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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's extraordinary, even for Microsoft.

If you're on Win 11 Pro, up to 23H2, follow these steps to prevent 24H2:

win+R, type GPEDIT.MSC, press enter Locate "Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Manage updates offered from Windows Update\Select the target feature update version"

Now click the "Enabled" button, type "Windows 11" in the first prompt and "23H2" in the second prompt and click "Apply"

That will prevent 24H2 from being downloaded and installed. When they've fixed this and the "Recall" mess, you can go back and undo the setting.

You can still do the "bypassnro" thing, it's just a script that's been removed. All it did was write a registry entry and reboot. This is the registry key entry - you can still press shift-F10 at the same point and type this manually:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0

another method to try is this, instead of the registry entry:

start ms-cxh:localonly

but I haven't tried that one yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I love how Windows fix has terminal and GUI configurations mixed as an unholy concoction directly from the HQ.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am LITERALLY in the process of migrating my servers to my new NixOS server after months of prep work. This couldn't have been more timely lol Funniest part is, I just did my own TPM based encryption on my drives.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw this problem coming a mile away

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Must have been a massive monitor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Windows is malware.

I remember when Linux users used to say that, but it turns out they were right.

I'm glad I leaved that cursed OS behind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I read the article but am not smarter than before. I heard some time ago that windows does encrypt the drive but you need an active online account and the key will be saved online. So do people forget their online passwords and methods to recover that said account? I dont like m$ and am using linux, but people loosing their passwords, being uninformed about their systems and dont so backups is not the direct fault of the operating system.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've decided to switch to Linux come october. I have some reasons I wanna wait as long as I can, but come october I'm leaving Windows behind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I've decided to switch my gaming PC to Linux...a few weeks ago.

No ragrets. My games run faster, I no longer need extra shit to make Windows work the way I want it to work, and I can remote into it however I want without running into artificial roadblocks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Get started early so you have time to acclimate and address issues. You are going to hate it if you urgently need your computer for something and something unexpected happens.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I blame bitlocker.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (15 children)

How are these people losing access to their MS accounts on their computers?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in favor of a heavy handed push towards encryption, I think most people don't realize how important this is (now more than ever), but windows should be guiding and educating on this not requiring, and it should have absolutely nothing to do with an email address or online account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

On a home PC, what for? The only data that really matters to be encrypted is my keepass database file. Giving the option is fine but I don't think it should done without asking the user to choose.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (10 children)

When are stockholders going to realize that the current Microsoft CEO is ruining Windows?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had a small Win11 machine that I now have Ubuntu on. Win11 wouldn't let me use the whole disk because of the BitLocker bullshit. I had to dig through the menus and disable it then wait hours for it to finish decrypting. Fuck Microsoft. I'm proud to say me and my GF dont have a single Microsoft product in our home, and I'm keeping that way.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All of the data I actually care about is stored on a NAS and backed up in triplicate. The only data actually on my PC are program files.

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