2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes
Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.
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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs
Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year
Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true
Google has killed cached results in search
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