Don’t you need to create an X account just to look at posts on X?
Use xcancel.com to see tweets without an account.
Your comment shows up twice. Which Lemmy client are you using?
Don’t you need to give all your information to AI if you have ever interacted with the government in the past?
Use xcancel.com to see tweets without an account.
For the world’s smartest guy, he sure is stupid
Anyone who thinks he’s the smartest guy at anything has been organically lobotomized by a brain worm
Wait we don’t live in a meritocracy after all?
Opposite
No I am not seeing it I use Linux
See? That’s why you’re not a genius like Elon Musk! He knows that Linux is too hard!
It’s simple z we buy Microsoft
And then proceed to run it off a cliff
Oh please, musk, buy Microsoft, please please
My god that would be funny
We know how this ends
- Elon complains
- Elon buys
- Elon destroys
If Elon destroyed MS, that would be a net positive.
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.
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
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.
he’s gonna buy Microsoft and rename it MicroXoft for fucks sake.
Somebody’s mad Bill said he was craaaaaaazy
Click domain join instead and then create a local account
That option only shows up when you set up Pro edition unfortunately.
Shift F10 opens a command window, OOBE\bypassnro
Or run ipconfig /release
This will disconnect your internet connection for a moment and allow you to create a local account.
Ah yes, that well documented command that any regular user is going to know about…
All I can come up with is snarky comments. Sorry.
If you are savvy enough to be outraged at it, you’re savvy enough to look up the commands to bypass it in 2 minutes.
RTFM oh wait it’s Windows.
This
I feel like someone as rich as Musk probably boight Windows Pro.
The console bypass trick still works.
Thank god. I had to jump through so many hoops just to get a windows VM without a password.
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??
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.
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.
Is it possible to do that on latest windows 11 home installation? I thought they disabled local accounts completely.
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.
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.
You have to sort of dig specifically for the newer fixes, the old ones dont work usually.
Last time I tried, disconnecting the PC from the internet worked.
Here’s the link for anyone who’s looking for it: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1761835728000954654
Nitter.net is alive!?
Yes, it recently came back to live
There are a few new instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public
Nitter (the software) recently had an update, as long as you just provide a valid Twitter account, you can easily run an instance. The previous versions of Nitter used an unauthenticated GraphQL API, but it was shut down at some point. I still don’t know how xcancel.com and nitter.poast.org managed to survive though.
Remember when it was possible to browse Twitter unrestricted without having to sign up with an account? Those were good times.
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 Xhttps://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/
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.
You’re right, it was in S mode. I had to create a junk email address to unlock it. The original account was an admin but it wouldn’t remove S mode without an MS account.
You can unlock by editing the registry.
Tricky part is doing that in SMode because regedit is blocked.
