Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won’t let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.


(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)

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    7 months ago

    About a year ago an update came out where even without an internet connection it wouldn’t even let me get past the sign in screen. It just told me to connect to the internet to proceeds or something. Not sure if that’s still a thing or not.

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        7 months ago

        I used some command prompt to get around it, so I’m not saying it’s impossible. but unless you are decently techy, you will not know to do it.

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          7 months ago

          The guides I found give you every single detail you’d need to know. If you know how to read, you can use the terminal bypass method.

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            7 months ago

            Right, but my mom and dad would not even think that there is a way around it. They wouldn’t even know to look.

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              7 months ago

              Sure, but are they ones who care about not having a Microsoft account?

              They might even think it is convenient.

              If someone is privacy aware enough, they’ll find the solution themselves.

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        7 months ago

        I did it the other day without issue. Went back to fedora when I realized that the middle click could only do either of its functions in windows on my ThinkPad, while it can do both in Linux.

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      7 months ago

      Confirming, in December I didn’t have Wi-Fi drivers and thus couldn’t login to install the Wi-Fi drivers.

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      7 months ago

      It is but here’s still a workaround. If you open the windows terminal on the login screen, disable the internet connection and run “oobeypassnro” you will not be forced to log in.