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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 311 points 8 months ago

Just like no one wants to sign into Twitter to read one tweet.

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 4 points 8 months ago

I mean, I don't like that either but it doesn't affect links to tweets.

[-] nix@merv.news 98 points 8 months ago

It very often does

[-] TheEntity@kbin.social 58 points 8 months ago

Single tweets are rarely useful without being able to read some context that isn't visible without logging in.

[-] qupada@kbin.social 38 points 8 months ago

It does however affect getting updates from government agencies, and others who insist on only disseminating real-time information to the public via Twitter.

For instance: https://twitter.com/WakaKotahiWgtn

This is the account for traffic events (road closures, traffic accidents, etc) in my city. Not signed in, the latest visible post is from February 2023.

Since I don't have a twitter account, this is now functionally useless.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

the latest visible post is from February 2023

If you scroll down far enough, there are posts from March and August, but they were "less popular" tweets. Incredibly annoying move by twitter. Who wants to regularly view tweets sorted by "Top All Time"?

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago
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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 94 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

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[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

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

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Who gives a fuckingdickleshit about this asshole

[-] Haha@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

No one. These are just bots shilling.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Everyone is a bot.

Even you ...

[-] Haha@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Each comment section hates the posts about elon yet they keep popping up as if it was interesting. I mean its clear to me, but hmm, what if i was a bot. That would be fun for a day.

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[-] uzay@infosec.pub 22 points 8 months ago

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

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago

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

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 17 points 8 months ago

Buy Microsoft you fucking coward

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

He can rename it Windows X11 and piss off everyone

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months 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.

[-] beirut_bootleg@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago

Wow so bold!

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] nac82@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months 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.

[-] ctobrien84@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

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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[-] butter@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

Business class is a different license. Likely enterprise or volume.

It requires some registry or command line crap to deal with it on consumer grade Windows.

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Command line crap? yes. Registry crap? No.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

I understand how people are fucked up about that

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

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

[-] MowFord@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

You can get around it by disconnecting the Internet during setup

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Used to work, not now.

SHIFT+F10

cd OOBE

bypassnro

Reboot.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Diotima@kbin.social 7 points 8 months 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.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

What? Ctrl+F10 for Command Prompt and then oobe\bypassnro has always worked, and I don't see Microsoft removing it anytime soon. Who do you think put the bypassnro.bat script in the OOBE directory on every Windows installation media?

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I legit haven't used GFE since they began requiring a login to use it.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

He only cares because it's annoying to him. He doesn't give a rats ass otherwise.

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

He's probably setting up to suggest Microsoft be required to support SSO so people can log in with twitter.

[-] stackPeek@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Peak journalism

[-] Jayb151@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You could just put in a made up email and pass. I personally go with 123@fake.com

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