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Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

U can just open cmd and run a command or Evan better use tiny11 and the activator program that way u dont even need to pay the assholes

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People really be out here preloading their computer with viruses to get around Microsoft's latest bullshit instead of just using Linux, we ain't never gonna have the Year of the Linux Desktop

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

we ain't never gonna have the Year of the Linux Desktop

Yes, but at this point you can't even blame Microsoft for this. Maybe the issue lies elsewhere?

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's where you're wrong, buddy. It's actually very easy to blame Microsoft for holding a decades-long desktop monopoly by pushing manufacturers to include Windows on every PC out of the box.

[–] czech@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Why can't we blame Microsoft?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I need an os for my vms. And thankfully u can disable internet.

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah I forgot the exact process but I just used cmd and got around this when I built my current machine a couple years ago