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Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yup.

Build PC

Activate Windows

Motherboard develops a fault

Get a refund/replacement

Install it

Windows is no longer activated, because they tied it to the motherboard...

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago

motherfuckers... that's awful.