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    He used the Home version?

    He owned his own island, he could at least go for Professional!

    I remember Windows 7’s editions being a complete mess, but a come on!

    Either ask your IT guy or your friend Billy G, both will laugh at you for picking a Home version when you have the money to go pro.

    What a fucking loser.

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        Funny enough I got 7 ultimate for free by having a Microsoft themed Tupperware party and using their party invite platform. They sent me a box with free copy and ms colored streamers and windows 7 napkins. I still have the napkins new and sealed. Had to take like 4 pictures with my friends around a laptop I think. Not a bad trade for the best version of 7. I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s. 7 was one of the good ones

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          I don’t think they’d ever get people to do the same for the newer OS’s

          Just sayin, if you host a Linux install party you can get a copy of most Linux distributions for free. You can also get it for free if you don’t host a Linux install party, but that’s minor details.

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            For me I think I enjoyed 98, XP, 7 it was nearly Star Trek rules every other edition was ok. 7 was the culmination of the best of. But absolute shit ever since. Honestly wish I could just go back to 7 for anything that requires windows( I try to stay away from it whenever possible)

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    you can activate any windows or office by using vlmcsd (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd). you can selfhost it, choose any windows version like 11 pro or enterprise or office product like office 24 enterprise. activate it using your kms server and you can enter the matching licence key every so often to activate it. doesn’t cost a cent except hosting on 512mb/1cpu. i think there are public kms servers with vlmcsd too. obviously JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES ;)

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    I saw someone mention that if you find an old installer for windows 10, you can upgrade to that and continue on to upgrade to w11 still and keep the activation.

    ymmv

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    out of all the censored things, they didn’t think to censor a product key before declassifying it. I wish I could say I was surprised.

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        Imagine if it did and the only reason it was censored was because they did a search and find > TRUMP > Make selected text background black.

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      I’ve only seen videos of it, but apparently you can copy paste the redacted parts of the pdfs. They legit left all of the text data on a different layer.

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        I wish the people who found that would’ve kept their mouths shut until 100% is released

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          Unfortunately with an error so egregious, the amount of people who found that near instantly was probably in the thousands

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            Exactly. I dabble in competitive assessment and the amount of times weve got competitors data because they didnt flatten a file is astounding. The one we try every time with moderate success is checking every picture to see if you can “uncrop” it. So many times the rest of the picture is actually in the file and the crop is just for display purposes. Most of the time the rest of the photo is useless, but ill never forget the time we got the whole process map for their upcoming production schedule

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      In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’. Make of that what you will.

      But this post doesn’t really address that. It suggests Epstein bought Windows XP once, which … is fine … I guess? (Doesn’t let him off the hook for the criminal empire he ran though)

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        In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’.

        Probably because it was the final straw for his wife Melinda, and Gates wasn’t happy how much she would take in the divorce. Considering he was a serial philanderer and often used his position at Microsoft as a way to meet women (including Melinda!), it’s not like he respected that marriage or his wife very much, so it can’t be that he’s sad about losing her or something, so my bet is on sad he was going to lose a lot of wealth over his Epstein connections.