Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.

The EU giveth and the EU taketh away

What isn't owned by Nestle anymore?

I'm not saying it would've been a masterpiece, it just would've been a lot more enjoyable.

I think 11 would've been a lot better if it had come out in 2021. In 2023 all of the COVID themes were really played out.

Hopefully 12 wasn't written 3 years ago.

I don't think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don't need a Microsoft account to activate.

The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Ad blockers aren't going to help with this.

This just tells me the same joke must've spread when the initial charges were made

James Charles though?

My server is set to power on after losing and retaining power, but it's not super reliable if the power only flickers (or flickers a lot in a short period of time), so I have a smart plug. If my server's offline, I just toggle it and it's back after a few minutes.