To be clear ....Finally found a spare NVME fine pitch screw for the second M2 slot that was never used on the board before.

Pictured left is my eterenal friend the linux macbook air for just shitposting and playing music while i.....

-cloning a desktop linux image from 512gb to a 2tb
-Installing Windows 11 pro on the old 512 and another audio production laptop
-Running the new windows AME tookit and playbook to de-botnet windows 11

Mission accomplished goals achieved. Holy fuck stock windows 11 is one ugly beast. Even with modern hardware you are just shutting it down and waiting endlessly for a circle and for it to update for minutes  like windows vista ..... FFS

Pretty impressed with AME playbook so far. 

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