I think we are using the same actovation key
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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Thanks for the free key sucker ๐
Don't forget the classic:
Savage
Remember? I have the disc in a box next to me
I have a couple dozen. LoL ๐
I'm old enough to remember Win3.0 and the 10-digit activation codes that were valid if they were mod-7. Yes, that did include 000-0000000.
Nice.
I recall my win95 key.
I say "my" like I'd paid for it. Really it was just one that worked.
Our activation key, comrade!
I am almost certain there is a copy of both XP and 7 with the key written on the disc just like this in my box of "maybe I'll need it one day" computer cables and parts box lol.
It's in the stack with the StarCraft and red alert CD's.
I found an original StarCraft jewel case in the trunk of my car last year. It had heros of might and magic 4 inside lol.
The sacred box of parts! May it never be called on.
Amen.
I had to pull out a DVI-D to display port cable from there a few days ago. I felt so validated for holding onto that cable for 3 moves lol
Pfffft, you kids! I remember shuffling through a couple of dozen 3ยฝ" disks to install Windows 3.1 for Workgroups.
Your memory is slipping. ๐
That's what, like 28MB? For a fucking operating system. Now windows uses like 60GB and just bloats from there.
Yes Windows is bloated AF but even Linux Mint has a minimum space requirement of 20G with 100G as the recommendation. Hell just my swapfile wouldn't fit in the largest partition supported by MSDOS 6.22 (2 Gigabytes BTW).
No preemptive multitasking, no 3D support of any kind, no usb or plug and play, no desktop compositing, no web browsing...and the list goes on and on. Desktop environments just do so much more now than in the WfW 3.11 days that a DE install 1,000 times the size of WfW is pretty much normal.
28 x 1000 is still just 28GB (less if you're counting 1gb = 1024mb...). Windows is a fat fuck :p
Wait, you're telling me the files are IN the computer?
...that cd-key is etched into my brain.
This is the internet. You can say FUCK GW here
Yes. Next to my Windows 7 and BeOS CDs
I still have mine around here, somewhere! It's WinXP Media Center 2005. That I still use on my Dimension E510.
I'm old enough to have saved and loaded data with a cassette drive (i.e. a random ass tape deck with a special cable attached to the computer) on a TI-99/4a. You had to set the volume level the same for recording and reading or else it wouldn't read correctly. Get off my lawn.
CAN YOU PLEASE COMMENT A LITTLE LOUDER? I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH THAT!
I SAID IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUR METAMUCIL.
WHY YES, I WOULD LIKE THE COFFEE CAKE WITH STREUSEL
Haha, no.
I've got better, a modified ISO that doesn't need a key. Maybe there is malware, who knows, but it doesn't need a key.
Matter of fact, I carry around a portable USB DVD drive and book case with discs in my backpack. Linux ISOs but also the newest Hiren's Boot disc (which is based on Windows 11 PE).
But I just like DVDs. Yes, I have a Ventoy disk, yes, it boots in seconds, not minutes, yes it's smaller and more convenient, but does it spin? Does it make any (audible) sounds? Is it nice and shiny? Does it require burning, verification and some more care? No, it's just a boring USB stick.
But my backpack also includes a WRT54GL with DD-WRT, so...
It's similar to how I grabbed at 3G when its shutdown was announced. I switched my phone to 3G only ("WCDMA only" in *#*#4636#*#* menu) until I was forcefully disconnected when the cell towers in my area shut down. But for the sake of affecting some possible statistics, I switched back to 3G only every time before entering area that still had 3G and switched it back only a while after exiting it.
My idea was there could be some statistics for the last days of 3G usage, and perhaps it could include devices that would not successfully re-connect after the shutdown.
Just an example there. I like to keep old technology around, and I like to affect statistics in certain ways, and I do want DVD purchase statistics to be higher, so I keep using them, and I like them too.