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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Windows and Office are incredibly easy to generate an activation key for using MASgrave. As I understand it, it tricks MS into giving you a valid Windows key, but the Office side does some trickery to fake activation.

Either way, very easy and no need to install shady cracked versions. Just install like normal then use MASgrave after.

If you want to go more legit for any reason, you can find OEM key resellers for Windows (and for Office too I think). OEM Windows keys are only good for one install, but they're also only around $30.

There's also a ton of benefits to installing Windows yourself instead of using the manufacturer's version with even more added bloatware from the manufacturer. There's a lot you can do to roll back Microsoft's bullshit through customizing the installer ISO yourself. Unfortunately it's pretty technical though. Not something easily explained in a single comment.

As a note to myself: When I get around to upgrading to Windows 11, record all the shit I do so there's at least something vaguely reputable for the community instead of bits of good info across tons of otherwise crap SEO spam articles. Remember to cite the sources too.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Here's my advice for Installing Windows:

When getting an ISO from M$, select "English International" even if you're in the US, to avoid a lot of bloatware.
Use Chris Titus' Winutil. It's open source and really easy to use.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah the international one has less bloat due to eu laws. Also u can use tiny 11 to make a minimal iso removing more bloat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

+1 on Tiny11 and you can make your iso through winutil too, making it easier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

format c: /fs:ntfs

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unless they patched it, you can just use the installer and not put in an activation key at all. The only downside is that it will have a mostly transparent text in the bottom right hand corner telling you to activate windows. Otherwise its completely free, and not piracy as its the official installer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well that and forced light theme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ah yeah, i installed classic shell so i forgot about that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

please tell me more

i don't want the products

i just want PIRACY

do you know any programs for writing music

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That heavily depends on what you mean by writing music. Musescore (the software, not the website) is pretty good for writing notation, and open source.

If it's more about producing a track, there's Ardour, also foss. If you wanna pirate an "industry standard" daw, there's FL Studio and Ableton, I guess.

Depending on what you want to do exactly, there might be a lot of other software that fits the bill.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

is that prince

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

But what if I love paying 1 million dollars to license outdated software? 🤡

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The only software I have paid for in the last couple of years are games. The licensing is still crooked but they are ephemeral entertainment so its not like they control your life.

The problem with commercial software isn't the price. It is the lock in. They have you by the balls whether you pirate or pay so I don't pirate as it doesn't address my main issue with closed source software which ismt price but control. I prefer to adapt, sometimes live with less features and use free and open source.

Its hard if you have to work with others which is the whole network effect BS, everyone is on Reddit and shitter so why aren't you. If you can work independently though you can get a lot done and have more control.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do they not know LibreOffice exist? What world do they live in lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

windows is an upselling system, guess they just want to participate in generating revenue by making customers experience worse while only acting as if they're helping ;-)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh wow. The bug is actually there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Only $83.5k a month

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Ugh, adobe amirite

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (18 children)

People use microsoft office at home?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm an accountant. My life would be plenty hard without Excel. Google or LibreOffice are nowhere near sufficient. As much as I hate to admit that, because I'm definitely no fan of Microsoft, but for me there's also no alternative.

I'm also old enough to wish that LotusNotes and Lotus123 won the race. LotusNotes especially, it was the shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You do accounting at home?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yes. I'm a self employed professional. I mean I have different computers, I have my laptop for instance which is for work only. But it's still my laptop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I do some accounting at home (my savings, taxes) but I don't see why they require $150 software for their home accounting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You probably don't for personal budgeting and tracking of items for tax purposes. Any run of the mill spreadsheet will work just fine for that purpose.

I'm a chartered accountant though, like think of me as a free agent if you will, I'm not tethered to anything or anyone. I do professional work or give professional advice in exchange for currencies of various origins. My work as such, is a bit more complicated, and I need Excel. Sometimes I have to shared access to files for instance, or I need to share a file with someone, who won't have libre because they are using Excel locked behind a corporate environment they don't control. Libre Calc does have some unique functions that I'd argue Excel doesn't have, but on the flip side Excel has more advanced functions, and xlookup, which I pretty much use every day. Google Sheets isn't even in this conversation, and I personally have a hard dislike for Google Workspace apps in every form.

It would be nice if there was an actual alternative, and I think Libre would probably be the closest viable one. The gap is narrowing. Microsoft Office is atrocious in price, but thankfully easily hackable though, although in a professional environment you have to be more careful with this, than you personally would care to be. It's also a memory pig for absolutely no reason, and so full of historical bugs they haven't cared to fix for 30+ years. Plus some new ones that are infuriating. And you could set Microsoft Word on fire with no complaints from me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could see why it has use for professional accounting esp. when live editing. LibreOffice still doesn't do live editing.

But what accounting do you do for your personal life itself that would require MS Excel? I'm asking since it's the topic of the post; buying MS Office pro with a laptop for home use.

sidenote, LibreOffice does have xlookuo and I've happily used it a number of times before, I thought it'd be nice to know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I use Dynamics365 as my accounting software to keep track of my own personal stuff, which is tied in pretty tightly with excel, I wouldn't be able to export anything without it. Actually I'm not even sure I'd be able to use it at all really. I also use Word more often than one would think, just for general around the house things. My investments too, like I use excel exports to do analysis on tables of data, stuff like regression and 50 day/200 day plotting, and general chart analysis. Probably could maybe get away with that on the free stuff, I'm not sure.

You don't need pro to do any of this. The normal Office Home license is sufficient. And for personal use, it would be a real son of a gun if you accidentally downloaded them off the office website and then went to https://massgrave.dev/ and by grave mistake typed in a few of those commands

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

One of these is not like the others

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Adobe being adobe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Looks about right for an Adobe/Microsoft software package.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Wait I thought its just a bug but wtf adobe lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Sounds like Micro$oft

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