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That was in the past. The tipping culture has morphed into a very bad thing which negatively affected every that it has touched. Now when we go to a donut shop where they are already charging up to $3 or $4 for a donut the 19-year-old clerk who is now being already being paid $20.76 an hour who does nothing more than place the ones you pick in a bag... expects you to give her a 20% tip. At this point encouraging this type of madness to continue is bad policy for the government to incentivize further through tax cuts.

People here who believe that this still makes some kind of sense are either virtue signaling or just lost in some sort of fantasy world.

I certainly have not... Tipping is a just plain stupid system that should not be encouraged with tax benefits.

It results in inconsistent and unpredictable income for workers.
It suppresses wages by employers.
It causes awkwardness and pressure on customers
It encourages discrimination and bias not to mention men hoping for sexual favors of various types from female waitresses.
It erodes service quality
It is economically inefficient
It creates employees who feel entitled to compensation from people who never agreed to participate in stupidity when purchasing overpriced meals at restaurants.

Tipping is a practice that most people know is unfair, and leads to resentment and bad service. Why reasonable people defend this idiotic practice is beyond me. The primary reason that I can think of is blatant virtue signaling.

And why shouldn't they? It has become a skilled job with one man per truck with a hydraulic arm. Minimum wage is now $43,180.80 for a high school kid working at a fast-food restaurant, or busses dirty dishes, or picks berries or waits tables at a restaurant. Those working as a waiter or waitress believe that they are entitled to tax free tips on top of that.

Guess again. Where we live near Seattle, they get $20.76 per hour, regardless of whether they receive tips or other benefits. My comment about them feeling entitled and being Primadonas is from personal experiences not in their work environment but as personal acquaintances. If you don't give them 20% OR MORE and return most will not think twice about spitting in your food or screwing with you in some other way. And if you are a white male and they are a “minority” and/or are “LGBTQ” and/or have a bunch of tattoos and/or piercing and you offend them just by, being you or by not showing subservience to them in some way... You had better hope that you have a strong immune system.

That is just the way that it is where we live. If you are lucky enough to live in a part of country where service people are still semi-normal then I suppose that your mileage may vary.

Sorry for the cut and paste error with the file name.

Will this work on the Windows Home version?

Yes, that makes no difference. But while you currently can get an OEM license key for about $5 to upgrade Home to Pro The Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC license key costs about $23 minus the 10% discount codes that are always available if you do a Google search.

I should remind you that basically all the sellers of Microsoft license keys on the internet are grey market meaning that no one really seems to know where they come from. The place that I have purchased from the most over the last several years is Gamers Outlet, they also provide an often hard to find link to the appropriate ISO file that actually contains the OS.

The file is

en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso
that you should be using is:

en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_x64_dvd_257ad90f.iso

Size: 4.518 GB (4851668992 bytes)

The hashes that verify that you have the original unadulterated Microsoft version are listed below. Just type hash checker in the search in the Microsoft Store and pick one that a lot of others use.

CRC-32: 188c9d0d
MD5: 2463b19beac328290e6a8adcedb7533a
SHA-1: 76c3c10e38307d29fd8b4748522ed144dba35829
SHA-256: a0334f31ea7a3e6932b9ad7206608248f0bd40698bfb8fc65f14fc5e4976c160
SHA-512: 640942d93daf8cd183d06e35d5d753a4b93c952c3196c3e3fa7876295b39d8bfef5df8ef2a3b420b5247905fe396606f94ccf093982ee999e503d09e69850143
SHA3-256: 33bacaa70b78abcf4969fa0f6219a5cad7dd4d49c9b975ddadc8b15658d17d48
SHA3-512: 03e3a8e34a79363235aaf91333cb3afa4927feb0b1f1cf212e6cf4a70c54cbe7ab367fafb6143e6057dac00e407c1b661cb0e2511f7eadb4562c49d0ee606a4e

What you are talking about is ancient history. The able bodied Air Force personnel you were helping with their groceries should have done it for themselves unless they were wives with little kids in tow. Or an old broken-down veteran from one of the World Wars. In that case you or some other good Samaritan should have helped them out without feeling entitled to compensation

During the time period we are talking about I was working long hours in a family business where I was lucky to get paid at all let alone minimum wage. Your "job" reminds me of the "homeless" who used to stand near intersections with as squeegee hoping for tips after they threw dirty water on your windshield and then squeegeed it off. “In Seattle, as of January 2025, all employers are required to pay employees a minimum wage of $20.76 per hour, regardless of whether the employee receives tips or benefits. This includes waiters and waitresses, (and bag boys) meaning they are not paid less than the minimum wage due to tips.”

