My mom bought a used laptop absolutely riddled with spyware, linux isn’t an option

    • smolyeet@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They recently broke hwid, but was recently fixed as of 2.2. The other method worked fine still

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      1 year ago

      If they have it hasn’t changed anything on four systems I’ve used it on in the past six months or so.

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        1 year ago

        HWID is permanent, even after Microsoft fixed the method that massgravel was using. It only affected new installs because people couldn’t run the script to activate Windows permanently.

        It’s fixed and activating permanently now though.

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        Hm, I could have sworn I had read an article around here (roughly the last two months maybe, likely more recently) saying that the MAS had been patched by Microsoft, but now I can’t find anything about it at all. Odd.

        Well, good that it’s still functioning!