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Illusion of privacy lol
Can’t find it anymore, but I remember someone did a DNS analysis and they are even pinging McAfee servers, before you open any apps.
Windows sucks but that article was click bait bullshit and was due to the laptop manufacturer bloat ware.
PC security channel did it
Pro tip: You can hit
space tab space tab...to quickly cycle through them all.I will say though, it is mighty refreshing to go through a Linux installer now.
Didn’t Bill Gates leave Microsoft in 2008? Other than that, yeah.
Seriously, lol; how did this post even get upvotes? (UpLemmies? Whatever they’re called here)
Also this was one of the early windows 10 updates lol. Like 2017 or something.
How it feels to install windows in 2023 is to drop to a hidden shell and run some commands to create a local account instead of a Microsoft account to log into your computer. Fuckin disgusting.
Not just installing. When updating, sometimes it tries to reset the options and change my default browser to edge.
Edge would ALWAYS get on the way with its stupid search bar widget. They tried to improve their shitty outdated piece of crap internet explorer that nobody was using and they ended up with a modern shitty piece of crap that is edge.
And then finding your way around the forced windows account. ANNOYING
Use [email protected] as the account name, anything as the password. It will say “whoopsie, there was an error” and then you can create a local account.
Or something about not connecting to a wifi or ethernet connection during install. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/01/26/how-to-bypass-the-microsoft-account-requirement-during-windows-setup/
Windows will display a “Let’s connect you to a network” or similar screen. The upcoming Windows 11 version 22H2 does not allow you to skip this anymore to create a local account.
they actually restricted this method, evil
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Holy shit are you serious?
100%. I use it all the time on test machines at work.
Is this a hardcoded opt out or something? Couple of months ago I had to install windows for a friend. I tried to not make a windows account. All the exploits I found, were “patched”. I finally just gave up and made the account. My friend doesn’t care enough about privacy and I don’t care enough about windows for all that effort.
But, [email protected] would be awesome.
I’m not totally sure but I would guess that it’s not hardcoded. Probably just buggy behavior, as is usual for Microsoft.
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C:\Windows\System32\oobe\bypassnro.cmd (in Windows 11, the computer restarts the installation at this point)
I don’t know about these workarounds but I remember Win10 has something like “Create for another person” then “I don’t have their info” and it will just let you create a local acocunt. I don’t know about 11 tho
Or just anything invalid. I usually do “m” as the username and “m” as the password.
Have to try virtually! Even if Windows 10 are so much better than Windows 11.
Ooh, that reminds me, I need to delete the Windows VM i made for hte STALKER: Anomaly - Gamma installer.
Hehe. That edition of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. works in Linux through Lutris 😊 Not perfectly, but it works.
but the installer doesnt cause its written in windows powershell. Had to install a VM just to get the installer to download/unpack the game, then i set up lutris for it.
Supposedly the next version of the installer is going to use a more agnostic scripting, but i dont know if thats come out yet.
If you don’t add a WiFi network and don’t plug in ethernet then you can also make a local account.
don’t forget the constant messages to use Edge as your default browser! blegh!
Yep. Why I use Linux now. 🤷🏻♂️
Same. Was a windows user all my life. Tried dabbling with Linux a few times, but the shit microsofts doing now is what drove me to linux.
Got several family members on it too, They do nothing but webbrowse so its been going stellar for them.
I like your profile picture. Kind of unnerves me though!
Thanks! Ripley’s aquarium in Toronto.
all these will be reinstated in the next update and all the unsent locally collected information will be sent with the consent you gave by not preventing your system from updating
oof. thats fucked up.
I use Linux nowadays, but I still have dual boot cause of some games. I use LTSB debloated with stopped updates and telemetry.
Don’t forget to scroll down otherwise you miss a very important one that’s hidden
Oh yeah, the fuck me in the ass option.
It is 2023, you want that check on.
I installed it in VirtualBox because I wanted to try if a neovim plugin worked with it.
The most awful experience ever. It’s so bad it’s tragic, and screams surveillance late stage capitalism. If people don’t notice that, it’s because they have slowly become used to it under the windows regime.
I wish Windows didn’t spy on you in the bathroom. But this helps:
@Steamymoomilk recently had to do a clean win 11 install. Spent a day trying to get the Intel RST driver loaded just to begin install. After trying various sources including the recovery media from manufacturer had to take it to a few repair centers(many claimed bad SSD even though I explained what driver was needed) to just install the OS it came with.
Same laptop have installed a half dozen linux distros with no such issue.
That’s the monolithic for you, has drivers for basically everything minus NVIDIA tho.
Thats why i use IPXE and a sysprepped image when i do need windows. Or i got to install windows for friends and familie
“Hello there, user! Do you mind if we spy you while you take a shower?”
“Of course I do! It’s one of the most private rooms in my ho–”
“…*ahem Wait. I actually meant to just… check which kind of hygienic peripheral brands you use!”
“…why on earth you want to know what? No! Get out of my ho–”
“*AHEM. You understood it wrong – I’m talking about your sandals.”
“…what? Dude, just stop with that bu–”
“*EHHEEM. Noooo, nononon. Just your towel.”
“???”
“…your credit card just slipped away off your pockets. Do you want us to take over your phone and call the cops for you?”
