Billy learned well

3 months ago by KillDash9 to c/programmer_humor

Did you donate today?

LittleEndu 62 points 3 months ago

There was a time when buying that 5$ key was less hassle than trying to get some kms to run. Nowadays you just search "get activated win" if you forget the site's name and their solution works every time

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lemmyng 14 points 3 months ago

So I installed Windows 10 IOT LTSC on a PC I'm giving to a friend. It's not activated, of course. Anything that friend needs to be concerned about if it's not activated? They intend to use it for school and gaming.

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Brkdncr 31 points 3 months ago

Give them Linux or install win11 home unlicensed and let them deal with it.

If it’s a Dell OEM machine then there’s a license built into the bios.

Giving someone Win10 ltsc is asking for trouble.

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adarza 15 points 3 months ago

afaik the only things is the desktop watermark and being locked-out of the personalization in 'settings', so stuck with default theme, wallpaper, and so on.

registry edits or using a pre-configured custom installer can get around some (or all?) of these items.

updates will still be offered and installed.

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wizardbeard 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, seconding the other person. At least give them 11 LTSC. And instead of worrying about activation, just use MASgrave to activate it and they're golden. It's a real activation as far as MS is concerned.

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JPAKx4 8 points 3 months ago

You can activate it for free using something like this (use scripts from the internet at your own risk). I ran a script featured in a LTT video on my partner's computer and never had a problem.

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ranzispa 4 points 3 months ago

Page does not load, are you advising people to use scripts from the internet you yourself do not trust? Do you say install at your own risk just it's because it's the correct thing to do or because you installed something similar and now you advise other people to do the same without having checked what the script does?

If it's the latter, please do not provide such advice.

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negativenull 47 points 3 months ago

I did, and have the shirt to prove it!

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villainy 16 points 3 months ago

Neat shirt and thanks for reminding me to get my EFF donations going again! ❤️

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MonkeMischief 2 points 3 months ago

Heck yeah, EFF rocks ❤️

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sunsofold 20 points 3 months ago

Given the point of the comic is that the kid is stupid and won't stop wasting money on stupid things, shouldn't their OSs be reversed?

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MonkeMischief 4 points 3 months ago

LOL that's true! Although it's easily imagined this is how Microsoft feels.

"Billy you should have 6 different recurring subscriptions to manage basic computing tasks — BILLY NOOO!!"

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irelephant 15 points 3 months ago

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NeatNit 11 points 3 months ago

I have a regular donation going to Linux Mint. But I've kinda switched my main PC over to CachyOS a while back, so technically I'm not paying for the distro I'm using.

I still think Mint is the best. Just kind of confused about where my money should be going.

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Yeller_king 2 points 3 months ago

Are you going to stick with Cachy even though you prefer Mint? What do you like about it vs Cachy? Just asking since I'm considering a switch to Cachy.

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NeatNit 6 points 3 months ago

Here are the things I love about Mint:

Everything is doable with a nice GUI, sometimes more than CachyOS+KDE Plasma
Very stable, very reliable
Mint's Update Manager is great
Matches my personality/philosophy a bit more
I installed it for my mom after her old drive died, and it just works for her (she is not a computer person so this is a big win)
I quite like Cinnamon, though my feelings on this aren't that strong, I'd be happy with just about any sane desktop environment

Here are the reasons I switched to CachyOS:

My hardware is new enough that it really benefits from being up to date on everything upstream. On Mint, it's not hard to switch to a newer kernel and stuff like that, but the more I stray from Mint's defaults, the more I have to do to maintain my PC rather than just using Update Manager.
I could not get VRR (FreeSync) to work on Mint Cinnamon. I think it might be impossible.
I wanted to try other desktops like KDE, and see if Wayland makes any difference to me as a user (it doesn't). Mint's supported desktop choices are quite limited (just Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE) and I didn't want to screw around getting an unsupported desktop to work, defeating a lot of Mint's advantages.
Generally wanted to be on the bleeding edge of software updates, just because.

I do have some qualms about CachyOS, specifically I feel like Shelly (their choice of GUI package manager) is undercooked and not ready to ship as default. You don't have to use it though.

I'm going to stick with CachyOS for now, mostly because it's just working for me and I don't feel a strong reason to switch. I hear that Mint/Cinnamon is getting closer to Wayland, which might make for a good time to switch back to it. Or I'll just stick with what's working for me until it doesn't.

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JackbyDev 11 points 3 months ago

I bought one on r/MicrosoftSoftwareSwap for really cheap back in the day with Bitcoin. It stopped working because I assume they sold the same key again. They never responded to me when I asked about it and Bitcoin blew up so much in price that it probably cost as much as a real key from Microsoft afterwards.

I love Linux.

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nothanks 1 point 2 months ago

i need to thank you for reviving a few ancient, happy memories…didn’t realize an icon could do that “comforting smell from childhood” reverie

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JackbyDev 1 point 2 months ago

How about the opposite form of nostalgia?

Skifree yeti