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Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk β€’ 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)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’re allowed to use Linux without setting up an account

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I keep trying but it keeps asking me to set up an account. eventually it accepts that I set up an account named root, but it won’t let me continue without an account.

[–] admin 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can always chroot into a filesystem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago