That’s because even a grey market Windows key costs US$20 nowadays and that’s over ₹1,600. For comparison purposes, the largest Indian banknote is ₹500.

I wasn’t aware that rsync also copied system files. I’m curious to know why my method is unsafe. The only potential problem I see with what I did is mixing up if and of in dd.

When real life does not match up with the description given by social rejects on a site notorious for infidelity

They are not. I do not refer to the package called “LibreOffice”. If you search for “office” on the Windows Store, you’ll see a bunch of LibreOffice clones that are not branded as such and are not free of charge or contain advertisements.

This is like the people who repackage and rebrand LibreOffice and then resell it for $10 on the Windows Store to gullible users.

And the worst part about that is that it doesn’t even break the law.