That was quick…
It’s MS. They couldn’t secure a cup of coffee.
You have to hand it to mocrospft though in the console department, xbox generally dont have software hacks to jailbreak consoles historically (generally hard mods), but nintendo and sonys OS is usually riddled with exploits.
The WiiU had far.backeards compatibility and very low population, but was not immune to exploits.
Officially wii, had built in emulators for old retro consoles and stuff, and unofficially gamecube.
The reason no one cares to crack the Xbox isn’t because of MS security let’s get real. It’s not like MS all of a sudden became competent on that one thing.
Why would the 360 need a hardware exploit if their security would be bad enough for a software one then?
To add to this, not one person has jail broken a steam deck. Not because it is impossible, but because it would be pointless.
Would removing the immutable aspect be, in theory, a jailbreak?
Kind of a funny “shower thought” to think about. Well if it were an iOS or Android device, the “jailbreak” is rooting since root is highest level access for *nix systems. So that is what is technically happening with the Steam Deck as you now have sudo access and most/all read-only restrictions are off. But at the same time Valve doesn’t start banning your deck or punishing you for doing it, and even tell you how to do it in an FAQ on the official Steam Support page. Which means it isn’t technically a “jailbreak” either and more of a “advanced settings” with some warnings and specific instructions that aren’t defaultly turned on. So it is both technically “jailbreaking” and not “jailbreaking.”
I would say no as it was designed to be turned off if desired to do so. If it weren’t designed for that, then I would say yes.
To expand on this, most of the developers who make these jailbreaks openly disavow their use for piracy, and focus more on homebrew applications. Since Microsoft lets you sideload any app you want in Dev Mode, there’s no incentive to unlock Retail Mode, whereas other console makers have no such system and thereby get targeted more
I’m surprised this is still on github.
What do you mean, Microsoft support still needs it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/
Wouldn’t be surprised if they made the pull request themself.
yeah at this point with all the ads, bloatware and telemetry, windows costing money is the real scam
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Will this convert a home edition to pro?
Previous version did. Converted a friend’s laptop from home (oem provided) to pro and my own from home (oem provided) to enterprise
It does, pretty easily. There’s a convenient “change Windows edition” menu item.
yes if you upgrade to pro with a generic key first
thank you Im a noob sort if, can you let me know how I go finding a generic key.
Just press 7 extra. There is option for changing windows edition.
Take a look at https://massgrave.dev/hwid.html. It’s linked on the site OP linked.
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Doubt it, but it could aid you once you’ve acquired a windows pro installer. ;)
What does this do?
Activates your Windows installation with a legit activation method, you can even reinstall Windows and have it pre-activated because the activation is on your hardware ID.
It takes a free upgrade routine, but Microsoft stopped free upgrades from Windows 7 to 11, so apparently there is another way now.
Good to see them fix this so quickly, but what’s stopping Microsoft from blocking HWID activations on a GVLK? After all, those keys would normally be activated through a KMS instead of Microsoft, so it’s clearly abnormal behaviour
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Yeah. I started with a Win 7 key and upgraded to 10 on multiple machines with it.
Unless Windows no longer decides to do free OS upgrades in the future.
Unless Windows no longer decides to do free OS upgrades in the future.
Well people had almost 10 years to get onto W10, so not really a big deal. If you registered a copy of W10 you’re good for another 10 years give or take.
What’s the asdcorp logo? Arch for head, win8 for body and… snapcraft for arms?
