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Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

I live in the middle of nowhere and while my home has 10/1 Mbit DSL option my workshop 250m away has nothing and no mobile signal. Am I supposed to drag PC used for CNC home to activate windows or should I get 2nd starlink subscription?

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SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Why are you not using a 2.4ghz or 5ghz wireless bridge?

I’ve got a 5ghz bridge between my garage and house, and it goes through 2 trees and still gives me around 900mbs. It’s over 350m away too.

Not saying that the guy bitching about people who don’t have Internet to active win11…just offering you an idea to fix your lack of Internet in your workshop.

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- tty5@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Because I don’t need an internet connection in the workshop. I don’t want to install a bridge just to activate windows.
  
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  - SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ok then why bring it up? Are you doing stuff in the workshop that requires you to activate multiple windows machines?
    
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    tty5@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Because I shouldn’t have to. It’s purely Microsoft forcing it.
    
    I only have 1 PC in my workshop, but there are companies in the same situation which have dozens.
    
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