7th, 2026

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  • ofc there could be a zero day, but highly unlikely if there’s too little attack surface. honestly i consider my win7 setup with firewall much more secure than some random person’s win11 box.

    a targeted attack just for me surely could work, but that’s VERY unlikely to ever happen. there are much easier targets if some gov agent wants my personal info lol. and this sort of attack would be possible on any systems even if i keep it updated.

    i use the machine for two proprietary softwares. one is a loffice writer/m$word equivalent called Hangul, the other is a whatsapp equivalent called KakaoTalk. you need these for basic stuff in this country because everyone else uses it unfortunately.

    for hangul there’s a native linux build (proprietary ofc) that’s of alpha quality, barely usable for reading. WINE kinda works except it sometimes crashes on some specific features, and I don’t want it crashing while writing documents.

    for kakaotalk there’s no linux build, only mac/win/android/ios. WINE works but very poorly so I need windows, and win7 works better than win10 for me since they dropped support for win7 then introduced antifeatures (mostly ads) but still keep the last win7 version functional. i RDP into the win7 machine to chat. (win7 is also much better than later versions especially when RDPing, since they support the proper classic theme unlike later versions that needs the shitty aero theme and dwm at all times. looks better, and also much faster over slow network)