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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Many computers can get Win11 just by plugging in the $18 TPM chip to their motherboards, regardless of what windows update says.
There are a few protocols to push Win11 onto computers with unsupported CPUs, or without TPMs.

I’ve updated 6 computers that “failed” meet minimal requirements.

This is a massive scam to send 400 million perfectly good computers to landfills.

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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It does however mean that you can get a lot of used computers really really cheap right now

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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Companies are discarding pallets of them Massive waste.
  
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  - fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We need to rescue them
    
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- MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Any recommendation for specific models to look out for?
  
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  - fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    My wife got a used corpo laptop for under $100
    
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    MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Congrats, thats nice
    
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- mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Might be good to get em before all the tarrifs make computing more expensive. At least in the US.
  
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i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Unfortunately, if you use either of these methods to install Windows 11, you will wind up with Windows 11. You will eventually regret it.

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