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/
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.
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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For anyone reading this that has to install Windows, when you get to the point where it asks you to log into a Microsoft account, hit shift+F10, type oobe\bypassnro into the command prompt and after it reboots select "I don't have an account"...
I would still maintain that Linux is a better option though.
Wasn't that method patched out of the installer?
Nope, it still there
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the world's richest man, de facto president, head of the tech oligarchy, is complaining about corporations irritating him.
If only there was a sort of consumer protection bureau of some sort. To regulate these types of things....
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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Yes you do have to live in capitalist hellscape too, asshat. Maybe you should have thought about that a little sooner. >:(
One of the biggest capitalist complaining about capitalism
This supposed genius still uses Windows?
linux isnt popular enough for him to claim to be an expert on it
Also the Linux people would've destroyed him
And then he would have cried like a little bitch and go to GNU and tell them he is going to buy Linux for a jillion dollars and then get Pikachu face when he finds out that he can't control the kernel.
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Political relevance be damned, anyway...
You can press SHIFT+F10 keys to open Command Prompt.
Execute OOBE\BYPASSNRO command then.
After this, setup will reboot the computer and after reboot, you’ll get a new option I don’t have Internet or Continue with limited setup to skip the Internet requirement.
I did this when installing Windows 11 for a friend, was also my first experience installing Windows 11 as well. Having to open a command line during the installation process really nullifies the "Windows easy" and "linux hard" stereotype.
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I switched to Linux Mint a few weeks ago and it was eye-opening
So now he's busy dismantling what little consumer protections are left in the US. Makes so much sense.
It's simple z we buy Microsoft
And then proceed to run it off a cliff
Oh please, musk, buy Microsoft, please please
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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If only someone would reply to him with the screen Twitter displays when you try to read a post while not signed in…
Yet his Swasticars strip every ounce of data from it owners…
Broken clock.
I've had 2 instances where the Shift+F10 method didn't work on a Windows 11 Home edition install. 1 was a brand new HP laptop I set up for a friend. It came with a bunch of bloatware so I created a bootable USB and reinstalled the OS. It didn't pull up a command prompt when I tried the command no matter what I did. The second was at work. I accidentally let it update during the setup and afterwards it accepted the bypass command, but still never gave me the option to log in without a Microsoft account. I have a feeling they're phasing that option out for Home.
At least Pro has the domain join option. Still it sucks that Bitlocker gets set up automatically and associates the key with the first Microsoft account you sign in with.
S mode!
If you buy one in s mode, then you can't run 3rd party programs or particular built-in ones. That includes command prompt, which is why shift-f10 didn't work. It's ok as you can get out of it by, going to the ms store after logging in as an admin!
We now see the problem with s mode in the out of box experience.
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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??
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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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.
Okay, this was a year ago. Still, why is anyone at that level setting up there own computer? I would pay someone to do it.
He's not. His assistants tech team's intern mentioned it through their communication app Elon can shadow read.
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