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Ars Technica has a couple of good articles regarding Windows 11 on old hardware. The first is how to install and maintain Windows 11 on old hardware.

How to install Windows 11 on supported and unsupported PCs, 24H2 edition

And this one, which publishes observations of running Windows 11 on hardware for the past three years.

Windows did it again and forced a stupid function known as Copilot on us within a Windows update. To remove (disable) follow the the below instructions. Enabling instructions are below as well.

Because things can go awfully wrong when editing the registry, only advanced users should perform the below registry commands. Also, would be an awesome idea to back up your registry and create a restore point prior to executing the below registry commands.

Listening to Security Now brought this Windows flaw to my attention. There appears to be a heuristics flaw in the secure time seeding function in Windows. This flaw may reset the computers clock to hours, days, months or years. This has the the potential of a HUGE support headache never mind a potential security flaw.

The NSA (National Security Agency) recently published a decent guide to secure your home network. Some recommendations may be too technical to implement. Even if people implemented only half of the bullet points contained in the 9 page document, it would a huge step into securing a home network. But I think the majority are doable.

National Security Agency | Cybersecurity Information Sheet

After getting my amateur radio licenses (over a year ago), I switched from Linux to Windows because most software for my radios seem to only target Windows. Prior to the switch, I used Linux as my main computers (laptops and servers) for over 15 years, so this was done under extreme protest. How has it been going?

HORRIBLE!

I'm running a variety of Ubuntu Linux distribution known as Pop_OS! and have had several issues when for some reason or another Proton VPN is not shutdown gracefully leaving me without internet but still having LAN access.

Proton VPN appears to install an IPV6 "leak" interface which seems to be the problem.

The following instructions will usually bring back an internet connection..