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13 days agoThe same tool that can be used to permanently activate a Windows install can be used to permanently activate an Office install as well; including 365.
Oh, and the tool to do so is open-source.
Or you could just dump Microsoft entirely (unless you need Excel in particular). Either way, it’s free.
As much as I dislike TikTok and short-form video in general, I really don’t think this falls on TikTok. The idea of middle-schoolers discovering they can choke themselves out has been around as a “thing” since at least the late 90s.
We knew it as the “Space Monkey”. And yeah, the whole idea was to chokehold yourself until you nearly/did pass out. I suspect it has more to do with the timing of learning things like biology, and the immaturity of middle schoolers finding the idea of blacking out to be funny.