They can do that but I’m sure there are workarounds. I just briefly did a google search on ‘Windows activation workarounds’ and I already see some methods and people talking of them.

So again, Microsoft can fuck themselves.

They had it right for a while when you could install Linux on them, but Google decided we couldn’t have nice things and ruined that.

After seeing how Chromebooks were, which were treated as just Android-like OSes in laptop shelling. Absolutely not.

Dude, I’ve found car drivers far more aggravating than bicyclists. The most a bicyclist has ever annoyed me is when they don’t make their presence known enough. I just happen to sometimes, find them near seconds of almost hitting them and I hate that. When I rode bikes, I tried having devices or things that make my bike have features a car would, even turn signaling.

But drivers? The level of entitlement and selfishness of a driver is off the charts.

I end up sometimes giving up on having the thing. Because sometimes it’s an effect of just feeling personal greed.

But I will almost never give in and pay for the thing. Some things out there, aren’t worth the price and even if the price was right, it’s not worth the support.

Like Microsoft, I’ve not paid for a single Windows OS in my entire life. I’ve always gotten Windows second hand or buying machines off from people who happen to have the latest Windows on it.

Adobe, haven’t paid a single penny for their Photoshop program, kept pirating.

Part of pirating is just wheeling and patience. You will eventually, one day, get what you seek.

Ha! I’m good until 2032 so fuck you, Microsoft!

I prefer to be minimally informed than wildly misinformed.

There is way too much and always has been, this tug of war of which angle is the most righteous than that angle. Until I see some honest and serious action towards a better tomorrow that’ll benefit ##all## (scratch that, how about the majority of those that just want live with as little conflict as possible), I can’t care too much about waving flags, playing labels, shouting buzzwords and brainwashing myself to think a certain way to appease some demographic.

It is incredibly taxing and exhausting.

History is an orchestra of this. Constantly showcasing events that pre-dated them happening to the aftermath of them happening.

Science Fiction authors from the 40s, 50s and 60s toyed with many scenarios and theories about where technology would wind up. Half of them were right, half of them were wrong. I think it’d be a dumb thing to say what you quoted.

Yeah I know. I don’t get people’s irrational need to ruin something that’s going good. Christ, big run-a-mouths are the reason we’ve lost some good piracy sources and services.

We are currently in an active war over information and content.

So, I would say just do it. Do what you can. Do it for yourself, do it for a cause, whatever, as long as it isn’t corporate dictating what we can or can’t have.

So they invest millions in a project that fundamentally failed, ax the official servers prematurely and pretend it doesn’t exist.

But then go after people who still bother with it.

They ought to be fucking thankful people still play it at all.

Little of both. If the sink is full of dishes, they’re going in the dishwasher. If there’s a handful, probably by hand.

My mind just never wants to immediately go a positive route whenever toxic relationships end. I always end up just wasting enormous amounts of time doing nothing or just eating myself to death.

Format a USB stick with a Linux distro.

Use that Linux’s partition system to delete the Windows partition entirely.

Yes you will have to do a fresh install.