• Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins.
  • Instructions once available, now missing - likely due to company’s preference for Microsoft accounts.
  • People may resist switching to Microsoft accounts for privacy reasons, despite company’s stance.
  • The Assman@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Back in my day you could turn on the computer and operate it without anyone knowing. Our “internet connection” was demonic screeching from hell on the telephone and you didn’t need it to play solitaire.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I miss those early days.

      Computers were weird magic boxes with all kinds of zany and crazy shit you could put in them.

      Games were just graphically impressive enough to lose yourself in, while not needing a super computer to run them.

      The internet was a curiousity for nerds and not a corprotized information hoover adpocalypse hellscape for the exploitation of the masses.

    • vingetcxly@thelemmy.club
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      6 months ago

      Linux exists. Made for you, not money. For Microsoft user experience is just a side effect in getting profit. It can well be replaced with marketing, as Microsoft has demonstrated.

    • nexussapphire@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Microsoft world have done it back then if internet was more prevalent and computers were just a little faster.