Remember when it was possible to browse Twitter unrestricted without having to sign up with an account? Those were good times.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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My exact first thought. If he's going to abuse his power and force govt services to provide twitter updates it should be accessible to all without restriction.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.
Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency’s official account on X
https://thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves-plane-crash-press-updates-x-twitter/
Here's the link for anyone who's looking for it: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1761835728000954654
Nitter.net is alive!?
Yes, it recently came back to live
There are a few new instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public
Nitter (the software) recently had an update, as long as you just provide a valid Twitter account, you can easily run an instance. The previous versions of Nitter used an unauthenticated GraphQL API, but it was shut down at some point. I still don't know how xcancel.com and nitter.poast.org managed to survive though.
I've had 2 instances where the Shift+F10 method didn't work on a Windows 11 Home edition install. 1 was a brand new HP laptop I set up for a friend. It came with a bunch of bloatware so I created a bootable USB and reinstalled the OS. It didn't pull up a command prompt when I tried the command no matter what I did. The second was at work. I accidentally let it update during the setup and afterwards it accepted the bypass command, but still never gave me the option to log in without a Microsoft account. I have a feeling they're phasing that option out for Home.
At least Pro has the domain join option. Still it sucks that Bitlocker gets set up automatically and associates the key with the first Microsoft account you sign in with.
S mode!
If you buy one in s mode, then you can't run 3rd party programs or particular built-in ones. That includes command prompt, which is why shift-f10 didn't work. It's ok as you can get out of it by, going to the ms store after logging in as an admin!
We now see the problem with s mode in the out of box experience.
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the world's richest man, de facto president, head of the tech oligarchy, is complaining about corporations irritating him.
If only there was a sort of consumer protection bureau of some sort. To regulate these types of things....
WHO THE FUCK SAYS "PC LAPTOP"??
Did he type that from his laptop phone? Maybe speech-to-text from his cell phone smartwatch?
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For anyone reading this that has to install Windows, when you get to the point where it asks you to log into a Microsoft account, hit shift+F10, type oobe\bypassnro into the command prompt and after it reboots select "I don't have an account"...
I would still maintain that Linux is a better option though.
Yeah but with Linux you have to open up a terminal and input cryptic commands someone on the internet gave you in order to stop the distro from spying on you... /s
in order to stop the distro from spying on you...
This is where you lost me. Literally no one thinks this. Even the most anti-Linux folks on the planet don't pretend Linux spies on you more than Microsoft...
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Political relevance be damned, anyway...
You can press SHIFT+F10 keys to open Command Prompt.
Execute OOBE\BYPASSNRO command then.
After this, setup will reboot the computer and after reboot, you’ll get a new option I don’t have Internet or Continue with limited setup to skip the Internet requirement.
I did this when installing Windows 11 for a friend, was also my first experience installing Windows 11 as well. Having to open a command line during the installation process really nullifies the "Windows easy" and "linux hard" stereotype.
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Yes you do have to live in capitalist hellscape too, asshat. Maybe you should have thought about that a little sooner. >:(
One of the biggest capitalist complaining about capitalism
Is there no longer an option to use a local account if the internet isn't available?
I followed a guide on YouTube to install windows 11 without an account. It also helped me disable a lot of crap.
Despite what people tell you in here Linux isn’t an amazing alternative if you don’t want to spend time setting it up to be a replacement.
I’m a software engineer and when I leave work I don’t want to be solving more problems.
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I may be wrong on this, but I believe they don't give you that option, and just ask to be connected to the internet before continuing setup. You can, however, do some shenanigans to open up command prompt, and after a little bit of typing in commands from the internet and restarting your machine, you can then skip the account login and just make a local account.
Ctrl+F10 and oobe\bypassnro
As long as it's not in S mode. Can't run cmd in S mode.
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This supposed genius still uses Windows?
linux isnt popular enough for him to claim to be an expert on it
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