WWTW

My opinion is that copilot is the focus for 24. Microsoft has lots of development and marketing around copilot and how it works in 11, Edge, Bing, M365, and all the other Microsoft Graph yada yada fancy apps stuff. Launching 12 now would be an unnecessary distraction away from all copilot investments.

Fanless PC as an OPNsense router. Probably somewhere between $100-$500 USD for the chassis and remaining parts depending on what you want it to do and how fancy you want to go.

Maybe give this a look too: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/paste-as-plain-text

Good luck!

If you’re still looking, check out https://github.com/builtbybel/ I played around with BloatyNosy and ThisIsWin11 last weekend on a new build, appeared to work. I didn’t keep the OS install for other unrelated reasons.

Ctrl + shift + V should paste in plain text for most applications with the exception of Office products. In Office these keys are mapped to other functions because reasons in 1989 or something. I thought you could configure a hot key for it but I can’t remember off the top. Google fu it.

Edit: This was bugging me.

Excel appears to respect ctrl shift V

Word, you have two options, I used the latter. https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/paste-text-only-shortcut-in-word?ocid=usoc_TWITTER_M365_spl100003894688686

or

https://superuser.com/questions/988527/how-can-i-use-ctrl-shift-v-to-paste-plain-non-formatted-text-into-a-word

Outlook is being Outlook. You can go to File, Options, Mail, Editor Options, Advanced, and scroll down to the Cut, Copy and Paste section. Make the adjustments that fit your use case. I set Keep Text Only under Pasting from other programs

Leave cable unplugged and Wi-Fi off. Hit shift + F10 for a command prompt, type OOBE\BYPASSNR This removes the internet requirement and brings back the skip for now button. This is a new thing for Home edition in 22H2. I want to type out about how much I dislike both enterprise and consumer Microsoft products, but “if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all” something something. Good luck with your new computer!