Web search gives you pages of slop results too, now

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Those are just the packaging makefiles etc though, not the actual software sources (with some notable exceptions for bootstrapping, at least in NetBSD). Still it’s comparing a kernel with an OS

No one who ever had anything to do with OpenBSD or NetBSD would venture such a “best guess”

You know what surprised me most about this process, aside from how frustrating and obtuse it was? How at every turn, MS articles and advocates just go “and if this doesn’t work just buy a new license”. Wat!

Fixed! I converted my PC’s account to a local account and then back to a Microsoft account, which must’ve re-added my PC to that list because after that it appeared, I could select it, and transfer the license!

Reinstalled Windows 11 just to see if that would change anything, and now I get to the screen where I can remove old devices but the PC is not listed there, even though it’s linked to my MS account :(

I believe you need to uninstall the key from the old device. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/transfer-windows-license-to-new-pc

Tried this, but the activation troubleshooter gives a generic (unstyled!) error message, see my comment here…

Set up the same Microsoft Account in Windows 11 and run the activation troubleshooter, choose “I changed hardware on this device recently”, and you should be presented with another device to migrate the license from.

This is where I’m at now. My Windows 10 PC reports it’s activated with a digital license connected to my MS account. Then on the Windows 11 laptop I run the troubleshooter, click the “changed hardware” link, then it spins for a bit before giving a generic error message saying that Windows can’t be re-activated (?) because the license server can’t be reached. Internet is otherwise working fine.

If I use the “ask help” feature, I’m led through a series of steps resulting in a “contact support” section, for which I have to log in with my MS account. Which I do, but then I get error “AADSTS500200: User … is a personal Microsoft account. Personal Microsoft accounts are not supported for this application unless explicitly invited to an organisation”.

Quite at a loss here!

The Windows 10 key is returned is the generic Windows 10 Home key. Windows 10 itself reports there’s a digital license attached to my Microsoft account.

Thanks for the tip. I’ve used another tool and it reports the generic Windows 10 home key.

I only have a Windows 7 key, but I will try the MS account suggestion!

Ha I should’ve pre-empted this one - Linux is already on there, as is OpenBSD! Windows is for some Win32 & Xbox programming, some games, and for my SO to use who prefers it.

Edit: the issue with 10 on the laptop is that it lacks a storage controller driver, but I’m trying to work around that now

Windows 10 doesn’t have drivers for the storage controller in these chipsets built in, so it prompts for one.

People in the Framework forums dismiss questions about this saying you should just use 11, but I also read now thar Framework’s Windows 11 driver bundle mostly works on 10, too. Now I’m trying to extract the Intel RST driver and load it in setup, but so far it fails to show any compatible devices.

I’ll try a bit more and report back

That was the joke 😅

But here it is (I think?): https://xkcd.com/979/

My colleague uses it to generate rambling code, often pointlessly rewriting existing logic to solve all kinds of hallucinated problems, which he doesn’t understand a bit, then dumps it on me and acts offended when asked to explain any of it.

Thanks for reminding me of that comic! Took me some time to find it though

# We check if the server is on by asking the ALU to perform an operation,
$result = 1 + 1;

if ($result == 2) {
	print "Server is ON.\n";
} else {
	print "Server is OFF.\n";
	print "Power on the system before attempting to run any programs!\n";
}

Brilliant