Nice marketing pitch. In reality it was probably parked at an empty crossroads 10 miles behind the frontline, taking potshots at "suspected" enemy positions.
Why are talking about something you have no idea about? There are multiple videos of this system engaging in combat missions. There are first-person videos from them accompanied by footage of recon drones flying above them. And some of those videos are from last year already.
For anybody interested in the use-case underlying this article, mainly disabling peripheral displays in a multi-monitor setup, this is already built into Windows via the Win+P hotkey. It's also possible to turn off all displays by reassigning the functions of the computer's physical power/sleep buttons in Control Panel -> Power Options.
The reasons are obvious but acknowledging them is taboo. It's much easier and politically convenient to blame everything on funding, despite the fact that some school districts have the budget of a small country.
I'm using an old version of Postman with their servers blocked through the system hosts file. I keep meaning to migrate to whatever the next best thing is but this setup just works for me.
this is really microsoft's fault for handing out kernel access to random 3rd parties, none of which are doing anything special that microsoft couldn't implement themselves (AV, anti-cheat, security)
Or do what Apple does, disallow kernel extensions, and provide rigid kernel faciltiies for VPN clients, EDR agents, etc. to use, so they don't have to implement custom code resident in the kernel.
Apple can disallow kernel extensions because it fully controls the entire hardware and software stack. Everything that would need to be an extension is already in the kernel and Apple knows all of those things.
Use LTSC, it's marketed for "enterprise" but it's functionally identical to the regular versions with the bonus of advanced configuration that lets you disable AV, forced updates, telemetry, ads, etc.
I looked on Microsoft's site but all it says is
to contact their sales team. Did you have luck with that process? Usually when a company says 'contact sales' that means it is very expensive.
It seems like Microsoft are afraid to make it easily available because if word got out every enthusiast and power user would switch leaving them without the ongoing ad revenue.
You need to buy into Volume Licensing, which requires at least 4 licenses. You can't buy it directly from Microsoft, but there are resellers that will sell it to you ( https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partner-di... ). It works out to about $200.
Afterwards, you'll be able to buy an LTSC license. It's around $300 per device.
I'm pretty sure that individuals can't just buy any Enterprise edition, this one included. Everyone, or almost everyone who's running LTSC outside of enterprise settings is doing so through "other, mysterious ways" that I'm not sure I can mention on here. There may also be unrelated scripts that can strip a normal install of Win10 into something resembling LTSC, but I might be misremembering.
I mean how should I know? The point is that I suspect there could be another option, which is that the pressure hull could have failed without imploding.
So, yes it seems insane, and having seen pictures which look both like that is a liner and ones where it looks like its not, I don't know. There is very clearly an outer shell offset from the pressure hull. Whats on the inside isn't as clear, but I'm not sure why they would be running cables out of the floor when they could just be running them out closer to the arm/etc if there is space behind.
Although from a human comfort perspective, I'm not sure why there isn't a little foot well/bench either. There is obviously stuff under the floor, but it also looks fairly hollow too.
