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Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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You see the issues if you have sleeping agents on your machine and thus being part of botnets..
Additionally, it could be the entry point into your network, if connected to the internet. Your other modern PC trust you, to keep your LAN clean, so they are not as protective about LAN stuff than about stuff coming from WAN.
Yeah... their post gave me the willies, too. It's like walking into Russia/Ukraine's front lines and yelling "fuck Putin" over and over.
"Well, I wasn't shot yet, so it's fine"
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