I get that there won’t be any security updates. So any problem found can be exploited. But how high is the chance for problems for an average user if you say, only browse some safe websites? If you have a pc you don’t really care much about, without any personal information? It feels like the danger is more theoretical than what will actually happen.

Or… are there any examples of people (not corpos) getting wrecked in the past by an eol OS?

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    The number of users connecting their PC forfeit directly to the modem or purposefully disabling all protections because they’re too lazy is higher than you think.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      62·
      7 months ago

      I would suspect, hardly anyone who knows how to do that is stupid enough to do it.

      Most modems/ISP routers are relatively secure by default.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      7 months ago

      Carrier operated modems are run in NAT mode so a home PC will get a RFC1918 IP address not public routable ones