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    The fact he’s too stupid to Google “do I have to use a Microsoft account to login to Windows 11” is astounding. People believe this guy engineers rockets, laughable.

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      The number of times people have told me, “well SpaceX engineers have been quoted as saying he’s very competent!” Yeah, how big was their bonus after that?

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        Companies that function have Musk handlers. Twitter and now seemingly Tesla have failed to keep him at bay and you can see the end results.

        In two years time there will be retrospective articles about how could the country have let him fuck the government up so bad, how did no one see this coming, why did no one stop him… Etc

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    Unelected immigrant with illegal unfettered access to all data in the entire federal government complains about having to have a microsoft account to use Windows.

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    It’s simple z we buy Microsoft

    And then proceed to run it off a cliff

    Oh please, musk, buy Microsoft, please please

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      Ah, yes. Now you need a twitter/x account to login instead of a Microsoft account AND all possibilities to create a local account are removed. Be careful what you wish for.

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    So the “tech genius” doesn’t know how to install windows without a Microsoft account and doesn’t know how to Google it?

    May I introduce the man who wants you to think he is a genius!

    Thanks Elon for being so transparently incompetent.

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      And yet my parents still believe that he must have had some competence to be in the place he is at now. Illusion of meritocracy blinds so much.

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        That is the insane part. Honestly I thought so. I literally read an bias as fuck biography of that guy, believing that I would find some competency. Even they failed to spin the yarn in that way. The most positive spin was effectively “musk is a good promiser/beggar”.

        Context, it was in the early Tesla days, in which people hope he would kickstart a change.

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      Is it possible to do that on latest windows 11 home installation? I thought they disabled local accounts completely.

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        I struggled through it with two new laptops last month. The command prompt method didn’t work anymore. I was however able to bypass after disconnecting the Internet a few times during the setup process to make it fail at trying to create an online account. It’s like it will finally give up after two or three times and allowed me to setup a local account finally.

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        It sure looked like an option last time I tried, but it was more hassle and I was just trying to create a guest account for a friend, so I didn’t bother.

        Also Microsoft backed off on the intrusive AI stuff about 5 minutes after announcing it because there was such an uproar. The funny part is I was working for Microsoft at the time, and you could tell the leadership really thought consumers were gonna love it.

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    LOL yeah dude you just

    In the setup page before you select language Open cmd with Shift + F10 and type OOBE\BYPASSNRO

    Then set up the computer without internet

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      Or just use Rufus to make the ISO and check the box to bypass creating an account. I’m dual booting Windows 11 right now without one.

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    Wait the richest asshole in the world uses regular windows like poor commoners?

    Because he has access to many sensitive data, shouldn’t be using windows enterprise with a finely tuned group policy by some AD guru??

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      Microsoft has a market cap of over 3 trillion.

      Musk is crazy stupid rich times a million, but he’s an order of magnitude shy of being able to bully Microsoft with his wallet. With the resources of the US government, sure. but not his checkbook.

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    Remember when it was possible to browse Twitter unrestricted without having to sign up with an account? Those were good times.

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      My exact first thought. If he’s going to abuse his power and force govt services to provide twitter updates it should be accessible to all without restriction.

      The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.
      Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency’s official account on X

      https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/

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    the world’s richest man, de facto president, head of the tech oligarchy, is complaining about corporations irritating him.

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      If only there was a sort of consumer protection bureau of some sort. To regulate these types of things…

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    WHO THE FUCK SAYS “PC LAPTOP”??

    Did he type that from his laptop phone? Maybe speech-to-text from his cell phone smartwatch?

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        In that case it would be a Windows laptop. PC stands for Personal Computer. It has nothing to do with the OS.

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                Even if that were true, does that mean that we should all accept it and drink the Apple Kool-Aid? A PC was, is and will always be a Personal Computer.

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                  Kinda? Whether you like it not that’s just how society functions. You either acknowledge what society decides or you end up becoming the guy who argues that drawing swastikas doesn’t make you a nazi because it’s a symbol of luck.

                  And if you want to go down the rabbit hole of “PC is personal computer” good luck defining what a computer is without defaulting to what society thinks a computer is, because technically your phone is a computer that is for your personal use. Your phone is a PC. In a sense so is your TV and your gaming console and the steam deck and possibly even your fridge. Maybe even your car.

                  Save yourself the headache and use PC as you understand it while accepting that others have a different meaning for PC.

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          PC absolutely has to do with the OS in certain contexts. Do you not remember the “Hi, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC.” Line of commercials?

          Example of the usage: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1568544/mac-vs-pc-cost-analysis-how-does-it-all-add-up.html

          This is because long ago there was the Apple Macintosh and the IBM Personal Computer. So things that were “PC compatible” were not Macs. So the term got applied to Windows stuff. It’s not used very much now, but that article is from 2007.

          So while it’s correct terminology to say Windows are PCs and Macs aren’t, it’s pretty outdated and another example of his failure to be recent on tech trends. I don’t think I’ve used the term PC to mean Windows since 2020 at least. Probably longer.

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            I do remember those ads but I did not know about the IBM Personal Computer distinction, to be honest. Thanks for the added context!

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      I might be dumb. PC vs Mac is a common way to differentiate. Laptop vs stationary is a common way to differentiate. Isn’t “PC Laptop” a pretty descriptive and non-overlapping way to unambinguiusly distinguish the item?

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        It’s mostly a marketing gimmick, same as people who say “tablet or iPad”.

        In this case in particular is complaining about windows, it would be a stretch to think it’s an apple computer.