I donate to Disroot because I use their services and increase their costs, but otherwise I don't donate to charities from the Global North. I highly prefer donating to charities and social movements in Brazil or other BRICS countries. It is more efficient because of the cost of living. Also, I don't want to bolster the economy of countries that kill and rob the Global South. I also partially boycott their commercial products.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I did, and have the shirt to prove it!

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 3 points 50 minutes ago

Neat shirt and thanks for reminding me to get my EFF donations going again! ❤️

[–] LittleEndu@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

There was a time when buying that 5$ key was less hassle than trying to get some kms to run. Nowadays you just search "get activated win" if you forget the site's name and their solution works every time

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

So I installed Windows 10 IOT LTSC on a PC I'm giving to a friend. It's not activated, of course. Anything that friend needs to be concerned about if it's not activated? They intend to use it for school and gaming.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

You can activate it for free using something like this (use scripts from the internet at your own risk). I ran a script featured in a LTT video on my partner's computer and never had a problem.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 11 minutes ago

Page does not load, are you advising people to use scripts from the internet you yourself do not trust? Do you say install at your own risk just it's because it's the correct thing to do or because you installed something similar and now you advise other people to do the same without having checked what the script does?

If it's the latter, please do not provide such advice.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, seconding the other person. At least give them 11 LTSC. And instead of worrying about activation, just use MASgrave to activate it and they're golden. It's a real activation as far as MS is concerned.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Give them Linux or install win11 home unlicensed and let them deal with it.

If it’s a Dell OEM machine then there’s a license built into the bios.

Giving someone Win10 ltsc is asking for trouble.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

afaik the only things is the desktop watermark and being locked-out of the personalization in 'settings', so stuck with default theme, wallpaper, and so on.

registry edits or using a pre-configured custom installer can get around some (or all?) of these items.

updates will still be offered and installed.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk -4 points 3 hours ago

No Billy! Don’t give your money to a cult.