I mean, SpaceX is still a legitimate success story... I think that has a lot to do with Gwynne Shotwell and the engineers dedicated to pushing forward spaceflight, but as much as I despise him and even kind of want SpaceX to crash and burn just to spite him, if I'm being honest it is still the one thing he's touched that is a legitimate success, both technically and commercially.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Daddy's apartheid emerald mines money and megalomania got him there. He didn't invent anything, he's just a glorified investor. All of 'his' successful companies are other, smarter people's ideas he 'stole' by forcing them to make him 'co-creator' as a requirement to invest his cash.
It's all about pushing a narrative. If he did it the 'normal way', he would probably be seen as a decent VC, known in some business circles but in the shadow from a general audience perspective. By making himself the 'co-creator', he deperately tries to makes us think he's the genius he believes he is, and gain the power and influence that come with it.
There are positions in all these companies where people are working roud the clock to prevent him from fucking everything up. And sometimes, even they can't prevent idiotic bullshit like the Cybertruck. Tesla and SpaceX work because they actively spend a massive amount of energy to work against his moronic ideas. Twitter is the best example of what happens when he's given free rein.
As opposed to an "Apple Laptop" because fascists are weird. And perhaps he's talking about Microsoft copilot being shoved into windows 11. But this is a very generous read. By no means do I like the guy.
Using another windows pc, make an 11 install USB by downloading Rufus USB. Then use it to download the English international windows 11 iso. After pressing start or whatever you get option to remove online account, make a local account, and remove system requirements as well as privacy questions etc.
Once installed, go to revi.cc and download the playbook and the Windows AME tool to “ameliorate” windows of all its bloat.
I love that Rufus, just a simple bootable (not for Windows specifically) USB maker software, specifically targets a single piece of software (Win11) and offers you to install those mods. I find that kind of beautiful.
You can, by using the terminal trick I was referring to. If you simply try to set it up without connecting it to WiFi or Ethernet, it will not let you go past that screen until you connect to a network.
Not anymore. The last version of Windows 11 I installed on bare metal did not allow the trick when you just turn off the WiFi. I had to Shift+F10 to get to the command prompt, enter "oobe\bypassnro", then reboot before it would allow a local account.
I will exclude my attempts to install debian Trixie since it is still in development however the net install doesn't seem to be working at all.
So I tried debian bookworm the live disc. It did install fine. Everything worked until I first booted the system. All I could see was some (fuck you Nvidia) Nvidia errors and that it couldn't start the ssdm so it threw me into the tty however debian per default disables the root account or whatever and the other account wasn't in sudoers file yet. So I couldn't log in into tty.
New install borked and no way of fixing Nvidia drivers....
So I used the normal image of debian. Then it worked.
if a user is not in the sudoers login as root and edit your /etc/sudoers. look for the line that starts with "root ALL =.." copy and paste it below with root replaced with your username
edit: nevermind I missed the part that said disabled the root account. that's weird not sure why you wouldn't be able to access root unless maybe a typo during password creation
There's a tiny little white link on the bottom right side of that pane that says skip and then multiple panes after that with "yes, I'm really sure. F off Microsoft".
Still extremely easy to miss and hilarious that he did.
It‘s not actually there in current windows versions. It takes some sort of workaround and I think you actually need to use the cmd. It is possible though.
last time i installed win10 on my desktop, the skip option definitely wasn't there, tried googling but couldn't find a solution so i had to create that damn account. next day my laptop that i need for school wouldn't let me log in anymore without an account. that day i joined team linux. btw i wonder if it would force that ms account crap if you had no internet at the moment?
Just use Rufus to make the USB... I mean, it's fairly simple to use it, and it asks you IF you give it a Windows ISO if you'd like to skip these things. There are other tweaks as well, like no BitLocker by default.
Not since 11, even the no network trick doesn't work. With Windows 10 if you didn't give it a network it was like oh okay, I guess local account is the only choice.
Windows 11 has a screen that says it can't find any WiFi or Ethernet adapter, and that you need one and connect to the Internet. It really doesn't want you to not have a Microsoft account, you have to kill the whole setup in cmd and make the local account yourself. It's insane.
I ran into this 2 days ago. Turns out if you sign in with no@thankyou.com and type in a bogus password it will just say "oops something went wrong" and you can create a local account.
No, that's literally not an option anymore. The installer won't let you proceed without an internet connection unless you do the Shift+F10 oobe\bypassnro trick then have to wait for it to reboot.
No thanks. I don't want fake ass engineer Musk doing cringy programmerhumor tweets. He's already a edge lord with video games and I really don't want to see more communities propping him up because he tweets "sudo rm -rf hahahaha I'm sudo man" or whatever his cokebinged brain tells him
It does ask you to provide a Google account (on Android), but you can just skip that step. You can't use the PlayStore to download apps, but that's about it. Everything else Google works, even updates, you just browse everything as anonymous (well... more or less).
