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Pirate it next time!
by mistercheph 2y ago
Pirate it next time!
- 7bit 2y agoIt comes with free root kits as well
- _imnothere 2y ago[flagged]
- 7bit 2y agoIt comes with free root kits as well
- mmh0000 2y agoYes, but. We're talking about Microsoft here, we've known about their embedded rootkits since the NSAKEY[1] days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
- benterix 2y agoWill pirating it actually solve the issue? MS is not after one-time cash payment (heck, they even offered the upgrade for free), what they want is long-term user milking in various ways, some of them looking pretty grey to me.
- NikkiA 2y agoDepends on which 'distro' you pirate, ghostsceptre removes a lot of the asshole-ness.
- KETHERCORTEX 2y agoNever thought that I will see the return of third-party repackagings ala "Joe Shmo's Super Hyper Windows" in any somewhat popular capacity. I expected it even less in a recomendation for an actual problem. Time is a flat circle.
- whywhywhywhy 2y agoAlthough I agree with the sentiment of voting with your wallet, but building the foundation of my GPU workstation that could cost me a lot in electricity if a bad actor took control of it on pirated software is ill advised.
- Stagnant 2y agoYou can download official ISOs of all of the Windows versions for free directly from Microsoft's servers. Then you just need to activate it and there are plenty of methods to do that without risk of malware. Microsoft seems to care about this so little that one of the most starred repositories in github(MAS) has provided easy one click activation solution for years at this point.
- mmh0000 2y ago[*] https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts