I was running Apple WiFi routers for a good 20 years. Maybe 1/4 died in that time, but many ran 20+ years before I abandoned them for newer standards. Some are still going as whole house audio streamers.
Interesting. I thought that since I completely wiped the disk and removed all bitlocker that it would be an issue. Didn't think there would be some other place to store the CD key.
Been here more than 20 years and my whole department does it. The computers are unusable otherwise. If I were sitting in an office it wouldn't be possible, but they have a BYOD policy which allows for this kind of use.
Yes fortunately I had the bios password, so I was able to manage it. I work remotely. To IT it just looks like the machine vanished. They haven't asked me about it.
This was also on my work machine. I had to use some utilities to extract my windows key and change some stuff in the bios to disable bitlocker, so it was not a small job but it's increased my productivity a lot.
I installed with a local windows 11 account using Rufus and I have no ads. Also went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack. It's just a good old windows box again. Really works nicely.
I just grabbed a queen and took out a ton of pieces unopposed.