Note: the MacOS part is false
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It's not an awful take to say something like "Hey, you can get around this requirement by creating a burner account, then creating local accounts". His wording is a bit off but he's an odd guy, who also used to scam people, so this isn't that bad in the grand scheme. He's also heavily biased to windows.
On the topic of the account, I moved to Linux and I threw an LTSC build of Windows 10 on another nvme drive so I could play a couple games that use anti cheat. I figure by the time that's no longer supported developers will just accept Linux in their games or i won't care anymore.
One bummer about 'burner accounts' in 2025 is it seems to be increasingly difficult to have a true anonymous burner account that doesn't involve someone getting your PII. A few short years ago you could just get a disposable email address from a bunch of places and use it to sign up, but now everything seems to be super locked down to where you either need an existing email address or a phone number to create an email account, both of which tend to have ways of being tied back to you.
I don't know if there's even any email services left that will just give you an account no questions asked, but I'll bet if there are they'll already be rejected as invalid by the big players.
How did he scam people?
https://youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8
https://lemmy.ca/comment/19382367
I'm guessing this is what they're referring to?