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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by hermitdev on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:00PM (#21896287)
MS is very aggressive with this in their Windows 10 development VM images you can download. Theyre free, but they only last 3 months. There doesnt appear to be anyway to activate - even if you have a legit license key through my.visualstudio.com.

The VM prebuilt with VStudio, Visual Studio Code, WSL w/ Ubuntu and other goodies in a prebuilt image is attractive and a time saver. But, it's immediately on a kill switch timer of about 3 months, if you download while new. Current image expires in Feb 2020.

I was using this to connect to work in a VPN in an effort to keep work and personal separate, but I'll have to burn a Win10 license key from my subscription for a new VM.

Caveat: the expiration doesnt render the image entirely worthless, but it will only stay up for around 90 mins before shutting down without warning.

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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by ficklepickle on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:24PM (#21896382)
I just take a snapshot then revert after 90 days. Seems to work. I vaguely remember MS docs suggesting this.

You can also refresh them with a powershell command a limited number of times IIRC.

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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by tech234a on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:29AM (#21897506)
I think it was in the instructions for using the Internet Explorer/Edge VMs (see page 3): https://az792536.vo.msecnd.net/vms/release_notes_license_ter...
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Re:Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so th... by emayljames on Saturday December 28, 2019 @01:46AM (#21897546)
There is ways of keeping it up. The one I can explain here, is to do a snapshot as soon as you have your apps setup, then just roll back at the end. There is "other" ways that I can't explain here.
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