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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ugh... I guess it's time to dust off this classic:

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This just in: broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not if broken because it's missing the hands

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's implied it has hands.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Wow, I wonder about his opinion on stubbing your toe.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Cool yeah, no one wants to have to log in with a Twitter account either.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one wants to log in to look at twitter posts either

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No one wants to ~~log in to~~ look at twitter posts either

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Buy Microsoft you fucking coward

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The entire global economy is held together by Excel. No thank you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You mean Xcel?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We still have COBOL and AS400. We'll be fine!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be happy. But too late to make Windows 10's name Windows X, so it probably won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He can rename it Windows X11 and piss off everyone

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

How about we go a step further and say that I don't want to have to sign into ANY online account to access my computer.

If I disconnect my Ethernet cable, I can still log in and get work done. That should be the absolute MINIMUM that is expected of any operating system.

Linux is sometimes a royal pain in the ass, but it's for precisely that reason that it's important that it and Foss options like it are supported.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Not really a contraversial opinion.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Wow so bold!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who uses Windows 11 anyway? I've personally been running Linux since 2017, and rarely have to touch Windows these days.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Who uses Windows 11 anyway?

Roughly 19.5% of all computers worldwide run Windows 11. While I don't know the exact number of computers in the world, that has to be in the multiple billions. So, yeah, a lot of people use Windows 11.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I also hate having to login every 10 minutes to another windows password shit because hey it's secure!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh shit now Elon is going to try to buy all of Linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's an idiot. You don't have to sign in to windows 11 to set it up, I literally do this daily. Not to mention corporate computers shouldn't be seeing the personal computer sign in screen to begin with unless it's in the hands of IT like me who would know what to do with it.

There used to be a skip button until about a month ago. Now, you just have to input bad creds and move forward.

Unlike Twitter, which actually locks down most of its site without an account...

Idiot just doesn't like getting called out for his idiocy and hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, there’s no way Elon wants a machine with a company image on it.

He probably bought a Win11 S-mode laptop, not knowing what that was.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't have to. It isn't required. I setup end points everyday with local users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For the general consumer Microsoft is making it as hidden as possible to make a local user during installation.

When I had to reinstall windows a month or two ago the option to make a local machine user was not there until I unplugged the ethernet or brought up a terminal to force the installer to show the option.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This shithead posts the stupidest shit and people make it viral.

I understand how people are fucked up about that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to log in with a burner Microsoft account on unactivated Windows 11 to spite both assholes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't even need a Microsoft account. You can get around it with by using Rufus to create the Windows 11 installer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had to figure out the command to bring up the command console to not log in with a Microsoft account. It was super dumb. I had to turn something off in the system as a workaround, which meant a bunch of googling.

There is zero reason for me to have a Microsoft account associated with my computer just to use it.

Edit: This was on setup of the pc. Don't remember the commands, but should be easy to find on google.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can get around it by disconnecting the Internet during setup

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Used to work, not now.

SHIFT+F10

cd OOBE

bypassnro

Reboot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more funny part of this statement is he's too fucking dumb to Google "set up windows 11 without Microsoft account" and follow exactly 3 steps to bypass the OOBE wizard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the option is pretty easy to miss for someone who isn't technical. Font size -11000 and grwy or whatever, though I might exaggerate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They break whatever process people use whenever they feel like it.

Whether the loopholes are incompetence or just for the sake of them being able to claim "you don't need an account", they definitely aren't stable and consistent options. And it's pretty clear that at some point they're going to cross the line and just make you have an account.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait until he uses Geforce Experience.. oh boy. Every time it makes me log in AND THEN VERIFY MY EMAIL.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No. Its pretty easy to work around. He just went right to twit to be a special baby boy.

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