Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Since people want content, I'm going to uh... Put some stuff out there. Maybe inappropriate, maybe not. Mods?
Anyway, ex computer haxx0r type here, been out of it more than a decade. Really, really been out of it for 5 years.
All my machines are old and running windows 7. I love and adore windows 7 but there's a coordinated movement right now by all major applications to stop 7 support. So, I need to upgrade to w10.
Last time I fiddled with ... ISOs 🏴☠️... was W7. It was easy enough but there were a few deactivators and tools I used. Still have them backed up.
I will be needed to get some new Legitimate Copies of W10. But I'm curious how good the activation permanency is, etc. I have one or two extra systems to fiddle on, but not a lot of time to hack around and less patience.
Anyway, I'm sure this is still EZPZ, but some thoughts or suggestions would go a long way to getting me off my ass to do this. It needs to be done here...
And please, I know it's funny to say "Install Nix". I can, I have, and I have no desire to do so right now. ♥️
Aye aye.
From an old hacker who has been out of the game long long ago, my gut feeling is that while technically you can fiddle with w10, I dont think it will be permanent. There is too much cloud interaction constantly, and you will probably need to patch multiple binaries all in one go for it to hold. You will spend plenty of time just figuring out which binaries, and then for each binary what to patch. If you do it, good luck, it will be a fun adventure!
Just google windows 10 pro key and buy a key. The gray market keys never get deactivated.
And I do not blame you on linux...massively overrated and that is coming from someone who has tried a lot of distros
I only like puppy for troubleshooting or force booting old systems