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mlg@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option?English
81·6 days agoAnd because someone is going to say “Just use Linux”, believe me, I’d love to, but the user experience sucks for literally anyone who isn’t a software developer and the accessibility has actually gotten worse over the 15 years I’ve tried to use it.
Don’t listen to people who suggest Ubuntu (or its downstreams) and the clownshow GNOME desktop environment.
If you have a spare USB lying around, try this live (without installing) to see if you like it and please do share your feedback: https://fedoraproject.org/kde/
Or even just your general gripes with Linux. I had the same outlook when I first tried Ubuntu but I didn’t realize it was just Ubuntu and GNOME being really crappy until I tried a different distro and DE.
but does that still work when resetting?
Yeah, once you reach the setup screen and it asks you to connect to the internet, hit Shift + F10 (sometimes CTRL + Shift + F10) and it’ll pop open a CMD window in which you want to type in “oobe\bypassnro” and hit enter. PC should restart and when you reach the internet screen again, there should be an option that says “I don’t have internet”. Click that and make your local account.
If it doesn’t work, sometimes you have to do it twice. Just did it yesterday on a real machine and it worked first try, but every VM I’ve made had me do it twice.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Gen. Wesley Clark: Iran has the advantage over US in negotiationsEnglish
43·6 days agoHey I just want to let you know that my user tag that I put on your account a couple of weeks ago continues to prove itself lol

mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•US navy ships cross Strait of Hormuz for first time since Iran warEnglish
11·7 days agoPakistan literally sold them the uranium enrichment technology bruh.
Even ignoring the ridiculousness of this comment, they got their jumpstart thanks to their immediate neighbor.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•U.S.-lran talks end with no agreement. Vance saysEnglish
12·7 days agoI’m starting to think this whole setup was just a move by Pakistan to get KSA to pay off their loans in exchange for PAF’s pilots and fighters lol: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/11/pakistan-sends-fighter-jets-to-saudi-arabia-amid-fragile-us-iran-ceasefire
Iran and US were already aware of eachother’s demands, I don’t think they had any high hopes for a successful negotiation, especially since the contending point was Israel following through.
They even made up marketing fanfare for it like this was some kinda special convention and not literally a heated negotiation over an active war: https://www.reddit.com/r/policymarket/comments/1shoo63/the_world_is_watching_and_the_world_is_hopeful/
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•War has given Iran new leverage for nuclear programme, say US former envoysEnglish
2·8 days agoI said it as a half joke, but I think Iran should swap their missile tech with NK for fuel enrichment.
NK, Iran, and Libya allegedly got their initial enrichment tech from Pakistan. Only NK was able to successfully follow through, and they too allegedly swapped their missile tech for the cylinders lol.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During CeasefireEnglish
11·8 days agoRight? I was like dang you’re already half way there lol.
The reason though is that they probably don’t want to discourage payments because I have seen businesses refuse to use Monero in ransomware attacks because their insurance agreement complicates payout on a fundamentally untraceable currency. Even if Bitcoin is technically decentralized, they can report the transaction and specific currency blocks to whatever federal agency is responsible for fraud.
Still, why not offer both and put a 5% discount on Monero.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Huge Israeli strikes on Lebanon threaten Iran truce; talks planned but strait still shutEnglish
4·9 days agoWhile I’m glad there seems to be genuine development behind these peace talks, I’m also personally disappointed watching Shebaz Sharif and Asmin Munir get recognized for doing literally anything of value.
The PM is from a long family history of corrupt PMLN members who got rich off of strangling Pakistan’s economy and investing their illegal earning abroad.
And the FM (Field Marshal, not foreign minister) promoted himself to Field Marshal after getting the PAF to do all the actual military work last year while he spent his resources cracking down on the public and placing his photo on every poster in the country.
Oh and he had a ton of people assasinated, jailed, tortured, “disappeared”, and “software updated” for supporting the previous PM who has been in jail since 2023 under falsified corruption charges.
They’re already acting like this is some grand slam success for doing nothing but forwarding messages between Iran and the USA, all whilst technically being at war with Afghanistan only because Trump demanded revenge after the Taliban refused to give access to the Bagram Airfield again.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testingEnglish
3·10 days agoHah I actually remembered this too, and people were still hyping Elon Musk at the time as well.
TBF the researchers knew what they had could be scaled into something gamebreaking which is how we got ChatGPT-3, but OpenAI made it sound like they already had it nailed down several years before it actually blew up. I think their unreleased examples they gave were a newspaper and short story written by AI which they said was indistinguishable from human material.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Iran closes Strait of Hormuz due to ongoing Israeli attacks in Lebanon: Iranian state mediaEnglish
22·10 days agoI wonder if Iran played off of Trump’s ego and he promised he would get Israel on board, thereby not having to negotiate with Israel who would be the least likely to accept any terms beyond complete surrender.
Trump seems keen on wanting an out while declaring victory, especially after the special ops drop in Isfahan went wrong.
Israel will of course does not want any end to the war, so now it becomes a tussle on whether the US owns Israel or the Israel owns the US lol.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Pakistan seeks two-week extension to Trump's deadline on IranEnglish
2·11 days agoField Marshal first.
PM gets whatever falls from the spit of his mouth
mlg@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Is Trump *trying* to lose the midterms?English
251·12 days agoTrump doing more for dems than what dems are currently doing for themselves lol.
I already can’t wait for this community to flood my inbox about Newsom in 2028, and then cry when he inevitably loses to a revived zombie hitler in 2030.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelled exactly the same?English
11·14 days agoNo one who speaks German could be a killer!
mlg@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic SurveillanceEnglish
4·14 days agoHonestly they’d probably throw you on a list for not using the internet lol.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?English
1·14 days agoIf you’re in the US, bachelor degrees are pretty worthless lol.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increaEnglish
331·14 days agoMan I can’t wait to upgrade my device/GPU with AV1 hardware support
AI slop bubble fart reverb sfx
mlg@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Denuvo has been broken, company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypassEnglish
8·14 days agoI think Denuvo technically does a little bit of this.
I forgot the exact details, but one of the keys that’s used to unscramble the bytecode has to be downloaded from their registry server on first launch.
But after that, it’s not required.
mlg@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Iran threatens to bomb 1GW Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi; whose partners include of OpenAI, Cisco, Nvidia, Softbank and; shows hidden ... - The Times of IndiaEnglish
4·14 days agoWho needs low latency amirite
mlg@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something from Reddit that you hope we never see on Lemmy?English
161·15 days agoBans and heavy moderation of content.
I’m glad some of the reddit copy communities here like DankMemes died quickly because it was being run by the same loser mods from reddit.
So far I’ve only been banned from I think maybe 2 communities ever. The only one I remember is one of the NCD communities because the lead mod was a dumb dumb.
I don’t really care about complaints of specific instance users because unpopular opinions and comments deserve to be seen, otherwise you create an echo chamber.
So long as there is no brigading, it is much healthier to see everyone’s input.
Also I hope the r/Chodi crowd never finds lemmy lol.

It’s a TikTok trend, Batman