But when they bring you your bill, they still want 20% or more.

My wife and I somehow managed to have jobs that involved actual hard work, dedication and working every holiday which didn’t receive any tips. In truth I have never understood the “tipping culture” in this country. For those who don’t know this is not the way business is done in much if not most of the rest of the world.

As a group... I have never come across a group of more entitled feeling Primadonnas than the typical waiters and waitresses working in American restaurants. No one seems to tip the garbagemen, the people who actually prepare food, farmers, cattlemen, mechanics, construction workers, factory workers and on and on. The myth of the long-suffering waiter and waitress is just that... complete BS. Instead of ending the tax on tips, the government should have been looking into ways to double or triple the government’s cut.

I threw my “Christmas Cards” George W and Laura in the trash. What a putz!

I didn’t mention that Windows 10 Pro or Windows 11 Pro Licenses are very inexpensive. The “OEM” versions are typically around $5 and the “Retail” versions which I almost always buy are usually less than $10. I am now pleased that I did this because several of the 7 “upgrades” that I have now completed had Retail licenses which means that I can now transfer them to new hardware or virtual machines.

I am constantly rejiggering things in my home network so for me being able to transfer licenses to different machines is a good thing. Windows 10 Pro licenses can be used to upgrade Windows 11 machines. In this way they more versatile which you might expect would make them more valuable, but they are typically a few dollars cheaper.

After now completing 7 installations I have a couple more suggestions if you go this route...

Run the following 2 commands before you image your disk. And then run them again after you install Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC

1. **System File Checker (SFC)**:
- In Command Prompt (Admin), run `sfc /scannow`. This checks for corrupted system files and repairs them.
2. **DISM Tool**:
- Run `DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth` in Command Prompt (Admin) to repair the Windows system image.

Second, I noticed that the release ID in the registry “hack” should be 2009 and not 2H21 as I and the person in the video have told people.

Running Regedit as an administrator navigate to...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

now change to the values to the new ones listed below by double clicking on the Key Names:
Key Name = New Value

CompositionEditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

CurrentBuild =19044

CurrentBuildNumber = 19044

DisplayVersion = 21H2

EditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

ProductName = Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

ReleaseId = 2009

This error actually does not matter because it gets corrected by itself either during the installation process or by running the two commands in the Command Line that I mentioned above.

After your system is up and running and you have checked for corruption with the commands mentioned above you should then type windows update into the search box or icon nest to your Windows button. There will be 4 more updates that will not take all that long... After that your system will be completely updated.

As soon as you are sure everything is working right run Microsoft’s included Disk Cleanup to get back around 30GBs of hard drive space. In my case this actually made the new installation take up less space than the original. This also illustrates the reason doing the installation this way takes so long...

People who wait until after Microsoft shuts down the servers that it currently has up and running, will have a more difficult and time consuming trying to find all of the updates that we are currently getting installed automatically.

Thanks for the quick reply... there is a lot of misinformation spread in other forums and on YouTube about how this works. There is a tiny bit of work and quite a bit of patience involved in this transition. But I am working on reinstalling a Windows 11 Pro virtual machine in Hyper-V and it is significantly more complicated.

The problem is that I have been a computer and electronics hobbyist for most of the past 50 years and despite spending a lot of time assisting others... I still sometimes have a difficult time judging what others are capable of achieving.

This error actually does not matter because it corrects itself... probably during the install, but possibly when sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealt are run as an administrator in the command line. It turns out that the release ID in the registry should be 2009 and not 2H21 as I and the person in the video have told people to do.

Running Regedit as an administrator navigate to...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

now change to the values to the new ones listed below by double clicking on the Key Names:
Key Name = New Value

CompositionEditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

CurrentBuild =19044

CurrentBuildNumber = 19044

DisplayVersion = 21H2

EditionID = IoTEnterpriseS

ProductName = Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

ReleaseId = 2009

I am going to write up a summary probably this evening. After installing and licensing Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC seven times, and now having numerous friends and relatives wanting me to upgrade their machines remotely... I have come up with a few more pearls of wisdom.

I have received positive feedback and at least one person here has told me he did an install and is happy with it. My guess is that as in the past, when Microsoft figures out that people are doing an end run around their evil intentions that they will try to take some type of action to keep it from continuing to happen. I suppose that the more people who take this route the more likely that they are to do something about it... So, my evangelizing on this subject is probably ending with this thread.

