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😂 Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.
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Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)
Don't connect the computer to the Internet before you complete setup. If you did already...
Shift F8 during setup OOBE\BYPASSNRO
If that doesn't work, use IPCONFIG /RELEASE to break your Internet connection, then it will relent and let you setup without a Microsoft account.
Way too much work. Just connect it to the internet and use as an account: no@thankyou.com and a random password, it will let u use local
Doug@aol.com
Elon isn’t reading this.
On my last vm install (was for a tutorial) it let me install without access but on first boot I couldn’t get past set up steps without it
However that was using home instead of pro which I have no idea why someone would do