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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Turn on airplane mode

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

He's so fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fuck, even more garbage into out AI garbage dump.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I guess when you're a head of state you gotta be careful about what goes on your devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Is there no longer an option to use a local account if the internet isn't available?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I may be wrong on this, but I believe they don't give you that option, and just ask to be connected to the internet before continuing setup. You can, however, do some shenanigans to open up command prompt, and after a little bit of typing in commands from the internet and restarting your machine, you can then skip the account login and just make a local account.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people in this thread calling him out for not doing the bypass, and I really don't want to be defending him, but he did try too. The issue was that the computer automatically connected to a nearby open wifi network so was not presenting the no network option. I'm completely sure that no bad actors are going to take advantage of this fact to infect new machines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Too bad going into the BIOS and turning off the WiFi was too difficult for a super genius computer wizard like Musk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it apparently just needed to be de-selected, but my comment was more about how bloody concerning it is that Win11 devices just connect to whatever nearby open wifi network they can find to phone home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, Microsoft sucks from many standpoints, including privacy and security, but he's the last person to be complaining about any of it for a multitude of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, okay, sure. But call him out for the legitimately stupid/awful stuff he does. This thread is full of folks talking about how easy the bypass is, when I've looked up that bypass for one of my own devices and nothing said shit about fuck when it came to automatically connecting to open wifi networks. Which is a concerning escalation in privacy issues from Microsoft to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I can't speak for them, but that is not why I posted it. I posted it to show that "genius" Elon both doesn't know how to do very basic things with computers that non-beginners could figure out and that he has a problem with other people having access to his data, but he has access to the entire federal government's computer systems which have all sorts of personal details about virtually everyone in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I am pretty sure he uses Linux because he said something once that seemed linuxy. I forget what. Does he seriously use Windows or is this more "edgy humor"?

With Linux so easy to use, it's hard to understand why someone would use Windows unless they had a really low intelligence and struggled to learn anything new (like they had a brain disease, developmental issues, etc.) or if they were using it it in an enterprise or virtual setting.

It must be a joke.

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