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What about viewing Tweets without an X account?
What about maintaining a Tesla without a Tesla account?
I mean, you don’t pay for Twitter (necessarily). You pay for a Windows license.
A pretty penny, even. But not as much as for a Tesla.
You pay for your windows license?
Yeah, when I need one I buy one from eBay for about $8. Sure it’s probably a bulk licence that’s been setup on a stolen credit card, but in all my years of doing this I’ve never had one of these licences revoked.
…why?
Why not just activate free and save the hassle?
Not all computers come with windows, like custom built ones.
there are activation scripts
You can install windows for free. The only difference to the paid version is a reminder in the bottom right corner to activate windows. And that can be disabled with a registry edit
Unfortunately it comes with the computer when you buy them.
Elon musk, the “real life iron man” can’t figure out how to by pass windows online account login?
Nor can he find the irony of not being able to use something without having an account
Jimmy Carr called him that on the Big Fat Quiz. Last time I wanted to punch that guy was when he was on JRE calling comedians philosophers. Time before that was when he got caught dodging taxes.
A lot of hatred you got there towards a guy that looks like a haunted ventriloquist doll.
And he laughs like one, too
Ha ha haa!
What did Geppetto do to you?!
Roger Federers downy twin…
JRE means only one thing for me: Java Runtime Environment
We got some of the best jokes out of that tax dodging
the “real life iron man”
James Hobson is the actual real life Iron Man.
Just opened a twitter link and it won’t allow me to see it unless I create an X account and give all my data to their AI.
There used to be Nitter project, but it seems to be dead.
This is not cool of Twitter.
Yeah, they gave up recently after X, formerly known as Twitter, again and again and again shut down the methods Nitter used to get the posts.
Some instances still work, but they’re getting rate limited left, right and center.
He must be aware of the parallels between Twitter and MS?
He must be just generating publicity for himself.
Judging by how much of a dumbass he is, I doubt he realizes this irony.
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Shit I hope he names it Xos and then watch Apple try to sue him into oblivion.
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XempleOS
Why would they be able to sue him?
OSX, Xos, you don’t see the similarities that might confuse consumers?
Red Star OS wearing a thin layer of spandex.
Tesla os is just a Linux distro based on arch I think?
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temple os 2, just like the first version, it was coded by a single man that has never done any wrong in his life
Found a glowie.
no clue about tesla but you could be thinking of steamos, and that is a distro based on arch
not based on arch. I’ve heard it’s based on Debian though
We swapped. Wayland social media coming. https://wayland.social/
I don’t have a twitter account because I don’t wanna see this shithead’s tweets, how nice of you to bring them here 🤢
Yeah, there are lots of people who’ve said this and are not also fascists. There’s no reason to platform this scumbag.
Stop giving Elon attention
Agree. Even if you think it’s relevant or want to make a funny at his expense.
He desperately, like the despot he is, wants to stay relevant but let him become a blip in time. Fade into obscurity.
Can you even use a Tesla without it collecting and sending a ton of data without doing something that voids the warranty?
Nowadays you have a hard time seeing posts on Twitter without being logged in. Dude tries to create an outrage over something he does himself and that is even easier to avoid.
Oh no!
If only there was a non-Windows alternative.
OMG! Elon you should totally direct your minions of big brain programmers to create a new OS… XOS? About 6 months oughta be enough time to crank that out.
XOS belongs to Transsion, for its Infinix line of smartphones using the Android skin.
Hmmm… maybe he can use OS X!
I bet if he did try to make his own OS, he’d buy the rights to the name XOS. That, or he’d just do something that doesn’t make the list for dumbest things he’s ever done but is still really dumb and just use another random letter instead of X.
Pretty sure that’s exactly how Apple got to name iOS the same as Cisco’s IOS without getting obliterated by a trademark lawsuit.
I’d unironically like to see that.
This is neither about Linux nor a meme.
I reported it 🙃
If you disable the Ethernet/WiFI then you can create a local account, but you have to do a small.extra step…
press SHIFT+F10 keys to open Command Prompt.
Run the following: OOBE\BYPASSNRO
After this, setup will reboot the computer and you’ll get a new option I don’t have Internet or Continue with limited setup to skip the Internet requirement and you can create a local account as well.
Or, when it asks for your email address and password enter a@a.com and any random password. It will tell you that account has been deactivated and allow you to set up a local account.
I think it’s any email that’s been excessively used. no@thankyou.com is another example a lot of tutorials use.
I use fuck@microsoft.com
Looool
We’re getting to the inflection point where Linux is easier to use than Windows. We’re probably already there if you include ChromeOS.
Just missing equally good gaming experience, whenever that happens ig many people will switch
We’re getting there with Proton!
Many games have a much better experience under Linux.
It’s not fully equal, but it’s way closer than people think. I tried Ubuntu in the mid teens and quit over lack of access to gaming. Last summer I switched to Garuda from Windows 11 and while there have been bumps in the road, gaming hasn’t been one of them. Proton just works for basically everything I try
If a tech billionaire can’t take a few min to Google how to then he is a dumbass that won’t know how to do that step.
but he totally knew more about microservices than the thousands of engineers he fired!
