unless you really, truly care about the watermark or changing your wallpaper, you can just not ever activate it at all and it’s still fully functional
the next step is 10 still accepts 7/8 keys as legitimate licenses so if you have one of those kicking around, those will work
then there’s cheap volume/foreign license keys
you could also install 7, Windows Loader it and then then upgrade from there, which works fine so long as 7 supports the hardware you’re installing it to
yeah i just bought one from ebay, fine going on two years
i had previously been using a swiped 7 key from a previous job but that was suddenly revoked
I don’t quite understand how some folks are so okay with this, it’s literally always overlaid over everything? Doesn’t that bug the absolute crap out of you?
Though TBH at this point I thought people were just using that bootleg activator tool (like the OS on the mini PC I bought last year was lmao)
Simply employ the Dune-like conditioning I learned for the tinnitus that’s been overlaid over everything for the past 20 years
my thermal paste arrived, you know it’s getting real
Desperately running out to find the fiber contractor to tell him I don’t want their free mesh routers lol
managed to transfer the Win10 CoA label from our old case to our new one with a heat gun and offcuts of the envelope from my tax paperwork stay winning
fashionably late to this party but the win10 activation hack I see most these days, “microsoft activation scripts” is actually open source (it’s just a few batch files), up on github, and allegedly works by just issuing some API calls to MS’s servers that mimic some loophole process to anonymously upgrade a fake 7 license into a legit 10 license (emphasis on allegedly, I’m not gonna be the one to read through batch files ok)
feel similarly that having “ACTIVATE WINDOWS NOW” plastered on my screen 100% of the time would be a dealbreaker, that’s horrible
I continue to track Wifi 6E hardware for no reason…
we’re down to $300(!) if you get one of these U6-Enterprise Preview: UniFi's First Wi-Fi 6E AP — McCann Tech plus one of these Amazon.com
this is the first thing I think I’d actually buy
v. annoyed to learn the M1 MBPs do not have 6E
what do you even DO with all those Es. 6 flat is already enough to stream games in-house right?
oh 5 is plenty if you have good hardware on both ends, it’s just that most people don’t
the main motivating factor with 6E is that a lot of 6 hardware was extremely expensive and in some cases barely an upgrade on 5. 6E is still expensive but an actual upgrade.
6E is also a different frequency for the first time since 2008 or so, less congested in multi-unit housing.
meanwhile the industry apparently got tired of waiting for 6E hardware to ship to consumers so now we have Wifi 7
I was delighted to find teardown videos for my lighted makeup mirror. It looks like I can replace the battery with a higher capacity
I’m sure this has plenty to do with frequency congestion, layout/wall materials, etc but I’ve had trouble with a single 5ghz AP traversing a ~800ish square foot apartment, I feel like at 6ghz it’s going to become the norm to need two or more APs? especially once it gains widespread adoption? or is it just understood that these things will all have monster high-gain antenna arrays or what
also I want to go on the record that the back of my mental napkin is covered not in numbers but in vibes, dreams, and wildly speculated graph curves with an axis named “anecdotes”, please dont let me spread too many bad ideas
gain differs a whole lot among 5ghz APs, even among different channels, and reviews are mostly useless. in general you ought to be able to get 1000sqft/AP at speeds that are competitive with same-generation Ethernet with good hardware, but it can be a real crapshoot if you don’t want to think about it
this, reading about wifi for me is like reading a blog about someone enthusiastically filing their taxes, I have some real sex-dungeon-tier computing kinks but somehow this stuff is just gruel to me
would be very interested in seeing a short distillation of the core factors to take into account with consumer wifi technology if anyone intimate with the topic gets bored, usually I get linked to RFCs when I ask and regret my life choices (though I tend to do that anyway)
oh it’s mostly about buying routers and returning them repeatedly after thoroughly exploring the firmware and also being willing to replace your client hardware until you find the one good one