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Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins.
  • Instructions once available, now missing - likely due to company's preference for Microsoft accounts.
  • People may resist switching to Microsoft accounts for privacy reasons, despite company's stance.
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[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 123 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Back in my day you could turn on the computer and operate it without anyone knowing. Our "internet connection" was demonic screeching from hell on the telephone and you didn't need it to play solitaire.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I miss those early days.

Computers were weird magic boxes with all kinds of zany and crazy shit you could put in them.

Games were just graphically impressive enough to lose yourself in, while not needing a super computer to run them.

The internet was a curiousity for nerds and not a corprotized information hoover adpocalypse hellscape for the exploitation of the masses.

[–] vingetcxly@thelemmy.club 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Linux exists. Made for you, not money. For Microsoft user experience is just a side effect in getting profit. It can well be replaced with marketing, as Microsoft has demonstrated.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There isn't a soul on lemmy that doesn't know Linux exists

[–] JamesFire@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What about the people that don't have a soul

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even gingers use Linux.

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm, I'm ginger.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How can you use the internet then? The internet is like a mirror, you have to have a soul to use it.

whose soul do you have and how did you steal it from them?!

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the weekly sacrifices I have to do, are taking a toll on me

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I sold mine to Odin and even I know about it. Now if youll excuse me I need to throw axes at people who dont like poetry or flyting.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is this lie-nucks you speak of?

[–] vingetcxly@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 months ago

Come wait for the loonixus to Bash you up so u arch btw

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Microsoft world have done it back then if internet was more prevalent and computers were just a little faster.