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12mo ago

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Don't forget to extract the product key before nuking it. For your Windows VM. 🥹
- No need. Use Microsoft activation scripts. https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
  
  OK I'm a little shocked here, how does this work? Back in the day when licenses were harder to come by, we used to use cracks / activators that would patch some binary or exploit some bug to activate. Is this .. an open source version of that?
  
  Don't do this. Either run unactivated or do it officially.
  Better option is to run a Linux VM with Wine. As it turns out, Microsoft is very happy to let you pirate Windows because they want your data and to sell you One drive.
- Just ameliorate it after running the Github scripts
  
  That's illegal
- I recently found out that these keys are nowadays embedded in the BIOS. The following command will retrieve it:
  sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
  This works even if you nuked Windows and installed Linux. Do note that this key will be locked to that particular hardware; you could reinstall Win on that specific computer, but you can't use that key to activate Win on a different machine.
  
  I had no idea you could dump it from Linux.
  
  So I did this. I nuked Windows when I bought a new laptop. About a year later I changed jobs and now needed to use Visual Studio. Now I know why Windows never hassled me for a key when I reinstalled...

I'd rather get one without Windows at all.

More like when I get a new phone. My bigger machines come with no OS or Linux.

I only buy ones that come preloaded with FreeDOS or whatever DOS based OS have by default. I don't want to pay for windows in the price of my laptop.
- In Europe you can return the Windows licence and get your money back... at least I think you should be able to.

What Linux distro Thomas Shelby would use if he was a Linux user ?

https://youtu.be/DSVD97i-1Sc?t=210
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/DSVD97i-1Sc?t=210
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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