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Archive for June 12th, 2026

What is the best way to get Windows 11 Pro Key for cheap ? : bootcamp

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/12

Needed this for some Windows 11 Virtual Machine experiments of Windows 11 on Apple Silicon ARM under VMware Fusion to see how well the Intel x64 emulation on ARM provided by Apple Rosetta or/and Microsoft Windows actually works: [Wayback/Archive] What is the best way to get Windows 11 Pro Key for cheap ? : bootcamp

At the time of writing (especially the “/Archive]” versions of the links below under “Queries” show remarkably cheap licenses):

Wondering what these will do during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

In the meantime: reset timer galore (:

TL;DR from most links below on activating Windows 11 on ARM under VMware Fusion: it should work, but back in the experimental days (around 2021-2022) it sometimes failed.

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Two online transcription tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/12

From best to second best:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape (which at the time of writing in 2023 was free, but likely now is still affordable)
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Azure Video Indexer Portal – Cognitive Video Indexing (at the time of writing the first 10 hours are free, then it’s around EUR 1/minute)

Related blog post: GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Via:

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