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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There are people selling oem keys on eBay for $5-$7. It’s too easy to buy a “legit” key at this point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but why would you when you can get it for free it's not like ms is gonna give two fucks about you. they make their real $$ from business licenses

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it's super easy to activate it while having pirated it

Not to mention that Windows is basically completely functional without being activated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And most of the stuff they disable can be reenabled via group policy. Only thing I need personally is dark mode.

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