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Stallman Was Right

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Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's their excuse this time, a local account is "less secure" than a Microsoft account?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"We're sorry, You've already requested a password reset today. Please wait 24 hours loser."

Yeah fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Please wait 30 days to recover your account --iCloud

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I will urge Microsoft to pound sand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Horrifying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I really hope the DOJ gets involved

[–] mrcleanup 1 points 6 months ago

I will be looking forward to the application that turns off that setting with great interest.

[–] Raffster 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, jokes on them. My win10 license lives happily and immutably as a virtual install that I start up every now and then when I need to configure my guitar pedal. Everything else works flawlessly with the penguin, and has so for years now. I sometimes miss having to tinker with my system but it hasn't been necessary for a long time now...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

similar situation here, except i dont even bother with a license

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I wonder if you could reverse engineer the software