microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place my tin foil hat theory is that the entire tech industry is planning and carrying out these things in order to push people away from owning a computer and instead paying for cloud computing as their desktop experience, privacy and security risks included
but the big tech sector appears to be profoundly stupid so there's no way they could possibly plan out such a thing -
@eniko If for some reason you want to upgrade to 11 despite Microsoft claiming your computer doesn't support it, there are two ways:
- if the only thing you're missing is new enough CPU (but you have TPM and Secure Boot), set HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup → AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU=dword:1 and the Setup will run (it'll show a warning, but let you continue)
- if you don't have TPM and/or Secure Boot, run
setup.exe /product server, and it'll ignore everything
OTOH, as long as you pretend to be in EU, you can register to receive security updates for Windows 10 for free until October. Or you can use the scripts from massgrave.dev to activate ESU.
@jernej__s @eniko just use Linux...
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@eniko If for some reason you want to upgrade to 11 despite Microsoft claiming your computer doesn't support it, there are two ways:
- if the only thing you're missing is new enough CPU (but you have TPM and Secure Boot), set HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup → AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU=dword:1 and the Setup will run (it'll show a warning, but let you continue)
- if you don't have TPM and/or Secure Boot, run
setup.exe /product server, and it'll ignore everything
OTOH, as long as you pretend to be in EU, you can register to receive security updates for Windows 10 for free until October. Or you can use the scripts from massgrave.dev to activate ESU.
@jernej__s@infosec.exchange @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
Just another point of info, that even for those in the USA, you can get extended security updates for Windows 10 until October for free if you use an MS account to log into the computers you want extended support on. It's what I am doing for a couple of desktops I need for my work, while finishing the last bits of migration of my studio's computers to MacOS, Ubuntu and Debian.
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
At this point its just moronic
These idiots are going to crash the economyMake sure to string them up when it all comes crashing down, they deserve a slow and painful exit from the mortal coil
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place my tin foil hat theory is that the entire tech industry is planning and carrying out these things in order to push people away from owning a computer and instead paying for cloud computing as their desktop experience, privacy and security risks included
but the big tech sector appears to be profoundly stupid so there's no way they could possibly plan out such a thing@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @inderix@booping.synth.download
At that point I just abandon all tech and take up terrorism as a new hobby
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@eniko y'know that comic where someone says they enjoyed good omens and these creeping snakelike shadow figures emerge saying Discworld, Discworld, you should try Discworld, and there are more and more of them until the panels are completely overwhelmed with them and our guy suffocates beneath their recommendations
Well, brace for Linux dudes
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ifixcoinops@retro.social
Brace?
If anything switching made me actually like using my computer again.People should do it out of pure spite
You have wine and now winboat to run anything from microslop you may still need -
microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
@eniko
People: f*ck off microslop, we will install Linux. -
@jernej__s @eniko just use Linux...
@Ketakater @jernej__s @eniko this is the way.
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
@eniko Come to Linux. You won’t regret it!
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @ifixcoinops@retro.social
Brace?
If anything switching made me actually like using my computer again.People should do it out of pure spite
You have wine and now winboat to run anything from microslop you may still need -
microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
Windows 11 might be the best thing ever to happen to Linux.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place my tin foil hat theory is that the entire tech industry is planning and carrying out these things in order to push people away from owning a computer and instead paying for cloud computing as their desktop experience, privacy and security risks included
but the big tech sector appears to be profoundly stupid so there's no way they could possibly plan out such a thingTech oligarchs are perfectly capable of colluding on a profitable global financial crash & on the eradication of general purpose computing
https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/18/on-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
The evidence?
The fossil fuel money funding these tech fascists conduct a successful social engineering campaign to end democracy & fry the planet
The self-destructive goals may be dumb, but the people behind the tactics & propaganda aren't.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/https://thewalrus.ca/data-centres-are-on-track-to-wreck-the-planet/
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
@eniko i still run 1 of 2 Win7 laptops i replaced Windows with Linux to avoid Win8.
I don't even wanna know how much money I saved over the years..
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
"Of course - I understand. But I have this old ThinkPad with 4Gb RAM and it runs most Linux distros perfectly."
microsoft: "Not like that!"
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@eniko y'know that comic where someone says they enjoyed good omens and these creeping snakelike shadow figures emerge saying Discworld, Discworld, you should try Discworld, and there are more and more of them until the panels are completely overwhelmed with them and our guy suffocates beneath their recommendations
Well, brace for Linux dudes
@ifixcoinops bizarrely it was worse on bluesky than here
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
hey while you're here check out the gay mario bros 3 game: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
Shrug. I installed linux in 1995 and never looked back. Y'all have fun.
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hey while you're here check out the gay mario bros 3 game: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
you don't actually need to tell me about linux
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Shrug. I installed linux in 1995 and never looked back. Y'all have fun.
@lemgandi you do realize the post was a joke about the absurdity of the situation, not a complaint about my personal situation, right?
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@lemgandi you do realize the post was a joke about the absurdity of the situation, not a complaint about my personal situation, right?
Sigh. Grin. Yeh, but a lot of people have their ** stuck in that crack right now.
