They can do that but I’m sure there are workarounds. I just briefly did a google search on ‘Windows activation workarounds’ and I already see some methods and people talking of them.

So again, Microsoft can fuck themselves.

What would also greatly help too, is for moderators and admins to have some balls and neutralize said trolls instead of sometimes letting situations play itself out.

Furthermore, I believe that if moderation is as skeletal as some communities tend to be, it is time to put the power back into the user. I have seen wonderful features and mechanics in place, the problem is, is that those features are spread about in various platforms/sites. Like Gaia Online, old as fuck avatar site, allows you to lock your own threads. Imagine how useful that would be and yes it can be exploited but then that’s when a mod/admin can come in and decide to deal with a user who’ll make shitty posts only to lock them.

The Fediverse’s weakness is that when you block someone, you can still see that they can reply to you, even if you don’t see them. The notification can still register them as anyone else who responds.

I just think with more tools available for users to fend for themselves that aren’t having to always go to the mods/admin or having to mass-report in the off-chance a troll deletes their account to come back and do it all again. With more tools, it would try to help make communities more positive than seeing how long they can endure.

I end up sometimes giving up on having the thing. Because sometimes it’s an effect of just feeling personal greed.

But I will almost never give in and pay for the thing. Some things out there, aren’t worth the price and even if the price was right, it’s not worth the support.

Like Microsoft, I’ve not paid for a single Windows OS in my entire life. I’ve always gotten Windows second hand or buying machines off from people who happen to have the latest Windows on it.

Adobe, haven’t paid a single penny for their Photoshop program, kept pirating.

Part of pirating is just wheeling and patience. You will eventually, one day, get what you seek.

Ha! I’m good until 2032 so fuck you, Microsoft!

I prefer to be minimally informed than wildly misinformed.

There is way too much and always has been, this tug of war of which angle is the most righteous than that angle. Until I see some honest and serious action towards a better tomorrow that’ll benefit all (scratch that, how about the majority of those that just want live with as little conflict as possible), I can’t care too much about waving flags, playing labels, shouting buzzwords and brainwashing myself to think a certain way to appease some demographic.

It is incredibly taxing and exhausting.

Yeah I know. I don’t get people’s irrational need to ruin something that’s going good. Christ, big run-a-mouths are the reason we’ve lost some good piracy sources and services.

We are currently in an active war over information and content.

So, I would say just do it. Do what you can. Do it for yourself, do it for a cause, whatever, as long as it isn’t corporate dictating what we can or can’t have.

Little of both. If the sink is full of dishes, they’re going in the dishwasher. If there’s a handful, probably by hand.

My mind just never wants to immediately go a positive route whenever toxic relationships end. I always end up just wasting enormous amounts of time doing nothing or just eating myself to death.

Format a USB stick with a Linux distro.

Use that Linux’s partition system to delete the Windows partition entirely.

Yes you will have to do a fresh install.