OOBE\BYPASSNRO
Been failing for lately. Now you have to:
cd oobe
Then run:
bypassnro.cmd
Guess they took the OOBE directory out of the path.
That’s odd! I ran it yesterday on a new install.
Switches to linux: “There seems to be something called X on here! You seeing this too?”
“and somehow they not only made it first but they’re on the 11th version, very impressive might buy it later”
That’s too intelligent. He’d Xeet about how he’s going to sue X.org as a corporation and Santa Claus as an individual.
even Linux users know that X needs to be retired
How stupid can a person be and still so rich. What is a “PC Laptop” and why would an account “give their AI access to my PC”. Dude.
just proves he got rich with luck and not anything else
and also lying about basically everything he does or sells
It wasn’t luck, if he were lucky he wouldn’t have fucked everything he’s ever touched up.
Even a barbecue cannot roast that well
I mean, SpaceX is still a legitimate success story… I think that has a lot to do with Gwynne Shotwell and the engineers dedicated to pushing forward spaceflight, but as much as I despise him and even kind of want SpaceX to crash and burn just to spite him, if I’m being honest it is still the one thing he’s touched that is a legitimate success, both technically and commercially.
But not because of him, it’s in spite of.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Daddy’s apartheid emerald mines money and megalomania got him there. He didn’t invent anything, he’s just a glorified investor. All of ‘his’ successful companies are other, smarter people’s ideas he ‘stole’ by forcing them to make him ‘co-creator’ as a requirement to invest his cash.
It’s all about pushing a narrative. If he did it the ‘normal way’, he would probably be seen as a decent VC, known in some business circles but in the shadow from a general audience perspective. By making himself the ‘co-creator’, he deperately tries to makes us think he’s the genius he believes he is, and gain the power and influence that come with it.
There are positions in all these companies where people are working roud the clock to prevent him from fucking everything up. And sometimes, even they can’t prevent idiotic bullshit like the Cybertruck. Tesla and SpaceX work because they actively spend a massive amount of energy to work against his moronic ideas. Twitter is the best example of what happens when he’s given free rein.
As opposed to an “Apple Laptop” because fascists are weird. And perhaps he’s talking about Microsoft copilot being shoved into windows 11. But this is a very generous read. By no means do I like the guy.
If he’s so smart, why can’t he use GNU/Linux?
Please, let’s not have Linux communities flooded by fascists and cryptobros that inevitably follow in is wake
You don’t have to worry about that, they’re way to stupid to install their own OS.
Wow, Elon, you think it’s bad to give one company full control over something? You think someone should step in and stop them? You think closed ecosystems are bad for customers? HMMM
i think we should tell him about those filthy cars from tesla…
There’s a tiny little white link on the bottom right side of that pane that says skip and then multiple panes after that with “yes, I’m really sure. F off Microsoft”.
Still extremely easy to miss and hilarious that he did.
Not since 11, even the no network trick doesn’t work. With Windows 10 if you didn’t give it a network it was like oh okay, I guess local account is the only choice.
Windows 11 has a screen that says it can’t find any WiFi or Ethernet adapter, and that you need one and connect to the Internet. It really doesn’t want you to not have a Microsoft account, you have to kill the whole setup in cmd and make the local account yourself. It’s insane.
As of recently, it doesnt even let you open cmd during setup. Found that out when setting up a win11 laptop for a colleague a couple weeks ago
Or just use Rufus to make the USB 🤷.
It‘s not actually there in current windows versions. It takes some sort of workaround and I think you actually need to use the cmd. It is possible though.
last time i installed win10 on my desktop, the skip option definitely wasn’t there, tried googling but couldn’t find a solution so i had to create that damn account. next day my laptop that i need for school wouldn’t let me log in anymore without an account. that day i joined team linux. btw i wonder if it would force that ms account crap if you had no internet at the moment?
On windows 11, I believe you just can’t set it up without internet. There’s a couple of registry hacks you can do to bypass that though.
I think Microsoft ships slightly different versions in different markets.
I think it’s there if you install pro or enterprise
Not anymore with pro, iirc. It worked longer than home but they changed that, I think. Dunno for enterprise.
This takes a few minutes to test, so I did.
TLDR: You can do it in Win11 Pro at least, but the interface tries really hard to steer you into a Microsoft account.
Used the Windows image tool at https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
This created me a 23H2 ISO
Created a VM in VMWare Workstation and started setup
When asked for the key, I chose “I don’t have a product key”
When asked for version, I chose “Windows 11 Pro”
After the restart, during OOBE, it asks me how I would like to setup, I chose “work or school”
When asked to sign-in to Microsoft, I chose “Sign-in options”
I then chose to “Domain join instead”
I’m then asked to create a new standard user
Just use Rufus to make the USB… I mean, it’s fairly simple to use it, and it asks you IF you give it a Windows ISO if you’d like to skip these things. There are other tweaks as well, like no BitLocker by default.
You actually have to make sure the device never connects to the internet in order to create a local only user account.
He’s not the most technically savvy person…
The irony!
Considering he’s a moron and probably insane, I’m not surprised.
