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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by VRay on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:40AM (#25590183)
> You can even choose to not install the OS update, and your old software will continue to work. You can choose to reinstall an old version of the OS, and your old software will continue to work.

?? It's possible to hack around the update, but it's a forcibly-pushed update that breaks something on your machine, and the only easy way to stop it is to go offline permanently

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by derefr on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:07AM (#25590333)
Why would you expect that doing something that goes against what everyone else wants, would have been made easy for you? You're basically becoming your own "distro" of Windows. Of course that's hard.

But the point the GP is making is that it's also not totally implausible to do, if there were any real motivation for people to pursue it.

There was a real reason for people to want to "take control" of Android, and so we got LineageOS.

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