If it's in 16 colors and runs on a C64, why the heck not :)

You can't. LTSC is OEM only unless you get it in an "unofficial" way. So Joe user is pretty much screwed.

My old z77 motherboard (with a 3770k) runs 11 fine. (no TPM, Secureboot or 8th gen cpu). My Xeon 2660V4 machine runs it too (again, no TPM or 8th gen CPU and Secureboot is disabled).

Hardware limitations are artificial, kinda like when Apple blacklisted Atom CPUs in order to prevent netbooks from booting Snow Leopard.

OPNsense + Adguard.

Done

When I set up mine I didn't have to give it a CC. I didn't have to on my Shield Pro either.

My hand-me-down LG Q6 is about 7 years old, and according to the phone's battery meter it's still good for 12-38 hours with medium power management (depending on how many calls I make in a day) But my mom isn't a big phone user. The flipphone it replaced (thank you Virgin/Bell and all others from preventing it from working around October '25) is probably around 10 years old and was in need of a new battery but still 3-4 hours of talk time.

So yes, batteries can last for more than 3 years depending on usage.

So the manufacturer can't get sued if someone misuses the navigation system. My friend's Lexus has the same "feature" .

A 3rd gen Ivy Bridge machine with 16GB and a 14 core Haswell-EP 6thgen Xeon / 128GB *BOTH* run win 11 perfectly with TPM and CPU check bypass. So yes the requirements are arbitrary.

What could possibly, horribly go wrong?

If it can run win10 it can run modern linuxes. Other than create more landfill there's no reason to deprecate those older machines. OEMs probably had a talk with Microsoft because they weren't selling as many machines. TBH, I don't see the need to change my Ivy Bridge or Broadwell machines.

And it's completely ridiculous that older hardware isn't supported. It's an artificial limitation since you can hack the install so it runs on older machines. (my Ivy Bridge machine runs it OK)

What's nice though is there's gonna be a bunch of free hardware when support stops for Win10.

UnRaid is what I'm using. What's nice about it is you can mix drive sizes as long as parity is the biggest one.

TBH, it can do 4.8 easily, but I like 42 as a number (for obvious reasons).

To push people to other platforms.

-I don't need nor want an online account
-I don't need my files and desktop residing anywhere else than my hard drive. (that is, keep my desktop *local*)

Games are mostly what's keeping me on Windows. I don't need nor want to upgrade, the games I play and stuff I do run fine on a i7-3770k (oc'ed to 4.2 boost), 24GB ram and a 4060. No TPM wanted. How many computers will be recycled in October '25?

My PC runs 11 24H2 pretty fine even if it's a 12ish-years old CPU. Why would I want a new one?

They're common on torrent sites (Torrent Galaxy I'm looking at you)