Note: the MacOS part is false
*so far
Until they alter the deal, again
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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This pisses me off. If the text ends with "minutes", "minutes" is shorter than "show more" and thus the interface should have just shown the fucking remaining text instead.
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apple is sorta the opposite. you stop using their hardware and you can't really use your account anymore or at least recover it.
Yeah but the demographic that will do this is like infinitesimally small. It’s fine, techies always know how to stick it to the man, but they succeed with most people so they get what they want. Not a dispute just a comment.
Yeah I was about to say “since when” about MacOS, good thing you added the note. Windows is objectively just more data hungry than MacOS. The fact that you need to sign in to use the default calendar says it all on Windows
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Does that read as justifying it? It sure seems like he's providing a workaround, same as all the people who used to point at the simple shortcut to work around the requirement when that worked smoothly.
I mean, I, for one, hadn't thought about it. It's not a terrible way to go about it. Doesn't help me, I need a MS account to do Office stuff so I may as well, but if you're really hung up on this and can't avoid Windows it's a decend solution.
"same as MacOS" is clearly trying to make excuses.
It’s also wrong. MacOS allows you to go through setup with a local account and doesn’t force you to connect to the internet either
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All you have to do is a domain join now. No skipping the OOBE via command line, etc.
Well, is it really an account if you never login to it? (or if you even delete it once you make a local admin account?)