@rodhilton

"...which also means giving their AI access to my computer! This is messed up."

As messed up as a company that wants to implant chips in people's brains?

@rodhilton FWIW I also couldn't figure out how to install Windows the last time I built a PC. Driver issues are hard!

(So I just put fedora on all the partitions and realized that Steam could still run the games I cared about.)

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What he says is true. It's a shame and we just went through this experience before him.

@rodhilton The replies to this really highlight the complaints i hear of mastadon.

I just came here to say that if I have a billion dollars there is no way I'm ever setting up a new laptop. So many better things to do.

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😂 😂 😂 😂
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

oh help me
I can't stop laughing....

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Sometimes I read his posts, but honestly, most of the time they drive me up the wall and I even have to reply to them because I'm so annoyed
But in this case I can also see that he's bothered that Microsoft is doing this, also with the reference to AI, Musk is doing the same with Grok so he shouldn't criticize others.

I really had to laugh a lot at your toot here, thank you.
Many of the answers are also really great.

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Musk is denying Taiwan Starlink access, but China is good to go..
We pay that motherfucker tax payer money.....WTF

@rodhilton Well, it's probably easier to travel to Mars than it is to install Windows in a secure way.

I'm not saying the crazy muskelon could manage any task more difficult than senselessly repeating right-libertarian catchphrases.

I'm saying he couldn't.

@rodhilton If anyone needs help with this: Microsoft tried to get me to make a Microsoft account for my father in law's computer when I was setting it up.

I was able to intuit that it would probably not hassle me if I forced it to not talk to the internet for the account service.

Turns out it's common for people to unplug their router when doing this, but I found it was much easier to just click the "sign in with a passkey" option and then click the button a few times so it would think I had a busted yubikey. Then click the back button and it skips the whole process because it assumes you've got it set up.

@rodhilton There also used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Twitter account.

Karma gets us all in the end.

@rodhilton would you want windows on a spaceship????

/jk