I’ve typed those letters SO many times. I remember being shit faced drunk in high school and getting a call from a friend who was installing Windows XP but forgot the key, because he just assumed that I could recite it. Which I could, and still can, 20 years later.
I remember having a defective hdd in my PC. I brought the pc to the shop, where I bought it from to get it replaced under warranty. They told me they couldn’t restore my data (I had backups) and asked if I wanted them to install windows on it. When they asked for my key I was like “FC…” and they responded “ok, we know that one, no need to spell it out” and proceeded with the installation
I don’t know if it still works, but I found a “cheat” for free windows back in the day that I even upgraded into 10 with lol
My friend had an “upgrade” code for XP that he gave me, so when I installed windows and tried to use the code it gave me the whole “this is an upgrade code not a new code” kind of message. I rebooted the PC and used the same installer to “upgrade” my newly installed windows XP to windows XP. Same install, just did it again basically. It then accepted the code as valid lol
what part of it is untrusted?
all components of it are open source, down to the proxy dlls and activation scripts
yeah irm … | iex is basically the direct windows equivalent of pipe to bash but eh… you can download the script from github, unpack it and run manually if you want
For a while you could just remove all the permissions from the activation nagware on a trial install and it would run fine, and you’d even get updates. At some point they added some service which would periodically check those permissions and revert them, and I was never able to figure out what that process was.
Which means that there is apparently now a hidden user and access tier which exists solely to monitor windows system permissions, and I feel like this is my most noteworthy legacy in a small way.
A tooltip is more from an interaction. Hover over a button, and a tooltip pops up giving you a tip about the tool you are about to click.
Balloons don’t come from interaction, and they point to something specific. Like an annotation or something.
Toasts are notifications. They can disappear after a while, or they might have to be manually dismissed.
A modal is a popup that prevents you interacting with other things.
A dialog is a popup that lets you interact with other things
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