Honestly, im more surprised by the fact that these kiosks run windows, than by the fact that it isnt activated

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    9 months ago

    Why would it need to be activated? they usually run on a closed network, with no internet connection anyways

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      9 months ago

      Legal reasons.

      More than likely though the activation system just shat itself. If you’ve ever managed a large farm of windows machines with legitimate KMS activation you know shit breaks for no reason at all way too damn often.

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        9 months ago

        Shit, that happened with my home pc, and they acted like they were doing me a favor by giving me some code to make the software I had already paid for work.