This solution creates an operating system that behaves so closely what people are currently using that it is quite amazing. The only thing that I have done to make sure that everything is copesetic in my installs after all the updates have been installed is run: sfc /scannow or DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealt in the command line as an administrator. After that I run Microsoft’s included Disk Cleanup to get back around 30GBs of hard drive space.

Welcome to the thread. We were all wondering when you would show up.

Microsoft does not care a bit about Linux builds, three of which I use every day in my home server hobby lab. There are close to a Billion machines still running Windows 10. Microsoft wants to force their users to migrate to Windows 11 and new hardware. What they do not want is for people to find solutions that will enable them to keep using Windows 10 safely on their old hardware.

It is you who are doing the bidding of your Microsoft overlords whether you realize it or not. I am very comfortable using commands and running routines in a terminal in Linux. Many people here do not even know what that means... Yet if you do not understand how to use a terminal in Linux it severely hampers your ability to use the operating system... Or maybe you are an Apple fan boy who enjoys throwing money at technological toys that you do not really understand. Which is it?

“The driver of the Tesla, Romeo Lagman Yalung, had activated the vehicle’s autopilot feature, which he trusted based on Tesla’s claims that the software was “safer than a human driver.”

It makes little differences how many advanced safety features that a new car has... The “autopilot feature” was obviously not quite ready for prime time.

I am sorry I forgot to put the link to the one that I purchased.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPGYRL4C

It is nothing out of the ordinary and I don’t think that the backlighting is especially powerful, but it works well for what I do with it. I love the stand that came with it for many purposes.

Although I started buying and selling on eBay long ago and still purchase many items through them often... for new items I prefer Amazon for the fast free shipping, easy returns and better warranty coverage.

I made the mistake of purchasing a large Chinese backpack blower through Walmart.com last year. The thing has been sort of a nightmare. I didn’t realize that it was coming from a private seller and my return options were basically non-existent.

This is the one that I purchased. It is a 14” with 1920x1200 native resolution. It was on sale at the time. It came with a very nice stand that would cost at least $20 from most sources. I like that it can be powered and get its video signal through a USB3 cable in addition to its HDMI connectors. It did come with a power adapter, but I have never used it. The small size is actually very helpful for the purposes that I use it for.

I have a nice little 1920x1200 portable touch screen monitor. The touch screen feature adds about $20 to the price. I use it with my little Ryzen based mini-computer and also as a second monitor with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. It is one of those things that you don't realize how much you needed it until after you get it. Mine came with a very nice articulating stand, but I usually use it with an adjustable tablet holder.

I completed the “upgrade” to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise last night on the “ancient” Lenovo laptop from 2010. The old wireless adapter in it does not recognize the 5ghz band so it made downloading all of the updates more time consuming.

After the installation finished the icons on the desktop were rearranged every time that I rebooted. This is a sure sign of corrupted system files. So, I keyed in “command prompt” in the Windows 10 search box. I chose the option to run the command prompt as an administrator. I then ran the system file checker by keying in:

sfc /scannow

It found errors and corrected them. I then ran the DISM tool which repairs the Windows system image by keying in:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

These commands take just a few minutes to complete.

Then when rebooted the system worked perfectly. After that I entered Disk Cleanup into the Windows 10 search box which took back approximately 30GB of space mostly by erasing the old system.

The old girl is doing really well now, better than it has performed in a long, long time.

I should have mentioned in my original post that running these two commands is almost a necessity after installing a new operating system over the top of an older system.

I am currently installing Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC on my “travel laptop”. “It is an ancient Lenovo G560 from 2010. The original case basically fell apart. I had upgraded the processor to an Intel Core i5-520M and increased the memory to 8GB of DDR-3 memory. When I migrated to a better case that I salvaged from an identical but screwed up model from eBay, I added a new 500GB SSD. This gave it lots of extra pep and I added the full complement of Microsoft Office programs to it, along with some imaging editing software and Ubuntu Studio in a dual boot setup. I also added a dual USB3 PCMIA card long ago which greatly speeds up imaging the SSD hard drive. It also has a physical DVD writer that can be used to boot from Hyren’s boot CD/DVD.

Most of the value is in the effort that I have invested in keeping the old gal going. If it gets lost or damaged on a trip it will be no big deal... but to me it is worth the effort to upgrade the OS to one where I will continue to receive security updates.

I just finished imaging the hard drive to a USB3 flash drive. Now I am going to modify the registry and then install the new OS from the USB Drive. I will let you know how this goes on this ancient (15 year old) laptop which originally came with Windows 7.

And I am happy that you are pleased with your laptop.