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The loophole for years has been not being connected to the internet, they're getting rid of that.

Buying LTSC licenses as an individual is not particularly easy or cheap.

Might be a good time to take some affordable evening classes at your local community college wink wink nudge nudge

What a shitty thing to say to someone.

What? He's suggesting getting a student license for Windows/MS Products.

They meant to qualify for educational pricing and discounts, not to improve their skills.

I'd love to do some electrician qualifications at the local community college.

Ooops, virtue signalling gone wrong here.

What is the word for complaining about virtue signalling as a way of virtue signalling?

Is so meta, even this acronym.

I don't think microsoft ever gave away LTSC licenses for students. Education/Enterprise maybe, but not LTSC.

They definitely did at one point, I still have a LTSC key from before my school decided to be too lazy to renew Azure Dev Tools for Teaching (Imagine). IIRC the keys were per edition, so a 2016 key wouldn't apply to the newest LTSC release.

I believe you just use a regular edu or enterprise key and just choose LTSC when you create your install media? Been a bit though

You can buy a LTSC license for a single computer.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

No but you can pirate it.

Another annoying thing about this wrt them discouraging it, you need a Microsoft professional/enterprise account (I forget what they call it) to see the sha256 hashes, which they used to make publicly available until a few years ago

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