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Edward Silha

@silha.com

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IT Consultant, Podcaster, Freelance Wiseass - Random musings from a cluttered mind. Political Centrist, the left is far to left and the right is far to right. I’m part of the 70% of Americans in the middle.

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 11h

Funny to claim the 150 year old university 'ruined' the neighborhood that sprung up around said university

Edward Silha @silha.com · 12h

A multi-spectral camera captures the Airbus A350’s Trent XWB engines roaring to life, delivering 97,000 pounds of thrust in a stunning display of precision and power.

Edward Silha @silha.com · 18h

Meh, Long Live Windows 10

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Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 18h

Meh, Long Live Windows 10

forwardtechnologies.com/windows-10-e...

Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

forwardtechnologies.com

Edward Silha @silha.com · 18h

Meh, Long Live Windows 10

forwardtechnologies.com/windows-10-e...

Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

forwardtechnologies.com

Edward Silha @silha.com · 18h

Here's why that's not as big a deal as people think...

forwardtechnologies.com/windows-10-e...

Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

forwardtechnologies.com

Edward Silha @silha.com · 18h

Here's why that's not as big a deal as people think...

forwardtechnologies.com/windows-10-e...

Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

forwardtechnologies.com

Edward Silha @silha.com · 18h

Here's why that's not as big a deal as people think...

forwardtechnologies.com/windows-10-e...

Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

forwardtechnologies.com

Edward Silha @silha.com · 21h

latest blog...

Windows 10 Is Dead. Long Live Windows 10!

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Windows 10 Support Ends Today, Here’s Why Millions Aren’t Upgrading - Chicago IT Support & Cyber Security | Forward Technologies

Microsoft has ended free support for Windows 10, but your PC isn’t doomed. Learn how to stay secure and keep it running safely.

forwardtechnologies.com

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 21h

The flight was damn near perfect

arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2

This was the last flight of SpaceX’s second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 22h

'All About Eve' starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter premiered 75 years ago on this day in 1950...

Edward Silha @silha.com · 1d

To be fair, the software is called TVoS 🤷🏻‍♂️

Edward Silha @silha.com · 1d

My Childhood…

ABC Primetime, October 13, 1981:

— ‘Happy Days’
— ‘Laverne & Shirley’
— ‘Three’s Company’
— ‘Too Close For Comfort’

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 1d

My current neighborhood back in 1974… granted, I was a child then

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 2d

Old UNIX license plate from DIGITAL (1989) “Live free or die“

Edward Silha @silha.com · 2d

This guy is such a tool… PS, nice sign Brandon

Edward Silha @silha.com · 5d

Any other president we have had in the past 25 years would’ve done the same thing

Edward Silha @silha.com · 5d

Agreed, but unless somebody starts promoting that the average voter won’t realize

Edward Silha @silha.com · 5d

Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, I’m sure you didn’t mean to design your mail-in ballot envelopes this way. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with making it easy to tell how someone voted on Prop 50 before it’s opened? Totally innocent design choice, right?

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 5d

…and the Dodgers game on the West Coast is at 5:08 PM Central.

What MLB idiot is choosing these start times?!

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 6d

I do my best not to follow that 😃

Edward Silha @silha.com · 7d

Brandon Johnson’s approval rating has dropped to 4%…

😆🤣🤣🤣

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 7d

26 years ago today I left the suburbs behind and officially became a Chicagoan...

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Edward Silha @silha.com · 9d

That sounds nice on paper, but there’s one problem, almost all billionaire wealth is tied up in unrealized gains. That means it’s not cash; it’s the paper value of assets like stock or company shares that haven’t been sold. You can’t tax something that hasn’t been realized.

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