If the Democrats had any interest in dialing back the police/surveillance state they would have done it during the Obama administration when they had a majority in all 3 seats of government. People are so goddamn naive.

Tbf RDP works pretty well for basic desktop stuff even over slow links. I’m sure there’s a protocol out there even more optimized for use cases like this.

The US has been a fascist police state since the early 2000s. The difference is under trump they’re going mask off and people are starting to notice.

Last time I was in NYC I had a hell of a time finding somewhere to piss. Ended up going to saks 5th avenue. Tried on a $5000 jacket I could never afford when I was there. Great jacket.

Or go to a gay bar on buffalo wings night

You have no idea if I’m doing anything. The only thing you’ve seen me do is try to suss out whether you’re a hypocrite.

What have you done?

Capital gains taxes and property taxes pay for those things. Regressive taxes like sales tax are a drop in the bucket and exist to punish the poor.

It might but if so I’m not aware of it

I was being ironic, I am not aware of any such device

I only use hardwired Ethernet for my light switches

They conquored the entirety of France in a month and a half shortly after “peace in our time”

Are you quoting Neville Chamberlain?

I literally work for a government agency lol what you’re saying is nonsense. If they worked the way you’re describing the compliance guys heads would explode and federal agencies would be brought in to oversee upgrades for the next decade

You poor thing

The hypervisor doesn’t necessarily present the guest the exact CPU you’re running. Maybe it was presenting an older model, or something stripped down that didn’t have the features win 11 was looking for. It’s moot.now that you found a solution but I believe this is what happened and moving the disks to a new VM probably would have worked.

You get into any big organization and legacy becomes a larger and larger part of the way things are kept running. Hell just for shits and giggles look at the back end of blood banks, government, airports and non blood banks back end infrastructure. I would be shocked if anything was running on less then a decade old software.

Maybe on the backend or specialized single purpose appliances. Running decade old OS’s on workstations is negligence boardering on malpractice.

It sounds like your VM config was presenting a COU or TPM config that the upgrade wasn’t comfortable with. If your new machine presented acceptable configs to a brand new VM, then making a new VM and feeding it the old .vhdx would be the same as pulling a storage device and putting it in a new motherboard that was win 11 compliant. After a reboot to install new drivers it probably would have upgraded happily.

It’s dogshit after windows 7

Lol

Not only were there several dogshit windows versions before 7, 8 was an upgrade in almost every way other than “omg start menu big now” culture shock. The new task manager alone was worth having a slightly bigger start menu.

25H2 is a feature update. 24H2, for now, gets all the same security fixes. When people say “always run the latest” they mean stay on a supported OS and always have as many security updates as possible within reason.