• wagesj45@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.

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      9 hours ago

      FYI there’s scripts that will fully activate windows, not via any local modifications to the OS, but via the official Microsoft activation servers.